There’s more to this week’s Irish Challenge than Ireland’s competing stars and we’ve selected four from foreign shores to keep an eye on, as well as our local lads of course!
Stuart Manley
Road to Ras Al Khaimah: 4th
- 13 top-30 finishes on the European Challenge Tour from 19 tournaments this year with only four missed cuts.
- Won his second Challenge Tour title of his career at the Hauts de France Golf Open, five years after winning his first.
- Several seasons spent between the Challenge Tour and the European Tour, where he has two runner-up results at the 2017 Joburg Open and the Hong Kong Open at the start of the 2014 season.
Liam Johnston
Road to Ras Al Khaimah: 5th
- He won his first European Challenge Tour title at the Andalucía Costa del Sol Match Play 9, beating fellow Scot and close friend Grant Forrest by one hole.
- Played the inaugural European Golf Team Championships at Gleneagles in August and won the Mixed Team silver medal alongside Meghan MacLaren, Connor Syme and Michele Thomson.
- Claimed his second Challenge Tour title of the season at the lucrative Kazakhstan Open
Pedro Figueiredo
Road to Ras Al Khaimah: 12th
- He won his first Challenge Tour title at the KPMG Trophy in June on the first extra play-off hole after rounds of 63-68-67-64.
- Has made 16 cuts from his 18 Challenge Tour tournaments this season, including five top-10 results.
- In 2008, he won the Boys Amateur Championship and Irish Amateur Open Championship.
Oliver Wilson
Road to Ras Al Khaimah: 38th
- The Englishman claimed his first Challenge Tour title at the Robert Karlsson hosted Swedish Challenge in August after a long barren spell on the fairways.
- Played in the defeated 2008 European Ryder Cup team at Valhalla where he lost out to Boo Weekley in his Sunday singles match.
- Won the biggest prize of his career when he claimed the €625,787 winner’s cheque at the 2014 Alfred Dunhill Links.
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