{"id":7299,"date":"2012-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.golfinspain.es.local\/b\/2012\/11\/18\/the-secret-rioja-and-olive-oil\/"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:01:44","slug":"the-secret-rioja-and-olive-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/2012\/11\/the-secret-rioja-and-olive-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret\u2026 Rioja and Olive Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s now official: Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez<\/a> is the oldest winner on the European Tour. It took two years after his last win (Omega European Masters in Switzerland) but, with 11 of his 18 Tout titles having come since turning 40, few were surprised when the 48-year-old M\u00e1laga-born star triumphed in the UBS Hong Kong Open. It was his third victory in the event (following 2005 and 2008) and meant he was six months older than Des Smith when the Irishman won the 2001 Madeira Islands Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very nice \u2013 I hope it\u2019s not the last one,\u201d joked the Spaniard, who carded a closing five-under 65, for a 15-under total at Hong Kong Golf Club and a one-shot victory over 40-year-old Swede Fredrik Andersson Hed, who had made 14 trips to the Qualifying School before winning his first (and to date only) European Tour title in Italy two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really love this place. I love the golf course \u2013 it\u2019s a great golf course where you have to control the ball very well, it\u2019s not a matter of distance,\u201d said Jim\u00e9nez, who did not card a single bogey over the last three rounds (and just two in 72 holes, with 17 birdies).<\/p>\n

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Rafael Cabrera-Bello in Dubai (Photo: Getty Images)<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

Asked about the secret of his longevity (this was his 597th Tour start), he said, \u201cThis is maybe the olive oil in my joints, and the nice Rioja wine and those things keep you fit and flexible, no? The most important thing, I do what I like to do in my life, and golf has given me all of this pleasure. Winning now, as you say, the oldest winner on the Tour, 48, my goodness, 24 years I\u2019ve been on the Tour \u2013 I\u2019ve been around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still love it and I think that is fantastic, to love what you\u2019re doing, and enjoy yourself, keep fit, keep working myself a little bit and stretching a lot, and that\u2019s the main thing to keep the body to compete with the new guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

The win extended his own record for most victories by a player aged 40 and over (12 of 19 overall); created a new record for European Tour victories on Asian soil (six, passing Ernie Els\u2019 previously shared best of five); was the third by a Spaniard in 2012 following Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Omega Dubai Desert Classic) and Gonzalo Fernandez-Casta\u00f1o (BMW Italian Open presented by CartaSi); and was the 166th Spanish victory in European Tour history.<\/p>\n

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(Photo: Getty Images) It\u2019s now official: Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez is the oldest winner on the European Tour. It took two years after his last win (Omega European Masters in Switzerland) but, with 11 of his 18 Tout titles having come since turning 40, few were surprised when the 48-year-old M\u00e1laga-born star triumphed in the UBS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mbp_gutenberg_autopost":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[585,586],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-int","category-facebook"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}