The Andalucía Costa del Sol Match Play 9 was 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
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, played in Spain. It was a mixed stroke-play and match-play event, broadly similar to the
World Super 6 Perth, the main difference being that the match-play matches were over 9 holes rather than 6.
Aaron Rai
Aaron Rai (born 3 March 1995) is an English professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has won twice on the European Tour; the 2018 Honma Hong Kong Open and the 2020 Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open, and ...
won the inaugural tournament, beating
Gavin Moynihan
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Gavin Moynihan (born 17 September 1994) is an Irish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. Partnered with Paul Dunne, they won the 2018 GolfSixes.
Amateur career
Moynihan had a successful amateur career winning the Irish Amateur ...
in the final. The inaugural event was held at La Cala Resort before moving to Valle Romano Golf in 2018 and 2019.
Format
The event started with 36 hole of
stroke play
Stroke play is a scoring system in the sport of golf. In the regular form of stroke play, also known as medal play, the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In a regular stroke play competition, the winner is the ...
over two days. In 2017, the leading 32 players qualified for the
match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 h ...
stage. There was a sudden-death playoff for those tying for 32nd place. Seedings were based on a countback system, so that where players were equal, those having the better second round were seeded higher. There were then five match play rounds, two on the third day and three on the final day, all matches being over 9 holes with a sudden-death playoff if required. There were a number of other matches for the minor places. In 2018 the number of qualifiers for the match play stage was increased to 64 with three rounds on both the third and final days.
Winners
References
External links
Coverage on La Cala Resort site
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Former Challenge Tour events
Golf tournaments in Spain