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Challenge Tour restarts with a double event

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The Challenge Tour, after a month off and the first four events in South Africa, restarts from India with a double appointment and then moves to the United Arab Emirates.

The Duncan Taylor Black Bull Challenge is scheduled for March 23-26 at the Karnataka Golf Association in Bangalore for the first time on the circuit’s calendar. Six Italians on the pitch: Andrea Pavan, Lorenzo Scalise, Matteo Manassero, Lorenzo Gagli, Gregorio De Leo and Stefano Mazzoli.

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In the field the Scots Euan Walker and Liam Johnston, the Germans Velten Meyer and Marc Hammer, the Dane Nicolai Kristensen, the Spaniards Alejandro Cañizares, Javier Sainz and Emilio Cuartero Blanco, the emerging French Tom Vaillant, two successes on the Alps Tour 2022 from amateur, and his compatriot Pierre Pineau and the Swedes Joel Sjoholm, Oscar Lengden and Rikard Karlberg, the latter winner of an Italian Open (2015).

Numerous home players including two past winners of Indian Order of Merit, Udayan Mane and Khalin H. Joshi, current leader Sachin Baisoya along with Jairaj Singh Sandhu and Aman Raj who are among the best in their nation . The prize pool is $300,000.

Among the blues Scalise is growing in condition, with two top 5 finishes in the last two outings, fifth in the SDC Open and third in the Nelson Mandela Bay Championship. A fourth place for Pavan (Cape Town Open) and a 13th for Manassero (SDC Open), a bit discontinuous, while Gagli is looking for a good pace. De Leo, after a cut, finished 18th in the second race (SDC Open). Mazzoli will be making his seasonal debut.

The Karnataka Golf Association, designed in 2009 by Peter Thomson and then revisited by Howard Swan, winds through 125 acres of land. The fairways and greens are excellent, while numerous water hazards and the wind, which often blows, make it one of the most demanding Indian courses.

From Tuesday 28 March to Friday 31, the same track will take place on the same track as The Challenge in which Pavan, Scalise, Manassero and Gagli are currently registered. The prize pool of $300,000 is identical.

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