Late in his profession, Robert Trent Jones was proud to say that the solar didn’t set on his programs, because the legendary British-born American designer left his signature on programs in 35 nations all over the world. This phrase, inheritor to the sentence defining the empire solid by Charles I and Philip II, solely started to make sense exactly in Spain, in a Actual Membership de Golf Sotogrande that was his first European course. Excellence, high quality, and a privileged setting make this design its finest letter of introduction, a course that gamers and followers alike will have the ability to get pleasure from from October 19-22 on the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters.
The proper integration of the course amongst dunes and cork bushes, the range provided by its holes and the demanding format have served to check the perfect gamers, each within the historic Sotogrande Cup with the perfect European amateurs (lots of them with profitable skilled careers later) and within the elite tournaments hosted by the Actual Membership de Golf Sotogrande.
“Robert Trent Jones’ design was an amazing novelty in European golf, because it was the primary seeded with Bermuda 419 and outfitted with automated irrigation. The most effective gamers cherished it from the beginning for its ample tees, vast fairways, white bunkers with spectacular shapes, quick, giant greens, and lakes that affected as much as seven holes. It was and nonetheless is a wonderful check of golf the place gamers of all ranges have enjoyable,” says golf course supervisor Patrick Allende.
Passing the check of time, this course, that’s about to succeed in its sixtieth anniversary, maintains its vigour because of the painstaking work of the greenkeeping workforce led by Patrick Allende and the transforming carried out throughout 2015 and 2017 by architect Roger Rulewich, an in depth collaborator of Robert Trent Jones, and David Fleury, with the important supervision of Allende. The restoration of the bermuda on tees, fairways and roughs, and the Agrostis A4 on the greens is probably probably the most hanging side of a deep restoration work, though it reached many different areas in order that the spirit of the Actual Membership de Golf Sotogrande devised by Robert Trent Jones stays extra alive than ever.
“The greens had misplaced an necessary a part of their floor, and it was essential to revive them to offer the course again its authentic character. The restoration was carried out with nice constancy to the unique design; in truth, the hand drawings made by Jones had been taken as a reference”, Allende factors out.
“The greens had been made following the newest USGA building specs and was one of many first programs in Europe to put in the “sub air” drainage air extraction system. As well as, 37 kilometers of drains had been constructed all through the course and 75,000 tons of silica sand had been used, permitting us to hold out way more environment friendly and environmentally sustainable upkeep,” Allende lastly provides.
DP World Tour’s finest golfers can have the chance to emulate the achievements on the Actual Membership de Golf Sotogrande of gamers equivalent to Rory McIlroy, José María Olazábal, Shane Lowry, Padraig Harrington or Francesco Molinari, all champions on the San Roque membership. The ninth version of the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters will serve to crown one other nice champion who will undoubtedly really feel the satisfaction of becoming a member of such an illustrious listing of golfers within the jewel designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. within the coronary heart of Sotogrande.
The stellar subject, the attractiveness of the brand new venue and the situation within the schedule, within the decisive stage of the Race to Dubai, will likely be unbeatable property to show the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters into a singular spectacle, perfect for all audiences. Tickets are already out there with preferential charges for federated golfers and free entry for kids aged twelve and underneath, and could be purchased on the event website.
The Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters, an occasion within the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai made potential by the important contribution of the Actual Membership de Golf Sotogrande, is sponsored by Estrella Damm and the Consejería de Turismo, Regeneración, Justicia y Administración Native of the Junta de Andalucía, collectively funded by the EU and was declared Occasion of Distinctive Public Curiosity by the Authorities of Spain.
