Spanish golfers have achieved an extraordinary surge of victories on the American University Circuit, demonstrating, also on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the great quality they already displayed before moving to the United States to continue their golf and academic training.

No less than four tournaments concluded with victories for Spanish golfers in recent days, with María Hernández from Navarre, Cristina Marín from Aragon, Gonzalo Berlín from León and Ignacio Elvira from Cantabria as the architects of triumphs that Jorge Campillo from Cáceres almost joined, finishing fifth in the Pinehurst International after taking risks on the last two holes to achieve a victory that was within his reach.

The winner was Cristina Marín, from the Los Lagos Golf Club in Zaragoza and a resident of Miami – where she studies at Florida International University – the best in the Koasati Pines Collegiate Class, in Kinder (Louisiana), by presenting accumulated cards of 222 strokes, with special mention for the 2 under par of the last day.

Cristina Marín's individual triumph helped her university, belonging to the NCAA Division I, to win the team competition, in which a total of 16 colleges took part.

These merits have earned Cristina Marín the title of 'Player of the Week' by Golfweek Magazine and 'Player of the Month' in the Conference in which she competes in the NCAA.

María Hernández from Navarre took first place, sharing it with Sweden's Christina Boeljon, at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic. Both, members of Purdue University, also placed their university at the top of the team standings.

A final round of 68 strokes catapulted Maria Hernandez to the top of the leaderboard, marking her fifth college victory in the United States, following those achieved at the Lady Northern Invitational – in 2006 –, the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational, the Bryan National Collegiate and the Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational, the latter three in 2007.

In the men's category, Gonzalo Berlín and Ignacio Elvira tasted victory for the first time in the NCAA. Berlín finished first in the Grub Mart-Young Oil International with a 5-stroke lead over American Andrew Georgiou. Consistency (rounds of 71, 74, and 71) was key to his success, just as brilliance was the key to Ignacio Elvira's success in the Barona Collegiate Cup held in California. Elvira carded three outstanding rounds (67, 71, and 66) that gave him a 3-stroke advantage over his closest rivals.