Oz in Spain

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.  […]

Eight countries including Australia will resume their 2022 Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals tennis campaigns in Málaga next week. Australia’s opening match on 22 November is against the Netherlands, while Spain plays Croatia on the following day, and two matches will be played on 24 November, Italy against the United States and Germany versus Canada. […]

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). […]

He seemed to have played himself out of contention with a mediocre third round, and he was still seemingly a longshot halfway through Sunday’s final round. But Cameron Smith produced one of the finest back nines in major golf championship history to win the 150th British Open Championship at St. Andrews.  […]

Sisters Nelly and Jessica Korda are the latest stars to confirm their participation in the Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande at La Reserva Club. One of the Ladies European Tour’s showpiece events, and part of a series played around the world, the $1 million tournament on the Costa del Sol (18-20 August) features an innovative fourball format in which three LET professionals compete in each team together with an amateur golfer.  […]