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Gerald Balding (1903–1957) - England's last 10 goal player Adolfo Cambiaso (born 1975) (h) - Argentina [ 1 ] Bartolomé Castagnola (born 1970) - Argentina [ 1 ]
Tommy Wayman is an American polo player (retired). [1] [2] [3] Wayman was a ten-goal player. [2] [4] He won six U.S. Open Polo Championships, a Gold Cup, two World Cups, two Butler Handicap, and three Pacific Coast Open titles. [1] He played on the U.S.A. team against Argentina in the Cup of the Americas and won two Coronation Cups against ...
The players are rated on a scale from minus-2 to 10. Minus-2 indicates a novice player, while a player rated at 10 goals has the highest handicap possible. It is so difficult to attain a 10-goal handicap that there are fewer than two dozen in the world, and about two-thirds of all players handicapped are rated at two goals or less.
Pieres began traveling to America to play polo in 1980, when he held an eight-goal handicap. His handicap had been raised to 10 within a few years. [1] Gonzalo Pieres is recognized for turning professional polo players, into real sport professionals. He won the Argentine Open nine times, and the United States Polo Association Gold Cup seven ...
Guillermo "Memo" Gracida Jr. (born July 25, 1956) is a Mexican polo player whose international career includes several record-setting achievements, including the most U.S. Open victories (16) and the most consecutive years as an American 10-goaler (21). These feats and dozens of major tournament wins led to Gracida's selection as Player of the ...
He won the British Open Gold Cup ten times, more than any other player, and won the US Open nine times. He reached 10 goals in 1985 and spent fifteen years on and off at 10 goals, including the 2006 season in Palm Beach. Gracida was ranked 9 goals in England, where he was reportedly HM Queen Elizabeth's favorite player.
In Friday's matches at Grand Champions Polo Club in suburban Palm Beach County, Harry's Royal Salute Sentebale team beat Figueras' squad 3-1, with the prince scoring the opening goal. He picked up the ball at midfield — 150 yards (137 meters) from the goal — and repeatedly hammered it the rest of the way, popping it through the goal posts.
Born in Aiken, South Carolina, Hitchcock learned the sport of polo from his parents, Louise and Thomas Hitchcock Sr. His father was a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame horse trainer who had been a 10-goal polo player and helped found the Meadowbrook Polo Club on Long Island, New York, and who captained the American team in the inaugural 1886 International Polo Cup.