Just days after the most important men's tournament on the calendar, the women's event arrives. We're talking about the Women's World Team Championship, the Espirito Santo Trophy, which takes place from October 25th to 28th at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club (United Arab Emirates). A Spanish trio of extraordinary potential has traveled there, as evidenced by the fact that two of the golfers are currently ranked in the world's top five.

They are Cayetana Fernández from Madrid (number 3 in the World Ranking) and Julia López from Málaga (number 5). Both players will be joined by another who is also developing her career in the United States with enormous success, Carla Bernat from Castellón (number 53). Among the many things that unite this trio is that they all participated this summer in Spain's victory at the European Women's Team Championship in Finland.

In Abu Dhabi, the delegation is supported by Mar Ruiz de la Torre, President of the Women's Amateur Technical Committee, as captain, and Sergio de Céspedes as coach. Together, they form an ambitious delegation whose main objective is to win Spain's third gold medal. A difficult task, very difficult, but not impossible.

Cayetana Fernández is the only remaining member of the team that achieved a commendable fifth place in France last year. Alongside Carolina López-Chacarra and Paula Martín, she formed one of the youngest teams in the tournament, which nevertheless performed exceptionally well throughout the week. Now, with a more experienced trio, their ambitions are sky-high, although the competition promises to be fierce.

A World Championship always attracts the world's top golfers, and this year will be no exception. For example, Sweden, the reigning champion, is represented by two of the players who led them to victory last year, Meja Ortengren and Ingrid Lindblad – the world number one. The United States is represented by Anna Davis (number 6), and the ever-powerful South Korea relies on Minsol Kim (number 4)...

All participating teams will face each other over four days using the Stroke Play format, with only the two best daily results from each team being added together.

Good precedents for the Spanish trio

The United States – with fourteen victories – is the dominant force in the history of the Espirito Santo Trophy, although it is fair to mention that South Korea has been the main protagonist in the last two decades with its victories in 1996, 2010, 2012 and 2016. Australia and Sweden, with three titles each, and Spain, France and South Africa are the other countries that have won this tournament.

In the Spanish case, the victories occurred in Venezuela in 1986 and Canada in 1992. Macarena Campomanes, Mª Carmen Navarro and María Orueta –in the 1986 edition– and Macarena Campomanes, Estefanía Knuth and Laura Navarro in 1992 were the architects of those historic triumphs.

Furthermore, the team that traveled to Australia in 2008—comprised of Carlota Ciganda, Azahara Muñoz, and Belén Mozo—won the silver medal, second only to Sweden. Previously, Spain had won the bronze medal in the 1980 and 2002 editions.

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