{"id":131449,"date":"2022-11-08T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/?p=131449"},"modified":"2022-11-08T00:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:48:57","slug":"challenge-tour-the-rolex-challenge-tour-grand-final-to-return-to-club-golf-alcanada-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/challenge-tour-the-rolex-challenge-tour-grand-final-to-return-to-club-golf-alcanada-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Tour &#8211; The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final to return to Club de Golf Alcanada in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Club-de-Golf-Alcanada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Club-de-Golf-Alcanada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hundreds-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/mygolfway\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Club-de-Golf-Alcanada.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hundreds-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/mygolfway\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Club-de-Golf-Alcanada-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>November 8, 2022 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>The <strong>Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final supported by The R&amp;A<\/strong> will again take place at <strong>Club de Golf Alcanada<\/strong> when the <strong>Road to Mallorca<\/strong> finale returns to the Balearic island in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Alc\u00fadia venue hosted the end-of-season showpiece for the second time last week, after a successful staging in 2019, and the <strong>European Challenge Tour<\/strong> has selected the picturesque layout to take on hosting duties once again next year in the first of an extended four-year agreement with the <strong>Federaci\u00f3n Balear de Golf<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Club de Golf Alcanada<\/strong>, named after the nearby island which is home to the area\u2019s iconic lighthouse, was designed by legendary course architect R<strong>obert Trent Jones Jr<\/strong> and opened for play in 2003. Rated by many as the best golf course in Mallorca, Alcanada boasts world-class practice facilities and first-rate amenities, including the island\u2019s only Toptracer-equipped driving range.<\/p>\n<p>The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final sees the top 45 on the Road to Mallorca Rankings battle it out for one of 20 life-changing DP World Tour cards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Chris Atkinson<\/strong>, Championship Director of the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final, said: <em>\u201cWe are delighted to announce The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final supported by The R&amp;A will return to Club de Golf Alcanada next year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe loved our first visit here in 2019 and we have enjoyed working alongside Kristoff Both and his team during this year\u2019s event, which was a great success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy thanks go to Kristoff, Mr Hans-Peter Porsche, Borja Azpilicueta and all the staff and volunteers at Club de Golf Alcanada, as well as Rolex, The R&amp;A, all our sponsors, and, of course, Dino Jaume and the Federaci\u00f3n Balear de Golf for their continued support of the Grand Final and the Road to Mallorca.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kristoff Both<\/strong>, Director of Golf at Club de Golf Alcanada, said: <em>\u201cAfter a successful maiden year in 2019, we have been very happy to host The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final for a second time this year and are now extremely excited to be able to say we will see this fantastic event back at Alcanada in 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs the culmination of an entire season of golf with so much at stake, it\u2019s such an exciting event, and it brings a great sense of excitement to Alcanada and the area of Alc\u00fadia.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bernardino Jaume<\/strong>, President of the Federaci\u00f3n Balear de Golf, said: <em>\u201cWe are delighted that Club de Golf Alcanada will once again host the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final as we enter this new stage of our partnership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSince the first edition we have counted on their support and we are very grateful to Mr. Hans-Peter Porsche and all the Alcanada staff for supporting the Road to Mallorca.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want to thank everyone for the help and willingness shown to us in hosting the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final. Local administrations are a decisive part of this event and Balearic Government (AETIB) and the Consell de Mallorca (Fundaci\u00f3 Mallorca Turisme) have been magnificent in offering their support.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are also very grateful to the Real Federaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Golf, and of course to the Challenge Tour for the confidence in the Balearic Golf Federation to bring such an important event to Mallorca.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 2022 &#8211;\u00a0The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final supported by The R&amp;A will again take place at Club de Golf Alcanada when the Road to Mallorca finale returns to the Balearic island in 2023. The Alc\u00fadia venue hosted the end-of-season showpiece for the second time last week, after a successful staging in 2019, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":131348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2205],"class_list":["post-131449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenge-tour"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}