Dubai (Union)
The activities of the second edition of the AVIV Dubai Golf Championship will start tomorrow, Thursday, at the Fire Course in Jumeirah Golf Estates, and the tournament will continue until November 14, with the participation of a group of the best golf players throughout the current season of the European Tour, who will compete to win prizes worth $ 1.5 million An American, in the tournament that constitutes the penultimate stop before the huge event, which is the “DB World Championship”, the final tournament of the season, which will be held this week in the same club on the ground.
The list of participating players includes the presence of the French Antoine Rosner, the holder of the championship title, which was called the “Golf in Dubai” championship presented by DP World, as well as the English Tommy Fleetwood, the German professional player Martin Kaymer, and the veteran English golfer Paul Casey, ranked 24th in the world, In addition to the captain of the European Rider team, Padrich Harrington, and the Austrian player Bernd Weisberger, among others.
Ahmed Skaik, representing the UAE players, will participate in the tournament, and he will strike the opening blow of the tournament in the player’s third participation in the European Tour tournaments, after his participation last year in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship and the Dubai Golf Championship, where the rising star is enjoying a career full of achievements in the sport Golf, which includes winning the 2020 President’s Cup, in addition to being honored as the best Gulf player in the Asian Pacific Amateur Championships due to his exceptional performance recently during the tournament.
Skaik expressed his aspiration to participate in the tournament, and said: I am honored to be invited to participate in the European Tour competitions, and to represent my country, the UAE, during the exceptional period that the country is witnessing, coinciding with the fiftieth year celebrations, and I am very grateful for this opportunity to participate in this tournament, which came as a result of the performance I did a great job at the Asia Pacific Amateur Championships, and I look forward to continuing my career and doing my best this week.
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