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Still time to enter the

Hacienda del Alamo

Festival (Feb 13-20)

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
If you want to escape the bad weather in Britain and Ireland, there is still time for you to enter the 3rd Hacienda del Alamo Women's & Girls' Festival, sponsored by Glenmuir, at the five-star Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort, near Fuente Alamo in the Spanish south-east region of Murcia.
The Festival, from February 13 to 20, has prize categories for Under-16 girls, Under-18 girls, Ladies and Senior Ladies ... and we are accepting entries from professionals.
Just this week Sean Stiff, professional at the El Soto Golf Club down Malaga way, asked if he could partner his 12-year-old stepdaughter Sophie Phillips, handicap 28, in the curtain-raising better-ball pairs on Saturday, February 13.
The answer: Of course. The more the merrier. Tournament director Lee Harrington and Director of Golf Billy Sim will work out what kind of handicap to give Sean, probably +2.
Sophie, who goes to school, obviously, in Spain, can play in only one of the Under-16 girls' events, the two-rounder on the Monday & Tuesday.
To download an entry form, which gives you all the competition details, go to the top of the left-hand column on the Home Page of this website. Click on the relevant words, and up it will come.
Murcia is the preferred airport for Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort (about 25min away). John Green is handling villa rentals for competitors.

ENTRIES SO FAR
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.
Dominic Hewson: Pairs with Alice Hewson.
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.
Simon Brierley: Pairs with Daisy Dyer.
Nicola Callander: Pairs with Ella Ofstedahl & Murcia U-16 Girls Open.
Ella Ofstedahl: Pairs with Nicola Callander & Murcia U-16 Girls Open.
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.
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: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & 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).
Paul Coopey: Pairs with Kam Cheema.
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.
Sheila Brunton: Pairs with Claire Penman & Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors), HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Claire Penman: Pairs with Sheila Brunton & Murcia Ladies Open, HDA Ladies Open.
Hollie Vizard: HDA U-16 Girls' Open.
Dawn Hincks: Murcia Ladies Open.
Penny Burrows: Pairs with Ian Burrows & Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors), HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Rebecca MacLaren: Murcia U-16 Girls Open.
Sophie Phillips: Pairs with Sean Stiff & Murcia U-16 Girls' Open.
Shula McCarthy: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Gemma McCarthy: Murcia U-16 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.
Eaodin Cronin: Murcia U-16 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.