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I started to learn to golf just over a year ago – and I loved it so much I decided to become a Golf Professional.
It will not come as much of a surprise to you, that I have thus far not achieved my goal of becoming a Golfing Professional – or becoming the World’s number 1 female golfer – something I did dream about. However, a year after I first swung a club and created my very first (of very many) divets – I played in my very first Golf Tournament.
I was invited to play in the ‘Torneo entre Amigos’ being held at La Estancia and although my golfing enthusiasm and regular practicing had completely diminished – I jumped at the chance to wear my cute golf out-fit and prance around for the cameras.
The tournament started around 1.30pm and was in the form ‘Best Ball; Stableford,’ which for those of you not in the know means that on every hole each team of two people is awarded points dependent on their performance on that particular hole.
Points were awarded as follows:
Bogey: 1 point
Par: 2 points
Birdie: 3 points
Eagle: 4 points
Initially, my partner and I did not understand this scoring concept and so it came as a bit of a shock, when the two men we were playing with told us we may as well move on to the next hole – apparently without even making it to the green we’d both hit too many shots to get a point – this did not bode well!
However, after another couple of holes (or 9) we had about 5 points, not great I admit bit it was at least something!
Anyway, as the game progressed and we started to take advantage of the free beers, whisky and vodka, our game went downhill, only slightly because it couldn’t get much worse and by the end I was so exhausted I didn’t even bother to play the last holes!
And so when the time came to hand my card in – I almost didn’t bother, but I’m glad I did – because we actually won a trophy! Naturally I thought they were joking at first, but no we won second place in Category C – out of 3 people in our category, I was over the moon! Of course, coming 2nd out of 3 teams may not seem like much of an achievement, especially when that essentially means we came 34th out of 35 – but I was proud that we weren’t last!
And our score? 8 POINTS!!! I still can’t believe that there was a team worse than us!
And the best thing? We made the Listin Diario! Here is the photograph of us, featured in the Listin Diario with the caption: ‘Rebecca Huigies and Philip Silvestri con sus trofeos como ganadores!’
Naturally, I have already written article and published all my photos about this event, to read them and see all the photos, follow these links:
Torneo entre Amigos @ La Estancia; a great day for golf!
Torneo entre Amigos @ La Estancia; the results, the dinner and the awards ceremony!