The nascent PGA Tour Americas has already begun, the product of the fusion of the old Latin American and Canadian circuits, with the Inter Rapidísimo Golf Championship. The sporting event will take place from today until May 19 on the field of Club El Rincón de Cajicá, north of Bogotá.
(Also read: Eleven Colombians, for the title at the PGA Tour Américas stop in Colombia).
The contest will be attended by 144 players, eleven of them are Colombianswho will bet on achieving victory and, with it, the possibility of moving up in the race towards the highest category of world golf, the PGA TOUR, with a step prior to the Korn Ferry Tour 2025.
Ricardo Celia
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At the head of the group of nationals is none other than el ‘Pipo’ Celia, who comes from being the best national in the Astara Golf Championship of the Korn Ferry Tour last February at the Country Club of Bogotá, also winning in a couple of American Minor Golf League competitions in recent months. In fact, his great present makes him the local hope.
Besides, With the Inter Rapidísimo Golf Championship the best field so far this year arrives in Bogotáled by Canadians Matthew Anderson and Stuart Macdonald, as well as Mexican José de Jesús Rodríguez, current champion of the Colombian Open, leaders of the Fortinet Cup this week.
The Inter Rapidísimo Golf Championship It will be played at 72 holes, at El Rincón de Cajicá, a course designed in the late 1950s by Robert Trent Jones Sr., and will leave the best 60 positions plus ties for the weekend in the race. The champion will receive the highest portion of the $225,000 prize pool.
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