The ninth edition of the Spanish Interclub Pitch & Putt Championship brings together thirteen teams this weekend, September 28 and 29, at the Mataleñas Municipal Golf Course (Santander, Cantabria), where the host team defends its title, having won its second victory last year.

The Mataleñas team shares the spotlight in the preliminary round with the representative from Abra del Pas (winner in 2014), as they are the only two who have already won the tournament. The clubs Escorpión (2017), Masía de las Estrellas (2015), Costa de Azahar (2012 and 2013), and Las Matas (2011) are not represented this time.

The Mataleñas team boasts the lowest cumulative handicap in the tournament (-0.3) and an identical lineup to last year's winner, consisting of Raúl Toca, Jaime Herrera –winners of the 2018 World Pitch & Putt Doubles Championship–, Felipe Gómez, and Carlos de Diego. Abra del Pas (43.2) will be led by Daniel González.

Among the clubs aspiring to inscribe their name in the tournament's record books for the first time, it is worth mentioning a couple that come with an accumulated handicap of less than 10: Aldeamayor (7.8), which comes to the event under the command of José María Ortiz de Pinedo, runner-up of the International of Portugal just a week ago, and Pedreña (9.5) which barely travels a few kilometers and has a stronghold in Marcelo Rodríguez-Altonaga.

The list of participating teams is completed by Las Palmeras (11.9), CC Villa de Madrid (13.4), RCC Córdoba (14.9), La Cuesta de Llanes (16.4), Guadalajara (21.2), Deva Golf (28.2), La Junquera (36.8), Club Deportivo 5y3 (49.6) and Santa Marina (56.5).

In total, 52 golfers will gather at the mountain course, including some of those who have stood out the most in national Pitch & Putt events in recent years.

To add more appeal to the game, the tournament consists of three rounds with their own characteristics; the first is a fourball, the second a foursome and the third individual, counting only three of the four cards of each team.

A tournament with eight editions behind it

Eight editions have been held so far. The last one, in 2018, resulted in a clear and decisive victory, Mataleñas' second in the tournament. He triumphed at the neighboring Arenal de Noja Golf Club course, finishing ten strokes ahead of Deva Golf.

The 2017 edition saw the victory of the Escorpión Golf Club team with a total of 346 strokes and an advantage of eleven over Club de Campo Villa de Madrid and fourteen over the teams of Masía de las Estrellas and Mataleñas.

In 2016, the Mataleñas team itself triumphed at the Green Paddock Golf course in Madrid. Starting as the leader on the final day of individual play, the Cantabrian team turned in a combined score of 164 strokes, allowing them to finish with a total of 372 strokes, five ahead of Club de Campo Villa de Madrid.

A year earlier, in 2015, the Masía de las Estrellas team won brilliantly on their home course. With a very young Thomas Artigas in their ranks, the Alicante club triumphed by 21 strokes over the runner-up, El Bosque.

In 2014, the Abra del Pas team was crowned champion at the Mataleñas course in Cantabria, finishing four strokes ahead of the host team. Both teams carded 169 strokes in the second and final round, finishing with 502 and 506 respectively, leaving La Junquera in third place with 510.

In 2013, the Costa Azahar Golf Club team defeated the Escorpión Golf Club team in the final held in Sierra Cortina (Alicante). The two teams were repeating their 2012 final victory, which the Castellón team also won.

In the inaugural edition, the Las Matas team was crowned champion at the High-Performance Center. The Madrid team defeated Jarama-RACE in the grand final.

This competition was created in 2011, backed by the extraordinary participation recorded in Pitch & Putt tournaments in Spain, and by the outstanding results of the National Teams in the various events in which they have taken part.

The Spanish Interclub Championship was created by the Pitch & Putt Committee of the RFEG (Royal Spanish Golf Federation) to further promote a discipline with great appeal among Spanish golfers. Since the committee's creation in 2006, Pitch & Putt competitions have multiplied in Spain, resulting in the emergence of a large number of high-level golfers. Consequently, Spain is one of the leading powers in the sport on the continent.

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