Spanish Golf Legend Dies
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Friday 4 January 2013
Jaime Ortiz-Patino, the owner of Valderrama and one of the driving forces behind the growth of golf in Spain, has died at the age of 82. Known as “Jimmy” to his friends, Ortiz-Patino, whose grandfather was a wealthy Bolivian tin magnate, owned a golf club and amassed a collection of golfing memorabilia that captured the history of the game over 500 years,...
