Come to the Golden Polo Days of Gstaad from 16–19 August 07 in Gstaad/Switzerland
HSBC Guyerzeller is the new presenting sponsor of the most important polo summer event in Switzerland.
The Gold Cup in Gstaad, which is the highlight of the Swiss polo summer season, has a partly new face this year. It will be held for the second time and with it, will be the 12th Polo High-Goal-Tournament, which will take place in the Bernese Oberland .
The first change is HSBC Guyerzeller, founded in Switzerland in 1894 and now a successsfully operating private bank worldwide within the network of the HSBC group, who is taking on the important roll of presenting sponsor this year.
The responsible people as well as many of the guests of the prestigious bank, that was a team-sponsor in Gstaad last year, found the tournament so fantastic that they decided to expand their involvement in a very welcome way.
The organizing Polo Club Gstaad as well as its president, Pierre E. Genecand, are most delighted about this highly welcome addition
to the rank of the main sponsors.
Nespresso and the Gstaad Palace welcome the new team sponsors.
Besides HSBC Guyerzeller and Land Rover, each of which will assume patronage of one of the four teams, the remaining two teams will be competing in the colours of Nespresso as well as the Hotel Gstaad
Palace.
Both of these world-renowned companies will also be present in other areas of the event: Nespresso as the established supplier of their delicious coffees; Gstaad Palace as the tournament hotel as well as the caterer of the event.
Due to this the high quality of the Polo Gold Cup Gstaad will manifest itself through the high reputation of its four team-sponsors as well.
The Gold Cup in Gstaad is part of the World Polo Tour WPT. There are important, valuable world ranking points to be won, analogous to the ATP or the WTA in tennis, at the for the WPT selected High-Goal-Polo Tournaments (currently they are the 46 most important events in
the world) in Argentina, the US, England, France, Spain, Portugal as well as in Switzerland.
This status as a WPT tournament is most likely to be the reason, besides the fantastic atmosphere in Gstaad of course, that the
world’s best players take on the cumbersome journey of the winding roads of the Simmental to compete on the airstrip in Saanen.
World class players can be admired in Gstaad yet again. There will be a number of top players in the patrons’ teams from most likely four different countries (the fourth team is not a hundred percent confirmed yet).
One who has already signed up his team is Philipp Maeder from Switzerland. He will be competing with the same team he had last
year, one that he has been able to celebrate many victories with also prior to the tourna- ment in Gstaad. The two 5-goalers Federico
Bachmann and Francisco Fucci will, as usual, be lead by Pablo Jauretche from the illust- rious circle of currently only 17 handicap-8- players in Argentina.
Robert Kofler, a newcomer from Austria, who will be competing in Gstaad for the first time has put together a well balanced team,
much the same as Maeder has, with a 5-, a 6- as well as a 7-goaler, whilst the remaining two teams will most probably have polo
cracks with handicaps of 9 or 10.
The third patron will most likely be a “big shot” from Italy and the fourth team will hopefully be lead by a patron from the US.