Major golf tournaments are not just a uniting of the world’s best golfers; they are meticulously orchestrated events that require months and sometimes years of preparations. As the trusted partner to the European Solheim Cup since 2004, over the next few months, we will bring you behind the scenes of the course preparations for the […]
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Vithas is a purely female company. 76% of our staff are women, and 61% of our managers and middle management are also women. When I say this I mean that the criteria that guide the management of our company’s 12,500 professionals are far removed from any kind of bias, including gender ones. It comes naturally […]
Carlota Ciganda’s numbers at the Solheim Cup make her the best Spanish player in the history of the competition on her own merits. With five consecutive participations (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021), the golfer from Navarre has accumulated 19 matches played, won 7, lost 8 and drew 4, but she does not see herself […]
Next year, when the Solheim Cup is played at Finca Cortesín in Málaga, Spain, it will be a decade since the 2013 edition, a tournament that was historic for Spanish golf, as for the first (and only to date), there were three Spanish players in the European team: Azahara Muñoz, Carlota Ciganda and Beatriz Recari. […]
With preparations well underway for the 2023 Solheim Cup and the successful ‘One Year to Go’ countdown complete, the team, led by Head Greenkeeper, Ignacio Soto, continues to work hard to maintain the high standards and outstanding course conditioning that has seen Finca Cortesin become one of Europe’s best golf resorts. Key initiatives such as […]
Much has already been written about the opportunity for Spain and in particular for the Costa del Sol to host an event of worldwide repercussion such as the Solheim Cup. It is therefore not necessary to gloss in this column the importance that a golf event of such magnitude has reached since its first edition […]
In the process of evolution of this country, women’s sport – the sport that held up the Spanish flag in the Olympic Games during the crisis – has not found harmony in the momentum it should have had. Without a persistent common policy, the milestones achieved in its social implantation, especially in football, have been […]
Last September was a wonderful spectacle for women’s golf when the United States of America and Europe played out a dramatic Solheim Cup in Ohio. In edge-of-the-seat style, Catriona Matthew’s European side made it back-to-back victories and claimed just their second away success in the tournament’s history by winning 15-13. Together with major championships such […]
What makes the Latina Golfers Association unique is that it is much more than an organization that teaches women how to play golf. Their programs are about empowering women with business skills, networking opportunities and the confidence to compete on corporate playing fields that are often male-dominated. The Latina Golfers Association teaches women how to […]
I cannot say that I dreamt of playing the Solheim cup growing up, because the tournament only started in 1990, when I was 18 years old. When turning pro in 1992, it quickly became a goal to be a part of the team, although it seemed a hard one to reach. That year Europe won […]