2025 SPANISH WOMEN'S ABSOLUTE CHAMPIONSHIP – VII EMMA VILLACIEROS MEMORIAL

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The Spanish Women's Absolute Championship – VII Emma Villacieros Memorial, the most important amateur women's individual tournament held in Spain, is preparing to experience one of its most open editions in recent years.

In the Logroño Field, with the direct support of the Logroño City Council, and with the arrival of dozens of players from the United States University League, this popular tournament raises the curtain this Thursday the 29th.

The tournament, which counts towards the National Under-18, Mid-Amateur, and Women's Open Rankings, as well as the World Ranking, will not feature the winner of its last two editions, Andrea Revuelta from Madrid. Her absence, like that of some other golfers who have made history for Spanish golf in recent years—Carla Bernat, Paula Martín, and Carolina López-Chacarra, who are playing in the US Open this week—is offset by the presence of those who have taken up her mantle on the domestic scene.

We are talking about Nagore Martínez (playing handicap +5.2), winner in 2025 of the Queen's Cup and the Andalusian Cup; Lucía Iraola (+2.9), current Spanish Under 18 champion; Adriana García Terol (+3.7), winner of the Under 16 version; or Ángela Revuelta (+3.2) and Liz Hao (+3.2), very active in this first half of the year.

This group will compete in Logroño alongside many of the Spanish players who spent the 2024/25 season in the United States, with Balma Dávalos (+5.2) from Castellón leading the pack. It's worth noting that she was runner-up in this same tournament last year. Paula Balanzategui (+4.2), Ana Pina (+3.9), and Martina López-Lanchares (+3.6) are also part of this group. In total, 114 players will take to the course in Logroño.

The tournament is played under the stroke play format over four days, with a cut at the end of the third day at 72nd place and ties.

The list of achievements, a mirror in which to see oneself

The tournament's list of winners, which began in 1941, includes many of the most prominent names in the history of Spanish golf. Marta Figueras-Dotti (1979), Paula Martí (1996), Azahara Muñoz (2002), María Hernández (2003), Carlota Ciganda (2006, 2007 and 2008) and Nuria Iturrioz (2015) are among them.

Logroño-La Rioja, an interesting golf destination

This Spanish Women's Absolute Championship is part of the actions carried out by the Logroño City Council to promote the Golf and Wine destination in La Rioja, also constituting a recognition of the promotional work of the Logroño Golf Course, a municipal facility managed by FCC Medio Ambiente SAU.

The celebration of this Spanish Women's Absolute Championship enhances the recognition of Logroño and La Rioja as a golf destination, a complement to the well-known sporting, tourist, cultural and gastronomic attractions offered by this Autonomous Community and its capital, where participants and fans of this sport can also enjoy two other golf courses: Sojuela and Rioja Alta, as well as Izki Golf, in the nearby province of Álava, all of them just half an hour away by road.

Important promotion of women's sporting events

This competition, directly supported by the Logroño City Council, is also part of the promotional activities for women's sporting events that have been taking place for some years, with special mention for a Santander Golf Tour event, the national professional women's circuit, in this same setting.