Spain Golf – Izki Golf hosts the second round of the PGA Spain Golf Tour

Izki Golf. Izki Golf hosts the second round of the PGA Spain Golf Tour

Izki Golf hosts the XIX Spanish PGA Doubles Championship

The PGA Spain Golf Tour 2023 returns to the scene, in Izki Golf, almost without time to celebrate Jon Rahm’s victory in the Augusta Masters, the 6th “Green Jacket” for Spain.

Adrian Otaegui, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, José Manuel Carriles and Natalia Escuriola are some of the stars that will be in the golf tournament.

To mark the occasion, the XIX PGA Doubles Championship of Spain has been reinstated. This tournament is beloved by pros and is unlike any other on the Spanish national calendar.

The Izki Golf course, in the North of Spain, is ideal for golf tournaments since it was constructed by Seve Ballesteros and is open to the public, fulfilling one of his lifelong goals.

“We have a plaque placed at the entrance to the golf course since his death, but he will be safe in our thoughts”, said Jon Ander Sánchez, director of Izki Golf.

When the Provincial Council and Izki Golf met with PGA of Spain President Ander Martinez last November, the idea of reviving this competition in pairs quickly gained traction.

“We wanted to do something different and special and to recover this tournament was the perfect combination”, explained Jon Ander.

“Izki Golf is much more than a regular golf course. There’s a lot more in it for residents and tourists alike. It is promotion, closeness, accessible and public. And that is why we carry out actions in schools in the area, collaborations with associations and companies, and whatever arises in order to bring golf closer to the population that unfortunately is unaware of it”, added Jon Ander.

The XIX Spanish PGA Doubles Championship will be held between April 12 and 13 at Izki Golf.

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El Prat Golf. El Prat will be the first stage of the Spain Golf Tour 2023

El Prat will be the first stage of the Spain Golf Tour

With its revival in 2016, the Spain Golf Tour has become an annual event, and recently the PGA of Spain held the 8th annual presentation at the Consejo Superior de Deportes.

A video recapping the highlights of the 2022 season was shown at the presentation, and Pablo Larrazábal gave a message saying that the first tournament on the circuit will be held at the Real Club de Golf El Prat at the start of April.

One of Seve Ballesteros’ goals was to create this circuit so that Spanish pros may participate and train for the major European tournaments. Ander Martínez, president of the Spanish PGA, said that the PGA “tries to choose courses developed by Ballesteros” to honour his legacy.

“Once again we come to offer a circuit that continues to develop and that will add eleven tournaments in 4 regions (Catalonia, the Basque Country, Madrid, and Castilla-y-León), the biggest number of events since the competition returned in 2016. And with the help of Turismo Centro de Portugal, they’ll be able to host 3 international competitions in Portugal”, he adds.

This year, three tournaments will be held in Portugal, two of them at Bom Sucesso golf course, located in Óbidos, north of the capital.

The PGA Spain Golf Tour 2023 schedule will feature 11 events, the most in 8 years, starting with Pablo Larrazábal’s second PGAe Open de Barcelona on RCG El Prat, which overlaps with the season’s first Major, The Masters.

The circuit will continue with the XVII PGAe Doubles Championship, which will be held at Izki Golf, a public course designed by Seve Ballesteros that features a layout of wide fairways surrounded by oaks and holly trees.

At the end of April, the circuit will head to Lisbon for the II Open Bom Sucesso PGAe, and Viseu, for the I Open Montebelo PGAe, one of the new events, which will be contested from May 5 to 7.

The 50th Anniversary of the Lomas-Bosque Golf Club in Madrid will serve as an unbeatable setting to celebrate the Madrid Professional Championship. And almost at the end of June, another course by Ballesteros, Meaztegi Golf, will be the setting for the II Bizkaia PGAe Open.

After the summer break, the IV Portugal-Spain Iberian Cup, in Bom Sucesso; the II Castilla y León Championship, in Entrepinos; the RFEG Professional Spanish Championship and the Circuit Grand Final will arrive, in which the top 40 of the National Ranking will participate.

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Spain Golf – The 2023 calendar for the Santander Golf Tour has been announced

Peralada Golf Course. The Santander Golf Tour 2023 starts at Peralada golf course.

Santander Golf Tour 2023 starts at Peralada

The Santander Golf Tour circuit returns to the scene in its eighth edition with an exciting year ahead.

Beginning on March 1-3 at Peralada Golf with the Santander LETAS Girona, the first of two events this year co-sanctioned with the LET Access Series, the season will then continue on March 29-30 at the Real Club Golf San Sebastián.

Two further tournaments will be held in April, one at Lerma Golf on April 19 and 20, and the other at Lauro Golf in Málaga on April 28 and 29, both as part of the famous doubles championship.

There will be a break in the schedule until after the summer following the May 24–25 tournament at the Real Club de Golf de La Coruña.

The Santander Golf Tour LETAS Zaragoza, hosted at the golf course of Real Club de Golf La Peñaza from October 26-28, will be the finale of the LET Access Series season and the second tournament co-sanctioned with LETAS this year.

The remaining four events of the season will all take place in the month of November. They will begin on November 4th and 5th at El Bosque Golf. The next stop on the tour is at Real Golf de Pedreña for a match-play event on November 8-10. The Legends Pro-Am is scheduled for the 14th and 15th of November at Golf Santander in Madrid.

The last tournament of the year, the Santander Spanish Women’s Professional Championship, will be held from November 29th to December 1st, in a yet-to-be-determined golf course.

“We appreciate the collaboration of all the sponsors and collaborators, as well as the media support that the circuit has. In addition, this year the winner of the 2023 ranking will obtain a place in the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open of Spain 2023 that will be played from November 23 to 26 at the Real Club de Golf Las Brisas”, indicates Alicia Garrido, director of the circuit.

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