{"id":4754,"date":"2019-08-19T09:59:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T09:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladiesingolf.com\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2020-07-24T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T10:53:43","slug":"kajsa-schmidt-atalaya-golf-country-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladiesingolf.com\/en\/kajsa-schmidt-atalaya-golf-country-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Kajsa Schmidt ATALAYA GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kajsa Schmidt always has a smile on her face. Whenever she is at her club, Atalaya Golf &\u00a0<\/strong>Country Club, she is constantly receiving visitors in her role as an excellent public relations\u00a0<\/strong>officer. That\u2019s why she is held in such high esteem by all members, who appreciate the work she\u00a0<\/strong>puts in as captain. Her perfectionist attitude means that she spends more than three or even\u00a0<\/strong>four hours a day doing the job as best she can. As a result, although she greatly enjoys her work\u00a0<\/strong>as captain, she has decided that this will be her final year. She has just become a grandmother,\u00a0<\/strong>which means she will be spending more time in her native city of Stockholm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nKajsa went from member of the Committee to captain two years ago. Her husband has been a member at Atalaya for 16 years and she has been part of the club for six. This, even though she used to work in Sweden and only came to Marbella on holiday.
\nHer experience in managing teams originates from her background working in a legal
\noffice, while she learnt everything involved in organising tournaments from her younger daughter, \u201cmy daughter was a very good player, so she was on the Swedish Junior Ladies Golf Committee\u201d. \u201cI asked the captain if he needed help and he was grateful for any. That\u2019s how I started to accompany all the girls in the competitions. My daughter stopped
\nwhen she was 15, but I continued working for the club organising parties and competitions\u201d, she cheerfully remembers. It was at that time when she became addicted to golf and started to play. \u201cI started quite late, around 20 years ago, and I didn\u2019t get much chance to play to begin with. I\u2019m not really a very good player. In fact, my lowest ever handicap was 19 and it now stands at 25. I still take classes even now\u201d, she tells us. Despite this, she assures us that she enjoys playing with good golfers. \u201cI really enjoy playing with good players, with low handicaps. Many people feel intimidated when playing with them, but I find it fantastic. The other day I played with a very good guest from Finland. Watching this golfer was like poetry in motion.\u201d Although Atalaya Golf has more than 400 members, she tells us that only around a hundred are really active as many are now elderly people who don\u2019t play, and others only visit for short periods of time. That\u2019s why she is happy to receive new members every day. \u201cNow we are getting a lot of new members. I invite them to a welcome drink with the captain so they can get to know other people\u201d, she says. Planning the whole yearly schedule, trying to organise different types of competitions and throw parties are the main aspects of the role. \u201cWe also organise barbecues at the Academy and lots of parties with live music and dance.
\nYou have to try to do different things, offering varied competitions, trying to mix the players so they can play with different people\u201d, Kajsa tells us proudly. \u201cYou also have to take care of the awards and make sure rules are adhered to. Sometimes you have to deal with criticism, but in general, everybody is very grateful and happy. We\u2019ve got such a
\nwonderful mix of nationalities and characters that it is difficult to please everybody.\u201d
\nIf there\u2019s anything which characterises Atalaya, it is its international membership. Among
\nall its members, more than 36 nationalities are represented. The annual International Competition is a great event and one of tournaments the captains enjoy organising the most. Passionate about golf, wife, mother and now grandmother. Cheerful, kind, and a leader. That\u2019s Kajsa, the captain of the Atalaya Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kajsa Schmidt always has a smile on her face. Whenever she is at her club, Atalaya Golf &\u00a0Country Club, she is constantly receiving visitors in her role as an excellent public relations\u00a0officer. That\u2019s why she is held in such high esteem by all members, who appreciate the work she\u00a0puts in as captain. Her perfectionist attitude<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[868],"tags":[336,337,283,338],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t