. Andrea Revuelta, Rocío Tejedo, Cloe Amión, Anna Cañadó and Alba González lead a group of twenty-six Spanish golfers in the most important event in the amateur women's field held in Spain.
Five of the current European Team Champions are leading the large group of Spanish players vying for the title at the Spanish Women's Amateur International, Copa SM La Reina 2024, a century-old tournament that once again welcomes many of the best golfers on the continent. The event takes place at the Real Guadalhorce Golf Club (Málaga) from February 27th to March 3rd.
The 106th edition of the tournament comes at an extraordinary time for Spanish women's golf, champions of Europe in both the Open and Under 18 categories. With the winners of the former developing their careers in the United States, it is the 'girls' golfers who have taken on the mission of winning a tournament that in recent editions has fallen into the hands of Cayetana Fernández (2022) and Carla Bernat (2021).
Leading the Spanish contingent are European champions Andrea Revuelta (exact handicap -6), Rocío Tejedo (-5.9), Cloe Amión (-5.6) – winner a few weeks ago of the Andalusian Cup, the first event on the 2024 women's calendar – Anna Cañadó (-5.1), and Alba González (-3.9). All of them have the skill to confidently tackle a competition of this magnitude.
Joining this quintet are other golfers with proven competitive track records: Noa Terroba (-2.3), Nagore Martínez (-2.8) -current Spanish Under 16 Champion-, Martina Navarro (-2.6) or Balma Dávalos (-4.5), who comes from an extraordinary week at the International of Portugal, in which she was third.
The event is valid for the Women's Amateur World Ranking, the Women's Under 18 National Ranking and the Ping Junior Solheim Cup 2024.
The world's Top 50, well represented in Malaga
Once again, the tournament will serve as a meeting point for many of the best golfers on the continent; in fact, four of the current Top 50 in the World Ranking are playing in Guadalhorce with their sights set on winning one of the most historically coveted titles of the year.
In addition to Rocío Tejedo, currently number 13, and Andrea Revuelta (16), the defending champion, Sweden's Nora Sundberg (-5.6), thirtieth, and Italy's Francesca Fiorellini (-7), thirty-seventh, are also part of this exclusive group.
This Spanish Women's Amateur International, Copa SM La Reina, will take place over six consecutive days, not five as it had been until 2022. The first two days are played using stroke play, with a cut at the end of the second day at position 64. From that day onwards, and until the end, successive knockout rounds are played (round of 32, round of 32, round of 16, etc.) until the winner is determined.
Carla and Cayetana are leading the way
The 2022 edition was a very special one at the Pineda course in Seville, where Cayetana Fernández triumphed in the grand final against Germany's Charlotte Back by 1 up. The Madrid native took over from Carla Bernat, now playing in the Americas, who won the 2021 final by defeating another Spanish player, Julia López, by a close 2-1.
To find another Spanish triumph, one has to go back to 2016, when Marta Pérez, now a professional, won at the Escorpión Golf Club (Valencia) after overcoming the Frenchwoman Chloe Salort in the last hole in a vibrant final, full of alternatives and good play throughout its development.
Nerea Salaverría (2010), Carlota Ciganda (2005 and 2006), Beatriz Recari (2004) or Adriana Zwanck (2002) are other Spanish women who have managed to inscribe their name in the list of winners of a different tournament.
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