Spain Golf – Alcaidesa Links Golf Course welcomed the Sotogrande Golf Challenge on 10th July

Alcaidesa Links Golf

Alcaidesa Links Golf

Alcaidesa Links Golf Course welcomed the Sotogrande Golf Challenge on 10th July.

After the first day, on June 26th at La Reserva Club Golf Course, the great showcase of golf continues with the Sotogrande Golf Challenge circuit at Heathland golf course of Alcaidesa Links Golf Resort.

It is the first time in history that the seven golf courses from São Roque have come together in a tournament to host the inaugural edition of a circuit that promises great emotions and spectacular golf courses available to everyone and with the presence of a large number of national and international golfers.

The Heathland golf course of Alcaidesa Links Golf Resort’s was the chosen golf course for the more than sixty participants to try to give their best swing with the clear objective of qualifying for the Grand Final that will take place at Real Club Valderrama golf course on November 11th.

Alcaidesa Heathland golf course is an 18-hole, par 72 course designed by the prestigious former Ryder Cup player and author of several internationally renowned courses, Dave Thomas. This golf course offers a variety of natural landscapes ranging from a plateau area (holes 1 to 5, 17 and 18) where the golf course resembles a “moorland” type with wide fairways and exceptional views of the Mediterranean, to different mountains and to the valley area where the holes meander along with themselves and incorporate various water obstacles. The total course is 6,373 meters.

All participants will thus enjoy a golf course that combines exigency and fun in equal parts and in which they must show their best shots if they want to win in the handicap or scratch category, which gives them a direct pass to the Grand Final of Real Clube Valderrama.

But in the Sotogrande Golf Challenge consistency has its prize and the ranking of the regular phase starts to take shape. The top six handicap pairs and also the top six scratch pairs will also compete in the final at Real Club Valderrama.

The Sotogrande Golf Challenge does not stop in her calendar with several high-level competitions that are yet to be disputed. The renovated Old Golf Course at Clube São Roque will be the next after Alcaidesa Links golf course, on the 24th of July, where the 200 participants will have to do their best.

It will be the first tournament after a comprehensive redesign carried out in recent months. Mobile greens, wide fairways in a perfect condition worthy of the same European Tour, will be what the participants of this first edition of the Sotogrande Golf Challenge 2021 will find.

The deadline for participation has been extended, therefore, all interested parties are still in time to formalize the inscription in the different competitions that are still in dispute or opt to enrol together in the last three events to be held at Almenara Resort, La Cañada Golf Course and the Real Club de Sotogrande Golf Course at a very low price, starting at 250,00€. Registration is done through the website www.sotograndechallenge.com.

For Tee Times Golf Agency, this is another magnificent tournament held in the best and most competitive Spanish golf courses.
Alcaidesa Links golf course is a golfer’s paradise with the beauty of most of its holes located by the sea.
As well as the world-famous and appreciated San Roque Old & New golf courses.
The hotels, So / Sotogrande *****, Hotel Encinar de Sotogrande **** and Hotel Apartamentos Manilva Sun ***, complete the beauty of this Spanish region and guarantee the best golf break ever.

Source: opengolf.es

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San Roque Old Course. Sotogrande Golf Challenge

San Roque Old Course

The 2nd round of the Sotogrande Golf Challenge already has winners.

The Clube São Roque takes over as the venue for the third stage of the circuit on July 24 at the recently renovated, Old Course.

Covadonga Basagoiti- Juan Álvarez-Rendueles and Francisco Benítez – José Luis Iglesias have achieved their goal of winning the classification of the second regular round of the Sotogrande Golf Challenge 2021 held at Alcaidesa Links Golf Resort.

The San Roque golf course, Alcaidesa Heathland golf course, an expert in hosting top-level international events, was presented with a demanding set-up in which all participants had to show their best version to achieve a positive result in an international benchmark golf course. In addition, Ana Ruiz, stressed the magnificent state of Alcaidesa’s design and how it has served as a claim so that great sports figures on the international scene, such as Liverpool FC footballer Jame Milner, have come to enjoy this second stop of a circuit that will end its regular phase on September 18 and 19 at the Real Club Sotogrande.

Among the sixty players who finally gathered in this test, the couple formed by Covadonga Basagoiti and Juan Álvarez-Rendueles knew how to get their best version of the game and win with 39 scratch points, based on a magnificent command of the reading of the puts. In second position with 37 points, Ernesto Mira Hafner and Gonzalo Gross finished with the honey on their lips for not getting a direct pass to the Real Club Valderrama grand final in November.

Speaking of the handicap category, Francisco Benítez and José Luis Iglesias (44 stableford points) were the ones who best knew how to adapt to a better ball pair modality in which the success of the rapport is essential to achieve a great result. In second position, with the same score, finished Cándido Romaguera and José Manuel Dicenta. The prize for the nearest the pin on the 14th hole went to John Groszek who managed to get his ball just over a meter away from the hole on this magnificent par 3 of the Heathland course.

The next venues for the Sotogrande Golf Challenge will be July 24 at the San Roque Club Old Course, August 14 at Almenara Golf, August 28 at Club de Golf La Cañada and next September 18 and 19 at the Real Club Sotogrande in what will be the last test, before the grand final that will be held at the Real Club Valderrama on November 11, 2021, just a few weeks after the Estella Damm Andalucía Valderrama Masters 2021.

The website www.sotograndechallenge.com collects all the classifications as well as the registration possibilities individually for each of the tests that still must be disputed and that, represent a real challenge for all participants.

The Sotogrande Golf Challenge Circuit is a direct promotion of the San Roque City Council to promote the destination as a benchmark within the sports tourism segment at a national and international level.

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Alcaidesa Heathland

Alcaidesa Heathland Golf Course

Alcaidesa Heathland Golf Course

Alcaidesa Heathland is one of the two golf courses situated in Alcaidesa Links Golf Resort that is considered as one of the best Golf Complexes of Andalucía and Costa del Sol region in Spain. Constructed and launched a decade back in 2007, Alcaidesa golf course is nestled in the magnificent surroundings of San Roque and La Linea and faces the exquisite azure skyline of the Coast of Gibraltar.

A plush masterpiece designed by the acclaimed golf course architect Dave Thomas, Alcaidesa golf course features 2 x 18 holes, all pars-72. Situated in the midst of plateaus and highlands, the golf course features a panorama of valleys on one side and alluring views of the Mediterranean on the other.

Alcaidesa Heathland features wide and expansive fairways that tend to elevate, stoop, stretch or expand at various instances and make the golf course a real treat to explore. The first five and the 17th and 18th holes have been placed towards the plateau side on an elevated heathland.

The other golf holes on the rest of the fairways are situated in the valley by the river bed. The off-shoots and tributaries of the river stretch into the fairways at some instances and make some complex natural water hazards on the field.

In addition to that, Alcaidesa Heathland golf course also features some natural and strategically placed bunkers, traps and dunes, across the 6.373mt expanse of the course that adds to the degree of challenges and complexity and makes it an ideal course for a skillful, strategic and unorthodox game of golf.

Alcaidesa Heathland is the younger of the two golf courses and therefore, offer more advanced prizes to the players. Aside from the playing field, Alcaidesa Heathland also features, in the resort a restaurant, lounges, patios, a recreational room for kids, a pro shop and club house and provides an all-inclusive experience to the visitors, players and spectators alike.