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Leonor Bessa first woman winner of the PGA Portugal Tour

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Leonor Bessa first woman winner of the PGA Portugal Tour

Leonor Bessa, Photo: Carla Guerreiro / PGA Portugal

Leonor Bessa winner of the PGA Portugal Tour

December 1st, 2020, entered in the history of national golf as the first time that a woman won a mixed tournament on the PGA Portugal Tour, the Portuguese Professional Circuit.

The national champion defeated her boyfriend Tomás Melo Gouveia in the play-off at Amendoeira Golf Resort, in the center of the Algarve and a unique natural beauty with the award-winning Faldo Course, designed by Sir Nick Faldo and the challenging O’Connor Jnr course.

Leonor Bessa is the author of this accomplishment ended the calendar of high competition in Portugal in the 2020 season.

Leonor Bessa had already won both women’s tournaments, in July and September, and is, therefore, the current national professional champion and absolute national champion. This most recent triumph maintained her invincibility internally and had a special impact for the historical record.

The 22-year-old Portuguese totalled 67 strokes, 5 below the Par of O’Connor Jr. Golf Course at Amendoeira Golf Resort, thanks to an exceptional round, unique in her professional career, as she had never made 18 competitive holes without suffering bogeys and converted 5 birdies.

The title decision was played at hole 18, where Tomás had even made a birdie and Leonor had matched the Par-4. Therefore, none played particularly well and it was with 1 bogey that the national champion took over her third title of the year.

A “sudden death”, at least curious and unusual, because Leonor Bessa and Tomás Melo Gouveia started dating this year and often train together in Algarve golf courses, such as: Vilamoura Pinhal, Vilamoura Millennium, Vilamoura Laguna, Vilamoura Old Course, Vilamoura Victoria as well as in Vale do Lobo Royal & Ocean, San Lorenzo & Pinheiros Altos and Quinta do Lago North, South & Laranjal, a region where they both reside and full of wonderful accommodation offers for an unforgettable golf holiday, we highlight the 5 star Hotels, Tivoli Marina Vilamoura, Crowne Plaza as well as the 4 star Hotels, Vila Galé Ampalius, Vila Galé Marina, Dom Pedro Vilamoura & Dom Pedro Marina.

Besides boyfriends, Tomás was Leonor’s caddy in tournaments of the Spanish Santander Golf Tour at the Real Golf Pedreña and at Oliva Nova Golf (Valencia) and she was also a caddy of him in a European Tour tournament, so the normal thing is to pull each other and not directly rival each other.

Her international season was also positive, ending, for the first time, in the top 10 (7th) of the Santander Golf Tour ranking, the Spanish professional circuit.

But the great achievement of this PGA Portugal Open was to meet for the first time this year, in the same tournament counting only for internal rankings, Tomás Bessa (-4), the national champion of professionals, who competes in the Alps Tour Golf; Ricardo Melo Gouveia (-3), the absolute national champion, who fights on the Challenge Tour; and Pedro Lencart (Par), the national amateur champion. In 2020 this happened only in the Portuguese tournaments of the European Tour and in this event.

The top-10 of the PGA Portugal Open 2020, held at the O’Connor Jr. Golf Course at Amendoeira Golf Resort, was as follows:

1st Leonor Bessa, 67 strokes (5 under par), (play-off victory), tee off from the blue marks;

2nd Tomás Melo Gouveia, 67 (-5), white marks;

3rd Tomás Bessa, 68 (-4), white marks;

3rd Miguel Gaspar, 68 (-4), white marks;

5. Ricardo Melo Gouveia, 69 (-3), white marks;

5th Tomás Silva, 69 (-3), white marks;

7th Susana Ribeiro, 71 (-1), blue marks;

7th Vítor Lopes, 71 (-1), white marks;

7th Alexandre Abreu, 71 (-1), white marks;

7th Pedro Cruz Silva, 71 (-1), amateur, white marks;

Tee Times Golf Agency congratulates Leonor Bessa on her success and wishes her many more achievements in her bright future, as well as, to all our clients, unforgettable golf holidays in our country that we will be happy to organize.

Source: Hugo Ribeiro / Tee Times Golf (teetimes.pt) for Record

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Callaway Big Bertha. Better golf

Better golf

Callaway Golf has launched its new Big Bertha B-21 range of drivers, fairway woods, hybrids and irons, ‘for distance any way you swing it‘.
The manufacturer says these new clubs have been engineered with premium technologies and legendary Big Bertha design features, and launched the range with the tagline ‘this is distance any way you swing it’. Basically, the clubs have been designed for higher handicap golf swings, promising added distance through lower spin, easy launch and extra slice-fighting forgiveness.

Big Bertha B-21 Driver
This new driver is long, forgiving, easy to hit, and targeted at players who tend to slice and find it tricky to get a consistent ball flight. It’s Callaway’s first driver with high launch, low spin and significant draw bias.
Big Bertha B-21 features the company’s A.I. designed Flash Face SS21 made of a super strong, heat-treated TA-15 titanium. Internal heel weighting generates lower spin to help reduce the amount of curvature on your ball flight. The clubs also have Callaway’s Jailbreak Technology, which is two internal bars connecting the sole and crown to promote fast ball speed, and a significantly lighter carbon crown makes it easier to redistribute weight for increased forgiveness.

Big Bertha B-21 Fairway Woods
Callaway says this is their easiest to launch fairway wood yet, promising greater distance, more consistent contact and smoother turf interaction. They share many of the same technologies as the driver, with the addition of an increased offset which is designed to eradicate the big slice or miss-hit from your game.

Big Bertha B-21 Hybrids
Like the driver and fairways woods, Big Bertha Hybrids feature the A.I. designed Flash Face SS21 and Jailbreak tech for increased ball speed. They are Callaway’s easiest to launch hybrids yet with an increased head volume, and a greater offset to correct wild spinning shots. These clubs have the addition of tungsten weights which are precisely placed into the sole of the clubhead to enhance launch and trajectory.

Big Bertha B-21 Irons
Again with an emphasis on forgiveness and distance, Callaway has made the Big Bertha B21 irons easy to hit by generous offset, wide soles and thick toplines to inspire the confidence we all need at address. This is the first time that their A.I. designed Flash Face Cup is on a Big Bertha Iron, which promotes high balls speeds and increased spin robustness. There’s a tungsten toe weight which promotes a stable centre of gravity and forgiveness, while a second weight low on the sole to the rear increases launch angle for those who struggle with a consistent ball flight.

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The Legend Valderrama

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Valderrama Golf Club

Valderrama Golf Club

Valderrama

The Real Club Valderrama is extraordinary compared to other realized golf clubs in Europe. It is situated in the resort of Sotogrande, San Roque in the Andalusia area of southern Spain, a couple of miles from Gibraltar.

Tee Times Golf Agency had the delight to play the Real Club Valderrama and after numerous years venturing to the far corners of the planet with the incredible fortune to play golf we found that the golf course here is basically one of the absolute best we have ever had the chance to appreciate!

From parking the car to the finish the service is five stars.

Top-notch facilities starting at the pratice area through to the golf course.

Valderrama Golf Club

Valderrama Golf Club

And afterward the colossal golf course itself which on the front nine breezes its route delicately through the cork trees over the sublimely structured parkland style holes, and the back nine which can thoroughly devastate the consequences of a decent front nine through its extremely intense – yet reasonable – format with a lot of scoring openings tempered by the ever present information that one mis-hit shot can see you effectively lose ground on your opponents.

A superior format as far as structure, area, quality and the general pleasant nature of a golf course you will be unable to discover anyplace on the planet!

It is uncommon to fall off a golf course with such a sentiment of satisfaction and a genuine encounter when your back nine play has been in complete complexity to a very much played front nine, yet Real Club Valderrama is that course. We can possibly envision how great you would feel in the event that you can assemble a strong back nine toward the finish of your round, or far superior an entire 18 holes of good quality golf more than one of the world’s really incredible greens – or better still to win in the Ryder Cup here!

The course was structured in 1974 by Robert Trent Jones, Sr, one of the extraordinary fairway designers, and was initially known as Las Aves (Sotogrande New). In 1985, Mr. Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, aquired the golf course and focused on carrying the course to an uncommon level, never found in Europe. Robert Trent Jones eagerly consented to return and overhaul his unique design of ten years sooner. Together the two men spent numerous hours strolling around the course and talking about where and how upgrades ought to be made.

Ryder Cup in Valderrama Golf Club

Ryder Cup in Valderrama Golf Club

The course was renamed Valderrama, after the old domain on which the land is arranged. The pair shared a typical point: to make a course that would introduce a trial of golf to the regular golf player and the top of the line player the same, and would draw out the best golf that is in him. Valderrama has since ascended in the Golf World rankings to turn into the No.1 fairway in territory Europe, a position gladly held since 1989.

By 1999, Real Club Valderrama was appraised the top course in territory Europe by Golf World magazine.

The fourth hole, La Cascada, is the course’s signature hole. It is a Par 5 with a lake to one side of the two-layered green. The training ground was known as the best in Europe by Nick Faldo.