Emma Villacieros

[3] For her contribution to the development of the sport throughout her life, she was awarded the Premios Nacionales del Deporte (Francisco Fernández Ochoa) in 2012.

Due to her father's work as a diplomat, she moved with her family to Ecuador and very close to the house where she lived there was a golf course.

While playing alone she met her husband, Antonio García Ogara Wright, whom she married in 1958 in the Church of Santa María in San Sebastián.

Her husband's work took her to Madrid where she continued playing and achieving sporting success alongside female golfers of the caliber of Merche Etchart and Cristina Marsans.

[1][2][5] Also as captain she obtained important results: twice European Women's Amateur champion and bronze medal at the 1986 World Championship.

[1][2][3] To achieve this, she promoted measures such as the construction of public courses throughout the country, such as Can Sant Joan, La Llorea, and Abra del Pas in 1995 alone, and the creation of a National Golf School, first located in El Escorial, and later in Madrid, to lay the foundations of the sport and providing it with the best training conditions to achieve success.

[1][2] On 7 March 2006, and after more than 15 years of tough negotiations between Villacieros and the then Secretary of State for Sports Javier Gómez-Navarro, the National Golf Center [es] was inaugurated in Madrid, a public course and headquarters of the RFEG that now bears her name.

[12] In 2012, Villacieros was awarded the Francisco Fernández Ochoa category of the Premios Nacionales del Deporte, to "reward the trajectory of a life dedicated, in a notorious way, to the practice, organization, direction, promotion, and development of Sports".