The different champions, together with the representative of ABANCA and Diego Oliveira, head of Marketing at EL COMERCIO. /
The local player achieved victory in Cierro Grande in the EL COMERCIO-ABANCA Trophy. Simón Quintana was the best in scratch
The EL COMERCIO-ABANCA Trophy returned to Cierro Grande for one more season and there are no less than twenty-two. Its players conspired one more course to try to achieve a good result and that the best team came out of the tournament, capable of entering the fight to lift the winner’s cup of the great regional golf classic in the final of the tournament, which will be played in September at the Municipal Golf of Llanes.
A good bunch of the best club players did not miss the opportunity to take the start in this tournament and thus enter the team and try to gain regional hegemony by squads. All this made it very difficult to make a prediction about who would be the winner. In the end, Antonio Domínguez was the best of the tournament. For this he signed a card with 42 points, a great result that few participants were able to endorse in the tournament.
And it is that his victory in the championship, organized by EL COMERCIO, in collaboration with Coral Golf, the Municipal Sports Board of Gijón and Triocar, was one of the most famous of his career as a golfer.
The story of the closing day of the tournament began shortly after nine in the morning, when the first game started and the curtain rose on an intense day for all the participants, who were willing to give their best. to be among the most outstanding of the tournament, despite the high temperatures, which at times made the test tougher in the middle of the day.
One of those players was Bienvenido Salazar, who was not too far from victory and finished the round with 38 points, which took him to second place.
There were more outstanding players. That was the case of Juan Trujillo, who delivered a card at the clubhouse with the same number of points as Salazar, with which he managed to rise to third position. Fernando Floriano, a true classic in the EL COMERCIO-ABANCA Trophy, ranked fourth with 37 points
As for the scratch modality, Simón Quintana accredited in the Cierro Grande field the best result of all the participants and, with 32 points, he achieved victory in the EL COMERCIO Trophy.
Javier Cavanillas (40) also stood out and did not miss the opportunity to be placed in one of the privileged positions. He was the best among the players in the senior category collective.
The team qualified for the Cierro Grande final will be made up of Simón Quintana and José Manuel López, in scratch, and Antonio Domínguez, Javier Cavanillas and Bienvenido Salazar, in handicap.