VOLVO MASTERS

Soren Kjeldsen 'Volvo Masters Champion 2008'

Leader Board

We are having quite a year with regard to competitions. Having won a couple of tickets to see Deep Purple back in September, we entered another competition on the same Discover Ronda website and won a pair of tickets to the Volvo Masters Tournament at the Valderrama Golf Club.

Unfortunately, the weather for the first three days was awful and play had to be suspended on two occasions because the course was flooded. Due to the weather conditions, Lin couldn’t face the thought of walking around a golf course in the rain, so on the Sunday Ed and I decided to go along and what a great day we had. Although the day was mostly cloudy, there was very little rain and the tournament finished in beautiful sunshine.

Rubbing shoulders with Ken Brown & Howard Clarke

We arrived at the course at around 11am and followed Padraig Harrington, the Italian Francesco Molinari and Robert Karlsson, who became the first player from Sweden to win the European Tour Order of Merit, edging-out double ‘Major’ champion Padraig Harrington by €273,639.

We then picked up the group of the Swede Alexander Noren, Colin Montgomerie and Paul Lawrie, who we saw hole his second shot at the short Par 4 eighth hole named ‘El Bunker’

One of the most difficult Par 3's in Europe

The final group approach the seventeenth..

The tournament was won by the Dane Søren Kjeldsen at 8 under, followed closely by Anthony Wall at 6 under over the four days. The 33-year-old from Aalborg became the first Dane ever to win the Volvo Masters title and the 20th player to have his name on the iconic trophy. Sergio García continued a great record in the Volvo masters without winning it, his tie for fourth place, his seventh top-10 finish in 10 Volvo Masters starts.

This was the 21st and final Volvo Masters, so I am really pleased that we made the effort to attend.

European Tour's chief referee John Paramor

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