{"id":111740,"date":"2018-05-03T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111740"},"modified":"2018-05-03T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:02:37","slug":"first-collegiate-golf-tournament-to-start-6-may-2018-at-guavaberry-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/03\/first-collegiate-golf-tournament-to-start-6-may-2018-at-guavaberry-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"First Collegiate Golf Tournament to start 6 May 2018 at Guavaberry Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-111743\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/guavaberry-golf-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>The Ministry of Sports (Miderec) signed an agreement with the Dominican Golf Federation (Fedogolf) for the promotion of the golf nationwide. The event has the backing of Minister of Sports Danilo D\u00edaz who is helping fund the First Intercollegiate National Golf Tournament in several provinces nationwide. The Dominican Republic has the largest number of golf courses of a Caribbean or Central American country, with 27.<\/p>\n<p>12 private schools have signed on for the tournament that will have the participation of 68 youth golfers. The organizing committee members are Enrique Valverde, Rosa Nidia Vicente, Carlos Heinsen, Alfredo R\u00edos, Lorenzo Caimari, Robert Guerra, Rafael Octavio Castillos, Jaime Herrera and Juan Delgado.<\/p>\n<p>The event will start at the Guavaberry Golf &amp; Country Club on Sunday, 6 May 2018 as of 9am. The categories are boys and girls 7-8 years, 9-10 years, sub-13, sub-15 and sub-18. The plan is to attract students of public schools in provinces where there are golf courses to the sport. The athletes that show prowess will be protected by Fedogolf.<\/p>\n<p>Schools that will be competing in the first intercollegiate golf tournament are: Lux Mundi, Carol Morgan School, American School, Colegio Kids&#8217; n Tas, Colegio Dominicano La Salle, MC School, St. Michael&#8217;s School, Primaria Montessori (Santo Domingo), Punta Cana International School (Punta Cana), Abraham Lincoln School (La Romana) and Santiago Christian School and Instituto Iberia (Santiago).<\/p>\n<p>There are golf courses in Puerto Plata (Los Mangos, Playa Dorada), Espaillat (Playa Grande), Santiago (Las Aromas), Jarabacoa (Jarabacoa), Bonao (Bella Vista), Greater Santo Domingo (Country Club, Isabel Villa, Cayacoa), San Pedro de Macor\u00eds (Guavaberry, Metro), La Romana (La Romana Golf Club, Teeth of the Dog, The Links, Dye Fore, La Romana Country Club), and La Altagracia \u2013 Punta Cana (Hard Rock, Punta Blanca, Iberostate B\u00e1varo, Cocotal, The Lakes Barcel\u00f3, Catalonia Cabeza de Toro, Catalonia Caribe, Corales, La Cana, Punta Espada).<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.7dias.com.do\/deportes\/2018\/05\/02\/i242956_miderec-fedogolf-apuestan-golf-intercolegial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 Dias<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Sports (Miderec) signed an agreement with the Dominican Golf Federation (Fedogolf) for the promotion of the golf nationwide. The event has the backing of Minister of Sports Danilo D\u00edaz who is helping fund the First Intercollegiate National Golf Tournament in several provinces nationwide. The Dominican Republic has the largest number of golf &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/03\/first-collegiate-golf-tournament-to-start-6-may-2018-at-guavaberry-golf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}