The Challenge Tour moves from Switzerland to the Czech Republic for the fourth to last stop of the season. At the Royal Beroun Golf Club, in the city from which the club takes its name, the D+D Real Czech Challenge is scheduled from 2 to 5 October, in which five Italian players are participating: Piero Bovari, Aron Zemmer, Filippo Bergamaschi, Federico Livio and Davide Buchi.
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It is an event in which almost all the best have withdrawn in view of the last three decisive commitments for the assignment of the 20 cards for the DP World Tour 2025 that will be awarded to the best of the Road To Mallorca (order of merit), namely the Hainan Open (10-13 October), the Hangzhou Open (17-20 October), both in China, and the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final where the circuit will conclude and to which the first 45 of the money list will be admitted.
In the race, therefore, only seven players among the top 30 of the Road To Mallorca: none among the top ten, four within 20 (South African Deon Germishuys, Englishman Jack Senior, Frenchman Pierre Pineau and Finnish Oliver Lindell) and three between 21 and 30 (Danish Lucas Bjerregaard, Englishman Sam Hutsby and Scottish Daniel Young).
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Two seasonal winners in the field, Englishman Frank Kennedy (n. 33) and Danish Jonathan Goth-Rasmussen (n. 34), who have a good opportunity to relaunch themselves, after not having made the most of the title. In addition to the aforementioned, two past winners to watch are the Englishman Ross McGowan (2019), also runner up in 2015 and winner of an Italian Open (2020), and Damien Perrier (2016), as well as the Norwegian Kristian Krogh Johannessen and the Portuguese Ricardo Santos, runners-up in 2021 and 2019 respectively.
The tournament, born in 2012 and now in its 12th edition (it was not played in 2020 due to the pandemic), was won last year by Andrea Pavan, the only Italian in the roll of honor and the only one to have also won the D+D Real Czech Masters, the older brother scheduled on the DP World Tour. The prize pool is 270,000 euros, of which 43,200 are for the first in the rankings.
