Final sprint in three stages, the richest with 500,000 dollars of prize money each, towards the 20 cards for the DP World Tour. It starts with the Hainan Open (10-13 October) on the Sanya Luhuitou GC course, in Donghai Bay in China, where they will remain for the Hangzhou Open (17-20 October) and finally the first 45 of the Road To Mallorca (order of merit) will go to Spain for the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final (31 October-3 November) where the best 20 of the money list will change circuit.
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Challenge, schedule
In Donghai Bay, Gregorio De Leo, 38th in the Road To Mallorca, who with his current position would book his ticket to Spain, Stefano Mazzoli (54th), Pietro Bovari (69th) and Aron Zemmer (73rd), who by making the most of the two Chinese opportunities can still enter the top 45, will be competing.
Looking at the order of merit, the first ten are substantially safe, so much so that only six will be at the start, with the defection of the Englishman John Parry (no. 1), the Danish Rasmus Neergaard Petersen (no. 2) who is already playing on the major tour having won three events this year, the Swede Joakim Lagergren (no.
3) and the South African Robin Williams (no. 7). Instead, there will be the Danish Hamish Brown (n. 4), the Spaniards Joel Moscatel (n. 5) and Angel Ayora (n. 6), the French Alexander Levy (n. 8) and Beniamin Hebert (n. 10) and the Finn Oliver Lindell (n.
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9). The situation is different among those classified from 11th to 30th place, among whom only two will be missing. One is the Irishman Conor Purcell (n. 12) who evidently feels safe. Not so, however, are the Finn Tapio Pulkkanen, the French Pierre Pineau and Martin Couvra, the Englishman Sam Hutsby and the German Nicolai Von Dellingshausen who are the last among the 20 and who have behind them, within the 30, determined opponents.
Among them are the Swedes Bjorn Akesson and Christofer Blomstrand, the Zimbabwean Benjamin Follett-Smith, the Scotsman Euan Walker, the Norwegian Andreas Halvorsen and the Dane Jonathan Goth-Rasmussen, all of whom have scored this season.
