The Monte Carlo Invitational was a senior (over 50s) men's professional
golf tournament
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
on the
European Senior Tour. It was played from 1998 to 2002 at the Monte Carlo Golf Club,
La Turbie,
Alpes-Maritimes
Alpes-Maritimes (; ; ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the France–Italy border, Italian border and Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'A ...
, France. The course is near
Mont Agel
Mont Agel is a mountain in the Maritime Alps on the border between France and Monaco. The summit of this mount, at above sea level, is on the French side, but the highpoint of Monaco, lying on a pathway named Chemin des Révoires, is on its slo ...
, in France, as there are no golf courses in
Monaco
Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a Sovereign state, sovereign city-state and European microstates, microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Regions of Italy, Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, ...
. The
Monte Carlo Open was played at the same venue from 1984 to 1992.
The 2001 event, scheduled for 14–16 September, was cancelled because of the
September 11 terrorist attacks
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...
.
Winners
References
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
Former European Senior Tour events
Defunct golf tournaments in France
Golf in Monaco
Recurring sporting events established in 1999
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2002
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