The Championship takes place from 30 May to 05 June with schedule information shown below:

This year coincides with the fact that the PGA of Spain celebrates 50 years since its creation, the oldest association of professional athletes in Spain. The PGA of Spain has presented a new edition of its professional tour, the Spain Golf Tour 50th Anniversary PGA of Spain, which will consist of eight tournaments valid for the national Order of Merit.

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The Real Club de Golf de El Prat, one of the eight centenary clubs in Spain, will be the beginning of a new stage of the PGA National Circuit that this year bears the name of “Spain Golf Tour 50th Anniversary”, in tribute to that half century of life that has fulfilled the oldest professional association in Spain.

The Barcelona Open by Pablo Larrazábal will take place from April 5 to 9 at the facilities of the Barcelona club under the auspices of one of the great national references, the professional of the European circuit Pablo Larrazábal and member of the Catalan club. Along with Pablo, other great professionals such as Álvaro Velasco will be the champions of this tournament, which will kick off, one more year – and there are already seven editions – to the national circuit of the PGA.

The tournament will consist of 3 days of play, from April 6 to 8, in individual strokeplay mode with a cut on the second day. Of the maximum number of participants set at 144 players, only 40 and ties will be able to play the final and qualify for the prize fund. In addition, amateurs with a handicap of 4.4 or less are also given the possibility to participate in the tournament, and to compete with professionals of the highest level.

April 5 is the official training day of the Rosa route of RCG El Prat, considered the most demanding of the Barcelona club and designed by the Australian “White Shark” Greg Norman. As a finishing touch of the tournament, some of the professionals will play a Pro-Am on the 9th with members and friends of the Real Club de Golf El Prat.

Pablo Larrazábal commented: “This tournament makes me very excited. Álvaro Velasco proposed me to collaborate with the tournament and here we are, opening the Circuit in this 50th Anniversary of the PGA and playing the Spanish circuit, where I started and helped me get to where I am today. “

An example of the importance of organizing tournaments at home is that, in addition to helping the most experienced professionals to complete their calendar, the youngest amateur players are also given the opportunity to get the necessary experience they need playing and learning from the greats of the highest level.

The RCG El Prat welcomes this event and encourages all professionals to participate and support Spanish professional golf in the Barcelona Open by Pablo Larrazábal, in a high-level course where the Club’s staff has worked to leave it in excellent condition, in the pure style of the Real Club de Golf El Prat. A scene of key moments in the world of international golf, with the celebration of tournaments of the highest level of the European Tour, such as the Spanish Open.

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Presentation of the “Spain Golf Tour 50th Anniversary PGA of Spain” at the Higher Sports Council of Madrid with the presence of the Secretary of State for Sports and president of the CSD, José Manuel Franco, and the president of the PGA of Spain, Ander Martínez.

This year coincides with the fact that the PGA of Spain celebrates 50 years since its creation, the oldest association of professional athletes in Spain.

The Association of Golf Professionals of Spain has presented a new edition of its professional tour, the Spain Golf Tour 50th Anniversary PGA of Spain, which will consist of eight tournaments valid for the national Order of Merit. Ander Martínez, president of the PGA of Spain, was in charge of presenting the new Tour that this year coincides with a very special event: the PGA of Spain celebrates 50 years since its creation, the oldest association of professional athletes in Spain.

Ander Martínez presented the Tour in an important year for the PGA that turns 50, “we are the oldest professional association in Spain, and among our ranks there are great professionals who are very committed to their association.” He thanked the Seve Ballesteros Foundation for its work and support, “which has supported us during very difficult years and has helped the association a lot to consolidate this Tour and keep it alive; tour that we have presented for the fourth time at the CSD. Which shows the solidity of this project”.

José Manuel Franco, Secretary of State for Sports and President of the Higher Sports Council, welcomed the fifty attendees, including journalists and representatives of federations and presidents of golf courses who traveled to Madrid, and had words of praise for the tour. “This is a highly relevant tour, supported by great professionals who support it. I had the idea that golf was an elitist sport and I have found that nothing could be further from the truth. And all thanks to the work that all of you do: the PGA, the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, the territorial federations, town councils, county councils, golf courses… you all bring golf closer to all citizens, and I thank you for choosing this institution, the house of sport in Spain, to present this project”.

“Golf shares with us, the CSD, the global pillars that Seve Ballesteros had of humility, desire to excel and sacrifice; They are the principles of sport, of the CSD and of Spain, and the PGA of Spain has maintained these values ​​since its foundation 50 years ago”, added Franco, who highlighted golf as the axis of tourism and economic recovery. “I congratulate you on this project and I hope we’ll see each other next year,” he added.

Eight events from April to November

Ander revealed the eight events that make up the tour, which will begin at the RCG in El Prat from April 6 to 9 with the PGAe Open in Barcelona hosted by Pablo Larrazábal; Golf Ciudad Real will host the II Spanish PGA Match-Play Championship from May 12 to 15. The tour will travel to the neighboring country with the Portuguese Championship that will be played at Riba Golfe Lakes in Lisbon from July 21 to 24. The Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, venue for the Spanish Open on the European Tour, will host the Madrid Championship for Professionals-PGAe from July 26 to 29. The great event of the association, the XXXIV Spanish PGA Championship, will be played at La Faisanera in Segovia, from September 1-4. The Castilla y León Professionals Championship will be played at CG Entrepinos, in Simancas, from October 16 to 19 and the Grand Final will be at the Hato Verde field in Seville from November 21 to 27. The RFEG Professional Championship is also included, a valid tournament for the Order of Merit, which date and field have yet to be defined.

Thanks to attendees

The presentation of this new edition of the PGA tour of Spain in the Higher Sports Council has created much expectation and has brought together almost fifty attendees, including the press and institutions. Accompanying Ander Martínez, president of the PGA of Spain, were Pablo Bernárdez, Director of the RFEG Professional Committee; Ignacio Guerras, President of the Madrid Golf Federation; Francisco Lagarto, Representative of the Castilla y León Federation: Osorio Pinilla and María Adánez, President and Manager of Entrepinos Golf; Carlos Yebra, Director of Hato Verde Golf; Juan José Poblete, President of the Ciudad Real Golf Club; Manuel Tello, representing the AFE and former soccer player Fernando Zambrano. Alicia Garrido, CEO of Sports & Business; Fernando Meroño, creator of FERGGOLF

Madrid April 26, 2016.- The golf from the base is the objective of the First National Youth League Campbell Lamont Golf – PGA of Spain, a project are non-profit, for which it is intended to promote the course from the base, and excite children begin to discover this sport and give reasons for that golf would become his favorite activity.

The schedule consists of a total of 101 matches throughout 2016, distributed so that each zone schedules nine tournaments, with evidence in Galicia West, Basque Country, Catalonia, Valencia North and Levante South, Andalusia Orientasl and, Baleares, Centro and the Canary Islands.

Each zone will have a Regional Final. The winners of each area in each category differentiating Cratch, Hcp male and female, will be invited to the National Final on 18 December in La Sella Golf Resort in Denia. The prize for the winners will be a scholarship to IMG Academy. There are provided 10 scholarships for the winners.

A similar model in the USA, The PGA Junior League, has grown from 170 children taking part in 2011 to over 30,000 in 2015 and the PGA of Spain hopes to achieve growth in the next few years as well. The project may also take the form of the PGA Junior League in future overseen by the Confederation of Professional Golf who are licensing the PGA Junior League throughout its Member Countries.

Ignacio Gervás, sports director of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, said “First of all we are thankful for these initiatives that support basic golf, which is the future of our sport. Thanks to the PGA of Spain, the Confederation of Professional Golf, IMG for their support, and to all who make this project possible.”

Ian Randell, CEO of Confederation of Professional Golf, added, “We have licensed the league model from the PGA of America and it has seen great success since 2011. It began with 170 children and last year reached 30,000 children with 2,500 teams formed. The PGA Junior League also works with excellent ambassadors with much prestige and influence in the world of golf such as Michelle Wie, Rory McIlroy, Fowler and Lexi Thompson.”

David Pastor, President of the PGA of Spain, said “These initiatives fall within the strategies of the PGA of Spain, and Confederation of Professional Golf, promote the grass-roots golf, and make this sport popular throughout all levels of golf. We as PGA professionals have an obligation to promote the values of the sport ​​and the junior league model is especially interesting as it offers a different type of team competition. And my thanks also go to all stakeholders who have helped carry out this project and for their financial support.”

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