Carlos Pigem from Lleida has secured another Spanish victory at the Grand Prix de Landes, a competition held at the Hossegor course in the French region of Aquitaine, where Spanish players have had a strong showing. Pedro Oriol from Madrid and Anna Arrese from Barcelona also excelled in the French tournament.

Carlos Pigem not only beat a good sample of the best continental players at the amateur level, but he did so in a spectacular way, with a final round of 65 strokes that overshadowed the good performances of Frenchman Clément Lemaire, second, and Pedro Oriol, third.

Hossegor's victory marks the Catalan golfer's second consecutive win in France, having triumphed just a couple of weeks ago at the Biarritz Cup in what was a Spanish showcase that also included Nerea Salaverría. Prior to that, Ha Rang Lee from Cantabria won the Chiberta Grand Prix. All in all, a great showing for Spanish golf in France.

To these successes we must add Anna Arrese's third place in Hossegor, where she was surpassed by a sensational Thea Hoffmeister, a German player with a great future, and by the Mexican Margarita Ramos.

In the last edition of the tournament, Azahara Muñoz from Malaga interrupted Ane Urchegui's streak of two consecutive wins and continued the successes achieved in previous years by Carlos Pérez Barberán from Barcelona (2006), Jordi García del Moral (2005), Iñigo Urquizu (2004), Ignacio Sánchez Palencia (2003) and Sergio García (1997).

FINAL RESULTS
Men's test
1.- PIGEM, Carlos (ESP) 274 (70+72+67+65)
2.- LEMAIRE, Clément (FRA) 275 (68+68+71+68)
3.- ORIOL, Pedro (ESP) 275 (67+70+68+70)
Women's test
1.- HOFFMEISTER, Thea (GER) 271 (70+66+66+69)
2.- RAMOS, Margarita (MEX) 275 (73+68+67+67)
3.- ARRESE, Anna (ESP) 276 (72+67+70+67)
Full results