LOISIRS EXCLUSIFS
No other sport can boast of exalting a country’s beauty in the way
that golf does! And there can be no more attractive destination
than Mauritius for anyone setting out to welcome golf enthusiasts!
These two assertions were more than enough to provide the
spur for the organisation of an unprecedented golfing event of
international dimension on the 12-course island.
The organisation of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open (ABMO)
golf tournament was officially announced in 2014. The first ever
golf tournament in the world to be tri-sanctioned by the Asian,
European and Sunshine Tours, the present edition will be hosted
by the Four Seasons Golf Club Mauritius at Anahita, following
the first edition held at the Heritage Golf Club.
With a prize fund of one million euros, this global scale
tournament has its results featuring on the Orders of Merit and
Official World Ranking Points, Race to Dubai and Chase to
the Investec Cup. All local stakeholders, as well as international
professional golfers and officials were, since the launching of the
competition, aware that the competition positioned itself as one
of the world’s best.
The first edition, held from 7 to 10 May 2015, had brought
together 138 golfers, from the three different tours, at the Heritage
Golf Club, in Bel Ombre, for a 72-hole championship based on
the stroke play formula. On this course, ranked by CNN as one
of the top 10 in Africa, the competition was intense, and it was
finally the South African George Coetzee who majesti 6