The Swiss Nicola Gerhardsen beat the Swede Albert Hansson 1 up in the final and won the title in the Spanish International Amateur Championship “Copa S.M. El Rey” held on the Infinitum Golf course (Lake Course, par 71) in La Pineda, near Tarragona, Spain.
In the semifinal, the Swiss had overwhelmed the German Peer Wernicke (5/4) and Hansson had been right by the Welshman Caolan Burford (1 up).
Nicola Gerhardsen, results
They stopped in the first round of match play Bruno Frontero, defeated 2/1 by the Dutchman Thijmen Batens, and Alessandro Nardini, who only lost on the 19th hole, the first playoff, to the Frenchman Louis Anceaux.
The qualification out of 36 medal holes was won by James Ashfield with 138 (70 68, -4) ahead of the Spaniard Luis Masaveu Roncal (139, -3) and the Dutch Jack Ingham, the Iberian Alejandro Aguilera Martin and the English Arron Edwards-Hill, all with 140 (-2).
Frontero had access among the first 64 admitted to the match play with the 40th place (147, +5) and Nardini with the 54th (149, +7). Filippo Ponzano (150, +8) and Miguel Orzi (159, +17) did not pass the cut. He accompanied the Azzurri coach Alain Vergari.
The only Italian to have won the tournament, now in its 108th edition, was Lucas Nicolas Fallotico in 2021, while Edoardo Molinari was surpassed twice in the final (2001, 2006). Starting from the end of the 5th century BC.
there was an Iberian oppidum (fortified center) (Kese or Kissa or Kissis), of the Cessetani tribe, but the origins of the city date back to the Second Punic War. In 218 BC. a Roman expedition, landed in the Greek city of Emporion (today Empúries) heads south to control the territories north of the Ebro river.
The expedition was led by Gneo Cornelius Scipio, who was later joined by his brother Publius Cornelius Scipio: a garrison settled near the ancient indigenous oppidum, which was transformed into the most important Roman military base in Hispania, the city of Tarraco.
Pliny testifies that Tarragona was born through the work of the Scipios (Tarraco Scipionorum opus) and by them was fortified with cyclopean walls. The via Heraclea connected the city to the Pyrenees and later took the name of via Augusta.
In the Republican age the city was probably divided into a military camp in the upper part and a residential area near the Iberian village and the port. The military presence expands with merchants and Roman citizens who settle in the new conquered territories.
The walls are mainly preserved from this era, probably built around 197 BC, the date of establishment of the Roman province of Hispania Citerior. Around the middle of the same century the walls were enlarged.
