May 18, 2022 – The Alps Tour has announced the addition of a new tournament to its 2022 schedule. It will be a first, both for the Alps Tour and for the Aravell Golf & Country Club in Aravell, Lleida, Spain, thanks to the promoter and former European Tour player and multiple winner José Manuel Lara, who had the idea of starting this new collaboration and celebrate the 25^th Anniversary of the course in style.

The Aravell Golf Open by Credit Andorrá will take place from Thursday 16^th June until Saturday 18^th June, with a field of 144 players – 94 Alps Tour players, and 50 National players and invites – and a purse of €40,000. Even more importantly, the 11^th tournament of the season, with six more to go before the Grand Final, will distribute 45,000 pointsfor the Order of Merit. There will be two pro-ams for this tournament, the opening pro-am, on Wednesday 15^th June with approximately 23-25 teams and the closing pro-am on Sunday 19^th June with around 23-25 teams where the tournament winner will be playing.

“This event confirms the solidity of the Andorran golf project, promoted by the FGA (Andorran Golf Federation) together with the Credit Andorrá”, says José Manuel Lara, 44, winner of one Challenge Tour and two European Tour titles between 1998 and 2010. “FGA and Credit Andorrá are working together to promote and grow the game of golf in Andorra, and I believe this is a goal that fits very well with the Alps Tour claim, ‘Raising Golf Stars’, growing a quality professional game with the backing from national golf federations of host countries”. 

“We are very honored to be received for the very first time at the Aravell Golf Club, renowned for its design by José María Olazábal and the quality of its course and facilities”, says Alps Tour CEO Estelle Richard. “We sincerely thank Credit Andorrá for having made this European sporting event possible. It is a great privilege for the Alps Tour to include a new destination in our calendar.

The Aravell Golf Open by Credit Andorrá will also be an opportunity to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the golf course, much to the delight of golf lovers in the region.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to promoter José Manuel Lara, who has been able to convince the partners and participants to make this competition an essential event of the season”.

Aravell Golf & Country Club, only 13km from Andorra Principality, is an 18-hole course designed in 1987 by José María Olazábal, a two-time Augusta Masters Champion. The course will be played as a 6,155 meters, Par 71. It is located in a large valley, 700 meters above sea level, surrounded by the Pyrenees and with iconic views of the Cadi Mountain. Aravell Golf & Country Club is designed to be a compact and fun layout course with narrow fairways, relatively small greens and spacious rough making it a challenging course for the players especially due to the river and lake that cross the course.

The Aravell Golf Open by Credit Andorrá will be played thanks to the full support of Credit Andorrá.