Oporto Golf Club
Aroeira and Oporto Golf Club
The Oporto Golf Club (OGC) will present a very young team to participate in the next three days at the UEFA European club teams challenge, a golf equivalent to the UEFA Champions League, organised by the European Golf Association (EGA).
Afonso Girão, 19, last year’s under-18 Portuguese national champion and the best amateur in the recent Solverde National PGA Championship, is the only experienced playor of Espinho based team, coached by Eduardo Maganinho and captained by Miguel Montenegro. He is joined by Vasco Alves was national champion sub-16 last year and João Pedro Maganinho was national runner-up sub-14 in 2015.
Tiago Rodrigues became professional just two months ago, having competed the American college circuit, and the transfer of João Girão to the same championship in the United States three months ago, seriously embezzled the OGC, which this year won the Solverde Club National Championship.
It is not expected the Portuguese side to repeat the triumph of Vilamoura Golf Club in 2013, when the tournament was played at Aroeira Country Club.
And it is exactly in this county resort located near Almada that the champions from 23 countries will play, in a tournament co-hosted by the Portuguese Golf Federation, which had this week to deploy efforts given its presence also in Portugal Masters in the Algarve.
From this European elite gentlemen’s clubs, we highlight the five-time winners of Racing Club de France La Boulie, which seek to revalidate the title and make it a sextuple three weeks after their women’s team have got the “hat-trick” in Bulgaria.
