The European Under-16 Championship, commonly known as the European Young Masters, celebrates its next edition from July 25th to 27th at the Penati Golf Club in Slovakia, where Spain takes on the challenge of further increasing its success in the tournament. To this end, they field a quartet brimming with ambition, talent, and enthusiasm.

We're talking about Martina Navarro and Raúl Gómez from Alicante, Ángela Revuelta from Madrid, and Benjamín van Braak from Málaga, four golfers who have already shown what they're capable of in 2024. For example, Ángela is the current Spanish Junior and Under-16 Champion, Martina is coming as the Madrid Champion, and Raúl and Benjamín—like Martina—participated in the comfortable victory in the Under-16 match against England…

The team will be assisted by captain Jordi Folch, coach Kiko Luna, the President of the RFEG Youth Committee, Xisca Negre, and the RFEG Sports Director, Ignacio Gervás.

It's worth noting that both Raúl Gómez and Martina Navarro are returning to the quartet that competed last year, also in Slovakia. Gómez won a bronze medal then, adding to the team's bronze medal, which was also won by Lucía Valderrama and Iván Enguita.

The competitiveness in the tournament, once again, if only for the number of participants - 31 teams are competing - will be extreme, a good benchmark to evaluate the quality of young golf in the European continent.

The competition system consists of three days of stroke play with three categories running simultaneously: men's, women's, and team. In the team category, the three best results from each of the four members of each country are counted on each day.

Spain stands out in the race's winners' list

Spain's last victory in this Under-16 European Championship dates back to 2011, when Mario Galiano, Harang Lee, Clara Baena, and Iván Cantero claimed the title in Hungary. Previously, Spain had won in 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 – a total of eight victories including 2011 – making them the most successful nation in the 28 editions held to date.

Germany follows in the standings, with five victories – three consecutive ones from 2019 to 2021 –, Italy and France (4), Czech Republic (3), England (2), Finland and Sweden (1).

Likewise, no other country has accumulated so many individual winners, a total of thirteen: Sergio García, Jorge Hao, Lucía Mar, Carmen Alonso, Emma Cabrera, Pablo Martín, María Hernández, Azahara Muñoz, Rafael Cabrera, Carlota Ciganda (the last two, twice), Harang Lee and Covadonga Sanjuán (also twice).

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