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Play to Win at Vale do Lobo! |
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Exciting Open Amateur Tournaments in 2004
Vale do Lobo, Portugal s largest luxury golf and beach resort and venue for the Portuguese Open in 2002 and 2003, is staging two open amateur golf tournaments for 2004. Vale do Lobo Amateur Week takes place from 18th to 24th January and Vale do Lobo Open Foursomes Week will be held from 9th to 15th May. |
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Tom Whitehouse is a Member of the European Tour |
| With a final round of 69 in the European Tour Qualifying School, Tom Whitehouse will join the two already established Tour players Paul Broadhurst and Steve Webster, and Jamie Elson, newly qualified through the Challenge Tour, as a member of the European Tour for 2004.
Paul Broadhurst so aptly described this event last year as being the most stressful of times and having lead with two rounds to go, it was a brilliant performance from Tom to keep his place in the Top 35 whilst a number of more experienced players did not do so and will therefore not have Full Playing Privileges for the coming season. |
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The 2003 Volvo Masters Andalucia – Final day |
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A two race final -
At 8.30, players returned to the course to complete their third rounds. Having made two bogies on Saturday evening to lose his lead, Freddie Jacobsen was much more sure in his play, missing only the last but saving par with a good up and down. Rodiles made a mistake at 16 only to birdie the last for a 69 – to take the lead at –10. And the other ‘race’?
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Volvo Masters Andalucia – Day 1 – Freddie Rules! |
| Around Valderrama in under 3 hours is possible only if you are on your own. It’s a testament to the fitness of the Tour stars today that the player who managed this feat was playing so fast that his scorer could not keep up …. both of these points are just jests about the opportunity that Anders Hansen saw and took when he played ‘solo’ at the head of the field for the first day of the 2003 Volvo Masters. |
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The Volvo Masters Andalucia 2003 – Pro-Am Day |
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Warm, but wet, greeted the players after the distinctly ‘British’ weather of the Telephonica Madrid Open. ‘Warm’ in Costa Del Sol late October terms is 18 deg+ and ‘wet’ equates to enough rain in an hour to fill a reservoir.
Its tropical October in Southern Spain but one person was not ‘thunderous’ (as he can be) courtesy of a win in Macau and the thought of playing a course he really likes. If any one player is guaranteed to fill the press centre, its Colin Montgomerie. He possesses a wit and willingness (and definite ability) to take any question and either answer it or send it straight back to the journalist concerned with additions to be responded to – and he is more than ready to talk on matters of the (golfing) world – that is unless there is ‘storm’ on the horizon.
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The Volvo Masters Andalucia |
| We are going to southern Spain, for the climax of the 2003 European Tour, and every night, you can read all about each days play from the Top 60 in the European Tour Volvo Order of Merit. Whilst Ernie Els is already assured of the No1 position, a number of the Tour stars will be hoping that their final position will be inside the Top 15, with all that such a position brings in terms of Majors and World Championship invitations.
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