Last call on the Challenge Tour to enter the top 45 of the money list who will play the twenty ‘cards’ for the DP World Tour 2023, which will be assigned to the first classified in the Road To Mallorca (order of merit) after the next one and last race of the circuit, the Rolex Trophy Challenge Tour Grand Final (3-6 November, Mallorca, Spain).
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The English Trophy presented by Rocket Yard Sports Marketing (13-16 October) is held at the Frilford Heath Golf Club in Abingdon, England, where five Azzurri will be at the start: Lorenzo Scalise, Matteo Manassero, Jacopo Vecchi Fossa, Enrico Di Nitto and Aron Zimmer.
A delicate match for Scalise, who slipped to 43rd place on the money list after five cuts in a row and now has just under 3,400 points over the 46th he will have to defend to enter the field in Mallorca. Chances also for Manassero who is in 63rd position and who must win or be a runner up to be elected.
The other three Italians also need an exploit like Manassero, but to keep the ‘card’ Appears at a good time Zemmer, last week eleventh in the British Challenge. 18 of the first twenty of the Road To Mallorca will be on the starting tee, including the first seven aimed at maintaining the position, even if for them the ‘card’ is now acquired, because the order of the final classification is also important.
Of prestige then being the number one of the season, a goal for which the South African Juan Carlo Ritchie is particularly committed, who last week, thanks to the second place in the British Challenge, returned as leader (he had been at the beginning of the season), climbing up from eleventh place where he had gone down for being too distracted on the DP World Tour, and the German Alexander Knappe, who has a delay of about 1,500 points.
They will be the favorites together with the Swedes Mikael Lindberg (n.3) and Jens Dantorp (n.5), the English Nathan Kimsey (n.4), the German Freddy Schott (n.6) and the New Zealander Daniel Hillier (n. 7). Among others, the Scottish Euan Walker will be quite motivated, who climbed 43 steps in the ranking to take himself to the 20th position after his success in the British Challenge. The prize pool is 230,000 pounds (about 264,000 euros).