The team captained by the number one of the tennis world championship, Rafael Nadal, beat the one led by former golf player José María Olazabal, in the fifth edition of the solidarity golf tournament promoted by the two athletes at the Pula Golf courses in Mallorca.
Nadal’s group has obtained a result of 175 strokes under par, compared to 140 under par for the Olazabal team, with which the Mallorcan adds his third consecutive victory in this sporting and solidarity meeting whose profits go to the Rafal Nadal Foundation and the Sport Mundi Foundation.
18 professional players participate in this PRO AM, forming groups with the amateurs (1 for every 3). In turn, half of these groups are integrated into the team led by the Mallorcan tennis player and the other half in that of the former Basque golfer.
Among the professionals who have played this competition, the group led by José Manuel Lara has stood out for obtaining the best overall result, with 24 under par.
By days, on Friday the game of the Enmanuele Canonica group stood out, with -22 and Borja Virto (-20), while this Saturday, after Lara’s group, Benoit Tellería’s (-20) has been placed, reports the organization.
In this Saturday’s session the wind has had its part of prominence on the green, but it has allowed participants to offer, from 9 in the morning, their best shots in a privileged environment of Mallorca, the Pula Golf course, designed in the municipality of Son Servera by José María Olazábal.
On this second day of the tournament, Rafa Nadal’s team was made up of Jordi García Pinto, Benoit Tellería, Santiago Luna, Ignacio Elvira, Pepín Rivero, Borja Virto, Emanuele Canonica, José Manuel Lara and Álvaro Quirós.
Juan Sarasti, Lorenzo Gagli, Jesús Legarrea, Pep Andamientos, Adrián Otaegui, Eduardo Larrañaga, Emilio Rodríguez and Eduardo de la Riva played alongside Olazábal.
All of them, accompanied on the field by 57 amateurs from all over the world who have joined this initiative.
The funds obtained in this tournament, in which Michelin star chefs have also collaborated by contributing their culinary creations, will be allocated to the Rafa Nadal Foundation project (www.fundacionrafanadal.org) «More than Tennis«, Aimed at young people with intellectual disabilities and which currently has 18 schools throughout Spain.
The Sport Mundi Foundation (www.sport-mundi.org) of Olazabal will support the work carried out by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. EFE