Players Corner
22.05.2020
The first tournaments on the LPGA Tour were cancelled in mid-February, and since then Albane Valenzula has also been on a "forced break". Until mid-July all events in the calendar are either postponed or cancelled completely. It is planned to resume tournament operations on 23 July with the Marathon Classic in Sylvania (Ohio). With the Evian Championship (August 6-10), the second event after the lockdown would then already be a major.
The European Tour has postponed or cancelled all tournaments on the calendar until the end of July. The only exception is the US Open International Qualifyer on 8 June in England. The next regular tournament on the European Tour is currently the British Masters (July 30 to August 2).
The Challenge Tour will be closed until mid-July; most of the tournaments planned until then have been cancelled, a few postponed. The second European level tournament will start on July 16th with the Euram Bank Open in GC Adamstal, Lower Austria.
For the senior professionals on the Staysure Tour, all tournaments have been cancelled (including the Swiss Seniors Open in Bad Ragaz and the US Senior Open) or at least postponed until the end of July. The Senior Open, the European major of the senior professionals, will be played at a not yet fixed later date in autumn. Only the new dates for the Murhof Legends (1 to 3 October; Graz/Austria) and the Senior Italian Open (6 to 8 November; Porto Ecole) are fixed.
On the Alps Tour, the tournaments are postponed or cancelled until mid-August (including the Saint Malo Mixed Open, which is planned jointly with LETAS). From 13 August onwards, there are still eight tournaments on the calendar. The re-start is to take place with the Gösser Open in Maria Lankowitz near Graz.
The Pro Golf Tour will also be suspended until the end of June. Five tournaments will be postponed to a later date in the second half of the year, three have been cancelled altogether, including the tournament in the Netherlands originally planned for August. It is planned to start again on 1 July with the Polish Open in Prusice (Poland).
The Corona break is certainly long on the Ladies European Tour, on which tournament operations have been suspended since mid-March. Play is now only scheduled to resume at the beginning of August with the Evian Championship on the French shore of Lake Geneva.
The LET Access Series will continue a week earlier. There, the Golfuppsala Open in Sweden is scheduled for 23 July.
On the Symetra Tour, the tournament will be played again on July 8th - in Cincinnati (Ohio), where the Prasco Charity Championship is on the program.
Tournament action in Switzerland starts even earlier: the first tournament of the Swiss Pro Series is scheduled for June 15 in Neuchâtel.
