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Volvo Golf Champions

Volvo Golf Champions

Date: 2013-11-22
A True Tournament of Champions

Volvo is one of the world's leading companies with hallmarks that include innovation and first-class quality. Reflecting both of these strong attributes, the Volvo Golf Champions was launched in 2011 as the first-ever true tournament of champions on the European Tour. Next year the event returns to the Durban Country Club, the 9-12 January.

The event serves as the curtain-raiser to the year-long, multinational golfing circuit and features an elite field of proven winners. Entry is restricted to those who have either won a Tour event on the 2013 European Tour's schedule or who are long-term champions who have won ten or more titles during their career. As such, it features those who are in form and emerging onto the world's stage, as well as some of golf's most popular, well-known and established stars.

Since it is a limited and exclusive field with many of the world's finest golfers, no halfway cut is necessary. All of the stars are therefore on view to the television cameras and visiting crowds on each of the four days of the event.

On the second day, Friday, the Volvo Golf Champions joins forces for one round with the Volvo World Golf Challenge, one of the world's leading corporate events. In this, the best-placed finishers from the seventy or so world finalists team up with two of the Professionals to form a team of three. This event is known as Playing With The Pros and is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that offers the most thrilling prize for club golfers from around the world. Whilst the Pros continue to compete in their individual stroke play format, the amateurs play alongside them with the best two scores of the three on each hole counting for the team.

For such a young tournament, the Volvo Golf Champions is already establishing itself and has provided much entertainment. At the inaugural event in 2011, England's Paul Casey managed a one-shot victory over Ryder Cup Vice-Captain Miguel çngel Jiménez and Swedish star Peter Hanson. In 2012, young Branden Grace kick-started his career with a great victory over his own golfing heroes, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen. Last year, an exciting finish saw another great South African, Loius Oosthuizen, take the honours.

As the 2014 Volvo Golf Champions makes a return to the beautiful Durban Country Club, competition is sure to be stronger than ever with a very impressive list of players having qualified throughout the year.
As a season-opening event played in a warm, sunny and beautiful location, the Volvo Golf Champions is popular with the players, with the crowds, and with the world's media. Played in a competitive manner but with an element of fun and the overlap with the Volvo World Golf Challenge, this prestigious and exciting golf tournament continues to grow and grow.

For more information about the event and the field, please visit https://www.volvoingolf.com