GOLF: Spanish Senior Male and Female Championships of Pitch & Putt cancelled

For reasons unknown to the Technical Committee of Pitch & Putt of the RFEG, the Spanish Senior Male and Female Championships of Pitch & Putt, that would have taken place in the facilities of the Golf club of Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) from 3 to 4 June 2006, had to be cancelled, asking forgiveness for the trouble that this causes.

At the proper time the date and place of the Championship will be disclosed.

Michelle Wie comes in 34th in Corea del Sur

The Hawaiian 16-year old Michelle Wie, who on Friday made history by excelling at the professional male tournament, came in 34th in the golf tournament in Incheón, in Corea del Sur, which has been shortened to three rounds due to unceasing drenching rain. Wie, with a terrible final card of 74 hits (two over par), fell from place 17 to place 34 with a total of 213 hits (70+69+74).
The clear winner of the tournament, endowed with 600.000 dollars, was the Thailandian Prom Meesawat with 201 hits (69+64+68), followed by the South Korean Lee Seong-ho (67+67+70) and the Indian Jeev Milkha Singh (68+66+70), both with 204 hits.
“Nevertheless I enjoyed myself”, said Wie, who added: “in the future I want to play always in the PGA championship and come in under the first 10”. Wie was the first woman to complete a court in a male tournament since the North American Babe Didrickson Zacharias in 1954 in Tuscon, USA. Despite the bad result in the last round, Wie came out of Corea del Sur with the head in the clouds. “I will take part in the classification in Hawai for the US Open in June”.
Up to Core des Sur, Wie tried in vain already on seven occasions to set foot in the male world of professional golf. And finally she reached something that the Swedish Annika Sorenstamm could not, who in 2003 was the first woman for 58 years to have the possibility to compete in a male professional tournament, even though she was out after two rounds.

The Barceló Golf Championship started in Aranjuez with 145 participants

Barceló Hotels & Resorts started its second golf championship with the first tournament in Aranjuez, which was supported by Barceló Viajes and companies like Fadesa, San Miguel, Avis and Air Europa. This first tournament turned out to be a participation success, counting 145 participants.

The second Barceló Golf 2006 championship, which will continue in the Masía Beach Golfclub in Barcelona, consists of ten tournaments this year en Spanish( Madrid, Barcelona, Balearic Islands, Cádiz, A Coruña, Málaga, Almería and Huelva), as well as Latin-American (Dominican Republic and Uruguay) Golf-courses.The organisation rewards the winners of each tournament with stays in Spanish and Latin-American hotels, free car-rentals or special discounts. The chain Barceló Hotels & Resorts counts 123 hotels and more than 30.000 rooms distributed in 14 countries. Its offer includes vocational establishments and urban accommodation under the brands Barceló Premium (highest category), Barceló (medium-high level) and Barceló Comfort (economic hotels).

Golf: Tiger Woods is descending further in the PGA ranking

The American golf-player Tiger Woods falls from third to fifth place in the PGA ranking, which is leaded by his compatriot Phil Mickelson who after eleven tournaments accumulates 3.237 992 dollars.
Woods found himself with 2.485.803 dollars, with only seven tournaments on his hands. Second place is occupied by Jim Furyk, who after the Wachovia Championship tournament counts 2.962.649 dollars.