In the United Arab Emirates great start for Edoardo Molinari who, after the first round of the Ras Al Khaimah Championship with a score of 66 (-6) is second two strokes from the occupied leader, with a total of 64 (-8), from the Japanese Ryo Hisatsune.
In the DP World Tour tournament Guido Migliozzi is instead 53/o with 71 (-1).
Ryo Hisatsune, results
On the course of the Al Hamra GC (par 72) Molinari, vice-captain of the Europe team at the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, made seven birdies, with a bogey.
The Turinese shares the second position with the Danish Rasmus Hojgaard and the English Matthew Baldwin. Only 20-year-old Hisatsune did better than them. Number 210 in the world, in the first nine holes played he signed seven birdies (of which six consecutive in the first few plays).
Then, in the back nine, he signed two more, with a bogey to close. While in Saudi Arabia, in the PIF Saudi International, the first event of the Asian Tour 2023, the Azzurri Stefano Mazzoli (70, par) and Filippo Celli (74, +4) occupy the 38th and 100th positions respectively.
At Royal Greens Golf & Country Club (par 70) in King Abdullah Economic City, Mexican Abraham Ancer leads the leaderboard with 63 (-7). Close behind him is the Colombian Sebastian Munoz, 2nd with 64 (-6) ahead of Cameron Young, Sergio Garcia and Louis Oosthuizen, all 3rd with 65 (-5).
The PGA Tour is an organization that curates major professional golf tours in the United States. It is based in Ponte Vedra Beach, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida. The PGA Tour became its own organization in 1968, when it split from the PGA of America, which is now primarily an association of golf professionals, such as instructors and club managers.
Tournament players first formed their own organization, the Association of Professional Golfers (APG). Later, in 1968, the players abolished the APG and agreed to operate as the PGA “Tournament Players Division”, a fully autonomous division of the PGA, overseen by a new 10-member Tournament Policy Board.
The name then officially changed to “PGA Tour” in 1975. In 1981, it had a marketing dispute with the PGA of America and decided to officially change its name. From the end of August of that year it becomes “TPA Tour”, which stands for “Tournament Players Association”.
The dispute was resolved within seven months and the name of the tour reverted to being “PGA Tour” in March 1982.
