The 2023 season of LET Access, the second European women’s circuit, begins with the Santander Golf Tour – Girona, which will take place from 1st to 3rd March on the course of the Peralada Golf Club, in Peralada, near Girona in Spain, with a jackpot of 40,000 euros (6,400 for the winner).
Let Access, schedule
Six Italian players will compete: Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso, Clara Manzalini, Erika De Martini, Alessia Fornara, Martina Flori and the amateur Marta Spiazzi. In the field the English Gemma Clews, the Austrian Katharina Muehlbauer, the Scottish Hannah McCook, the Dutch Zhen Bontan, the Swiss Elena Moosmann, the French Lucie Malchirand and the German Karolin Lampert.
The Santander Golf Tour – Girona is the first of sixteen competitions currently on the calendar, all with prize pools ranging between €40,000 and €70,000 at the Rose Ladies Open (7-9 September). The next event of the LET Access is the Terre Blanche Ladies Open scheduled from 13 to 15 April on the Golf De Terre Blanche course, in Tourrettes in France, where Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso will defend the title.
The prize money will be 40,000 euros. Gerona is a city of Spain of 101 852 inhabitants, located in Catalonia, capital of the province of the same name. Deeply linked to its traditions, defended in the succession of the numerous cultures imposed during the dominations that the city has undergone over the centuries, mainly due to its geographical position, Gerona is the last province of Catalonia before the border with France: this has created throughout its history a situation of continuous resistance, on the part of its inhabitants, against the stranglehold produced by French culture on the one hand and by Castilian culture on the other.
All this has meant that this place has turned into a kind of “hard core” of Catalan culture. During the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, the city continued its growth, with small expansions of its walls, which served to defend it from the various attacks it suffered in the late 17th and early 18th centuries by French troops, in the context of the many European wars.
Gerona has undergone twenty-five sieges and been captured seven times. It was besieged by the French royal armies of Charles de Monchy d’Hocquincourt in 1653, by those commanded by Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds in 1684 and twice in 1694 by Anne Jules de Noailles.
In the seventeenth century, in the Baroque era, some noble buildings were built within the walls and the cathedral was completed with the addition of the staircase and the conclusion of the works on the façade.
