Patrizia's Golf Experience:
Patrizia Vercruyce has played since she was 15 years old in 1985. Once she decided to learn more and liked the competition idea, her father, Marcel Vercruyce made her play for 6 months, every week-end on the driving range without playing on a course, but being his caddy or her brothers caddy to learn more about the real game. She had to do lots of approaches with the left hand only to make her left arm stronger and had no real golf lessons, just tips here and there from her father and brothers... a real confusion but she now understands different golf professionals points of view about a golf swing.
On her first competition in De Haan, starting with 36hcp, she played 22 over the par and got cut at 28hcp. In 3 years, she got to 13hcp. Her father wanted her to became a touring PRO. As she was young, she went every week-end to the Coast taking 2 trains and 2 buses with her luggage and golf bag to reach the club house and stay a night over with some other junior members living in the same area. After so much pressure on golf, she stoped playing for many years and started again later for fun, but this time, just to enjoy golf, with practice maximum 5 times a year and playing 2-3 competitions a year. With no hurry, she than went down to 8hcp just before she came to Spain in 1997 where she started a new life in the golf paradise.
In Belgium, she has been member in De Haan, the Royal Golf Club of Oostende since being a junior player, than in L' Empereur Golf Club that Marcel Vercruyce designed; than in La Tournette Golf Club close to Waterloo. In Spain, she was first member in Los Arqueros Golf Club, than in La Quinta Golf Club and once moving to La Duquesa area, got member in La Duquesa Golf Club. As here, the competitions are not so important as in old times in Belgium, she decided to do not be member of any golf courses and play different courses, mixing fun and business... |
Patrizia's GOLF PRO familly background:
Patrizia Vercruyce comes from a experienced GOLFER familly including 3 Golf PROS which are: Marcel Vercruyce, her father, Johnny Vercruyce,her elder brother and Flory Vercruyce, second brother.
Marcel Vercruyce, her father, born in 1935, started his golf experience working as a caddy in the Royal Zoute Golf Club of Knokke in Belgium. He has caddied some of the best world champion golf players of that time. He has since created the golf driving range of Nivelles (Belgium), than the Rhodes St-Genèse Golf Driving Range with Maria Mancini, Patrizia' s Italian mother' s at the perifeie of Waterloo. He is since early 2007 living in Montenegro to work on the design of a new golf course.
Johnny Vercruyce and Flory Vercruyce are now both taking care of the Rhodes St-Genèse Golf Driving Range when they both give golf lessons. Johnny specialize in selling the best golf products to help his members to improve their golf game as well as organizing golf competitions in different golf courses for them. Flory concentrates on perfecting his excellent swing, gives golf lessons at the driving rage and also in other courses. Flory is responsible for the maintenance of the driving range. |