3rd Hacienda del Alamo February Festival, sponsored by Glenmuir

Jess Wilcox, after a memorable 2009,

is out to do even better this year

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Jess Wilcox, 18-year-old Blankney Golf Club, Lincolnshire member, is the latest player to file an entry to the 3rd Hacienda del Alamo Ladies/Girls' Festival, sponsored by Glenmuir, at the five-star Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort near Fuente Alamo in the south-east Spanish province of Murcia.
Jess will play with her dad Robert - who plays off scratch - in the curtain-raising, better-ball pairs competition on Saturday, February 13 when members of the Hacienda del Alamo Golf Club will join in the fun.
Then Jess, who has an actual handicap of +0.2, will compete against international players of the calibre of English women's champion Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall) and English girls' champion Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa), to name but two, in the Murcia Ladies Open over 36 holes on Monday and Tuesday, February 15 and 16.
Jess will be hoping to build on the excellent 2009 season she had. She reached the quarter-finals of the British girls' championship at West Lancashire Golf Club, finished runner-up to Alex Peters (Notts Ladies) in the Abu Dhabi/Daily Telegraph girls championship and fifth in the Nick Faldo Series Grand Final in Brazil. Midland Ladies champion, Jess also won the EWGA Midlands North Regional championship.
Jess played at La Manga - which is not all that far away from Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort - in December when she just missed out by the narrowest margins for a place in the Final Qualifying Tournament of the Ladies European Tour. She will be 19 in late October.

HDA FESTIVAL ENTRY LIST
Mary MacLaren: Murcia Ladies Open & Hacienda del Alamo Ladies Open.
Meghan MacLaren: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Hannah Turland: Pairs with Hayley Davis, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Alice Hewson: Pairs with Dominic Hewson, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Charlie Douglass: Pairs with Holly Clyburn, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Hayley Davis: Pairs with Hannah Turland, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Georgia Gilling: HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Daisy Dyer: Pairs with Simon Brierley, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Nicola Callander: Pairs with Ella Ofstedahl & Murcia U-16 Girls Open.
Ella Ofstedahl: Pairs with Nicola Callander.
Holly Clyburn: Pairs with Charlie Douglass & Murcia Ladies Open.
Lucie Walker: Murcia U-18 Girls Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Hannah Barwood: Pairs with Amy Boulden, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Jessica Bradley: Murcia U-18 Girls Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Emma Harris: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Emily Taylor: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Amy Boulden: Pairs with Hannah Barwood, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Dulcie Sverdloff: Pairs with Aaron Sverdloff, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Aaron Sverdloff: Pairs with Dulcie Sverdloff.
Kelsey MacDonald: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Linda Marr: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Linda Wilson: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Gillian Gardiner: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Audrey Lee: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Becky Gee: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Hollie Vizard: HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Charlotte Humphries: HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Katherine Carragher: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Danielle Anderson: HDA Ladies Open.
Amelia Taylor: Pairs with Jenna Birch, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Jenna Birch: Pairs with Amelia Taylor, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Gabriella Cowley: HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Amber Ratcliffe: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Kam Cheema: Pairs with Paul Coopey & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Dana Greenslade: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Marilynn Pearce: Pairs with Geoff Pearce & Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors), HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Geoff Pearce: Pairs with Marilynn Pearce.
Ana Wright: Pairs with Derek Wright & Murcia Ladies Open, HDA Ladies Open.
Derek Wright: Pairs with Ana Wright.
Lydia Johnston: Murcia U-18 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.
Charlotte Ellis: HDA Ladies Open.
Jess Wilcox: Pairs with Robert Wilcox & Murcia Ladies Open.

Robert Wilcox: Pairs with Jess Wilcox.

Holly Robinson: Murcia U-18 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.

+We've decided to extend the entry deadline to the end of January so that nobody is disappointed. An entry form can be downloaded by clicking on the relevant words at the top of the left-hand column on the Home Page of this website.