Ryder Cup captains Mark James, Sam Torrance and Ian Woosnam are against "Tiger conqueror" Costantino Rocca anStaraufgebot debut at the European Senior Tour in the Balearic Islands: Many big names in professional golf started in the Mallorca Son Gual Senior Open, the, 8 to 10 May 2009 will take place first. The already-half years after the opening of the professional world as a world class resort in unison evaluated Championship Course Son Gual Golf near Palma offers the perfect venue for the extraordinary event.
Ian Woosnam, in his second season with the champions' contests, the Guild of Europe's top professionals, which for the tournament have made. He won in the past season, two tournaments and was ranked first of the 2008 and "Rookie of the Year". His place in golf history, the Welsh especially by its major titles at the U.S. Masters in 1991 and due to its extremely positive balance than the Ryder Cup players. Since 1983, Woosnam is eight times in a row at the Ryder Cup and fought successfully against the decades-long dominance of the Americans. This experience in 2006 in particular, as Woosnam as captain of the European team in the Irish K-Club defeated the USA.
Woosnam friend and companion Sam Torrance of Scotland is looking quite similar to a golf career. Another eight times in a row, he represented Europe in the Ryder Cup in the 80s and 90s until 2002 he was appointed to captain. Through a tactical masterstroke won Torrance 'team lead with three points against his favorite Americans. As a European Senior Tour player, he could until the past season and won ten titles in 2005 and 2006 at the top of the rankings. His eleventh victory followed a few weeks ago in Barbados, where he lead with four shots into the goal came, and now a leader of the "Money List" goes into the race.
Mark James, another former Ryder Cup captain, led the competitors from overseas in 1999 - at the Ryder Cup in Brookline - to the brink of defeat. The American hosts won barely imaginable at the end with 14.5 to 13.5 points. The English Amateur champion of 1974 was seven times before as a player in the European team. The seniors won the British since 2004, four titles, three of them in the U.S., where he was mainly at the start.
Also, the CV of the fourth in the group is inextricably linked to the Ryder Cup combined. Costantino Rocca, the Italian's most successful golfer of all time, succeeded in 1997, the last of his three Ryder Cup appearances for Europe, the crucial point to victory over the USA. Opponents Valderrama in Spain when it was the first world-Tiger Woods. Rocca is since 2007 on the Senior Tour and was there right away and others by his two wins "Rookie of the Year and Second in the ranking.
Is completed, the ranks of the former Ryder Cup player by the Irishman Des Smyth and the Englishman Gordon J Brand. Smyth had two seniors on trips and can be successful on a total of four victories to look back. Brand won the European Senior Tour two victories 2006, won 2007 and once in the past year he won two titles.
Carl Mason actually took off only when the seniors, even though he too European Tour times will certainly be part of the above professionals. With as much as 20 successes on the European Senior Tour, a victory last year, the Englishman dominated the field for years. He was the first since 2003, three times and twice the second ranking.
The Cologne Torsten Giedeon, along with Bernhard Langer the 1990 World Cup won, the flag high for Germany. The 51-year-old denies this year his second season on the European Senior Tour.
Overall, all these players more than 80 tournament titles on the European Tour and many other international successes. One more reason is the return of professional golf in Majorca do not miss it.
On Wednesday and Thursday before the actual event, the so-called Pro-Am tournaments, with three amateurs and a Golfpro play together as a team.
Admission to all three tournament days is free for visitors. Who likes it somewhat exclusive, VIP tickets can be under www.son-gual.com order, prices start from 200, - Euro. The renowned cuisine of the Club Cuisine pampers all guests with a daily changing menu, a fantastic view of large parts of the place included.
Given that the elderly do not cut, you can be sure all interested parties, their idols to the final round on the accompany them. Around the "Palace" - the symbol of Son Gual Golf - is the public dining island with typical food and drink. There, anyone can host the actual game on the large hole-by-hole scoreboard read all sorts of informative and gets in the exhibition area.
Source: cerbergolfnews
