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Spain golf – Spanish Golf Courses on the European Tour

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Empordà Golf Links Course. Spanish Golf Courses chosen to host the final stages of the Classification School 2021 of the European Tour

Empordà Golf Course

Spanish Golf Courses

The European Tour Qualifying School has been bolstered by the addition of four new venues ahead of the competition’s return in 2021. The Portuguese Montado Hotel & Golf Resort and the Australian Rosebud Country Club will make their long-awaited debut in 2021 after the Qualifying School was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while the Danish Lyngbygaard Golf Course and the Spanish Empordà Golf Course have also been added to the calendar for 2021.

The European Tour Qualifying School will visit fourteen venues from September to November and allows professional and amateur players to earn a place at the highest level of golf competition in Europe for the 2022 season.

Montado Hotel & Golf Resort, Lyngbygaard Golf and Rosebud Country Club will debut at the Classification School as Stage One venues, with the latter making history as the first Australian venue to host a Classification School event. The first stage will take place at nine venues in total including returning clubs in Austria, England, France, Italy and Sweden.

Empordà Golf Course returns to the calendar of the European Tour Classification School as a Second Stage venue, along with three other Spanish venues, Alenda Golf Course, Desert Springs Resort, Las Colinas Golf & Country Club, after having hosted the Final Stage in 2000, 2002 and 2003.

The competition, established in three stages, will culminate with the Final Phase event at Lumine Golf Course in Spain from November 12 to 17, where just over one hundred and fifty players will play in six rounds the possibility of securing one of the twenty-five European cards Tour.

Tee Times Golf Agency is proud of the choice of the Montado Hotel & Golf Course, as this Resort is very special due to its location dominated by vineyards and a cork oak forest, where streams and lakes make it unique.

Our congratulations are also extended to all the other golf courses; Alenda Golf Course, Empordà Golf Course, Las Colinas Golf & Country Club and Lumine Golf Course and the Resort Desert Springs, as they are all of the great prestige, quality and much requested by our dear customers.

A visit is imperative to all of them, and we suggest our irrefutable special offers for 18 holes with or without a buggy, Twilight, Sunset and Taylor made packages for as many nights accommodation as each client or group desires, not forgetting, all the transfers services and specialized information about each region.

Source: golfindustria.es

Portuguese PGA plans at least two Golf tournaments in 2021

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Portuguese PGA. Pedro Lima Pinto and Nelson Cavalheiro

Pedro Lima Pinto and Nelson Cavalheiro intend to organize the National Professionals Championship in 2021, Photo: Rui Frazão

Portuguese PGA

At a time when the pandemic forced the Portuguese Golf Federation (FPG) to postpone until March the start of the season, the Portuguese PGA confirmed that they will organize some tournaments in 2021, although it is still premature to announce dates and locations.

In a statement published on the official website of the Professional Portuguese Golf Players Association, the following can be read: «PGA Portugal will also organize the PGA Portugal Championship at the end of the year and will continue to develop efforts in the current scenario for the organization of more tournaments and the Pro-Ams.

One of the tournaments being planned, in addition to the aforementioned PGA Portugal Championship, is the Solverde National PGA Championship, the National Professional Golf Championship.

In the past, this tournament was played at Oporto Golf Club between 2015 and 2019 and Vidago Golf Course in 2020.

The most likely dates will be the months of July or September, but we will have to wait for the international calendars, mainly for the Challenge Tour.

For now, the best scenario on the table will be three tournaments for Portuguese Golf Professionals in 2021 with the PGA Portugal, not counting the Pro-Am.

In total, there will be five tournaments on the FPG circuit, in addition to the Absolute National Championship which, for the second consecutive year, will also host professionals. These six events will be organized by the FPG.

Adding the FPG tournaments to the PGA tournaments in Portugal, we may have a total of nine events in 2021 that will form what we can informally call a National Golf Circuit.

If these nine tournaments are confirmed, we will be facing an attractive and competitive season, with all the events counting for the ranking of the Portuguese PGA.

In addition to these nine national tournaments, Portuguese professionals (and the best amateurs) also aim to participate in the two international tournaments in our country: the Portugal Masters of the European Tour (the first European division), in Vilamoura, disputed at Vilamoura Victoria Golf Course, and the Portuguese Open at Royal Óbidos Golf Course, on the Challenge Tour (the second division of European professional golf).

The best national golfers, even if there is no competition abroad, if everything goes according to planed, they can participate in a total of 11 Golf Tournaments.

It is almost one tournament average per month, which, in this pandemic context, is a remarkable effort by FPG and Portuguese PGA.

Of course, everything will depend on fighting COVID-19. The first tournament of the FPG Circuit was scheduled for February and has already been postponed to March.

A message published on social networks by FPG announced the following: “Considering the legislative changes introduced by Decree nº 3-B / 2021, of 19 January, now clarified by Decree nº 3-C / 2021, of 22 January, which determined a limitation to the practice and training of golf by all those who are not professionals or with equivalent activity, the Portuguese Golf Federation believes should suspend the holding of competitions scheduled until February 15th. Thus, the following new dates for the competitions mentioned below are now fixed to be played at Montado Hotel & Golf Resort: 1st Tournament of the FPG Circuit – 6 and 7 March, 91st International Women’s Amateur Championship of Portugal – 12 to 15 May; 91st International Male Amateur Championship of Portugal – 18 to 21 May ».

Tee Times Golf Agency will release all the updates on dates and golf courses chosen for these and all the Portuguese Golf Tournaments promptly, as well as, will have the pleasure of organizing all Golf Packages for its participants and supporters, suggesting the best hotels and golf courses in each region.

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

Filipe Lima prefers the Portugal Golf Masters to the Challenge Golf Tour

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Filipe Lima

Filipe Lima

Filipe Lima prefers the Portugal Golf Masters

Filipe Lima has no doubts and ensures that he will choose the Portugal Golf Masters, to be played in Vilamoura at Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course over the South African swing of the Challenge Golf Tour.

The 39-years-old Portuguese has the prestige to play in full time on the Challenge Golf Tour in 2021, but will choose to compete in the second European division and concentrate more on the opportunities he has to play in the main European level, not feeling that way, affected for the Challenge Golf Tour decision to postpone its three tournaments in South Africa from February to April and May.

Last season, when he realized that the pandemic would damage the competitive calendar, the Portuguese golfer resident in France took the opportunity to reduce the competitions, given the promise of the European circuit organizers to freeze the categories and keep them for 2021.

Likely, Filipe Lima would only enter the Oman Open Golf in March, so if the Challenge Golf Tour kicks off in February, as planned, he could try his luck.

Filipe Lima has a special affection for the Portugal Golf Masters in Vilamoura played at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course. He is the second Portuguese with the best honours in this competition. He cut four times and in 2017 tied with Ricardo Melo Gouveia in 5th place, with whom he shares this national record.

It would be a weight reinforcement to have him at the Montado Hotel & Golf Resort (1st Tournament of the FPG Circuit). Ricardo Melo Gouveia has already perfectly admitted the possibility of starting his 2021 season in Palmela and, after all, Lima and Melo Gouveia are the two players who represented Portugal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016.

Tee Times Golf Agency shares the special affection for the Portugal Masters and the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course, having for this tournament and all the golf holidays vast suggestions of golf packages including the best hotels and golf courses in the region, highlighting the Hotels: Tivoli Marina Vilamoura, Vila Galé (Ampalius & Marina), Dom Pedro (Vilamoura & Marina) and all the other Vilamoura courses (Pinhal, Laguna, Millennium & Old course).

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