FASANO – L\u2019Italian Pro Tour di golf presented by Buccellati fa tappa in Puglia per il Sergio Melpignano Senior Italian Open, torneo dello Staysure Legends Tour, che vede i campioni \u201cover 50\u201d sfidarsi al San Domenico Golf di Savelletri di Fasano (Brindisi) da gioved\u00ec 22 ottobre a sabato 24, poi i quattro giorni di spettacolo si concluderanno domenica con la Pro Am. Il torneo si svolge sulla distanza di 54 buche, 18 al giorno, senza taglio. Il montepremi \u00e8 di 450.000 euro. \u00c8 la quinta volta che il circolo pugliese ospita l\u2019Open nazionale delle \u201cleggende\u201d, giunto alla 15\u00aa edizione, dopo essere stato il teatro di gioco nel 2021, 2023, 2024 e 2025. La manifestazione si svolge nel nome e in memoria di Sergio Melpignano, fondatore del San Domenico Golf, che, inaugurato nel 2003, ha dato ulteriore impulso allo sviluppo della regione e si \u00e8 subito affermato come scenario di importanti e prestigiosi tornei. Il Sergio Melpignano Senior Italian Open \u00e8 il quinto dei sei eventi stagionali dell\u2019Italian Pro Tour presented by Buccellati, il circuito delle gare nazionali e internazionali organizzato dalla Federazione Italiana Golf, con la collaborazione del Ministro per lo Sport e i Giovani e con il supporto dell\u2019Official Advisor Infront Italy.<\/p>\n
Stephen Gallacher, No. 1 on the circuit, leads the field<\/strong> \u2013 The Staysure Legends Tour stars will be teeing off in Puglia, including seven of the top ten, four season winners, and four past winners. The Scottish player attracting attention ahead of the tournament is: Stephen Gallacher<\/strong>, number one in the ranking, his compatriot David Drysdale<\/strong> (n. 10), English Peter Baker<\/strong> (n. 7) and those who climbed to the top step of the podium, the Swedes Johan Edfors<\/strong> (n. 2, the only one with two successes) and Mikael Lundberg<\/strong> (n. 3) and the English Greg Owen<\/strong> (n. 5) and Simon Griffiths<\/strong> (n. 8). The Brazilian is also worth following. Adilson Da Silva<\/strong>, the Welsh Bradley Dredge<\/strong>, the South African Keith Horne<\/strong>, the Austrian Markus Brier<\/strong>, the New Zealander Mark Brown<\/strong> and the English Matthew Cort<\/strong>, Andrew Raitt<\/strong> e David Howell<\/strong>, the latter holding the record for appearances on the DP World Tour with 726 appearances.<\/p>\n Past winners<\/strong> \u2013 The Englishman defends his only title on the circuit, in a season that has been up and down for him. Andrew Marshall<\/strong>, 53 years old from Sutton-in-Ashfield, whose palmar\u00e8s includes two successes on the PGA EuroPro Tour and as many on the MENA Golf Tour. In the field three other players who have scored in previous years: the German Thomas G\u00f6gele<\/strong> (2024) and two authors of a double, the American Clark Dennis<\/strong> (2017, 2018) and the South African James Kingston<\/strong> (2021, 2023).<\/p>\n Five Italians in the race <\/strong>\u2013 There will be five Italians on the starting tee: Costantino Rocca, Emanuele Canonica, Alessandro Tadini, Michele Reale and Gianluca Pietrobono. Constantine Rocca<\/strong> (69 years old from Bergamo) is an iconic figure in Italian golf: he was the first Italian to compete in the Ryder Cup in 1993, also playing for Team Europe in the victorious editions of 1995 and 1997. In his 501 appearances on the European Tour he has collected five titles and in his first season on the Senior Tour, in 2007, he won two tournaments. Emanuele Canonica<\/strong> (Piedmontese from Moncalieri, born in 1971) won the 2005 Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles. He held the European Tour Driving Distance Record for three consecutive years, from 1998 to 2000, and in 2009 he won the contest held on the runway at Castellon Airport in Spain (904 yards with a drive). Canonica is having a very positive season on the circuit, as evidenced by his four top-ten finishes. Currently 15th in the rankings, he aims to maintain the full berth that will be awarded to the top 20 in the final rankings. They will bring all their international experience to the table. Alessandro Tadini<\/strong> (Piedmontese from Borgomanero, born in 1973, has 230 tournaments under his belt on the European Tour and four titles on the Challenge Tour), Gianluca Pietrobono<\/strong> (Roman, 58 years old, over 200 races between European Tour, Challenge Tour and Alps Tour) and Michael Royal <\/strong>(from Biella, Piedmont, 55 years old), who in 1997 raised two Challenge Tour trophies to the sky, finishing first in the order of merit.<\/p>\n \u201c"Legends Experience": Fabio Fognini and Ruud Gullit also on the green <\/strong>\u2013 In addition to the tournament rankings valid for the Staysure Legends Tour, 22 amateurs will also take to the field at San Domenico Golf, competing in a separate ranking as part of the "Legends Experience." Among them will be the former tennis player Fabio Fognini<\/strong> and former footballers Ruud Gullit<\/strong>, Roberto Donadoni<\/strong>, Mauro Tassotti <\/strong>e Michael Paramatti<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FASANO – L\u2019Italian Pro Tour di golf presented by Buccellati fa tappa in Puglia per il Sergio Melpignano Senior Italian Open, torneo dello Staysure Legends Tour, che vede i campioni \u201cover 50\u201d sfidarsi al San Domenico Golf di Savelletri di Fasano (Brindisi) da gioved\u00ec 22 ottobre a sabato 24, poi i quattro giorni di spettacolo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[3702],"tags":[8153,8162,8159,8154,8142,3385,8147,8160,8161,8165,3386,8164,8151,4667,8149,8155,8157,8156,8158,2037,8168,8163,8150,8148,8167,8166,8145,8143,8152,8144,8146],"ppma_author":[787],"class_list":["post-126479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","tag-adilson-da-silva","tag-alessandro-tadini","tag-andrew-raitt","tag-bradley-dredge","tag-buccellati","tag-costantino-rocca","tag-david-drysdale","tag-david-howell","tag-emanuele-canonica","tag-fabio-fognini","tag-federazione-italiana-golf","tag-gianluca-pietrobono","tag-greg-owen","tag-italian-pro-tour","tag-johan-edfors","tag-keith-horne","tag-mark-brown","tag-markus-brier","tag-matthew-cort","tag-mauro-tassotti","tag-michele-paramatti","tag-michele-reale","tag-mikael-lundberg","tag-peter-baker","tag-roberto-donadoni","tag-ruud-gullit","tag-san-domenico-golf","tag-sergio-melpignano-senior-italian-open","tag-simon-griffiths","tag-staysure-legende-tour","tag-stephen-gallacher"],"relative_dates":{"created":"7 minutes ago","modified":"7 minutes ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":787,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"primapress","display_name":"RED-CENTRALE","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","author_category":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126481,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126479\/revisions\/126481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=126479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}