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Panama is once again the capital of the best golf

He Goal clubf of Cerro Viento hosts the Panama Championship, a prestigious tournament that gathers golf figures, the ultimate goal of which is to obtain a PGA card.

Panama is once again the capital of the best golf in the region, celebrating its twentieth edition “Championship of Panama”he revealed Alvaro Tapiand, president of the Panama Golf Club.

Traditionally, Panama Golf Club is one of the most difficult courses in the country. Korn ferry tour and now 114 golfers have a great challenge to do their best and impose their style of play.

It fit Carlos Sacre and Roberto Durán, directors Championship of Panamatee off to inaugurate the maximum golf tournament in the Panama which divides a million dollars.

The difficulty of this course was evident in 2023, when American Pierceson Cody claimed the title with a final card of 3-under par 277 to tie the fourth-highest over-par score for a winner in history Korn ferry tour.

It is worth mentioning that the course, which underwent certain adjustments for this tournament, was number one among the most difficult courses on the Tour five times (2004, 2008, 2009, 2019, 2023).

He Panama Golf Club andIt is a course designed by Jay Riviere and Charles Schaeffer, is a par 70 and measures 7,534 yards.

The champions meet in Panama
For the 2024 tournament, among the 144 players, the presence of two former champions Panama Championship, They are American Ryan Armor (2016) and Canadian Michael Gligic (2019).

It is Armor who is an old acquaintance in this tournament, in 2011 he shot the lowest round of the championship, in his second round he hit 61 shots, i.e. -9 below the field parameter set at 70.

So much Armor like Gligić will try to repeat the feat achieved by Matthew Goggin, who won the Panama Golf Championship twice (2011 and 2015).

Apart from these two champions, for this station from Korn ferry tour South African Aldrich Potgieter, 19, who just won the season’s second tournament, the Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club, and Germany’s Jeremy Paul, winner – two weeks ago – of the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay, the season-opening tournament, will be in attendance. in 2024

Source: Panama America

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