SOTOGRANDE AT CAP CANA WINS FIRST ANNUAL CAP CANA BEACH POLO WORLD CUP

December 18, 2009 Game Reports 0

SOTOGRANDE AT CAP CANA WINS FIRST ANNUAL CAP CANA BEACH POLO WORLD CUP

 

AS SUN SETS ON DESTINATION’S FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND TOURNAMENT, A-LISTER PLAYGROUND ANNOUNCES 2010 PLANS FOR POLO FIELD

 

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

 

Sotogrande (13): Bobby Jimenez (3), Alfredo Vargas (3), Luis Escobar   (8)

                                                                                                

SECOND PLACE

 

Lifestyle Companies (12): Marty van Scherpenzeel (2), Luis Alfonso Paniagua/ Pablo Cabrera (3), Todd Offen (7)

 

THIRD PLACE – PROPAGAS TROPHY

 

Cap Cana (13): Moritz Gaedeke (3), Kris Kampsen  (7), Tito Gaudenzi (3) 

 

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. 

 

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.

 

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.