With morning fog, which dissipated when the sun was present, the absence of wind and a temperature that ranged between 7ºC at the beginning and 14º, in the middle of the day, the Cantabria Cup – Youth Committee 2024 was played on Friday 27th December, in the course of the Real Golf de Pedreña, in which the female and male teams of the above mentioned committee faced each other.
The 16 participants played divided into four matches (Match-Play Scramble Scratch) and according to the following pairing and schedule:
8:30 h. Pablo Sordo – Darío Sainz vs Inés González – Sara Cirajas
8:38 h. Antonio Roldán – Guillermo Fernández vs Fernando Cirajas – María Agüero
8:46 h. Alejandro Sal – Samuel Abbisogno vs Lucía González – Elsa Gil
8:54 h. Gonzalo Bravo – Ismael Mateo vs Eva Moura – Lola Saturio
Fernando Cirajas Calvo, played in the women’s team, to balance the matches.
The equality was maintained throughout the first part, being in the second nine holes, when the women’s team took control of three of the four games, which served them to win, by a clear 3 to 1.
The delivery of the trophy was carried out by the president of the Cantabria Federation, Juan Carlos Alba Cernadas, who congratulated the winners both for the victory achieved and for having returned to the path of success (this trophy had not been awarded to the women’s team since 2018).
Joining the president during the award ceremony were the head of the Youth Committee, Pilar Escudero Díaz-Tejeiro, and the committee collaborators Andrea Noriega Puente, Moisés Bedia Güemes, Nieves Girau Campaña, and Feliciano Gómez Quevedo.
During the dessert at the traditional meal, Inés González Ortega and Fernando Cirajas Calvo shared with their colleagues the experiences they are living at their new educational institutions, Inés at the National Blume School in León and Fernando at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio, United States.
With the celebration of the Cantabria Cup, the extensive number of competitions scheduled by the Cantabria Federation for the concluding year is completed.
Source: Cantabria Golf Federation