Portugal Golf – One Green Way Invitational golf tournament in Quinta do Lago

Quinta do Lago North. One Green Way Invitational at Quinta do Lago North

Exclusive golf tournament took place at Quinta do Lago

Amazing golfing royalty from across the globe gathered last weekend at the Quinta do Lago, Algarve, for a three-day golf tournament. The One Green Way Invitational has quickly become the most prestigious private event in all of Europe, even in just its second year.

Picture this: the greatest players in the world competing in a private event on a flawless golf course surrounded by a surreal backdrop. Put away your daydreams; this isn’t a fairy tale; it’s the One Green Way Invitational, a mixed Pro-Am golf tournament held in Quinta do Lago North last weekend, which featured an impressive roster of golf celebrities. The total “prize money” was 332,500 Euros, with the grand prize at 55,000 Euros.

Multiple captains and vice-captains from the Ryder Cup and the Solheim Cup competed in this year’s edition. Several of the competitors have been inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, while many more have won PGA or Open Championships. Bernhard Langer, José Maria Olazabal, and Colin Montgomerie are just some of the celebrities who participated in this tournament.

In the ladies, the highlight was the Mexican Laura Ochoa, who still holds the record for the most weeks in a row at the top of women’s golf, alongside other great presences such as Dame Laura Davies and Suzann Pettersen, a captain in the 2023 Solheim Cup.

Jean-Noel Bioul, the tournament’s host and an advisor to the One Green Way Board, stated in a statement before the event: “We are thrilled to organise the second ‘One Green Way Invitational’ this year. Everything about these three days of the tournament seems promising”. Sixty “legends” and sixty special guests will gather for the One Green Way Invitational.

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Portugal Golf – CG Évora: champions in Vila Sol

Vila Sol Golf Course

CG Évora: champions in Vila Sol

The Golf Club of Évora promoted its 5th OM tournament in the Vila Sol golf course sponsored by the wines of Comenda Grande (Arraiolos), which provided to all participants the possibility to taste their high quality products, from wines to sparkling wine.

The great champions were Graça Carter, João Pedro Themudo and José Manuel Gago Leiria.

The tournament, a shot gun with wind and hot weather, brought together about 80 golfers among club members and guests.

Among the members, João Pedro Themudo won with 36 points, followed by Vasco Franco de Sousa also with 36.

In net José Gago Leiria won with 41 points, followed by Manuel Bagulho with 40.

The ladies event was won by Graça Carter with 42 points, followed by Amélia Gabin with 36.

The gross champion was João Pedro Themudo with 31 points, followed by João Teixeira Almeida with 27.

The prizes were distributed during the lively social lunch at the Vila Sol restaurant, which ended with a fabulous tombola (everyone received gifts…) and a unique encounter of Alentejo’s songs, among the members of CG Évora.

The club’s Order of Merit has three more golf tournaments to go until the end of the year.

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Miguel Angel Jimenez – Champion of Open of Spain 2014

Spain Golf: Miguel Angel Jimenez increases his legend – Champion of Open of Spain 2014.

Miguel Angel Jimenez - Champion of Open of Spain 2014

Miguel Angel Jimenez – Champion of Open of Spain 2014

Open of Spain – a spectacular and vibrant, with the best outcome dreamed, the victory of a Spanish player Miguel Angel Jimenez, ‘the Pisha’ relentless ‘Mechanic’, pure-player which smokes after the deeds and that holes in the greens – the golfer at is 50 years depletes laudatory epithets as a result of its ongoing magic in his art, his golf.

And all with a thrilling denouement, three players runaway towards a title that ended up in the hands of Miguel Angel Jimenez, who recalled a crowning glory, on a first moment, the historic playoff prompting Raphael Jacquelin to lift the trophy, now twelve months ago.

This time, however, even though the Open of Spain has to be defined as beyond even the last breath in the last two years, all was resolved at the first hearing, when the atmosphere was buzzing with tension to the surface that only the greatest and most experts, as Miguel Angel Jimenez, are able to handle.

The Malaga born has now filled a big deficit in his curriculum that was for a long time. Patriotic to the core, Miguel Angel Jimenez was missing from his history the illustrious victory in the Open of Spain, a notch on his belt of successes that shines with tremendous pride, motivation more than enough to get another new cigar from his bag , lighting it sparingly and give cheers with the thousands of people who supported him all these days in PGA Catalunya Resort.

And, moreover the triumph, Miguel Angel Jimenez won the affection of all, with that particular form of understanding golf that crosses borders. His victory, his expected and desired triumph, further forged with sharp edging drama, doubts and uncertainties dotted here and there on his last tour that magnified so much more this last victory.

With young Thomas Pieters as companion star game, Malaga soon marked the territory, with a birdie on the first hole, demonstration that from the start he was going for it. The Belgian, leader on the 1st tee, lost that honorable condition because of three consecutive bogeys between holes 2 and 4, advantage taken by the famous MAJ to access the highest position, with Australian Richard Green stuck to his neck, both tied to the passage by Ecuador turn, critical to the Malaga born golfer.

Bogeys on holes 9 and 10 were a major break in the brilliant career of Miguel Angel Jimenez to the title, consecutive setbacks giving wings to Richard Green, starting a continuous trade-off decision between the two that also took part Thomas Pieters, persistent in his refusal to stay out of the fight for the title.

With tension to the surface, two holes were critical in the outcome of such a frantic and exciting history. At hole 14, Richard Green, first in the rough before making triple bogey, fought boldly for lost ground and joined a heads up on wat appeared an exclusive between experience and the burgeoning youth between Miguel Angel Jimenez and Thomas Pieters, between the consolidated golf and the yet to be constructed golf.

The Belgian, shamelessly, raised Jimenez to his greatest challenge, an eagle on the 15th hole that produced a new tie between the two at the top of the standings. From there, drama, heightened tension, agony, hundreds of nail biting on the perimeter of the streets and the greens by thousands of fans eager to the triumph of Miguel Angel Jimenez, who stumbled as Thomas Pieters on the 17th hole, opportunity provided at Richard Green, who joined a tachycardia playoff tiebreaker.

And it was there, at the peak moment, when Miguel Angel Jimenez, patient and serene, luxury spectator of trembling strokes by their rivals, smoked a new cigar, win number 21 on the European Tour, win number 1 in the Open of Spain. Number 1 for a Number 1 player.

Source: Opengolf.es

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