8th November 2024 | Alps Tour Golf
G.C. Le Fonti and Conero Golf Club promote the top 55 players into the 2024 Q-School Finals.
Italy, November 8th, 2024– The players competing at Golf Club Le Fonti and Conero Golf Club concluded their Stage 1 Qualifier today, where the top 28 players from G.C. Le Fonti and the top 27 players from Conero Golf Club were promoted into the 2024 Q-School Finals.
Due to fog, the Stage 1 Qualifier held at Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca was suspended at 1:49 p.m. local time. It was resumed at 3:05 p.m. local time; however, at 5:00 p.m. play had to be suspended again due to darkness. It will resume tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m., where the final spots will be given out. The top 26 players will qualify for next week’s Q-School Finals.
The players who qualified from the Stage 1 events held at Golf Club Le Fonti and Conero Golf Club gained access to the Final Stage of Alps Tour Q-School, which will take place at Golf Nazionale and Terre dei Consoli Golf Club in Northern Rome from November 13th-15th. After next week’s event, the best-ranked players can earn playing status for the 2025 season.
Stage 1 Qualifier at Golf Club Le FontiItaly’s Alessandro Nodari, who already was in the lead after yesterday’s first round, concludes the 2024 Alps Tour Qualifying School Stage 1 Qualifier held at Golf Club Le Fonti in 1st place with a two-day score of 6 under-par (136). Adrian Soriano from the United States of America and Italian amateur Pietro Gavazzi conclude the tournament in a 2-way tie for 2nd place with a total score of 5 under-par (137). David Nagiev and Malte Von Blankenfeld from Germany conclude the qualifier in a 2-way tie for 4th place with a two-day score of 4 under-par (138).
After today’s round, the top 28 players in the final leaderboard earned their spot in the field of next week’s 2024 Alps Tour Qualifying School Final Stage. France’s Gautier Brisout de Barneville will be the 2nd alternate, Italian amateur Riccardo Cavina will be the 5th alternate, and Italian amateur Niccolo Bertuletti will be the 8th alternate at next week’s Alps Tour Q-School Finals.
Stage 1 Qualifier at Conero Golf Club
France’s Victor Veyret shot one of the lowest scores of the day at the Stage 1 Qualifier held at Conero Golf Club to conclude his qualifier in 1st place with a two-day score of 7 under-par (135). In 2nd place, with a two-day total of 5 under-par (137), another fellow French player, Mathieu Francois-Mir who was tied for the lead after yesterday’s first round. In an 8-way tie for 3rd place with a total score of 1 under-par (141), Italy’s Jacopo Albertoni and amateur Giovanni Pittarello and Lorenzo Bruzzone (am), Argentina’s Grego Ferrandez, Ireland’s Brandon St John, England’s Luca Houlgate and French amateur Thibault Frestel and Dorian Fournier (am).
At the end of today’s round, the top 27 players in the final in the final scoreboard earned a spot into next week’s 2024 Alps Tour Qualifying School Final Stage, where they will try and earn their playing status for the 2025 season. French amateur Jean Chevalier will be the 3rd alternate, England’s Joe Ellis will be the 6th alternate, and James Sharp from England will be the 9th alternate at next week’s Alps Tour Q-School Finals.
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7th November 2024 | Alps Tour Golf
The Quest for a 2025 Alps Tour playing category is underway.
Italy, November 7th, 2024– A total of 200 players are competing on three distinct golf courses throughout Italy for 81 spots that will earn them access to next week’s 2024 Alps Tour Qualifying School Finals.
During next week’s event, players can capture a playing status on the Alps Tour for the 2025 season. The Final Stage of the 2024 Qualifying School will occur at Golf Nazionale and Terre dei Consolia Golf Club in Northern Rome from November 13th-15th, 2024.
The Alps Tour would like to thank Golf Club Le Fonti, Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca, and Conero Golf Club for allowing us to host our events at their venue and for the magnificent preparation they did to their course ahead of this week’s tournaments.
Players compete at Golf Club Le Fonti, Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca, and Conero Golf Club this week. At the first venue, Golf Club Le Fonti, there are 69 players in the field and 28 spots available, at Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca, there are 65 players in the field and 26 spots available to qualify, and at Conero Golf Club 66 players are competing with 27 spots to be promoted into the Qualifying School Finals.
Round 1 had to be suspended at 8:47 a.m. local time due to fog. Play was resumed at 10:00 a.m. after 1 hour and 16 minutes delay. At the end of tomorrow’s round, which will begin at 8:00 a.m. local time, the top 28 players will earn their spot in next week’s Alps Tour Q-School Final Stage field.
Stage 1 Qualifier at Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca
Spain’s Ignacio Mateo leads with a 5 under-par, 67 after the first round of the Stage 1 Qualifier being held at Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca. France’s Tom Colombel, Spanish amateur Esteban Vazquez Martin, and Gregori Baumann from Switzerland are in a 3-way tie for 2nd place with a score of 4 under-par, 68. In 5th place at 3 under-par, Italian amateur Tommaso Ajolfi.
At the end of tomorrow’s round, the top 26 players will earn a spot in next week’s event. The final round will begin at 8:00 a.m. local time.
Stage 1 Qualifier at Conero Golf Club
After the opening round of the 2024 Alps Tour Stage 1 Qualifier played at Conero Golf Club, France’s Mathieu Francois-Mir and Italy’s Jacopo Albertoni share the lead with a. 3 under-par, 68. In a 2-way tie for 3rd place at 2 under-par: France’s Ugo Ottogalli and Italian amateur Carlo Maria Asti. A 5-way tie for 5th place at 1 under-par includes: England’s Luca Houlgate, Ireland’s Brandon St John, France’s Dorian Fournier (am), and Victor Veyret and Spain’s Thomas Artigas.
Once tomorrow’s final round is concluded, the top 27 players will earn a spot in the field of next week’s 2024 Alps Tour Qualifying School Final Stage, where they will try and earn their playing status for the 2025 season.
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5th November 2024 | Alps Tour Golf
Thursday marks the beginning of the 2024 Qualifying School Stage 1 tournaments.
November 5th 2024- The 20th edition of the Alps Tour Qualifying School will take place in Italy, just like the past four seasons. The 1st Stage events will be played on November 7th and 8th at three distinct golf clubs: Golf Club Le Fonti, Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca, and Conero Golf Club. The Final Stage of the 2024 Qualifying School will take place at Golf Nazionale and Terre dei Consoli Golf Club in Northern Rome from November 13th – 15th.
In the 2024 Alps Tour Qualifying School fields, there are 138 amateur players and 37 players under 20 years old. A total of 35 different nations, including: Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Lithuania, Lebanon, New Zealand, Poland, and the United States of America, will be represented throughout the 2024 Qualifying School.
For the second year in a row, we received nearly 300 applications from players who wanted to participate in the 2024 Alps Tour Qualifying School. Applications were open to any male professional golfer who belongs to a recognized PGA or Golf Federation, as well as male amateur players with a handicap of 2.0 or better.
In the three 1st Stage events, there will be 203 players competing over the three different venues. The tournaments will be played over 36 holes with no cut, and the top-ranked players will gain access to the Final Stage event, where the top-ranked players will earn a full Alps Tour card for the 2025 season.
There will be 156 players in the field at the Final Stage of the 2024 Alps Tour Qualifying School, where 75 players have already been exempt.
The exempt players from the 1st stage and automatically eligible to participate in the Final Stage are: all players ranked in the 2024 Alps Tour Order of Merit after the 2024 Croara Alps Open who weren’t in the field at the 2024 Alps Tour Grand Final Presented by DEPOT – The Male Tools & Co., all of the past winners of the Alps Tour Order of Meritfrom 2012 to 2021, the winners of the Alps Tour Qualifying School in 2021, 2022 and 2023, the leading 10 European Amateur Players in the World Amateur Golf Rankings as of October 14th 2024, players who competed at the 2023 World Amateur Team Championship and/or the 2024 European Boys/Men Team Championships and/or the 2023 Walker Cup and players being members of the European Tour for the 2024 season until category 20 and members of the Challenge Tour for the 2024 season until category 16.
The Golf Courses
The three First Stages of this year’s Qualifying School will be disputed over three golf courses throughout Italy: Golf Club Le Fonti, Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca, and Conero Golf Club.
The first venue that has been constant on our schedule as a host for the Stage 1 Qualifying School event is in Northern Italy, approximately 30km southeast of Bologna. The tournament will unfold at Golf Club Le Fonti in Castel San Pietro Terme. The course is home to 18 holes of golf and will be set as a par 71, 6411 meters. Rolling hills and a typical Emilia-Romagna landscape surround Golf Club Le Fonti. It has previously hosted Alps Tour events, Ladies European Tour events, and Qualifying Schools. The players will face multiple water hazards, making it a tough challenge.
Golf del Ducato Parma – La Rocca is the second course hosting Stage 1 events this year. It is a 6078-meter par 72 course in the Province of Parma, about 100km from Bologna and just 10 minutes from Parma in the Emilia-Romagna Region. It was founded in 1985 on the edge of the Boschi di Carrega nature park. The parkland golf course unfolds amongst oak and acacia forests, beautiful ponds, and slightly hilly terrain with unforgettable views.
This year, Conero Golf Club is the third golf course hosting Stage 1 Qualifying School. It opened in 1992 and was developed within Conero Park. It is a 5868-meter par 71 course set in almost seventy hectares, with gorse, arbutus, oak, tamarisk, and cherry trees envelop the golf course. The terrain is slightly soft and offers a wide variety of situations and landscapes: on the first nine holes, play will be influenced by the presence of a lake, which comes into play. On the back nine, the terrain changes its characteristics, and beautiful views of the rural surrounding landscapes will be the backdrop of the course. Conero Golf Club is also home to an executive 5 holes course in the middle of the complex.
The entire Alps Tour family would like to wish the best of luck to all the participants competing at the three different venues, and we are eager to follow the next rising golf stars #risinggolfstars!
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