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Ten-goal players. Mariano Aguerre - Argentina / USA [1] Alex Ferrer - Pompano Beach; Gerald Balding (1903–1957) - England's last 10 goal player; ... List of polo ...
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 ...
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.
By age 12 he had a 1-goal handicap, and a year later, with a 3-goal rating, he won the Eduardo Heguy Cup with team La Martina, playing with his father (also Adolfo). In 1989, at age 14 and with the San Diego team, he won the Campaña del Desierto Cup , and a year later the Renault Cup Open with La Martina, gaining a 6-goal handicap.
Bartolomé Castagnola (born June 16, 1970, in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine polo player with a 10-goal polo handicap and ranked among the top twenty players. [1] He is often referred to as Lolo.
Mike Azzaro is an American professional polo player from San Antonio, Texas. Azzaro's current handicap is 6 goals, but he held the sport's highest handicap of 10 goals for over ten years. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Azzaro was awarded Polo Magazine's Polo Excellence Award for Young Player of the Year in 1987 and 1990, and the award for Player of the Year in ...
Mariano runs Los Machitos with professional polo players, Nick Manifold and Naco Taverna. Los Machitos, based in Argentina, is a breeding and training facility for high-goal polo horses. Mariano’s horse Califa is a 2016 Polo Hall of Fame Inductee. A bay gelding foaled in 1996, Califa was a durable war horse played by Mariano in many memorable ...
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 ...