After a long scarcity, Swiss golf finally has a professional with good prospects: Jeremy Freiburghaus. The 26-year-old Grison will take part in the European Masters in Crans-Montana on Thursday.
Freiburghaus remains on a 2nd place in Stockholm in the Challenge Tour, which brought him 27,500 euros and precious points in the classification of the 2nd division. He is doing everything possible to obtain the right to play next year in the DP World Tour, the main circuit in Europe. The last Swiss to have played in the elite is the Genevan Julien Clément, promoted at the end of 2002 and relegated two years later.
It would take a disaster for Freiburghaus not to be in the top 20 of the Challenge Tour at the end of the year. He is currently in 4th place with a big lead over 20th place. And he will still have opportunities to accumulate points.
Graubünden was therefore able to give up playing on the Challenge Tour this week in order to measure up to the elite in the Valais resort, where the European Masters offers 2 million euros in prize money.
big names
Several big names are among the favorites. There is in particular the Englishman Danny Willett, winner of the US Masters in Augusta in 2016 and winner in Crans-Montana in 2015, the Spanish veteran Miguel Angel Jimenez (winner in 2010) and the Danish twins Rasmus and Nicolai Höjgaard (21 year).
Rasmus Höjgaard is the outgoing winner. He hopes to imitate Matthew Fitzpatrick and the late Severiano Ballesteros, the last two players to win two years in a row in Valais: the Englishman in 2017 and 2018, the Spaniard in 1977 and 1978.
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