{"id":3099,"date":"2017-01-18T14:50:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atalaya-golf.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/18\/historic-gecko-tour-win-by-noemi-jimenez-at-atalaya-golf\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:50:46","slug":"historic-gecko-tour-win-by-noemi-jimenez-at-atalaya-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atalaya-golf.com\/historic-gecko-tour-win-by-noemi-jimenez-at-atalaya-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Gecko Tour Win by Noem\u00ed Jim\u00e9nez at Atalaya Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Rising Marbella star Noem\u00ed Jim\u00e9nez had produced some excellent results in her 2016 appearances on The Gecko Tour and it seemed only a matter of time before she would break through for her first victory. That moment came in the third event of 2017, and 11th of the 2016-17 season, at Atalaya Golf & Country Club.<\/p>\n
Twenty-three-old Jim\u00e9nez thus became the first women in the six-year history of the tour to lift a champion\u2019s trophy, but not before some anxious moments at the end of the two-day tournament. There was a four-way tie at the top of the leaderboard after regulation play, Noem\u00ed being joined by Englishmen Sam Connor and Steven Jones and another Costa del Sol-born star of the future, Mario Galiano, who had won the Gecko event played at Atalaya in December.<\/p>\n
The latter two two dropped out after the first play-off hole, and Jim\u00e9nez sealed another birdie on the second extra hole to take the title.<\/p>\n
Understandably delighted with her victory, after a rookie year on the Ladies European Tour when she finished 87th on the order of merit, with two top-10 finishes, she now heads to Australia for the first event of the new LET season in February, before returning to Spain and attempting to add to her Gecko tally.<\/p>\n
Imagen and text Andaluc\u00eda Golf Magazine.<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the image you can see to left of Noemi Jimenez to Verena Thost, daughter of Atalaya Old Course designer, and to the right to Andr\u00e9s S\u00e1nchez, Manager of Atalaya Golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rising Marbella star Noem\u00ed Jim\u00e9nez had produced some excellent results in her 2016 appearances on The Gecko Tour and it seemed only a matter of time before she would break through for her first victory. That moment came in the third event of 2017, and 11th of the 2016-17 season, at Atalaya Golf & Country Club. Twenty-three-old Jim\u00e9nez thus became the first women in the six-year history of the tour to lift a champion\u2019s trophy, but not before some anxious moments at the end of the two-day tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[154,87],"yoast_head":"\n