One of the most anticipated weeks of the year in national amateur golf arrives, as the Absolute Spanish Championships are being played, both in the male and female categories. And in both tournaments we can be facing a historical fact, and it is that Jorge Hao and Anna Cañadó can achieve in the same year what no one has conquered before, the triple crown: Championship of Spain under-16, under-18 and absolute, which is the only one missing this season.
Jorge Hao, history
Jorge Hao, possibly the player with the greatest projection in Spanish golf, at least on a par with Jon Rahm at the age of 15, faces an “all against Hao” in Pula, which is also very marked by the great absences of the big names.
Players like Eugenio Chacarra, David Puig or Josele Ballester, who this week end their season in the North American NCAA finals, will not be able to go to Pula Golf to put the youngster from Madrid in trouble. Even so, the spectacular Majorcan course, the scene of seven editions of the European Tour in the past, welcomes the future of Spanish golf from this Thursday, mainly in the hands of players from the capital such as Hao himself, Jaime Montojo, Alejandro Aguilera or the recent Spanish university champion, Luis Masaveu.
Together with them, the great Andalusian and Catalan academy, well represented by players such as Gonzalo Leal or Quim Vidal, without forgetting the great Cantabrian pearl, Samuel Espinosa, who apart from being from the same field as the great Seve Ballesteros, Pedreña, comes to Pula as the player with the best handicap of all those registered, -6.2.
And in Ulzama, Navarra, we are possibly facing the best Individual Spanish Championship, IV Emma Villacieros Memorial, which is remembered, because it will be able to count on the presence of all the best players in Spain, having finished a few days ago the women’s season in the United States Joined.
Despite Carolina Chacarra’s last-minute withdrawal due to injury, the tournament will have the great attraction of knowing if Cañadó will win the triple crown, although it will not be easy for Cayetana Fernández, from Madrid, current defender of the title, or the newcomers from the United States Blanca Fernández, Carla Tejedo, Carla Bernat or Julia López.
The winners of these Spanish Championships feature the best names in national golf, starting with Sergio García, Jon Rahm, José María Olazábal or Jorge Campillo, and continuing with Azahara Muñoz, Carlota Ciganda or Marta Figueras-Dotti, which makes it very clear the great level of golf that one must have to win this trophy.
