Fifty-four golfers will enjoy the fifteenth edition of the Spanish Senior Men's Pitch & Putt Championship this weekend, June 1st and 2nd, at Golf Sárria (Lugo). Rafael Canomanuel (exact handicap 4.7) will be the defending champion.

The list of contenders includes other former winners, such as José Ángel Pérez (4, winner in 2014), Rafael Santonja (2.7, winner in 2017 and 2018), and Fernando Cabezudo (2.9, winner in 2022). Marcos Gómez (3.2), Juan Soler (4), Daniel Varela (5.1), and José Jorge Rodríguez (5.2) are other familiar faces competing in Sarria.

The creation of this Spanish Individual Senior Pitch & Putt Championship in 2009 by the Pitch & Putt Committee of the RFEG responded to the need to meet the growing demand for competitions in this specialty of golf, so popular among Spanish players in recent times.

A list of winners dominated by five golfers

Five golfers stand out at first glance at the competition's list of winners, which until 2022 included male and female categories: Pía Allende and Laura Batista, winners on three occasions, and Alejandro Muñoz, and the aforementioned Rafael Santonja and Juan Fernández-Ardavín, winners twice.

Focusing on the men's competition, the first winner, in 2009, was Alejandro Muñoz, who repeated his victory just one year later. Subsequent wins came from Juan Ortín, José López, Antonio Fernández, José Ángel Pérez, Francisco José Cisneros, Ángel Ríos, Rafael Santonja, Juan Fernández-Ardavín (both on two occasions), and Fernando Cabezudo.

See the list of participants and other information of interest below, in the Related Links section.