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From Wednesday the 27th through to Saturday the 30th of April, the Sugar Shooting Tournament, hosted by Pepe Fanjul took place in Casa de Campo, with 2 days of Driven Birds Shooting and 3 days of Sporting Clays Shooting at the Casa de Campo Shooting Center. The first two days of the tournament took place at Rancho Peligro, a beautiful wilderness reserve owned by Central Romana, which is all hills, trees and wildlife – a shooters dream! At Rancho Peligro, the Driven Bird Shoots took place with Pheasants and Partridges. Click here to see our photos of the shooting action at the beautiful Rancho Peligro. Following the Driven Bird Shoots, the tournament continued at the Casa de Campo Shooting Centre with Sporting Clays Shooting. On Friday the 29th of April we were invited to join to groups of shooters as they took part in this section of the contest. Setting off in a convoy of golf carts the group of shooters armed with their shot guns, toured through the Shooting Center making stops at the 10 different shooting points which make up the entire circuit. At every stop the shooters encountered different challenges, with the clays appearing from different directions, different buildings, at different speeds and in some places at the same time, the clays obviously weren’t as unpredictable as the wild birds had been, but with such a varied challenge this part of the contest was just as thrilling.

Pepe Fanjul, the host of the Sugar Shooting Tournament

Here are my photos of the Sporting Clays Shooting on the Friday:
To see photos of the shooting at Rancho Peligro, click here. During the 4 day tournament more than 30 keen shooters enjoyed a variety of shooting scenarios during the day, as well as celebrating with dinners and cocktails in the evening. On the final day Saturday the 30th of April, the end of the tournament was celebrated with a dinner and prize-giving hosted at Casa Grande, the Fanjul family’s Casa de Campo Estate. The most prestigious prize, the ‘Gubelmann Cup’ was won by Pepe Fanjul himself, the tournament’s host. At the prize giving ceremony prizes were awarded to the winners of the tournaments various categories, here you can see a full list of the winners:   The annual Sugar Shooting tournament is part of the Sugar Tournament,  which also incorporates a golf tournament – the Sugar Golf Tournament played from the 13th to the 16th of April on Casa de Campo’s Teeth of the Dog, Dye Fore and Links golf courses. Proceeds from both tournaments are donated to the Fundacion MIR. To read about and see photos of the annual Sugar Golf Tournament, click on the links below: Sugar Tournament 2011: Dinner, Dancing and Prizes! Sugar Tournament 2011: Blue skies, fast greens and long drives! Sugar Tournament 2011: BBQ and Pizza with the Gonzalez-Bunsters Sugar Tournament 2011: Welcome Cocktail hosted by I.B.I The MIR Bazaar: A fashionable success!