RISING WELSH STAR RHIAN WYN THOMAS
AMONG LATEST ENTRIES FOR HACIENDA
DEL ALAMO WOMEN'S FESTIVAL

Rhian Wyn Thomas had not even started playing golf only four years ago.
Now the 20-year-old Aberystwyth-born member at Vale of Glamorgan Golf Club has a handicap of one ... is a member of the Welsh women's international squad ... and she is among the latest entries to the Hacienda del Alamo Women's Winter Golf Festival.
Coached by David Llewellyn, Rhian obviously had a natural aptitude for the game to come down to one from a standing start within four years.

"I took up golf after a chance meeting four years ago with Welsh national coach David Llewelyn at the Royal Welsh Show where he was giving free five minute lessons to encourage people to take up golf," said Rhian.
"I hit ten balls and he asked me what my handicap was, and I told him that this was the first time that I had held a golf club. He told me that I had a natural swing and should take up the game. At that time I had been playing tennis and had just won the Welsh Schools U-16 title.
In April 2003, I started playing golf with a handicap of 25 and by August 2003 I had reduced my handicap to 13.
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RHIAN'S GOLFING CV

2004 Runner-up Welsh Schools golf championship and played for Welsh schools
2005 Welsh colleges champion and played for Welsh colleges
2006 Semi-finalist in Welsh Ladies championship.
2006 Member of the Welsh Ladies team in the Home Internationals
2007 Runner-up in the Leveret Trophy at Formby Ladies Golf Club where I got an albatross 2 on a par-5
2007 Member of the Vale of Glamorgan Ladies team which won the Welsh club championship
2007 Member of the Glamorgan Ladies team which reached the county finals in Brockenhurst, Hampshire
2007 Member of the Welsh Ladies Team in the Home Internationals at Dunbar.
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"I now have a handicap of one and was a member of the Welsh Ladies team which played in the home internationals at Dunbar this year. I am also in the Glamorgan Ladies county team which reached the county finals in Hampshire this year.

"I am really looking forward to playing at Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort, hopefully for the two weeks."

The Hacienda del Alamo Women's Winter Golf Festival will be hosted by the five-star golf resort in the Murcia Region of sunny southern Spain. There will be six competitions between February 10 (the first practice day) and February 23.

All the competitions are open to Lady Professionals, who will be competing for cash prizes, and Lady amateurs who must have a handicap of nine or under.
We would also like to see entries coming in from Senior lady amateurs, as long as they meet the handicap limit.
There will be separate prize lists for professionals and amateurs. If we get enough entries from senior ladies, then we will have prizes for them in a sub-division of the amateurs' list.
To find out all the details about accommodation, click on the words HACIENDA DEL ALAMO WOMEN'S FESTIVAL in the left hand column of your screen.
There are no entry forms and you do not have to pay any entry fees until you check in at the Tournament Desk in Hacienda del Alamo's palatial new clubhouse.
Simply E-mail Tournament Controller Colin Farquharson at colin@scottishgolfview.com, saying you wish to enter and if you are coming for two weeks or one (if only one, state first or second week), give your handicap and home club if you are an amateur, state if you are a professional and your home city and attachment if any.
Because there is a shortage of daylight hours in mid-February - even in sunny southern Spain - director of golf Billy Sim reckons we will have to limit the fields to between 60 and 70 players.
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