The European Challenge Tour heads to Florence for the second Mugello Tuscany Open, which marks the first of four visits to Italy this season.
The €150,000 event will be played at the acclaimed UNA Poggio dei Medici Golf Club, which is set in the beautiful Mugello region in the heart of Tuscany and affords unrivalled views of the surrounding landscape.
The 7,114 yard (6,503 metres), par 71 Championship Course, which hosted the Ladies Italian Open between 1999 and 2003, was co-designed by Italian architect Alvise Rossi Fioravanti and European Tour champion Baldovino Dassù.
Dassù was a regular competitor on The European Tour in the 1970s and 1980s and a winner of two Tour titles in 1976, the second of which came at the Italian Open, where he beat England’s Carl Mason and Spaniard Manuel Piñero – both now fellow European Senior Tour Members – by eight shots. Prior to that, he defeated former US PGA Champion Hubert Green by a single shot at the Dunlop Masters at St Pierre in Chepstow, England.
Last year Floris de Vries won the title, edging out Thorbjorn Olesen, who carded a final round 64, in a play-off after the pair finished ten under par. Both players went on the graduate to The European Tour, finishing fourth and third respectively in the Challenge Tour Rankings.
The other three Challenge Tour events to be played in Italy this season are the Acaya Golf Challenge in Lecce, Puglia, from July 7 - 10, the Roma Golf Open at Olgiata Golf CLub from October 13 - 16 and the Apulia San Domenico Grand Final at San Domenico Golf club from November 2 - 5.
