Tranlate this title A «Seve look» to begin the road to Ryder Cup in spanish

The road to the 2031 Ryder Cup, the great Europe-United States golf showdown to be held at the Camiral course in Catalonia, has begun. The Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship 2026, a brand-new DP World Tour event and the first of the European Swing, was presented this Monday at the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm in Barcelona. It will take place at the Real Club de Golf El Prat from May 7th to 10th. And here is the first hint of that path towards the Ryder Cup. It was revealed by none other than the European Tour’s Chief Executive, Guy Kinnings.

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“On May 7th, right when the Catalunya Championships begins, it will be 15 years since Severiano Ballesteros passed away. We are going to celebrate that day with every player dressed in the ‘Seve look’: blue trousers, blue sweater, white shirt…”. Among those participating will be Pablo Larrazábal, Nacho Elvira, Ángel Ayora, Eugenio Chacarra, Ángel Hidalgo, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Jorge Campillo, and Adri Arnaus. Arnaus, speaking live from Dubai, said, “It will be a privilege to play at El Prat. Whenever I play at home, I feel incredibly supported because Spanish fans are the best in the world, and I was eager to experience that again.” “We all have our sights set on 2031,” he confessed.

The event will be held for the next five years, until 2031, with the intention of changing venues, most likely starting in 2028 in Camiral, to build momentum until Spain becomes the first country in continental Europe to host the Ryder Cup twice.

“Spain is one of the most important nations in the history of the Ryder Cup. It will be the first to host it twice, after the legendary Seve won it at Valderrama (in 1997). Seve is a hero all over the world, here in Great Britain, all over the planet,” Kinnings emphasized again, adding that “Barcelona is a regular host of major sporting events. We expect to deliver a huge economic impact and an enormous legacy.”

It is no coincidence that the organizers hope to surpass the 87 countries of fans who gathered for the last Ryder Cup in 2031, the number of attendees from the last year in the United States. “It’s a huge global event, and we hope to have the best Catalan experience we’ve ever had in 2031,” emphasized the CEO of the European Tour, who also noted that both the 2026 Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship and the Ryder Cup aspire to be “inspirational events for new generations of golfers.”

For his part, Damm’s CEO, Jorge Villavecchia, explained why the brewery has committed to sponsoring this tournament and the Ryder Cup itself: “We have a long-standing association with golf, in Valderrama and Sotogrande, and when it was announced that the Ryder Cup would be coming to Spain, we felt we had to be involved from the start. And we were looking for a longer-term partnership.” “The golfing talent in Spain is inexhaustible. And new generations will be able to get much more involved thanks to the Ryder Cup,” Villavecchia added.