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Two Ticos Invited To
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Golf Classic 2008
(Infocom) — In addition
to confirming that 136
athletes from at least
15 countries will
compete at the Costa
Rica Golf Classic 2008,
Afrasport vice president
and tournament organizer
Ricardo Valdivieso
announced that two Costa
Rican golfers will be
among them.
“For us it’s very
important to give the
country’s best players
the opportunity to gain
international
experience, and that’s
why we decided to invite
Alvaro Ortiz and
Alejandro Duque, who are
the best amateur and the
best professional
golfers in the country,
respectively. We are
confident the will do a
great job representing
the national golf,”
Valdivieso said.
The Costa Rican team
will include four other
golfers who, unlike
Ortiz and Duque, will
have to earn their spots
at a qualifying
tournament to be held
next Nov. 2-3 at the
Cariari Country Club in
San Jose. This 36-hole
tournament will be
organized by the
National Golf
Association (ANAGOLF),
on behalf of the Costa
Rica Classic’s
organizing committee.
“As the organization
that oversees golf in
Costa Rica, it pleases
us that Afrasport has
taken us into
consideration to be a
part of the Costa Rica
Golf Classic,” said
Valentin Quiros, ANAGOLF
general manager. “Events
of this magnitude help
promote Costa Rica and
the practice of this
great discipline within
the country.”
The first-ever Costa
Rica Golf Classic will
be one of the stops of
Tour de las Americas (TLA)
and the Canadian Tour.
“Thanks to this first
edition of the Costa
Rica Golf Classic, in
only 10 weeks our
country will be the
epicenter of
professional golf in the
Americas,” said Alfredo
Sasso, president of
Afrasport, the company
that is promoting this
event, to be held Dec.
11-14 at Guanacaste’s
Reserva Conchal Golf
Club.
“In addition to creating
a tournament that will
put Costa Rica on golf’s
world map, it makes us
proud to be the first
company that will take
an event of this caliber
to Guanacaste, where
golf is growing at a
fast pace thanks to the
establishment of
topnotch courses such as
Reserva Conchal’s,”
Sasso added.
The Costa Rica Golf
Classic 2008 — which has
a purse of $125,000 —
will be the first
professional tournament
ever to be held in
Guanacaste.
Meanwhile, Tour de las
Americas commissioner
Henrique Lavie, who
visited Costa Rica to
check out Reserva
Conchal, said he’s happy
to come back to this
country, which has
become one of TLA
players’ favorite
destinations. “This
first edition of the
Costa Rica Golf Classic
marks a new beginning in
the relationship between
your country and our
tour, and we are sure it
will be a success,”
Lavie said.
For Tour de las
Americas, the Costa Rica
tournament will be the
last of its 2008 season.
Meanwhile, for the
Canadian Tour — which
holds an official
tournament here for the
first time — the Costa
Rica Golf Classic will
be the first of three
tournaments marking the
beginning of its 2009
season.
Reserva Conchal
officials said that
being the first
Guanacaste course to
host a professional
tournament is a real
honor and a valuable
opportunity to broaden
the province’s and Costa
Rica’s horizons in the
international golf
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