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Significant drop in ticket prices for the Volvo World Match Play

By sune | Published: 12 April 2012

Following consultation with the Volvo World Match Play Championship organisers over ticket prices for the tournament to be held 17-20 May at Finca Cortesín, we are pleased to announce that the price has been reduced by 20 per cent with regard to both the initial price and prices for last year's tournament. Advanced bookings have [...]

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Poulter to defend title at the Volvo World Match Play Championship

By sune | Published: 29 March 2012

Defending Champion, Ian Poulter, has confirmed he will defend his title at the 2012 Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesín, Spain, from May 17-20, 2012. The 2012 Championship will once again attract the world’s best golfers with the final 24 man field to be announced in the weeks after the conclusion of the [...]

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Seve Ballesteros dies “peacefully” at home

By Pedro Bolichero | Published: 9 May 2011

THE PLAYER who did more than any other to raise golf’s profile in Spain has died at his Pedreña home after a valiant battle against the debilitating effects of a brain tumour. In a press statement released by his family, it was announced that he had passed away at 2.10 am (Spanish time) “peacefully surrounded [...]

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Alvaro Quiros before playing at Valderrama

By Paco Wedge | Published: 4 November 2010

Extracted from ALvaro Quirós press conference just before the Andalucía Valderrama Masters, just a few minutes away from his home. Tuesday October 26, 2010 [simage=1113,288,n,right,] “I am really looking forward to playing at home. It was great to play here in 2008, and this Valderrama Andalucía Masters will also be an important event. For me, [...]

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"I love match play" - an interview with Paul Casey

By Paco Wedge | Published: 12 October 2009

Interview reproduced courtesy of Society Living Magazine AT NUMBER THREE IN THE WORLD (AT TIME OF PUBLISHING) PAUL CASEY WILL BE THE HIGHEST RANKED PLAYER COMPETING IN THE VOLVO WORLD MATCH PLAY AT FINCA CORTESÍN THIS MONTH, AND KEEN TO JOIN AN ELITE GROUP OF PLAYERS TO HAVE WON THE TITLE MORE THAN ONCE (HE [...]

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Volvo World Match Play. Where is the Junta?

By Paco Wedge | Published: 31 August 2009

Volvo’s tradition in promoting Andalucía as a golf destination via the renowned Volvo Masters goes back 22 years to the inaugural event at Valderrama. In 2008, forced by the drastic change that the Dubai dollars brought to the European Tour, Volvo decided to end the cycle of the Volvo Masters and needed a new emblematic [...]

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Link to some old articles

By Paco Wedge | Published: 14 May 2009

As we turn all our articles and new copy to the blog we left some older stories out of it and we thought they deserved at least a post with a link: Ryder Cup 97 Moments 200,000 Landmark Become a more athletic golfer Seve - The Diagnosis "Sex Sells"

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Mel Pyatt - The "father" of Volvo Masters

By laura | Published: 12 September 2007

By Maria Acacia López Bachiller (Sept. 2007) The Volvo Masters, the Grand Finale of the European Tour season, will celebrate its twentieth anniversary from 1st to 4th November at Club de Golf Valderrama, in San Roque (Cádiz). Many have witnessed and have lived the event from its very first staging in 1988, but not many [...]

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