The Junior Technical Committee of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation has selected a select group of players from the Junior (13-14 years) and Cadet (15-16 years) categories, twenty-three in total, to participate in an elite Concentration that will take place at the El Negralejo Golf School, in Madrid, between February 19 and 20.
Specifically, the players called up are the following:
Children's:
Almudena Blasco (El Saler), María de la Fuente (Basozábal), Elia Folch (Sant Joan), Elena López (Mogro), Borja Virto (Castillo de Gorráiz), Ernest Pratcorona (Perelada), Eduardo Osinalde (Ulzama), Emilio Cuartero (Costa Dorada), Adrián Otaegui (Federación Vasca) and Scott Fernández (Granada).
Cadets:
Carlota Ciganda (Ulzama), Marta Silva (La Toja), Belén Buendía (Valencian Federation), Consuelo Gotor (Altorreal), Ane Urchegui (Basozábal), Mayte Vizcarrondo (Sancti Petri), Bárbara Perera (RACE), Lorena de Lope (La Dehesa), Andres Caballer (Javea), Manuel Gil Castro (RACE), Jordi García Pinto (Girona), Gervasio Cuquejo (La Cañada) and Antonio Aguilera (Zaudín).
All the players called up, including the current Spanish Junior Champion, Carlota Ciganda (who is also the Spanish Champion in the Cadet category and the European Champion in the Absolute and Under-16 categories), as well as others with a distinguished track record despite their youth, will carry out an intense work program at the El Negralejo facilities under the orders of coaches Macarena Tey, Kiko Luna, Fernando Núñez and Marta Figueras-Dotti, assisted in the physical aspect by Francisco Fernández and, in the psychological aspect, by Encarna Lozano.
Strategy, long and short game, pitching, chipping, bunkering, and putting will be some of the topics covered in this training camp, which aims to assess the physical and technical development of the selected players in preparation for the current season, in which most of them will face major national and international competitions.