Today marks the start of the first stage of the DP World Tour School, which is staggered across ten different venues. Today, the first two come into play, one at the Hulencourt Golf in Genappe, Belgium, and the other at the The Players Club in Bristol, England (from 26th to 29th August).
At the English venue, we have the presence of two Spanish players, Galician Antón Vázquez Muiños and Andalusian Manuel Morugán, who will compete over four days (there is a cut after the second, mind you) to climb up the leaderboard and secure a spot in the second stage or semi-finals of the School, which will be held, as usual, at four Spanish venues during October. Normally, based on the number of participants in Bristol, the top fifteen will achieve the goal, although this figure is not officially confirmed.
Similarly, we have another six Spaniards at the Belgian venue in Hulencourt. Namely: Christian Asensio, Alejandro Rodríguez Andreu, Alfonso Buendía, Borja Martín, Marc Sabrià, and Juan Carlos García, who also need to finish among the top twelve or fifteen (in Belgium, the number of participants is smaller) to make it to the semi-finals.
These eight Spaniards are just the first of the 38 who are registered to compete in this first stage of the School at its ten venues, from today and throughout September. Here is the list of the other thirty who are registered:
– Luis Carlos González, Pablo Alperi, Alejandro Alonso, and Josep María Serra will compete in Hulencourt (Belgium) from 2nd to 5th September.
– Thomas Artigas will compete at the Huddersfield Golf Club (England) from 2nd to 5th September.
– Carlos Pigem, Eduard Rousaud, and Pablo Ereño will compete at the Northumberland Golf Club, England, from 9th to 12th September.
– José Luis Adarraga, Jorge Maicas, Carlos del Moral, Ignacio Gómez Osuna, Asier Aguirre, and Gonzalo Leal will compete at the Arlandastad Golf, Sweden, from 16th to 19th September.
– Scott Fernández, Alberto Domínguez, and José Luis García Jiménez will compete at the Donnington Grove Golf Club, England, from 16th to 19th September.
– Víctor García Broto, Esteban Vázquez, and Pablo Riveiro will compete at the Frederikshavn Golfklub in Denmark from 23rd to 26th September.
– David Borda, Mario Galiano, Alejandro Aguilera, Juan Salama, and José Antonio Sintes will compete at the Golfclub Schloss Ebreichsdorf, Austria, from 24th to 27th September.
– Álvaro Velasco, Manuel Ballesteros, Sergio Parriego, Guille Sena, and Jaume Batlle will compete at the Golf PFA France du Vaudreuil from 7th to 10th October.
