The Road to Mallorca heads to Cornwall this week for the British Challenge presented by Modest! Golf Management. Here’s everything you need to know.
St. Mellion Estate
St. Mellion Estate is a golfer’s paradise consisting of two world-famous golf courses, three swimming pools, state of the art gym, spa and a fantastic restaurant and bar. The British Challenge presented by Modest! Golf Management will be played on the Nicklaus Signature Course, which was Jack Nicklaus’ first European course design and opened for play in 1988. The course hosted the DP World Tour’s B&H International Open between 1990-1995 and had winners including José María Olazábal, Bernhard Langer and the great Severiano Ballesteros.
The Nicklaus Signature Course is regarded as one of the best golf courses in Cornwall and is undoubtedly one of the UK’s toughest inland tests. The course provides golfers with memories for a lifetime due to some of the splendid holes laid out over the rolling Cornish countryside.
English Swing
The British Challenge presented by Modest! Golf Management marks the first of back-to-back European Challenge Tour events in England with the English Trophy presented by Rocket Yard Sports Marketing taking place next week at Frilford Heath. The events represent the final chance for players to capture Road to Mallorca Rankings points before the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final supported by the R&A, where the top 45 players will battle it out for one of the coveted 20 DP World Tour cards and a share of the €500,000 prize fund.
The race is on…
The race to become Road to Mallorca Number One is heating up. Germany’s Alexander Knappe is looking to become the first German to be crowned Challenge Tour Number One as he currently leads the Rankings 131,887 points after two victories this season. Knappe’s first victory arrived at the season opening Dimension Data Pro-Am before his second came at the recent B-NL Challenge Trophy by Hulencourt and he is now targeting automatic promotion to the DP World Tour with a third win of the year. Sweden’s Mikael Lindberg is 8,563 points behind in second, while Englishman Nathan Kimsey, German Freddy Schott and Swede Jens Dantorp make up the top five.
