CHALLENGE TOUR RETURNS TO AVIEMORE
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE EUROPEAN CHALLENGE
The 2011 European Challenge Tour Schedule, comprising a minimum of 26 tournaments, will take in visits to 18 different countries on four Continents and will include new events in Italy, Norway and, for the first time, India.
The Jeev Milkha Singh-designed Kensville Golf Club in Ahmedabad, India, which will host this week’s inaugural Gujarat Kensville Challenge, is one of four new venues on the nine-month schedule, which again culminates in the Challenge Tour Grand Final from October 27-30, 2011.
The three other courses new to the Challenge Tour are the PGA of Sweden National near Malmö, Sweden, the venue for The Princess by Schüco from June 30-July 3; Acaya Golf Resort in Lecce, Italy, which will stage the inaugural Acaya Golf Challenge Open from July 7-10; and finally Losby Golfklubb near Oslo, Norway, host of the Norwegian Challenge from August 11-14.
The recently-opened Links course at the PGA of Sweden National, built over a ten year period on a 700-acre site belonging to Malmö city council, was designed by renowned architect Kyle Philips in the style of a traditional Scottish links layout, complete with fescue greens. The signature hole is the 120-yard fifth, which is the PGA of Sweden National’s version of the famous “Postage Stamp”, the eighth hole at Royal Troon.
The picturesque Acaya Golf Resort, which is located on the Adriatic coastline and is home to the first Costantino Rocca Golf Academy, is notable for the olive groves and tenth century Basilian monastery ruins which line the course.
Losby Golfklubb’s Østmork course, designed by Swedish architect Peter Nordwall, was constructed on the flood plain of the River Losby, which comes into play on a number of the holes on the back nine. It was the venue for the 2007 SAS Masters on the Ladies European Tour, won by Suzann Pettersen.
As well as a number of new host venues the 2011 schedule also welcomes two new sponsors to the Challenge Tour, with Barclays sponsoring the Kenya Open, played at Muthaiga Golf Club in Nairobi, Kenya, from March 31-April 3; and German engineering firm Schüco named as title sponsors of The Princess, which will again be supported by Sweden’s Henrik Stenson, winner of the Challenge Tour Rankings in 2000.
The Scottish Challenge returns to Macdonald Spey Valley Golf Club in Aviemore from June 23-26 and will again be sponsored by Scottish Hydro.
The 2011 European Challenge Tour Schedule, comprising a minimum of 26 tournaments, will take in visits to 18 different countries on four Continents and will include new events in Italy, Norway and, for the first time, India.
The Jeev Milkha Singh-designed Kensville Golf Club in Ahmedabad, India, which will host this week’s inaugural Gujarat Kensville Challenge, is one of four new venues on the nine-month schedule, which again culminates in the Challenge Tour Grand Final from October 27-30, 2011.
The three other courses new to the Challenge Tour are the PGA of Sweden National near Malmö, Sweden, the venue for The Princess by Schüco from June 30-July 3; Acaya Golf Resort in Lecce, Italy, which will stage the inaugural Acaya Golf Challenge Open from July 7-10; and finally Losby Golfklubb near Oslo, Norway, host of the Norwegian Challenge from August 11-14.
The recently-opened Links course at the PGA of Sweden National, built over a ten year period on a 700-acre site belonging to Malmö city council, was designed by renowned architect Kyle Philips in the style of a traditional Scottish links layout, complete with fescue greens. The signature hole is the 120-yard fifth, which is the PGA of Sweden National’s version of the famous “Postage Stamp”, the eighth hole at Royal Troon.
The picturesque Acaya Golf Resort, which is located on the Adriatic coastline and is home to the first Costantino Rocca Golf Academy, is notable for the olive groves and tenth century Basilian monastery ruins which line the course.
Losby Golfklubb’s Østmork course, designed by Swedish architect Peter Nordwall, was constructed on the flood plain of the River Losby, which comes into play on a number of the holes on the back nine. It was the venue for the 2007 SAS Masters on the Ladies European Tour, won by Suzann Pettersen.
As well as a number of new host venues the 2011 schedule also welcomes two new sponsors to the Challenge Tour, with Barclays sponsoring the Kenya Open, played at Muthaiga Golf Club in Nairobi, Kenya, from March 31-April 3; and German engineering firm Schüco named as title sponsors of The Princess, which will again be supported by Sweden’s Henrik Stenson, winner of the Challenge Tour Rankings in 2000.
The Scottish Challenge returns to Macdonald Spey Valley Golf Club in Aviemore from June 23-26 and will again be sponsored by Scottish Hydro.
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