Europe’s leading development tour will conclude its season in El Gouna, Red
Sea
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| El Gouna Golf Club (image credit PGA) |
The HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro
Tour, The Egypt State Tourism Office and Orascom Development Holding are
delighted to announce that the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour’s Visit Egypt
Tour Championship will take place at El Gouna Golf Club, El Gouna, Red Sea this
October 29-31, in association with Egypt Air.
El Gouna is the premier holiday
destination on the Red Sea and boasts the splendour of azure waters and a
dramatic backdrop of mountains within the vibrant community of the
self-contained town.
El Gouna’s Championship
Course at Steigenberger Golf Resort will provided a spectacular location for
the Visit Egypt Tour Championship, where players and spectators can feast their
eyes on stunning mountains and endless sea views.
The Gene Bates and Fred Couples
designed course is an artistic landscape of hidden bunkers, desert rough,
lagoon features and stunning scenery and is built to challenge.
Ahead of the Visit Egypt Tour
Championship the Tour’s Order of Merit will be renamed the Race To El Gouna.
The top 60 golfers on the Race To El Gouna at the conclusion of the regular
HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour season will be invited to participate in the
event, which carries a £60,000 prize fund with £15,000 for the winner.
The best players on Europe’s leading
development tour will be competing to seal their place in the top five on the
Race To El Gouna at the end of the event and earn themselves a Challenge Tour
card for 2015.
The event will be filmed for a
two-hour highlights package to air on Sky Sports in the UK in November, and on
networks worldwide.
Daniel Godding, Director of
Operations at the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour, commented: “El Gouna Golf
Club will prove a fantastic setting for our season-finale, the Visit Egypt Tour
Championship.
“I travelled to the resort with
our resident pro, the former PGA Tour and European Tour player turned expert
pundit John Morgan. I knew then that this would be a great place to stage our
Tour Championship.
“That has been achieved with the
assistance of Orascom Development Holding, the Egypt State Tourist Office and
Egypt Air, and we are all looking forward to a fitting end to another fantastic
season on the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour.”
Omayma El Husseini, UK &
Ireland Director for the Egyptian Tourist Authority, said: “It’s an honour to
support the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour as a key sponsor.
“Thanks to Egypt’s sunny climate
and excellent golfing facilities, it is renowned as a golfing haven. To
therefore host the Visit Egypt Tour Championship, the pinnacle tournament in
the Race to El Gouna and tour calendar, is even more significant as we continue
to promote the country as a sports tourism destination.”
Amin Serag, General Manager of El
Gouna, added: “We are delighted to be hosting the Visit Egypt Tour Championship
at the spectacular El Gouna Resort on the Red Sea.
“We look forward to welcoming the top players on the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour’s Race To El Gouna for the Visit Egypt Tour Championship and are excited to see how the deal with the challenging course at Steigenberger Golf Resort.”
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