SOTOGRANDE AT CAP CANA WINS
FIRST ANNUAL CAP CANA BEACH POLO WORLD CUP
Photos courtesy of Courtesy of Ernesto Do Santos
CAP CANA, Dominican Republic – Monday, December 14, 2009 – Lifestyle Companies announced today the winners of its First Annual Cap Cana Beach Polo World Cup, held Thursday, December 10 – Sunday, December 13, 2009, on magnificent Juanillo Beach.
With tournament’s winners comes president of Cap Cana’s Board of Directors, Dr. Ricardo Hazoury’s,announcement construction will begin, in the coming year, on a polo field in Cap Cana, considered among the Caribbean’s most important tourism and real estate locales.
“We are extremely pleased with the First Annual Cap Cana Beach Polo World Cup’s success, and are already anticipating next year’s tournament,” said Tito Gaudenzi, Lifestyle Companies President and Tournament Director / Organizer. “We’d like to thank Cap Cana, our title sponsor, for sharing their breathtaking paradise with us, and with the players, sponsors and spectators, all to whom we express our sincerest gratitude. Together, we produced and fêted three action-filled days of polo and world-class events, in one of the most breathtaking places in the world.”
First Annual Cap Cana Beach Polo World Cup Winners
FIRST PLACE – CAP CANA TROPHY
TEAM PLAYERS HANDICAP / NATIONALITY
Sotogrande
1. Team Captain, Bobby Jimenez +3 / DR
2. Alfredo Vargas +3 / VE
3. Luis Escobar +8 / CR
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Team Hcp: +13
SECOND PLACE
TEAM PLAYERS HANDICAP / NATIONALITY
Lifestyle Companies
1.Team Captain, Marty van Scherpenzeel +2 / NL
2. Luis Alfonso Paniagua/ Pablo Cabrera +3 / DR
3. Todd Offen +7 / CAN
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Team Hcp: +12
THIRD PLACE – PROPAGAS TROPHY
TEAM PLAYERS HANDICAP / NATIONALITY
Cap Cana
1. Moritz Gaedeke +3 / GER
2. Kris Kampsen +7 / USA
3. Team Captain, Tito Gaudenzi +3 / USA / CH
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Team Hcp: +13
TOURNAMENT MVP
Martin Van Scherpenzeel
BEST SPECIMEN OF TOURNAMENT
“Lion King” – Played by Todd Offen, Lifestyle Companies Team
Sotogrande at Cap Cana’s Team Captain, the Dominican Polo Star, Bobby Jimenez, lead his team to the trophy in a two to one victory over favored Lifestyle Companies during Sunday’s final tournament match. Jimenez scored Sotogrande at Cap Cana’s first goal; teammate Luis Escobar (Costa Rica) scored the second.
Bobby Jimenez, Luis Escobar, Alfredo Vargas were on the winning team Sotogrande with Tito who ran this tournament & president of Lifestyle Companies, Dr. Ricardo who is president of Cap Cana’s Board of Directors, and Reyson who was a speaker at the tournament.
Six teams of three players competed in the tournament’s matches, played at four chukkas, each seven and a half minutes long.
The weekend-long First Annual Cap Cana Beach Polo World Cup got underway Thursday, December 10 with a golf tournament at Punta Espada Golf Club, where golfers linked up with polo tournament players.
At tournament’s “All but the Horse”-themed closing night event, on Cap Cana’s Marina Beach, tournament players, friends, along with tournament’s partners and sponsors celebrated its first annual edition’s success. Revelry was in full swing with internationally-renowned DJ Erick JR at the turntables, and continued until dawn when DJ Erok, Red Bull’s official DJ, spun his contagious mix of eclectic selections from every kind of music, including soul, funk, Brazilian beats, reggae, house, rock and hip-hop.
Lauren Gnazzo, Tito Gaudenzi , Ricardo and Lissette Hazoury
Cap Cana’s alluring Juanillo Beach marked the latest addition to Lifestyle Companies’ list of resplendent settings for its premier tournaments, irresistible to polo fans around the globe. Widely considered a leading creator and producer of prestigious international polo events, Lifestyle Companies’ successful tournaments in some of the world’s hottest spots have earned its reputation.
For more information, please visit www.capcanapolo.com.
Kitzbüehel, Austria will host Lifestyle Companies’ next polo tournament – VII Valartis Group Snow Arena Polo World Cup – Thursday, January 14 – Sunday, January 17, 2010.
ABOUT PLAYERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL CAP CANA BEACH POLO WORLD CUP
Cap Cana Beach Polo World Cup’s players represent nine countries, and some of the world’s finest polo talent, including:
• Nicolas Roldan (USA), who has a 10 handicap – the highest handicap a polo player can reach
– and is one of the top 12 players in the world
• Local polo player Bobby Jimenez (Dominican Republic)
• Germany’s rising polo star, Moritz Gaedeke
• Winner of three Miami Beach Polo World Cups, Kris Kampsen (USA)
• Dutch polo patron, Marty van Scherpenzel (Holland)
• Sebastian Schneberger (Germany), founder of active worldwide polo team, Los Nocheros
• Costa Rica’s highest-rated polo player, Luis Escobar
• President of Lifestyle Companies and Tournament Director / Organizer, Tito Gaudenzi (USA / Switzerland), Captain of the Cap Cana Polo Team.
Marty Van Scherpenzeel , Michael Blank, Philip de Goot, Will Tops and Hugo Vererugge