Joost Luiten 22/1 © Volvo China Open, Richard Castka/Sportpixgolf.com
The European Tour is back this week and heads to mainland Europe and home to the first European Tour event to be played after last years lockdown back in July last year, the newly named Austrian Golf Open will once again be played at the very familiar Diamond Country Club.
The 7,053 yards, par 72 course was designed by English architect Jeremy Pern, the once Vice President of the British Institute of Golf Course Architects. Opened in 2002, the Diamond course features water hazards on seventeen of the 18 holes, including the 192-yard 11th and 159-yard 15th par 3s, where both tee shots are played to island greens. If you manage to negotiate all of that, then you only have the 457-yard par 4 18th to complete, with water on the left of the fairway and out-of-bounds on the right!
