In the twenty-seventh week of the year, from 4 to 10 July there are many golf tournaments to follow. Here are the ones we can’t miss:
Schedules and tournaments
Alps Tour – Alps de Las Castillas 2022
This week the players return to southern Spain for the 2022 Alps de Las Castillas, the 14th event of the season.
The tournament will take place at the Club de Golf Soria from 7 to 9 July It is the 10th edition of the Alps de Las Castillas, but it is the first year that this course has been played and it is the first time that the Club de Golf Soria has hosted an international professional golf tournament.
The course is a PAR 72 of 6279 meters, inaugurated in 2003, the course was designed by Target Ingenieros and in particular by Pinero & Alvaro Alonso de Noriega. The field is integrated in a wood of centuries-old oaks and is located at 1,100 meters above sea level and is characterized by a very varied layout.
Daniel Berna Manzanares, a Spanish member of the Alps Tour, will be one of the favorites this week, as the Club de Golf Soria is his “home” He has scored two top 10s in his last tournament entries and expects a positive week at home.
In the field we find seven of this season’s winners: Gregorio De Leo (winner of the Memorial Giorgio Bordoni), Gary Hurley (Alps de Andalucía), Manuel Morugan (Abruzzo Alps Open), Stefano Mazzoli (Ein Bay Open), Tomas Guimaraes Bessa (winner of the New Giza Open), Adrien Pendaries (Winter Series at Terre dei Consoli) and Mathias Eggenberger (Winter Series at National Golf).
The current leader of the Order of Merit, Frenchman Tom Vaillant (AM) and Julien Sale (AM), second in the standings, will not compete this week because they are involved with the French National Team at the European Team Championships in 2022.
Among the 125 players, who will compete for a prize pool of 40,000 euros, the Azzurri on the pitch are: Gregorio De Leo, currently third in the ODM standings and who could move up to 1st place with a win this week, Stefano Mazzoli, Riccardo Bregoli , Manfredi Manica, Andrea Saracino, Michele Ortolani, Edoardo Giletta, Ludovico Addabbo, Michele Cea, the amateur Andrea Ferraris, Gianmaria Rean Trinchero, Alessandro Notaro, Federico Zucchetti, Carlo Casalegno, Giacomo Fortini, Davide Buchi, Federico Livio, Giulio Castagnara, Takayuki Matsui.
Challenge Tour – Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge
From 7 to 10 July the Road to Mallorca heads to France for the Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge. The French participating in the competition fall into a particular French Order of Merit that will ensure the first place (in the sum of the scores obtained in the two events of the Blot Open de Bretagne and the Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge this week) a place in the Cazoo Open de France at Le Golf National, which will take place in September.
Ugo Coussaud is currently in pole position to qualify as 1st in the competition and will be on the field this week to attempt to seal his victory. Four-time DP World Tour defending champion Marcel Siem won the event in 2021, taking the first Challenge Tour title at Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge.
The event is a huge part of the Tour schedule, with six of the last eight winners currently on the DP World Tour. 2021 Siem Winner, 2018 Richard McEvoy Champion, Aaron Rai, who won the 2017 event, 2016 Winner Alexander Björk, 2015 champion Ryan Fox and Andrew “Beef” Johnston, who won in 2014.
Everyone is playing and winning on the Major Tour. The blues on the field are Luca Cianchetti, Lorenzo Scalise, Matteo Manassero, Federico Maccario, Edoardo Raffaele Lipparelli DP World Tour – Genesis Scottish Open
The Genesis Scottish Open will be held from 7 to 10 July at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland.
The event is co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour and is the tangible sign of the agreements made in November 2020 and strengthened until 2035 last week.The debut of the competition organized by the two major circuits, therefore, takes place in a historic date: the 50th anniversary of the Open dispute.
The North Berwick Renaissance Club course hosts the Genesis Scottish Open for the fourth consecutive year, but, of course, this is the first time we have had such a large number of PGA Tour members in the field. Adjacent to Muirfield, the Renaissance Club is located on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth.
It is a PAR 70 with five PAR 3 and three PAR 5. Since the last edition of the tournament, the seventh hole has been reduced to a PAR 4 of 462 meters. It is the most significant of the many changes made to the course, which also includes the creation of new fairway bunkers.
At 6,617 meters, The Renaissance Club isn’t long by tour pros standards, but the coastal breezes greatly add to the challenge.
