Juan Guerrero-Burgos has been elected this Tuesday as the new president of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation (RFEG), a position he will occupy for the next four years, replacing Gonzaga Escauriaza, who had been in office since 2008 and who, in turn, has been named honorary president.
“Although we are growing at an appreciable rate, if at the time we had almost 340,000 members, I would like us to be able to gradually get closer to that number. To do this, we must promote golf, especially to people outside our environment, who, if they know it, will They are going to get hooked,” Guerrero-Burgos declared in statements released by the federative body.
Guerrero-Burgos was the only person who had presented his candidacy within the deadline established for this purpose, so a vote by the assembly members was not necessary.
We must continue betting on the Spanish Open. For ourselves, and I am referring to the whole of Spanish golf, but also for Jon Rahm. We owe it to him, he is our standard bearer, he has always given us a lot and we have to thank him in this way
The twelfth president, who was full of praise when speaking of his predecessor Escauriaza, stated that the key is to “promote the construction of initiation facilities” and stressed that the National Golf Center is “everyone’s home.”
“The National Golf Center is everyone’s home and it will continue to be that way. It will be a place where all its facilities will be taken advantage of and optimized to the maximum so that it acts as a speaker for Spanish golf activities. before the whole of society,” he expressed.
Break clichés
“We must focus on the digitalization of the federation, on improving its processes. We face the same challenges as any institution in a matter in which advances are so rapid and continuous that almost all of us are caught off guard,” he added.
“We must continue to support the Spanish Open. For ourselves, and I am referring to the whole of Spanish golf, but also for Jon Rahm. We owe it to him, he is our standard bearer, he has always given us a lot and we have to thank him in this way “continued the new leader, who stressed the importance of being sensitive to the “issue of inclusion and breaking the “clichés” because golf is an “economically, socially and environmentally sustainable” sport.
