Joost Luiten is feeling good ahead of return this week for the first European-based event on the 2021 Race to Dubai, the Austrian Golf Open.
Joost Luiten, statements“I’m feeling good, the game is good. I had two weeks off, I’ve been practicing at home. I’m feeling ready to go this week. I’m using the practice days to get used to the conditions, it’s a bit nippy today. For some reason I like this course, it just suits my eye. You’ve got to hit the ball well, you’ve got to hit the greens so if I can play my game I know I can play well on this golf course and I know I can win on this golf course. It always helps when you’ve won in the past, you always go to that venue with a little bit more confidence and hopefully I can bring out on to the golf course this week. My game is always about consistency, hitting fairways and hitting greens and if I can putt well then I should be up there on Sunday which happened a couple of times. I couldn’t finish it last year but I think I’m very consistent with the ball-striking and if that’s there every week you’re never going to be far off scorewise".
“It will be interesting to see how the golf course will play this year because it’s something different playing so early in the season compared to playing normally in the summertime. We had some cold days back home, so I had some good practice but it’s also new for us, we don’t know what to expect from the course. It will play a lot longer I think but I think there will be a little bit less rough than in the summertime because it hasn’t been growing that much. That’s the little things we’ll find out in the practice rounds and I think the scoring will definitely be a little bit higher than normal because it’s going to be cold, the ball’s not going to go anywhere. I think you just need to accept that and play different numbers with your clubs and if you can really trust how far the ball is going then you should be able to do well".
The European Tour will return to Belgium in 2022 with the announcement of the Soudal Open, which will take place at The Rinkven International Golf Club in Schilde, near Antwerp.
Golazo, the organiser of the event, Rinkven International Golf Club, Soudal, a leading producer of Sealants, Adhesives and PU foams, and the Royal Belgian Golf Federation are delighted to announce the return of Belgium’s national Open next year.
With a prize fund of €1 million, the Soudal Open will be held in May or June 2022 (exact dates to be confirmed) at The Rinkven International Golf Club in Schilde, near Antwerp. The tournament will be played over four days in a 72-hole strokeplay format with 156 players and a cut after the second round. A pro-am competition will be held on the Wednesday of the tournament week.
The three-year partnership with Soudal, revives the tradition of Belgium’s national Open which spans more than a century. First played in 1910 at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium, the Belgian Open became part of the European Tour schedule in 1978 following the Tour’s inception six years earlier and it was last held as a strokeplay event at Royal Zoute Golf Club in 2000. It was then reborn in 2018 as the Belgian Knockout, an innovative format combining strokeplay followed by matchplay, which was staged for two years at Rinkven International Golf Club.
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