The European Challenge Tour is stopping off at Golf d’Hulencourt this weekend for the Belgian-Dutch round of the category. An essential meeting for many young Belgian pros. The prestigious Hulencourt club is hosting the 2022 edition of the B-NL Challenge Trophy this weekend. “In 2019, together with our Dutch colleagues, we decided to organize a European Challenge Tour tournament every year, alternately in Belgium and the Netherlands. The health crisis forced us to postpone the event twice. last year, it…
The European Challenge Tour is stopping off at Golf d’Hulencourt this weekend for the Belgian-Dutch round of the category. An essential meeting for many young Belgian pros. The prestigious Hulencourt club is hosting the 2022 edition of the B-NL Challenge Trophy this weekend. “In 2019, together with our Dutch colleagues, we decided to organize a European Challenge Tour tournament every year, alternately in Belgium and the Netherlands. The health crisis forced us to postpone the event twice. Last year, it was contested on The Dutch course, near Amsterdam. This time it is up to us to be the host of the event”, sums up Philippe Delhaye, president of the Royal Belgian Federation of golf. The second division of European professional golf, the Challenge Tour’s main purpose is to serve as a springboard to the elite for young players. “This is why we consider it very important that Belgium be present in its calendar in order to help our pros to climb the ladder, continues the president. Need we remind you that the Challenge Tour was an essential passage in the careers of Nicolas Colsaerts, Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry?” Thanks to the Soudal Open in Rinkven and the Mithra Ladies Open in Naxhelet, our small country has twice occupied the limelight on the European stage this year. But these were privately funded tournaments. With the B-NL Challenge, it is the Federation that covers the budget (around 375,000 euros, including 250,000 in prize money). “Our mission is to promote golf from the base to the top, recalls Philippe Delhaye. Thanks to this tournament, 25 national players will be able to compete with their European counterparts in their category. They will score points in the various rankings. And above all , they will gain experience. That’s how we progress…” Belgium has several professional players who aspire to join Pieters, Detry and Colsaerts at the top of the bill. We think in particular of Christopher Mivis, Kristof Ulenaers, Alan De Bondt, Yente Van Doren, Jean de Wouters, James Meyer de Beco or Arnaud Galand. And the Challenge Tour is obviously the fastest way to achieve this goal. Golf d’Hulencourt has pulled out all the stops to host the event! The magnificent course of Vieux-Genappe, dear to its president Patrick Solvay, has been the subject of various phases of renovation in recent years. It is now one of the most qualitative and challenging in the country. And the greenkeepers can be trusted to have it manicured. Spread the word: the show will be there for four days!
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