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Santana himself is a teaching pro who shot a 69 in his own tournament. According to Vik, Santana has a terminal case of the yips, which forced him to forsake his putter and chip on the greens...
...Vik finished fifth the first time he played in the Spanish international Junior Championship after being bedridden with hepatitis. In 1973 he came in second in the same event, which was held at the Real Club de las Puerta Hierro, the name adopted by the Madrid Polo golf club when it moved...
Puerta Hierro is the permanent venue for the Madrid Open, which is a regular event on the British PGA tour. In 1974, Vik qualified for the Madrid Open and played in a field that included Tony Jackson and Peter Oosterhuis before missing the 36-hold cut by a stroke. Puerta Hierro also hosted the World Amateur Team Championship in 1970, in which Vik played this fall...
...year younger than Vik, Severiano Ballesteros had a mercurial rise to the top of the international ranks last year. The son of a Santander dairy farmer, Ballesteros shot a 65 at the age of 13 and Vik remembers he turned pro when only 16. Ballesteros qualified for this year's Masters by winning both the Manuel Pinero won this year's World Cup at Mission Hills, beating a U.S. pair of Dave Stockton and Jerry Pate by two strokes...
...tests of golf in Spain are Nueva Andalucia near Marbella and Sotogrande in Cadiz. Both were designed by Robert Trent Jones along the Costa del Sol. Angel migual is the pro at Nueva Andalucia, which played host to the World Cup in 1973 when Nicklaus and Johnny Miller won. Vik shot a 70 the first time he played this course just next to a bullring and the Sierra Blanca mountains...