2025 SPANISH MID AMATEUR MEN'S PITCH & PUTT CHAMPIONSHIP
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Juan Pedro Monjo from Madrid and Francisco Javier Carrere and Juan Soler from Andalusia face the exciting challenge this weekend of becoming the first player to win two editions of the Spanish Mid-Amateur Pitch & Putt Championship (formerly the Over-30 Championship), held at Benalmádena Golf (Málaga). No one has ever achieved this feat in the eleven-year history of the competition.
Monjo (exact handicap 3.8) comes as the defending champion of the title he won last year after overcoming the Andalusian Javier Pérez and the Castilian-Manchegan Pablo Hernández in an exciting playoff tiebreaker, while Carrere (1.5) won in 2022 and Soler in 2015.
The list of participants includes other relevant names within the sphere of Spanish Pitch & Putt: José María Ortiz de Pinedo from Valladolid (+1.6), Antonio Pimentel (+0.6) and Javier Pérez (+0.1) from Andalusia, César Fernández de Caleya from the Canary Islands (1), Rafael Santonja from Madrid (4.2),…
Let us remember that the tournament, which since adopting the name Mid Amateur includes golfers over 25 years of age, is played over 54 holes in two consecutive days - 36 the first, 18 the second - under the Stroke Play format, without a cut.
Eleven editions, eleven winners
No male golfer has ever won twice in the tournament's short history, which has only seen eleven editions. The first edition, then reserved for players over 35, was held in 2013, with Fernando San Emeterio taking the victory at the Noja course after a thrilling duel with Sergio Alonso, José Antonio García, and José López Moncayo that went to a playoff.
Later came the victories of Andrés Pastor in Río Cabe and Juan Soler in Paderne before the tournament was divided, in 2016, into two events, one for men and one for women. Subsequent winners included Andoni Latorre and Carmen Martín, Sergio Alonso and Laura Batista (2017), Simón Daniel Varela and Yolanda Salgado (2018), José Tomás Pérez and María Eugenia Martínez (2019), Jorge Olmos and María Rodríguez (2021), Francisco Javier Carrere and María Rodríguez (2022), Fernando Mata in 2023, and last year, Juan Pedro Monjo in Málaga.
