Ignacio Guerras has been at the helm of the Madrid Golf Federation for almost 20 years, which these days celebrates its annual professional tournament, the Madrid PGAe Championship. A good opportunity for an interview that serves to take the pulse of the situation of golf in the Madrid federation, which provides, by far, more federated players at the state level...
Ignacio Guerras, statements"Madrid a tourist destination for golf? It is an idea that we have been pursuing for a long time, but we do not have sun and sand like Levante, the Canary Islands, Andalusia or Murcia have. People aren't going to come here for a week just to play golf, but we can be the epicenter of this sport, since Madrid holds one or two weekly Fairs at IFEMA and that's where players have to be attracted. Madrid has museums, theaters, spectacular gastronomy, and a good leisure offer. Those are our values and we try to get people to add a good day of golf to this".
"We have stopped the drop in licenses, which is another problem in any federation. In 2021 we made 12,000 new licenses and had about 4,000 cancellations. And in 2022 there were 3,500 casualties that we have covered after the month of April, so what comes in until the end of the year will be positive numbers. And only in May there were 960 discharges...".
"It is not that we are not able to grow in fields, it is that they even decrease despite the high demand. It happened with the JardÃn de Aranjuez or with the Canal de Isabel II course… On the other hand, Madrid has seven urban courses, and Paris, London or any other capital with a golfing tradition does not have that. The luck that we have, moreover, is that here the distances are short and around us we have many satellite fields that are considered almost from Madrid".
"It's something idyllic, everyone's dream, but… Look, in Spain there are places where you try. But it is more in the North zone. In Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria... They are English-type fields that can provide a good service without needing much irrigation or sowing. Maintaining the greens is almost enough. But in this area of Madrid it is unfeasible. The greatest exponent of public golf is Saint Andrews, a town that has seven golf courses and all seven are public. It's a dream, of course, but for that I'm afraid that we don't have time here anymore".
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