MADRID, 13 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The eighth edition of the Santander Golf Tour, the national women’s professional golf circuit, will be made up of ten tests, as revealed this Monday during its presentation at the headquarters of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation (RFEG).
The Santander Golf Tour, a circuit sponsored by Banco Santander and Santander Private Banking, will start on March 1, 2 and 3 at Peralada Golf (Girona), with the first of the two tournaments co-sanctioned with the LET Access Series; satellite circuit of the Women’s Circuit, and from there it will move to the RCG San Sebastián (March 29 and 30).
During the month of April, the circuit will have stops at Lerma Golf de Burgos (19 and 20) and at Lauro Golf in Málaga, where the already traditional doubles championship will be held on 28 and 29; while in May, the RCG of La Coruña will be the scene of the fourth appointment on the 24th and 25th.
The Santander Golf Tour will stop until October when it will return to the RCG La Peñaza Durante in Zaragoza, where the second test co-sanctioned with LETAS will be held from 26 to 28 and will serve as the final climax to the LET Access Series season.
November will be the month with the most competition with the four final tournaments of the circuit at Madrid’s El Bosque Golf (4-5), at Real Golf de Pedreña in Cantabria (8-10), under a ‘match-play’ format, the Pro- Am de Leyendas in Madrid in Golf Santander (14-15), and with the Santander Spanish Women’s Professional Championship, whose course is yet to be confirmed and which will be played from November 29 to December 1.
In addition, as a novelty for this season, as confirmed during the presentation on Monday by Alicia Garrido, executive director of ‘Deporte & Business’ and of the circuit, the winner of the 2023 ranking will obtain a place in the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open in Spain. 2023 that will be played from November 23 to 26 at the Real Club de Golf Las Brisas in Marbella (Málaga).
Gonzaga Escauriaza, president of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, thanked Banco Santander for “its commitment to women’s golf” and ‘Deporte & Business’ “for the twenty years it has been promoting professional women’s golf in Spain”. “Thank you for your perseverance and for dyeing this sport red, women’s golf is going to bring much joy and hope to Spain in the coming years,” she underlined.
For his part, Felipe Martín, director of Media, Online Marketing, Sponsorships and Events at Santander Spain, stressed that the circuit “perfectly reflects the bank’s mission transferred to the world of sponsorship”.
“Our mission is to help people and companies to prosper. Thanks to the Santander Golf Tour, the players have a national women’s tournament in which they can develop and especially the youngest can take advantage of making that leap into the professional world. When we see Spanish players to succeed in the big circuits we always have that pride of having contributed our grain of sand to those successes for golf and Spanish sport”, he added.