Oman’s leading amateur golfer, Azaan Al Rumhy, has welcomed the announcement of the firstever National Bank of Oman (NBO) Amateur Final, to be played alongside the European Challenge Tour’s NBO Golf Classic Grand Final set to take place at Almouj Golf in Muscat in the first week of November.
The NBO Amateur Final will take place during the last two days of the Challenge Tour’s season-ending championship, where the leading 45 players compete. The NBO Amateur Final will run in parallel over 36 holes on the Friday and Saturday.
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In the previous two years of the National Bank of Oman Golf Classic, the tournament included an amateur competition for players around the Middle East and several Omani amateurs participated.
And Al Rumhy said: “It was a wonderful experience for me and the other Omani amateurs to play with the European Challenge Tour stars for the last two years, but I appreciate that in hosting the Grand Final the event can no longer be played in the same format."
“It is a credit to the National Bank of Oman and to the Sultanate to have been chosen to host the Grand Final of the Challenge Tour season and we all understand that the publicity that the country, the sponsors and Almouj Golf will receive.
“This is good news for Oman’s amateurs and it will provide a great incentive for them to practice and improve their game in an effort to get into the Omani-only NBO Amateur Final.”