Seve Ballesteros Foundation Challenge


Seve Ballesteros Foundation Challenge

 

Start the fourth edition of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation Challenge Mercedes-Benz. A set of 37 pairs charity tournaments to be played from April to September throughout Spain, celebrating the Final at Real Golf de Pedreña.

The Challenge is a series of charity tournaments whose proceeds go to fund clinical research on brain tumors and support young golfers purpose for which Seve was his Foundation. The first edition took place on April 9, 2011 at 140 golf courses in Spain, where 12,000 participants paid tribute to Seve on his birthday. Thanks to the funds raised, in November 2011 the FSB signed an agreement with the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) to create the Seve Ballesteros Foundation-CNIO Laboratory.

 

The Challenge 2015, sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Spain and the collaboration of Hugo Boss, Mahou-San Miguel, Royal Spanish Golf Federation, Real Golf de Pedreña and EurAsia Cup Foundation, consists of 37 tournaments to be held April September under the Greensome mode, and a Final at Real Golf de Pedreña at which the winners will be invited partners of the preliminary clubs, whose prize is a trip to Malaysia to participate in the Pro-Am in the EurAsia Cup 2016 competition that pits the best European players against Asians.

 

This was presented to the media preceded by a Golf tournament for journalists in Santander, resulting Handicap champion pairing of Hugo Costa and Manuel Elvira, Canal + Golf, who qualified for the final of Pedreña; Luis Guillermo Salmerón Corralo and have been awarded the prize in the category Scratch.
According external assessment, laboratory work that the Seve Ballesteros Foundation-CNIO led by researcher Massimo Squatrito, is of great scientific quality and will certainly contribute to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate the formation of tumors in the nervous system Central and improve their response to certain therapeutic approaches. The results obtained so far are not likely to change the current clinical management of the disease in the short term; however, they can help lay the basis for identifying new therapeutic targets and mechanisms of action, in order to develop new therapies to improve treatment and prognosis of patients with glioma and medulloblastoma strategies targets.

 

Javier Ballesteros, president of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation: “On behalf of my brothers I want to thank everyone for the continued support we receive, and especially Mercedes-Benz Spain, sponsor of the Challenge. As a token of our appreciation, we deliver the sculpture of the hands of our father its president, Jose Luis Lopez-Schümmer.

 

I would also like to thank the 37 clubs who will host the Challenge, and all participants; and Hugo Boss, who spent many years with us, first with my father and now working in all initiatives of the Foundation.

  
“My father would be very proud of the progress he is making laboratory Seve Ballesteros Foundation CNIO; As would be happy to see the number of people who play golf, so he fought so hard.

 

José Luis López-Schümmer, president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Spain: “From Mercedes-Benz Spain we join the Challenge Foundation Seve Ballesteros, strengthening further our relationship with the exciting world of golf, which already form part for many years internationally, supporting not only the best tournaments including the British Open, but also the best athletes like Adam Scott and Bernard Langer, who both represent our brand values.

 

“We are proud to be part of the Challenge, and we are confident that each of the 37 tournaments to be held across the country will be a success. Going hand Seve Ballesteros Foundation means going from the hand of a true legend and pioneer of golf, and a person who perfectly reflected the value of passion, that we like to convey through the brand”.

 

IV Calender of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation Challenge-Mercedes Benz España:

 

Golf Novo Sancti Petri, Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz, 4 abril)

Campo Municipal de Golf Mataleñas, Santander (Cantabria, 11 abril)

Los Ángeles de San Rafael Club de Golf, El Espinar (Segovia, 12 abril) 

Golf Valdeluz, Yebes (Guadalajara, 17 abril)

Torremirona Golf, Navata (Girona, 18 abril)

Salamanca Fórum Golf, Villamayor de la Armuña (Salamanca, 25 abril) 

Golf Isla Valdecañas, El Gordo (Cáceres, 25 abril)

Cabanillas Golf, Cabanillas del Campo (Guadalajara, 9 mayo)

Real Club de Golf de Las Palmas, Santa Brígida (Las Palmas, 9 mayo)

Font del Llop Golf Resort, Monforte del Cid (Alicante, 16 mayo)

Club de Golf Sant Cugat, Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona, 16 mayo)

Club de Golf La Dehesa, Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid, 23 mayo)

Río Real Golf, Marbella (Málaga, 23 mayo)

León Club de Golf, San Miguel del Camino (León, 31 mayo)

Real Club Pineda, (Sevilla, 6 junio)

Golf Santa Ponsa, Calviá (Mallorca, 20 junio)

Club Golf d’Aro Mas Nou, Platja d’Aro (Girona, 24 junio)

Real Aero Club de Vigo (Pontevedra, 27 junio)

Golf Lerma (Burgos, 28 junio)

R.S.H.E.C.C., San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid, 4 julio)

Cuenca Golf Club, Villar de Olalla (Cuenca, 11 julio)

Campo de Golf Parador El Saler (Valencia, 11 julio)

Goiburu Golf Club, Andoain (Guipúzcoa, 12 julio)

Club de Golf Oliva Nova, Oliva (Valencia, 18 julio)

Golf Nestares, Reinosa (Cantabria, 18 julio)

Campo Municipal de Golf La Llorea, Gijón (Asturias, 19 julio)

La Manga Club, Los Belones-Cartagena (Murcia, 25 julio) 

Real Golf Club de San Sebastián, Hondarribia (Guipúzcoa, 26 julio)

Golf Augas Santas, Pantón (Lugo, 1 agosto)

Golf Almerimar Resort, El Egido (Almería, 2 agosto)

Los Arqueros Golf, Benahavis (Málaga,  9 agosto)

Campo Municipal de Golf La Junquera, Pedreña (Cantabria, 15 agosto)

Real Golf de Pedreña (Cantabria, 16 agosto)

Club de Golf Terramar, Sitges (Barcelona, 22 agosto)

Club de Golf R.A.C.E., San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid, 29 agosto)

Rioja Alta Golf Club, Cirueña (La Rioja, 29 agosto)

Señorío de Zuasti Club de Campo, Zuasti (Navarra, 5 septiembre)

FINAL Real Golf de Pedreña (Cantabria, 19 septiembre)

 

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