Saleh Ali Al Kaabi and Ali Al Shahrani will lead Qatar’s challenge at the 37th edition of Qatar Open Golf Amateur Championship that begins at the Doha Golf Club (DGC) on Thursday.
Al Kaabi and Al Shahrani are the among the nine Qatari golfers who will lead the home charge in the three-day tournament in which a total of 126 players will be seen in action.
Al Shahrani, who is the only the second Qatari player to win the tournament, will be looking for his second title having won his first one in 2021.
The winner of the amateur event will get a chance to compete in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters 2023 scheduled for October later this year.
The list of golfers includes 77 contestants of different nationalities, who play at different clubs in Qatar while the rest have traveled to Doha to take part in the event.
Apart from a place in Qatar Masters that will be played from October 26 to 29 this year, top 10 players will receive prizes at the conclusion of the tournament.
Launching Qatar Open at a press conference, Qatar Golf Association (QGA) Deputy General-Secretary Eng. Mohammed Ibrahim Al Muhannadi said preparations have been finalised to stage the event.
“We received over 150 entries as many golfers showed keen interest in their participation but we had to restrict field to 126 players. We have given priority to the ones with lower handicaps,” Al Muhannadi told reporters at the Doha Golf Club.
“We expect a close competition in presence of some very good golfers. Some of the amateurs, who participated in the Asian Tour’s International Series Qatar, are also featuring in the tournament. The prospect of Qatar Masters entry always takes the best out of golfers in this event,” he added.
DGC General Manager Gary McGlinchey said the conditions are better for golfers than it was last month when the course staged the first edition of Asian Tour’s International Series Qatar.
“The weather is better than it was in the last event but the course will still be a test for the golfers. We are looking forward to a good action in the weekend,” he said. McGlinchey also spoke about the complimentary messages from top golfers around the world who he said, “find the refurbished Doha Golf Club course ‘tough but fair’.
He expects the Qatar Open Golf Amateur Championship to see top scores of 8 under par as it was during the recent Asian Tour International Series at this course.
Andreas Pfister, General Manager Intercontinental Doha Beach & Spa was also present for the press conference, while Mike Shoueiry, Technical Director at Qatar Golf Association compered the function.
The competing players: Salman Nasser Al Khanji , Abdulrahman Amin Al Gaoud, Tom Sweigart, Ross Mackie, Salah Hamad Al Shaer, Sam Roseman, Stuart Anderson, Varun Muthappa, Samuel Perilla, Anthony Owen, Eirashid Mohamed Hamad, Ajiboye Jacob Bolaji, Jack Tobin, Allard Bijlstra, Khaled Salem Al Aathem, Niclas Bjorkhammer (Swe), Rashid Mohamed, Robert Kidd, Jake Wiltshire, Hamad Salem Al Aathem, Jaham Jassim Al Kuwari, Dinesh Kumar, Seamus McLoughney, Myles Taylor, Kazuyuki Kiriyama,Kevin Powell, Saleh Ali Musbah Al Kaabi, Isa Ebrahim Saad,Matias Camberos, Isak Osman Bisschop, Ali Al Shahrani, Abdul Aziz AlBoainain, Mubarak Essa Al Kuwari, Nasser Yaqoob, Laurent Constanty, Husain Ahmed Salem, Rachid Akl, Andrew Saunder, Rashed Fares Al Qutami, Chris Fowlie, Shinya Shiotsuki, Omar Khalid Hussain, Michael Colclasure, Yaseen Le Falher, Ashley Rawstron, Nemr Saad, Salah Musbah Al Kaabi, Reece Goodyear, Steven Britton, Claes Byberg, Gary Barrowman, Fazal Abdul Kazi, Jonathan Devine, Huw Phillips, Kittisak Sang Orn, Kotaro Hayashi, Omar Mamlouk, Daniel Langfield, Bertrand Dumoulin, Ehsan El Amine, Michael MacDonald, Dean Morris, Daniil Sokolov, James Nash, Kenneth Flynn, Andrew Britton, Mohd Sayeed Al Kuwari, Joe Paleotti, Michael Kennedy, Calum Fitzgerald, Chris De Kock, Jarkko Antero Rantakallio, Stevie Clark, Olivier van Lelyveld, Igor Taraba, Rob Skinner, Nikhil Lakhanpal, Lorenzo Gobet, Yousif Ali Janahi, Mohamed Hamad Al Aathem, David Payne, Waqas Al Bloushi, Mathias Pedersen, Joss Lerwill, Andrew Wilmot, Miller Green, Tej Gangavarapu, Donald Yang, Paul Smith, Greg McClure, Simon Roger Davies, John McGlinchey, Luis Deya, ohammad Sharizal, Yohann Pedder, Eyhab Burki, Isa Abdulla Al Qutami, Ibrahim Mubarak, Tooraj Shadnia, Matias Freije, Abdulrahman Al-Shahrani, Dean Ball, Joe Jones, Abdulaziz Al Muhannadi , Saimie Mohiden, Christian Prambs Jr, Dominic McGlinchey, Sultan Abdullah Al Hakam, Sam Epstein, Winston Agcon, Paul Stewart, Maximillian Parsons, Phill Park, Daniel Lowe, Richard Bolton, Tim Nixon, Chris Corcelles
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