Pedro Linhart is one of the names that stand out in the fourth tournament of the Gecko Tour that starts this Thursday on the Westin La Quinta Golf Country Club course in Marbella. More than fifty golfers will play on the difficult course in the Costa del Sol for 36 holes in order to make their way into the trophy room of the sixth season of the best winter tour in Europe.
Linhart, who already played in the opening tournament of the tour held at La Cañada, will set foot on La Quinta with two objectives. On the one hand, he’s preparing for the grand finale of the Senior European Tour, which will take place on Mauritius Island from December 9th to December 11th. The honored Spanish golfer came across the best series of tournaments in the Gecko. At the moment, Linhart is one of the references in the veteran European tour, winner of one tournament and eleventh this season in the Order of Merit. He aspires to finish in the top ten with a grand finale through his training and preparation.
Linhart’s second mission will be to defend the memory of his colleagues’ generation and friends at La Quinta. The Marbella course, designed by the talented Manolo Piñero, reference among the Costa del Sol courses, hosted the Benahavís Senior Masters for four years, European Senior Tour stop in Spain from 2009 to 2012. Luck was not on the Spaniards’ side in this tournament. They never managed to win it and the best result was a fourth place by Juan Quirós in the 2010 edition. No better way to make up for it than Linhart taking home the win, absent during those years because he still hadn’t turned fifty, and thus, still wasn’t a senior.
Apart from Linhart, another name that stands out is brave young British golfer Jimmy Mullen, as well as Sam Connor, Challenge Tour player this season, Clarke Lutton and Andres Kristiansen, second place winners yesterday at the Marbella Golf and Country Club, Ondrej Lieser, Czech golfer, winner of the Prague Golf Masters in October with a round of 63 shots, and Laura Cabanillas, talented Spanish golfer, regular in the Ladies European Tour and winner this year in the Spanish national tour.
The tournament will start this Thursday at 8:30 in the morning and the last round will start at 10:00 am. Mike Browne, English golfer who made his professional debut in the previous tournament and who will play with a prosthetic leg, preferred to sit La Quinta out and to rest after all the hard work in the Marbella Golf and Country Club tournament.
