The ultimate week of {the golfing} calendar has arrived, marking the top of the primary wave of occasions for the 2024 season with the DP World Tour. The placement is nothing lower than spectacular, having simply concluded the primary spherical of the AfrAsia Financial institution-sponsored Mauritius Open.

Frenchman Antoine Rozner leads the pack after the primary 18 holes with a formidable rating of -10 (62 strokes), holding a one-shot lead over England’s Paul Waring, who sits at -9.

Antoine Rozner, outcomes

Taking part in on the gorgeous La Réserve Golf Hyperlinks course inside the huge expanse of the Heritage Golf Membership, Rozner is vying to defend his title from final 12 months, albeit on a distinct course.

As we speak, the Frenchman found an instantaneous reference to the course, rising stronger with every gap, leading to two bogeys, ten birdies, and an eagle on the eighteenth. Waring intently trails in second place with a formidable bogey-free spherical, holding robust at -9.

It is a two-shot distinction to land on the present third-placed contender, South African Jayden Schaper, who lingers at -7.

4 golfers are actually tied in fourth place at -6: American Dan Erickson, South Africans Darren Fichardt, Lyle Rowe, and Englishman Laurie Canter.

The highest-10 is then accomplished by seven golfers with a rating of -5 in a joint eighth place: South Africans Pieter Moolman, Casey Jarvis and Joco Prinsloo, Dutchman Lars Van Meijel, German Marcel Schneider and the primary of the 4 Italians on the course: Matteo Manassero.

Manassero is experiencing a fully standout finish to 2023, making him a powerful contender for subsequent 12 months’s revelation.

After a tough begin with bogeys, the Italian put collectively a incredible 67. From that second on, he dramatically elevated the extent of his sport, scoring 5 birdies and an eagle. There have been many high-quality photographs from the Italian, however his shot on the fifteenth is value telling.

Manassero demonstrated his expertise and sophistication by sinking a incredible strategy shot for birdie. It required an unbelievable quantity of talent and creativeness to make the ball climb up the hillside subsequent to the flag, nearly coming to a cease, earlier than taking the slope and rolling again down in direction of the middle of the opening.

On the whole, all Italians made a good displaying on the golf course, with Andrea Pavan and Renato Paratore among the many group of golfers tied for sixteenth place at -4.

A large crowd of twenty-one gamers makes up this group. Sadly, Guido Migliozzi had a difficult day and at present sits in 108th place with a complete rating of +1 (73). To make the reduce tomorrow, Migliozzi might want to pull off one among his exceptional rounds.