The Big Green Egg German Challenge is a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
tournament on the
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour, currently titled as the HotelPlanner Tour for sponsorship reasons and also sometimes referred to as the European Challenge Tour, is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European To ...
held at Wittelsbacher Golf Club in
Neuburg an der Donau
Neuburg an der Donau (Central Bavarian: ''Neiburg an da Donau'') is a town which is the capital of the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany.
Divisions
The municipality has 16 divisions:
* Altmannstetten
* Bergen, N ...
,
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...
, Germany.
Title sponsor
Big Green Egg
The Big Green Egg, Inc is an American privately held producer and manufacturer of kamado-style ceramic charcoal barbecue cookers and related accessories. The company is primarily known for producing The Big Green Egg, a line of various kamado gri ...
signed a sponsorship agreement for the German Challenge through 2023.
History
In the inaugural tournament,
Ángel Hidalgo
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Ángel Hidalgo Portillo (born 28 April 1998) is a Spanish professional golfer and European Tour player. He won the 2024 Acciona Open de España for his first DP World Tour title. He won the 2021 German Challenge on the Challenge Tour.
Amateu ...
of Spain claimed his maiden Challenge Tour title by posting four consecutive rounds of 68, defying the odds after receiving a last-minute invite.
Fellow Spaniard
Alejandro del Rey won the following year, beating
Mateusz Gradecki with a birdie at the second extra playoff hole.
Italian golfer
Francesco Laporta
Francesco Laporta (born 10 October 1990) is an Italian professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He won two tournaments on the 2019 Challenge Tour.
Amateur career
Laporta started playing as a 13-year old at the San Domenico Golf in B ...
won the
2023
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edition, shooting even par in the final round to hang on and win by one stroke over four others.
Winners
References
External links
Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site*https://german-challenge.de/live-scoring
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Challenge Tour events
Golf tournaments in Germany