The Foshan Open is a golf tournament on the
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and, as with on the main European Tour and the European Senior Tour, some of the events are played outside Europe.
History
The ...
. It was played for the first time in October 2013 at the Foshan Golf Club in
Foshan
Foshan (, ), alternately romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It is co-sanctioned by the China Golf Association. Since 2017, it has been part of the
China Tour
The China Tour is a China-based men's professional golf tours, professional golf tour run by the China Golf Association. An earlier tour, the Omega China Tour, ran from 2004 to 2009.
From 2014 to 2016 the tour was organised with the PGA Tour Chin ...
.
Nacho Elvira
Ignacio "Nacho" Elvira Mijares (born 17 February 1987) is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.
Amateur career
Elvira played college golf at Texas A&M University where he won one event and was a two-time All-American.
Pr ...
of Spain won the inaugural event.
Winners
Notes
References
External links
Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site
Former Challenge Tour events
Golf tournaments in China
Recurring sporting events established in 2013
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