The 2021 PING Junior Solheim Cup, the tournament that kicks off the Solheim Week, takes place on September 1st and 2nd, with Madrid natives Cayetana Fernández and Andrea Revuelta representing Spanish golf. Both have been selected by the captain of the European team, the legendary Annika Sorenstam, to try and reclaim a title that has been held by the Americans since 2009.

The Sylvania Country Club course, located in Ohio (USA), hosts the competition just a few days before the North American and European professionals - including Carlota Ciganda - face a new edition of the Solheim Cup, the main women's golf event that in 2023 will be held on Spanish soil for the first time.

Cayetana Fernández and Andrea Revuelta will have the invaluable experience of the PING Junior Solheim Cup thanks to their outstanding performances in recent months. It's worth noting that Fernández won the Spanish National Championship held in early June at the Real Club de Golf de La Coruña, while Revuelta won the Spanish Under-18 Championship at Sherry Golf (Jerez de la Frontera).

In addition to the two Spanish players, captain Annika Sörenstam has ten other top-level golfers on her team for this ambitious undertaking: the Danish Amalie Leth-Nissen, the French Constance Fouillet and Vairana Heck, the Germans Paula Schulz-Hanßen and Helen Briem, the Belgian Savannah De Bock, the Italian Francesca Fiorellini, the Swedes Meja Örtengren and Nora Sundberg, and the Czech Denisa Vodickova.

The tournament kicks off this Wednesday with a morning fourball session and an afternoon fousomes session, and concludes on Thursday with the twelve individual matches.

It is worth noting that this PING Junior Solheim Cup, a biennial competition that began in 2002, is designed to offer the youngest golfers from both sides of the Atlantic the opportunity to gain international match play experience while interacting with the professionals who compete in the Solheim Cup.

Many European stars made their mark in the PING Junior Solheim Cup before excelling in the Solheim Cup. Carlota Ciganda, Azahara Muñoz, and Caroline Masson triumphed as amateurs before lifting the Solheim Cup crystal trophy, and ten of the twelve members of the European team that won in Gleneagles in 2019 had previously played in a PING Junior Solheim Cup.

The Target 2023 Program continues on its course

In March, the Objective 2023 Program was launched, an initiative promoted by the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, in coordination with the company Deporte & Business, with the aim of offering its top-ranked players the opportunity to experience the Solheim Cup and contribute to the qualification of Spanish golfers for the PING Junior Solheim Cup 2023.

Once the program schedule is completed in 2021, and given that Cayetana Fernández and Andrea Revuelta have been selected to play, Paula Martín from Madrid, the first-ranked player, and Rocío Tejedo from Castellón will be the ones to enjoy the great experience of living a Solheim Cup from the inside.

Paula Martín topped this ranking thanks to her victory in the National Junior Women's Qualifying Tournament at Lauro Golf and her spectacular consistency in the other three events, while Rocío Tejedo won the Spanish Under-16 Championship at Alicante Golf and finished fourth in the Objective 2023 ranking. Cayetana Fernández and Andrea Revuelta were second and third, respectively.

SOURCES: RFEG / Tournament Organization.