FRENCH INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR WOMEN'S TEAM 2025

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Sixteen Spanish golfers are competing this week in the 2025 French Junior International, the Esmond Cup, one of the oldest tournaments on the women's calendar. As usual, the competition is being held at the popular Saint Cloud course, near Paris, where some of the best players on the continent are competing.

The competition, which will take place from April 17 to 21, brings together 105 golfers, including these sixteen Spanish players: Nagore Martínez (handicap +4.2), Lucía Iraola (+3.5), Amanda Revuelta (+1.9), Carolina Pérez-Tasso (+2.9), Liz Hao (+2.4), Adriana García Terol (+4.2), Aroa González (+3.8), Carlota López (+3.4), Ángela Revuelta (+2.5), Daniela Montolio (+1.2), Martina Navarro (+4.6), Luna Isabella Valencia (+2.1), Julia Gelma (+1.5), Carmen García (+0.2), Carlota Carmona (+2.6) and Cristina García (+1.9).

The captain's duties are for Carmen Laguna, while the technical tasks are for Marcelo Prieto and those related to mental preparation, for Óscar del Río.

Within this large group are golfers who have made significant progress in recent months: Nagore Martínez has won the Queen's Cup and the Andalusian Cup, Lucía Iraola triumphed in the Spanish Under-18 Championship; both, along with Amanda Revuelta, won the RCG Sotogrande Cup for Spain,…

The goal of these golfers is to emulate the extraordinary performance of some Spanish players in France. In the last edition, for example, Balma Dávalos from Valencia was a semifinalist, while in 2023 Andrea Revuelta from Madrid lost in the final to Sweden's Meja Ortengren.

The main opposition our team will face will be the magnificent level of participants such as the French Lily Reiter (+4.5) -defending champion-, or Louise Uma Landgraf (+5.5), the Danish Benedicte Brent-Buchholz (+5.4), the German Antonia Steiner (+5.7), or the Irish Olivia Costello (+2.6), finalist of the last Queen's Cup.

The tournament is played in two phases: a first Stroke Play in which all participants face two rounds of 18 holes, and a second Match Play to which only the thirty-two best ranked in the previous phase have access.

Marta García, Nuria Iturrioz and other beautiful precedents

The winning track record in the 65 editions of the French Junior International is very promising for Spanish golfers. The most recent successes include the victory in 2018 by Marta García from Galicia, who defeated Dimana Viudes from Murcia 2&1 in a thrilling final, and Paula Martín's second-place finish in 2023.

In 2015, the victory went to Nuria Iturrioz from the Balearic Islands, now a professional player. The former student of the Blume National School defeated French player Agathe Laisne 4&2 in the final, a score that demonstrated her superiority throughout the decisive 36-hole match. Nuria Iturrioz thus claimed her first international title, having previously defeated her teammate and friend Ana Peláez in the semifinals.

Prior to this victory, the record was already very positive for Spanish golfers. At St. Cloud, Estefanía Knuth (1990 and 1992), María José Pons (1994 and 1996), Tania Elósegui (1999), Emma Cabrera (2001), María Hernández (2003), Elisa Serramià (2004), Beatriz Recari (2005), and Carlota Ciganda (2006) have also won.