La Hacienda Hyperlinks Golf Resort is to play host to among the greatest names within the sport and enterprise worlds, together with former NBA basketball star Pau Gasol and tennis legend Rafael Nadal, when the Gasol Basis Golf Invitational is held on the high Spanish resort subsequent month.
Going down from June 19-22 in help of the battle towards childhood weight problems, the two-day event can be performed throughout each of the 36-hole resort’s acclaimed golf programs – the Hyperlinks and the Heathland – with company staying on the five-star Fairmont La Hacienda Costa del Sol Resort, which opened this spring.
Gasol, who retired from skilled basketball in 2021, is a six-time NBA All-Star and two-time winner of the championship collection and has three Olympic medals to his title. In the meantime, his Spanish compatriot Nadal – a eager golfer in his free time – retired final 12 months as one of the crucial embellished tennis gamers of all time together with successful 22 Grand Slam singles titles.
The pair can be joined at La Hacienda by Spanish basketball icon Rudy Fernanández and ex-Barcelona star Bernd Schuster, in addition to ex-Chelsea and Spain worldwide footballers Álvaro Morata and Marcos Alonso.
A robust contingent {of professional} golfers may even be in attendance on the group occasion, together with a pair of seven-time DP World Tour winners in Álvaro Quirós and Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño.
Competing alongside the elite sporting line-up can be an array of executives and businesspeople who’re additionally dedicated to the Gasol Basis, supporting the event’s authentic objective of selling wholesome way of life habits and bettering the well-being of susceptible kids. Additionally featured in a packed itinerary is a gala dinner and charity public sale on the Fairmont La Hacienda Costa del Sol, whereas the event has the robust institutional assist of the municipalities of La Línea de la Concepción and San Roque.
Situated within the Cadiz municipality of San Roque near Sotogrande, La Hacienda Hyperlinks Golf Resort is a rising star in European golf due to a string of high-profile investments in its golf and way of life amenities, together with the development of what was named ‘World’s Finest Midway Home’ on the 2024 World Golf Awards.
La Hacienda’s Hyperlinks course runs alongside the beachfront with spectacular views of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar and Africa, and was taken to new heights in 2022 following a serious redesign by famend American architect Kurtis Bowman. As well as, the Heathland has additionally benefitted from a major improve within the final 18 months, with a lot of holes redesigned to enhance the enjoying expertise of the favored structure.
Javier Jimenez Casquet, director common at La Hacienda Hyperlinks Golf Resort, stated: “We’ve been impressed by the eagerness and dedication of Pau Gasol and everybody on the Gasol Basis in tackling this vital situation, so it is going to be a pleasure to make our contribution to the trigger by internet hosting the Gasol Basis Golf Invitational subsequent month.
“We’re excited to welcome sporting icons like Gasol and Rafael Nadal, a few of Spain’s most profitable golfers and buddies of the inspiration to our two programs for what is certain to be an unforgettable occasion.”
Childhood weight problems is considered one of trendy society’s biggest threats to public well being each in Spain and globally; an estimated one in three Spanish kids is obese.
In Pau Gasol’s phrases, the event was created “with a transparent objective: to lift funds to proceed selling our mission of stopping childhood weight problems via the promotion of wholesome way of life habits. For greater than a decade, we on the Gasol Basis have labored to enhance the well-being of youngsters and households in susceptible conditions, and this event can be a novel alternative to lift consciousness, collect assist, and luxuriate in golf in an distinctive setting.”
