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The inaugural edition of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, the first official event co-sanctioned by the European, Asian and South African Tours, will be played this week.<\/p>\nThe inaugural edition of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, the first official event co-sanctioned by the European, Asian and South African Tours, will be played this week.<\/p>\n
Leading the European contingent is Denmark\u2019s Thomas Bj\u00f8rn, holder of 21 wins worldwide, most recently in South Africa last season. The Great Dane, will face two winners of the 2015 season: Thailand\u2019s Kiradech Aphibarnrat and South Africa\u2019s George Coetzee. <\/span><\/p>\n Aphibarnrat arrives in Mauritius ninth in the Race to Dubai after his victory last month at the Shenzhen International.<\/span><\/p>\n Coetzee won his second European Tour title at the Tshwane Open in March. Last week he returned to competition at the WGC \u2013 Cadillac Match Play after a month\u2019s break. <\/span><\/p>\n Another player making his comeback this week is Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen. After winning his second tour title at the Perth International in October, he had to undergo surgery for a hamstring injury in his left hand. The recovery has been slower than expected, and the Dane is hungry for competition. <\/span><\/p>\n Nine Spaniards are competing in Mauritius this week: Javier Colomo, Jordi Garc\u00eda Pinto, Pablo Mart\u00edn Benavides, Carlos del Moral, Pedro Oriol, Carlos Pigem, Eduardo de la Riva, \u00c1lvaro Velasco and Borja Virto.<\/p>\n A total of 132 players are participating: 40 from each of the three circuits, plus 12 guests. The venue is the Heritage Golf Club, shown in the picture. <\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The inaugural edition of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, the first official event co-sanctioned by the European, Asian and South African Tours, will be played this week. Leading the European contingent is Denmark\u2019s Thomas Bj\u00f8rn, holder of 21 wins worldwide, most recently in South Africa last season. The Great Dane, will face two winners of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The \u20ac1 million prize money is the largest ever given in a golf tournament in Mauritius.<\/span><\/div>\n