Even in the twenty-ninth week of the year, from 18 to 24 July, golfing events do not go on vacation. There are the usual appointments of the major professional tournaments, but also those of the amateurs of the Italian Golf Federation.
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Alps Tour – Rome Alps Open 2022
This week the Alp players return to Italy for the Rome Alps Open 2022. The event will be played at the Parco de ‘Medici Golf Club in Rome from Thursday 21 July to Saturday 23 July.
At the end of the season, with only two events scheduled before the Grand Final of the Alps Tour, the top 5 players in the final ranking of the Order of Merit will receive their Challenge Tour card and that’s why every stage gets bigger and bigger ” fierce “
Most of this season’s winners will be competing in Rome: Italian Gregorio De Leo, current leader of the Order of Merit, Frenchman Tom Vaillant (amateur), currently third in the standings, Dutch Vince Van Veen, veteran from the victory last week, together with Koen Kouwenaar and Davey Porsius, the blue Stefano Mazzoli, the Spanish Manuel Morugan, the French Xavier Poncelet, Adrien Pendaries and the two amateurs Tom Vaillant and Oihan Guillamoundeguy.
Among the 144 players to compete for a prize pool of 40,000 euros, the Italians are more than 60. The Parco de ‘Medici Golf Club hosts 27 holes divided into three different 9-hole courses. The championship course was designed by the Italian architect Davide Mezzacane and designed by the American Peter Fazio.
For this week’s event the field will be a par 72 of 6,389 meters. This course has hosted numerous international tournaments in the past, including the Qualifying Schools of the Alps Tour 2020 and the mixed Roma Alps Open 2021 event, played together with the LETAS players.
It is a very challenging and stimulating golf course, with strategically placed bunkers and water hazards. The course is located between the city of Rome and the sea and is one of the few golf courses in Italy that has an atmosphere similar to that of Scottish links.
Notiziegolf cameras will be on site to follow the event with great attention. Challenge Tour – Big Green Egg German Challenge powered by VcG
This week, from 21 to 24 July the Road to Mallorca heads to Germany for the Big Green Egg German Challenge powered by VcG, which will take place at Wittelsbacher Golfclub.
The Road to Mallorca 2021 saw four German players obtain the DP World Tour card for 2022: Yannik Paul, Marcel Schneider, Marcel Siem and Hurly Long.
This is the second edition of the event. Spaniard Angel Hidalgo took his first Challenge Tour title in last year’s inaugural edition, taking advantage of a last-minute invitation to play again at the Wittelsbacher Golfclub.
In the field this week we also have Dutchman Lars van Meijel and Britons John Parry and Jamie Rutherford, who will play after their excellent performances in the 150th Open. All three players made it through the cut at St Andrews: Parry and van Meijel shared 53rd place with four under par, while Rutherford finished 83rd.
There will be ten Italians on the field: Andrea Romano, Luca Cianchetti, Lorenzo Scalise, Matteo Manassero, Aron Zemmer, Jacopo Vecchi Fossa, Enrico Di Nitto, Federico Maccario, Edoardo Raffaele Lipparelli and Filippo Bergamaschi.
DP World Tour – Cazoo Classic
The world of golf has just returned from the thrilling 150th Open Championship, but the show continues and, in Europe, means a short trip to England for the Cazoo Classic. This is the first of three DP World Tour tournaments that the car rental company has given its name to, with Wales and France as next venues.
Scotsman Calum Hill won the first edition of this event in 2021, albeit on a different course, the London Golf Club, overtaking Rasmus Hojgaard on the final day of competition. This year the competition is played at Hillside, a real link by the sea with a rich history of tournaments.
The course consists of two distinct landscape situations: nine holes are on flatter ground, while the innermost nine holes are often compared to Ballybunion, Ireland, for their dune landscape. Hole 11 is one of the best known of the English links, with a view that, from the starting tee, extends not only to nearby Birkdale (and Southport, on the other side) but also to the Irish Sea.
Hillside will require many of the skills honed last week at the Old Course in St. Andrews to get a good score. The rough around the greens is a feature of the course, but the generally hard and solid course will reward the players’ strategy, the execution of the approaches and the putts.
