A large contingent of Spanish players will seek, between July 8 and 11, to extend their winning streak in the traditional Chiberta Grand Prix, which celebrates its twenty-first edition in the French town of Anglet, near Biarritz.
The Spanish team is led by Ha Rang Lee from Cantabria, who comes to Chiberta as the winner of the 2009 edition. Besides her, a very large Spanish contingent, selected by the RFEG Women's Technical Committee, also defends the Spanish colors, along with many others from different Autonomous Federations in a tournament that has historically favored the interests of Spanish golfers in both the male and female categories.
Apart from Ha Rang Lee, the following are in Chiberta: Natalia Escuriola, Ainhoa Olarra, Marta Martín, Covadonda Sanjuán, Celia Barquín, Elisa Suárez, Marta Gago, Laura Gómez, Paloma Fernández, Alejandra Pasarín, Ana Sanjuán, Elisa Suárez, Andrea Vilarasau, Andrea Villamil and Patricia Virto.
In the men's category, the following compete: Santiago Carriles, Alberto Fernández, Manuel Flores, Carlos Garrido, Martín Larrabea, Leonardo Lilja, José Márquez, José Mateo, Hugo Menéndez, Víctor Pastor, Guillermo Retana, Carlos Segura, Borja Virto, and Iñigo Zulaica.
Ha Rang Lee's victory in 2009 adds to that of Mandy Goyos in 2007 and that achieved by Jorge Campillo from Cáceres in 2005. Previously, Inés Díaz-Negrete and Iñaki Alustiza also won in 2003, Moisés Cobo and Marta Prieto in 2002, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño and Nuria Clau in 2001, Itziar Elguezabal in 1999 and Juan Carlos Agüero in 1995.
The competition consists of 72 holes spread over four days, with a cut being made at the end of the second day, which will only be passed by 60 percent of the participants in each of the categories.