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{{Short description|Spanish golfer}}
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| fullname = Luis Ignacio de Arana y Ybarra
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| birth_date = 1909
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'''Luis Ignacio de Arana y Ybarra''' (1909 – 15 January 1999)<ref name=geneanet>{{cite web |url=https://gw.geneanet.org/lmvillena?lang=pt&n=luis+ignacio+de+arana+e+ybarra&p=x |title=Luis Ignacio de Arana e Ybarra |language=es |website=gw.geneanet.org |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/52964-luis-ignacio-de-arana-e-ybarra |title=Luis Ignacio de Arana e Ybarra |language=es |website=historia-hispanica.rah.es |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref> was a Spanish amateur [[golf]]er who won multiple titles in [[Spanish International Amateur Championship|Spanish amateur tournaments]].<ref name=Eusko>{{cite web |url=https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/arana-ybarra-luis-ignacio/ar-2166/ |title=ARANA YBARRA, Luis Ignacio |language=eu |website=aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus |access-date=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
He was the younger brother of [[Javier de Arana]], who also played golf.<ref name=top100>{{cite web |url=https://www.top100golfcourses.com/architect/javier-arana |title=Javier Arana - Top 100 golf courses |website=www.top100golfcourses.com |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
==Early and personal life==
Luis Ignacio de Arana was born in 1909 as the son of [[Luis Arana (sailor)|Luis Arana y Urigüen]] and Dolores de Ybarra y Lope de Calle.<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=Geni>{{cite web |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Luis-Ignacio-de-Arana-e-Ybarra/6000000034074124380 |title=Luis Ignacio de Arana e Ybarra (1909 - d.) - Genealogy |language=es |website=www.geni.com |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref> His father was a successful businessman who was deeply involved with the introduction of sports to Bilbao at the beginning of the 20th century, practicing [[Association football|football]], [[Sport of athletics|athletics]], sailing and golf.<ref name=top100/>
Arana married Sofía de Ybarra y Mac-Mahón,<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=Geni/> and the couple had five children, Íñigo, Iciar, Gonzalo, Teresa, and Álvaro de Arana e Ybarra.<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=abc>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-madrid-19990116-100.html |title=Necrológicas: Don Luis Ignacio de Arana Ybarra |trans-title=Obituaries: Don Luis Ignacio de Arana Ybarra |language=es |website=www.abc.es |publisher=[[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]] |date=16 January 1999 |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref> The book ''Veranos en el Cantábrico'' (Summers in Cantabria) delves into the family album of the aristocracy and upper bourgeoisie who spent their holidays in the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]], [[Cantabria]], and [[Asturias]], and includes a picture of Íñigo in the arms of his mother Sofía in {{ill|Ereaga|es|lt=Ereaga}} and another shows the little Iciar on board of the [[yacht]] "María del Carmen", property of the Count of [[Cadagua]], amidst a group of girls, governesses and a [[sailor]] from the ship.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.elcorreo.com/sociedad/recuerdos-norte-paradisiaco-20210102005710-ga.html |title=Recuerdos de un norte paradisíaco |trans-title=Memories from a paradisiacal north |language=es |website=www.elcorreo.com |date=2 January 2021 |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
== Sports career ==
Luis Ignacio started playing golf at the age of 10 years, in the 11-hole course of the ''Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri'',<ref name=top100/> which had been co-founded by his father in 1911 and was located a mere 500 meters from his summer home in [[Las Arenas]], [[Getxo]].<ref name=top100/>
Together with his brother Javier, he became the leading Spanish amateur golfer, as well as one of the best players in [[Continental Europe]], displaying a great competitiveness between them both on and off the course.<ref name=top100/> Notably, Luis Ignacio faced his younger brother in eight consecutive [[Spanish International Amateur Championship|Puerta de Hierro National Cup finals]], winning three of them in 1932, 1935, and 1941.<ref name=top100/> The tournament was suspended during the [[Spanish Civil War]], being reopened in 1941 under the new name of [[Spanish International Amateur Championship]], with Arana winning its inaugural edition and then adding a further two titles in 1947 and 1949, beating in the finals [[Eugenio Machado]] and Enrique Fernández Villaverde, respectively.<ref name=Eusko/> He also won the national Amateur Championship three times in 1941, 1943, and 1945, beating [[Agusto Batlló]] and [[Santiago Ugarte]] in the latter two finals.<ref name=rfegolf>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rfegolf.es/ArtculosDocumento/ARTICULOS/REVISTA RFEG/RFEG34 RELATOS DE AYER.pdf |title=Palmarés Campeonato de España Amateur Masculino |trans-title=Honours Men's Amateur Spanish Championship |language=es |website=www.rfegolf.es |access-date=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
==Later life==
In his later life, Arana became a professor at the J.L.T Higher School of Bilbao.<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=abc/> In 1975, he wrote and published a book called "Exercises, topics and problems in topography, geodesy and position astronomy".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bibliotecas.ucasal.edu.ar/opac_css/index.php?lvl=author_see&id=23982 |title=Información del autor - Luis Ignacio Arana Ibarra |trans-title=Author information - Luis Ignacio Arana Ibarra |language=es |website=bibliotecas.ucasal.edu.ar |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
==Death==
Arana died on 15 January 1999, at the age of 90.<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=abc/> The funeral service was celebrated on the following day, at seven in the afternoon, in the [[parish church]] of [[Virgin of Mercy|''Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes'']] in Las Arenas.<ref name=abc/>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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[[Category:1909 births]]
[[Category:1999 deaths]]
[[Category:Spanish male golfers]]
[[Category:Golf course architects]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Bilbao]]
[[Category:Golfers from the Basque Country (autonomous community)]]
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{{Short description|Spanish golfer}}
{{Infobox tennis biography
| name = Luis Ignacio de Arana
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Luis Ignacio de Arana y Ybarra
| country_represented = {{ESP}}
| birth_date = 1909
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|01|15|1909|df=y}}
| death_place =
| height =
| plays =
| careerprizemoney =
| singlesrecord =
| singlestitles =
| highestsinglesranking =
| doublesrecord =
| doublestitles =
| highestdoublesranking =
}}
'''Luis Ignacio de Arana y Ybarra''' (1909 – 15 January 1999)<ref name=geneanet>{{cite web |url=https://gw.geneanet.org/lmvillena?lang=pt&n=luis+ignacio+de+arana+e+ybarra&p=x |title=Luis Ignacio de Arana e Ybarra |language=es |website=gw.geneanet.org |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/52964-luis-ignacio-de-arana-e-ybarra |title=Luis Ignacio de Arana e Ybarra |language=es |website=historia-hispanica.rah.es |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref> was a Spanish amateur [[golf]]er who won multiple titles in [[Spanish International Amateur Championship|Spanish amateur tournaments]].<ref name=Eusko>{{cite web |url=https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/arana-ybarra-luis-ignacio/ar-2166/ |title=ARANA YBARRA, Luis Ignacio |language=eu |website=aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus |access-date=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
He was the younger brother of [[Javier de Arana]], who also played golf.<ref name=top100>{{cite web |url=https://www.top100golfcourses.com/architect/javier-arana |title=Javier Arana - Top 100 golf courses |website=www.top100golfcourses.com |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
==Early and personal life==
Luis Ignacio de Arana was born in 1909 as the son of [[Luis Arana (sailor)|Luis Arana y Urigüen]] and Dolores de Ybarra y Lope de Calle.<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=Geni>{{cite web |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Luis-Ignacio-de-Arana-e-Ybarra/6000000034074124380 |title=Luis Ignacio de Arana e Ybarra (1909 - d.) - Genealogy |language=es |website=www.geni.com |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref> His father was a successful businessman who was deeply involved with the introduction of sports to Bilbao at the beginning of the 20th century, practicing [[Association football|football]], [[Sport of athletics|athletics]], sailing and golf.<ref name=top100/>
Arana married Sofía de Ybarra y Mac-Mahón,<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=Geni/> and the couple had five children, Íñigo, Iciar, Gonzalo, Teresa, and Álvaro de Arana e Ybarra.<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=abc>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-madrid-19990116-100.html |title=Necrológicas: Don Luis Ignacio de Arana Ybarra |trans-title=Obituaries: Don Luis Ignacio de Arana Ybarra |language=es |website=www.abc.es |publisher=[[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]] |date=16 January 1999 |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref> The book ''Veranos en el Cantábrico'' (Summers in Cantabria) delves into the family album of the aristocracy and upper bourgeoisie who spent their holidays in the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]], [[Cantabria]], and [[Asturias]], and includes a picture of Íñigo in the arms of his mother Sofía in {{ill|Ereaga|es|lt=Ereaga}} and another shows the little Iciar on board of the [[yacht]] "María del Carmen", property of the Count of [[Cadagua]], amidst a group of girls, governesses and a [[sailor]] from the ship.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.elcorreo.com/sociedad/recuerdos-norte-paradisiaco-20210102005710-ga.html |title=Recuerdos de un norte paradisíaco |trans-title=Memories from a paradisiacal north |language=es |website=www.elcorreo.com |date=2 January 2021 |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
== Sports career ==
Luis Ignacio started playing golf at the age of 10 years, in the 11-hole course of the ''Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri'',<ref name=top100/> which had been co-founded by his father in 1911 and was located a mere 500 meters from his summer home in [[Las Arenas]], [[Getxo]].<ref name=top100/>
Together with his brother Javier, he became the leading Spanish amateur golfer, as well as one of the best players in [[Continental Europe]], displaying a great competitiveness between them both on and off the course.<ref name=top100/> Notably, Luis Ignacio faced his younger brother in eight consecutive [[Spanish International Amateur Championship|Puerta de Hierro National Cup finals]], winning three of them in 1932, 1935, and 1941.<ref name=top100/> The tournament was suspended during the [[Spanish Civil War]], being reopened in 1941 under the new name of [[Spanish International Amateur Championship]], with Arana winning its inaugural edition and then adding a further two titles in 1947 and 1949, beating in the finals [[Eugenio Machado]] and Enrique Fernández Villaverde, respectively.<ref name=Eusko/> He also won the national Amateur Championship three times in 1941, 1943, and 1945, beating [[Agusto Batlló]] and [[Santiago Ugarte]] in the latter two finals.<ref name=rfegolf>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rfegolf.es/ArtculosDocumento/ARTICULOS/REVISTA RFEG/RFEG34 RELATOS DE AYER.pdf |title=Palmarés Campeonato de España Amateur Masculino |trans-title=Honours Men's Amateur Spanish Championship |language=es |website=www.rfegolf.es |access-date=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
==Later life==
In his later life, Arana became a professor at the J.L.T Higher School of Bilbao.<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=abc/> In 1975, he wrote and published a book called "Exercises, topics and problems in topography, geodesy and position astronomy".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bibliotecas.ucasal.edu.ar/opac_css/index.php?lvl=author_see&id=23982 |title=Información del autor - Luis Ignacio Arana Ibarra |trans-title=Author information - Luis Ignacio Arana Ibarra |language=es |website=bibliotecas.ucasal.edu.ar |accessdate=27 April 2024 }}</ref>
==Death==
Arana died on 15 January 1999, at the age of 90.<ref name=geneanet/><ref name=abc/> The funeral service was celebrated on the following day, at seven in the afternoon, in the [[parish church]] of [[Virgin of Mercy|''Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes'']] in Las Arenas.<ref name=abc/>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arana, Luis Ignacio}}
[[Category:1909 births]]
[[Category:1999 deaths]]
[[Category:Spanish male golfers]]
[[Category:Golf course architects]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Bilbao]]
[[Category:Golfers from the Basque Country (autonomous community)]]
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