Oz in Spain

Nine months out from the first Solheim Cup to be held in Spain, the biennial women’s team competition between Europe and the United States is already “smashing economic forecasts”. 

The event will be held from 22 to 24 September at Finca Cortesín, in Casares municipality on the Costa del Sol.   […]

Spain will host a LIV Golf tournament next year at Europe’s most celebrated club. Royal Valderrama has been named as one of three new additions to the 2023 circuit, following a previous announcement that The Grange Club in Adelaide would also be joining the breakaway tour’s schedule next year – the first LIV event to be held in Australia.  […]

Only two players had a chance of finishing number one on the 2022 Ladies European Tour heading into the final tournament of the year – and both were Swedish. Linn Grant and Maja Stark engaged in a close duel for most of the event, played at the Alferini course in the Anantara Villa Padierna Palace resort in Benahavís.  […]

The Costa del Sol will once again be the setting this year for the grand finale of the Ladies European Tour. To be held at Alferini Golf in the Villa Padierna resort from 24 to 27 November, the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España will be the last event of the 2022 season and also crown the winner of the Race to Costa del Sol annual order of merit – as it did the past two years. […]

This year’s Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters could have been the last European Tour event to be held at Royal Valderrama Club. At least for the foreseeable future, as rumours are rife that Spain’s most renowned course will be hosting an LIV event next year. […]

Finca Cortesín has unveiled a revamped new first hole to create a grandstand atmosphere for next year’s Solheim Cup.  […]

When the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters returns to Valderrama next month, the Sotogrande club will be commemorating the 25th anniversary of its most stellar moment in golfing history. In September 1997, Royal Valderrama hosted the first Ryder Cup  in continental Europe – i.e. the first outside the UK and the US.  […]

Two of the world’s leading women golfers shared the honours at the Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande tournament held at La Reserva Club in August. […]

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In one of the least closely guarded secrets of this year’s turbulent golf season, Cameron Smith has been officially confirmed as the highest-ranked player to join the breakaway LIV Golf tour. The 2022 British Open champion, second in the world ranking, will be making his debut in the Boston Invitational (2-4 September). […]