It was a banner day for one UWG men’s golf freshman as the Wolves opened their season with a first round 288 at the Full Moon Invitational at Timberline Golf Club in Calera, Alabama.

Freshman Lucas Mota wasted no time in making a name for himself as he posted a school record 64 in his first collegiate round, breaking Charlie Durman’s previous school record of 65 shot back at the 2013 Matt Dyas Invitational.

Mota, a native of Barcelona, Spain, began his day on the first hole and after two pars, rattled off four straight birdies, and added a fifth on the ninth hole to make the turn at five-under. By the par five 15th, Mota had added three more birdies to reach eight under. Mota slipped and made bogeys at 16 and 18 and sandwiched his ninth birdie in on the 17th to finish seven-under par. Mota has a four shot lead going into tomorrow’s final round.

Meanwhile, senior Samuel Jones was putting together a solid round of his own, finishing with a three-under score of 68 in his first round of the new season. Jones made six birdies on the day, including four on the front nine. Jones is tied for second place individually.

Blake Kollin opened his West Georgia career with a 76 on Monday, making just one birdie on the day, and putting him in a 25th place tie. The biggest setback for the Milton, Georgia native was a double bogey on the par five 11th hole.

The final score counted for head coach Todd Selders and the Wolves was from Reece Moore who finished with an 80. Ethan Jones carded an 81 in his first competitive round of the new season. Moore is in a 34th place tie while Jones sits in 36th.

Dan Benson, who is competing as an individual, shot a 75 in the first round of his senior season, and sits in a 20th place tie individually. Benson’s round was highlighted by an eagle three on the par five eighth hole to close out his round.

The Wolves are in third place after one round of play, trailing the host Montevallo by 11 strokes. Christian Brothers sits in second place after an opening round 286.

The Full Moon Invitational will conclude tomorrow at Timberline Golf Club in Calera, Alabama.

Intetclubs: The Barcelona team has won the one with solvency in Retamares supported by a great Eduard Rousaud

The team representing the Real Club de Golf El Prat Barcelona has revalidated the title in the Interclub Championship for Cadets and Girls/Boys 2018 teams, which has been held at the Retamares Golf Club in Alalpardo, Madrid.

The Catalan team, made up of Eduard Rousaud, Andrea de Senmenat, Josep María Serra and Teresa Dorado, has been the best in the two days of competition supported by the first of them, who signed a 65 in their individual round.

El Prat (345 hits) has overtaken the combined Club de Golf Terramar (277) (Barcelona), second, in 32 strokes and the School of Golf Federation of Madrid (385), third, in 40. This result speaks of the superiority of the team of Terrassa.

At the end of the first round, El Prat already dominated, with 72 hits on the foursome and 65 on the fourball for a cumulative 137. He was followed by the Real Club de Golf La Herrería (Madrid) with 153 and Terramar with 154.

Ten teams have participated in the competition: CG La Dehesa, RCG Puerta de Hierro A, RCG Puerta de Hierro B, CG Retamares, CC Villa de Madrid, RCG San Sebastian and the aforementioned.

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In an exciting Championship of Spain for children, Alevín and Benjamín, our young players shone with their own light, highlighting the fry title, won by Anna Cañado, in a vibrant final day at La Manga Club.

The Spanish Championship for Children, Youngsters and Benjamin 2018 ended in La Manga Club, leaving a magnificent result for the promising youngsters of Catalan golf, who were in the top positions in all the classifications. Although in the good work of all the players, the young Lumine’s alevina, Anna Cañado, stood out, who thanks to a magnificent final lap of 70 strokes, earned her the title of champion of Spain, with a total of 219 strokes, achieving six of income on the theoretically favorite, Rocio Tejedo. Cañado, who showed his concentration and success on the last day, was well accompanied in qualifying, in fifth place, with Claudia Lara (235) and eighth, for Alexandra Vidal (245).

Also in the Top 20 were Lidia Villanueva (12th), Marina Joyce Moreno and Ana Aguilar (13th). Also highlighted is the role of our benjamins, which augur well for a good future as competitors for the FCG. Clara Felip was runner-up with 124 strokes, while Nagore Martínez was third with 127. Adriana García Terol was fourteenth and Carlota Carmona sixteenth. Among the youngsters, Mikhail Efremov was the only one to get into the Top 10, with 231 strokes, while Daniel Egea, Pablo García Terol and Eric Casademont, got into a worthy Top 20.

Among the youngest, more players in the top 10. To highlight the sixth place of Jon JU.ñià (118), and the seventh, for Enzo Martínez and Eric Díaz, with 120, demonstrating the wood of champions that we are already forming. Finally, among the Children’s, Anna Ymbern’s brilliant fourth place finish with 225 strokes is just seven strokes behind champion Minoo Mousavi. Also noteworthy are Natalia Anglada, seventh, with 230 and Marta Egea, twentieth (236). Among the boys, more classified in the Top 10, with Marcel Fonseca, in seventh place (230), eighth, Luis Palomo (231) and thirteenth, Pau Sanchez (234) and fifteenth, Ivan Ponsdomènech, with 235. Very good results from our players, who have demonstrated their competitive spirit in this great party of children’s golf, held in La Manga Club.

Congratulations to all the participants and their families for this magnificent performance in Murcia!

The member of the Real Club de Golf El Prat finished nineteenth, in the Thailand Champ, with a total of 286 strokes (-2), after four very regular days of play

Mireia Prat signed her best result in a long time in the Ladies European Tour, finishing 19th at the Thailand Champ, which ended this Sunday in the Asian country, and with a final victory for the local player, Kanyalak (-15). A great result for the Catalan in the LET Tour after many difficulties the last two seasons to get her head out of the top positions in a tournament of the European women’s circuit, said Mireia. “It’s been a long time since I won a Top 10 on the Ladies European Tour and I can only be happy that I did it and thank all the people who are helping me,” said Mireia, who was flying to Brussels tonight to participate in the Belfius Ladies Open at the Royal Bercuit GC from June 28-30. The truth is that Mireia was able to chain four good laps of golf, with cards of 71,71,73 and 71 strokes, for that nineteenth place, and second best Spanish in the tournament, only surpassed by Noemi Jimenez, eleventh, with 283 strokes (-5).

Congratulations Mireia for this great performance in Thailand!

Text extracted from the Catalan Golf Federation.

Ireland were unbeatable in Urduña (Basque Country) and won their sixth title 11 years after the last one.

Catalonia failed to win their third consecutive European Pitch and Putt Championship in a clear-cut 8.5-0.5 loss to Ireland in the decisive match. The Irish showed the best version of themselves in Urduña (Basque Country) and became the first team to close all the direct elimination rounds (MatchPlay) without losing any individual games. It has been 11 years since the green, white and orange team won the title (this weekend’s is the 6th), after the Catalan national team had beaten them in 2010 and had been absent in 2014.

Strokeplay sets the trend
The European started with two individual laps (strokeplay) of all the players, the sum of the results of which was to distribute the nine participating teams in 3 different groups. Catalonia was second to 29 strokes from the Irish, who with an overall record of -44 began to ratify their status as favourites. For their position, the Catalan national team faced in the second phase in Switzerland and Galicia, against whom they managed to reach the final group stage with not a few difficulties. Although the Swiss lost 9-0, the Galicians were able to draw (4.5-4.5) against the two-time champions.

Final three unevenly matched
The final group was played by Ireland, Catalonia and Andorra, who surpassed Great Britain in the previous qualifying round despite having been 10 times in the strokeplay. The Catalan national team beat the Andorran team (5,5-3,5) thanks to the foursome as, in singles, there was a tie to 3. The last day was the duel between the Irish and Catalans, which was a final but in this European premiered the final triangular format. The team was made up of Emili Sanmartín, Eric Puig, Fernando Cano, José Iglesias, David Riera and Alex Albiñana Jr, who scored the only half point against Ireland, drawing their individual match.

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The first tournament will be held on June 30th in Madrid, at the Santander Golf Course, where players who sign up to feel a new way of competing can attend. You can attend as a member of Emerald Membership or by invitation from the pre-selected companies.

Each tournament will feature 72 players with relevant profiles and senior executives in the financial sector, who will be able to attend accompanied by the socio-cultural agenda that the organization makes available over the weekend to enjoy a unique service through the excellence of each supplier and sponsor selected.

The dates of the nearest tournament are the one to be held in Madrid on 30 June at the Santander Golf Course, but it is not the only one already scheduled. In Barcelona will be held on September 15 at the Real Club de Golf El Prat in Sotogrande in autumn, on October 27, 2018 at The San Roque Club Sotogrande, and in Seville on December 1, 2018 at Real Club Sevilla Golf.

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Our Senior team of the Real Club de Golf el Prat has revalidated the title of Senior Catalonia Interclubs Champion Club.

The favorite won the competition of the Catalan Federation of Golf Senior Interclub Golf held at Golf Vallromanes this weekend, adding 374 strokes, with three advantage over Llavaneras (377), best Handicap

The RCG El Prat, with 374 strokes and Alvaro Lopez de Lamadrid leading the team as captain, was proclaimed Golf Vallromanes, new champion of Catalonia Senior Interclubs 2018, after accumulating a total of 374 strokes after two days of play. The second final place went to Golf Llavaneras, with 377 and the third was Golf Terramar, with 378. A total of eight clubs participated in this FCG competition with their best seniors in action, Golf El Prat, Terramar, Vallromanes, Golf Barcelona, Llavaneras, Empordà, Handicap 1 and Montanyà. On Saturday, which was played in the Greensome Stroke Play mode, there was a triple lead, between El Prat, Terramar and Llavaneras, which added 235 scratch shots, leaving everything open for the second and final day where they were going to play under the Fourball Stroke Play mode. And in the Sunday game, El Prat made the difference by a very small margin, accumulating 219 hits, thanks to the couples Daniel Jiménez-Quesada-Enrique Uriach (73) and Alfonso Vidaor-Eugenio Bores Leonori (72), and the 74 of Ana Vilella-Juan José Martínez. Llavaneras left at 224 while Terramar could not reach El Prat with 225. Therefore, the Challenge Cup went to El Prat, while the best Handicap result was for Llavaneras, with 349. As in all the official competitions of the FCG, they joined us at Golf Vallromanes.

To see the results, click here

Text written by the Federació Catalana de Golf.

Our team at the second stop of the Interclubs Men, in Golf Llavaneras

The Maresme club hosts on Thursday the second round of the first edition of the Interclubs Masculino de Catalunya, where the leadership defends the RCG El Prat
The Interclubs Masculino de Catalunya will experience the second round of the season at Golf Llavaneras, where the 13 clubs participating in this initial edition of the FCG tournament will attend. RCG El Prat, who were the best after the first race at Raimat Golf, will defend the lead with 11.5 points and 16 ups. In the second and third place, tied with 10.5 points, Golf Sant Cugat and Golf d’Aro, while the fourth place corresponds to Golf Barcelona, with 10 points. The first edition of the Interclubs Masculino, like the successful women’s version, visits a total of six Catalan courses.

After passing through Vallromanes, it will be followed by Pals (7 June), La Roca (5 September), Vallromanes (17 October) and will close the Social Fun Committee competition, Golf Terramar, on 7 November. This Thursday’s competition will be played under the Greensome Match Play mode. As in all the official FCG events, we will be joined by the main sponsors, AdidasTaylorMade and Fincas Bourgeois, as well as the federative partners, La Roca Village, Wunder Training, Segura Viudas, Golf Estudio, NACEX, Coca-Cola, Aneto Natural, and Dilmah. Good luck to all the teams in the second event of the Interclubs Men in Llavaneras!

Text and article by the Catalan Golf Federation

Andrea de Sentmenat, champion of Catalunya Absoluta 2018 at Golf Bonmont

The RCG player El Prat took the title at Golf Bonmont in an exciting final tournament, which was decided very tightly.
With a total of 148, she was crowned this Sunday, the new champion of Catalunya Absolute, after two intense days of play at Golf Bonmont. The FCG tournament was reduced to 36 holes after Friday’s day was cancelled due to strong gusts of wind. With the tournament reduced to two days, De Sentmenat was the most regular on a demanding course at Golf Bonmont, which kept the excitement and equality, virtually to the last hole. In the women’s tournament, the RCG El Prat player, Andrea de Sentmenat, was the most regular and with two laps of 75 and 73 strokes, was proclaimed new champion of Catalonia, with a total of 148 strokes, surpassing by a single impact to one of the players who arrived in better shape, Laura Pasalodos (Golf Barcelona), who signed 149, after two cards of 75 and 74 strokes. Berta Sánchez (La Roca) and Agueda Cortilla (El Prat) shared third place with 152. In the 2nd category competition, the new Catalan champion is Sofia Pedrero (Golf d’Aro), with 161 strokes after two laps of 82 and 79 impacts. The runner-up was Teresa Dorado (Costa Brava), with 163 strokes.

Congratulations!

Real Club de Golf El Prat is regarded as the best golf course in Barcelona and among the finest in Spain, having hosted more than 250 top-level national and international championships, including the European Tour Spanish Open on 10 occasions.

Just 35 minutes from the centre of Barcelona and one hour away from Costa Brava and Costa Daurada, golf club El Prat is steeped in history with its roots dating back to 1912.
Some of the biggest names in golf such as Spanish legends Severiano Ballesteros, José Maria Olazábal and Sergio Garcia, eight-time Major winner Tom Watson, and Tommy Fleetwood have featured there in various European Tour tournaments, while Masters champion Garcia and European Tour star Pablo Larrazábal are both members.

El Prat is the only Catalan Club together with PGA Catalunya to boast 2 championship courses and the only Spanish course along Lumine golf designed by the legendary Greg Norman. The layouts play over an exciting mix of five highly acclaimed configurations – the Open, Blue, Yellow, Pink and Green – as well as being home to a modern and lively clubhouse and extensive practice facilities, as well as a 300m driving range and a host of specialist short-game areas.

The multi-award-winning El Prat was recently named as one of the 125 Platinum Clubs of the World – Five-star Private Club alongside other Spanish top Clubs such as Real Club Valderrama, Real Club de Golf de Sotogrande, Real Club de la Puerta del Hierro.
And the prestigious club has carefully chosen a selection of hotel partners to create a variety of stay-and-play packages to provide golfers with the chance to enjoy some of the most sought-after hotels in Barcelona such as Majestic Hotel Spa Barcelona, Grand Hotel La Florida, Hotel The Serras, Hotel Arts and W Barcelona.

GOLF MEDAL FOR PABLO LARRAZÁBAL

Saturday was no ordinary day for Golf and for Pablo Larrazábal, and not only because he was facing a’moving day’ in the privileged positions before a dedicated audience, but also because before going out to the field he received the Bronze Medal of the Royal Order of Sport Merit, the highest distinction awarded to sport in Spain, by the Secretary of State for Sport, José Ramón Lete.

Real Club de Golf El Prat is regarded as one of the best golf clubs in Spain, having hosted more than 250 top-level national and international championships, including the European Tour Spanish Open on 10 occasions.

The world-renowned course, which is just 35 minutes from the centre of Barcelona and one hour away from Costa Brava, is steeped in history with its roots dating back to 1912.
Real Club de Golf El Prat has played host to some of the biggest names in golf with top stars such as Spanish legends Severiano Ballesteros, José Maria Olazábal and Sergio Garcia, eight-time Major winner Tom Watson, and Tommy Fleetwood having featured there in various tournaments, while Masters champion Garcia and European Tour star Pablo Larrazábal are both members.

Situated on the picturesque 518-acre estate of BonVilar since 2002, El Prat is the only Catalan Club together with PGA Catalunya to boast 2 championship courses. Designed by the legendary Greg Norman, the top quality layouts play over an exciting mix of five highly acclaimed configurations – the Open, Blue, Yellow, Pink and Green – as well as being home to a modern and lively clubhouse and extensive practice facilities, as well as a 300m driving range and a host of specialist short-game areas.
The multi-award-winning El Prat was recently named as one of the 125 Platinum Clubs of the World – Five-star Private Club alongside other Spanish top Clubs such as Real Club Valderrama, Real Club de Golf de Sotogrande, Real Club de la Puerta del Hierro.

And the prestigious club has carefully chosen a selection of hotel partners to create a variety of stay-and-play packages to provide golfers with the chance to enjoy some of the most sought-after hotels in Barcelona.