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Todos Juntos. It means
All Together and it's the tag line for
Spain's bid to host the 2018 Ryder Cup ... but it could also be the tag line for
Spain's Twittour 2011.
Twittour was dreamed up by a group of Spanish golfers on Twitter who call themselves #jugones which means...
gamers? Close enough. Anyway, these
golfistas twiteros from all over Spain got to know each other over time via the celebrated social network. They soon found they shared a passion for golf, and not long ago decided to do what most of us never get around to: they organized a real life golf tour and devirtualized their love for the game... and Twittour 2011 was born.
Twittour 2011 will be a series of tournaments on different courses in Spain. The first event, Twittour 2011-Lerma, took place this past Friday at Golf Lerma, a pastoral parkland course in the Castillian countryside three hours north of Madrid. Lerma was created on a site that was once a hunting estate, and when the Twittour group arrived at the course on Friday morning they found the wide fairways and undulating greens covered in a dusting of snow. The hearty jugones were not intimidated however, and once the snow stopped falling they got right down to business despite the cold north wind whipping across the Lerma's many lakes. After their wintry round the players had a sublime Spanish dinner... with lots of wine. Prizes and awards were then presented.
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The Twittour 2011 website is great. There's a blog where members write posts about the tournaments and discuss current events and issues in golf (the awesome @martasegura writes about women in the game). There's also a media gallery with photos and videos and a schedule of events among other things. And what's so inspiring is the way these golfers got together and made their Twittour a reality. It looks like the next event is scheduled for May 20 in Madrid.
If your interested in global golf... and who isn't these days... if you're interested in the joy and conviviality of the game, and also if you're intrigued by the way social networks can bring people together, check out the
Twittour 2011 website, (if you don't speak Spanish you can put it thorough
Google translate and you'll get the gist).
The #jugones have a good thing going on, and their enthusiasm for golf is quite contagious.
How about a US Twittour? Then eventually a Twittour Cup? :)
ReplyDeleteI thought about that too! Golf Girl you better get working on the red, white and blue outfits.
ReplyDeletei am so tired of twitter. pretty soon we will only be able to think in small paragraphs
ReplyDelete140 characters right? It's just enough to see if there's something in common, if there you devirtualize it, like the Spanish golfers did. ;)
ReplyDeleteWe hope for the 2018 Ryder Cup in Spain. There will be sun and the worlds people will be welcome .
ReplyDeleteThanks for writing about Twittour...I was going to go, had my plane tickets...but some problems at work ruin all my plans...
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea to desvirtualice all those jugones that I twitt with, play golf, and of course a very great 19 th hole...In this case, they ate Lamb, most tipical dish in Burgos, with morcilla (blood pudding). In Spain, golf and eating...go very close...LOL
Hi all, I'm @JorgeCallaway, Callaway Rep in Madrid area.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for your post about our little/big tournament, idea and website.
I am really impressed with the quantity of news that is generating the twittour in Spain and, thanks to you, in the US.
We hope all of you enjoy with us and if you like it, you can participate in twittour by Twitter in @twittourgolf of by Mail: www.twittour.es
All the best for Golf Girl's!
very nice post, Pat, thks a lot ;o) Mike Belindo
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