Third seasonal race of the first four in the Challenge Tour calendar scheduled in South Africa and organized in collaboration with the Sunshine Tour. The second edition of the SDC Open will be held from 16 to 19 February on the course of the Zebula Golf Estate & Spa, in Limpopo five Italian players participate: Andrea Pavan, Francesco Laporta, Lorenzo Scalise, Matteo Manassero and Gregorio De Leo.
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The hosts are favourites, who are overwhelming in number and who can count in particular on Brandon Stone, Jaco Van Zyl, Jacques Kruyswijk, JJ Senekal and Ruan Conradie, but with several others able to have their say.
Among the “foreigners” we remember the English Alfie Plant, the Danes Nicolai Kristensen and Joachim B. Hansen, the French Pierre Pineau and Ugo Coussaud, the Germans Velten Meyer and Marc Hammer, the Spanish Emilio Cuartero Blanco and Benjamin Follet-Smith, from Zimbabwe, scored in the Bain’s Whiskey Cape Town Open, the first event of the season.
Absent the transalpine Clément Sordet, reigning champion, engaged in the Thailand Classic on the DP World Tour. Andrea Pavan, also among the favourites, came close to success in Cape Town (4th) and appears in good condition.
Swinging Scalise, Manassero and Laporta, the last two aiming to cancel the cut suffered in the Dimension Data Pro-Am, the same fate suffered by De Leo, who was making his season debut. The prize pool is $350,000. The Official World Golf Rankings is a system for assessing the level of performance of professional golfers.
It was introduced in 1986, supported by the four major tournaments and six professional tours that make up the International Federation of the PGA Tours, namely the PGA Tour, European Tour, Asian Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia, Japan Golf Tour and the Sunshine Tour.
points also for good final placements in the following tours: Web.com Tour, Challenge Tour, PGA Tour Canada, OneAsia Tour, Korean Tour, PGA Tour Latinoamérica, Asian Development Tour, PGA Tour China, Alps Tour, Nordic Golf League, PGA EuroPro Tour , ProGolf Tour, MENA Golf Tour.
