Emanuele Canonica will try to carve out a place for himself among the protagonists in the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship hosted by Colin Montgomerie, a Legends Tour event scheduled from 1st to 4th August on the Trump International Golf Links course, in Balmedie, near Aberdeen in Scotland, designed by Martin Hawtree and opened in 2012.
Legends Tour, schedule
Among the favourites are the Englishman Peter Baker, number 2 in the order of merit, the Brazilian Adilson Da Silva (no. 5), the American Clark Dennis (no. 6) and the Swede Jarmo Sandelin (no. 11), all winners in 2024, the Argentine Ricardo Gonzalez, the Spaniard Miguel Angel Martin, the Swede Patrick Sjoland, the Englishman Phillip Archer and the Scots Greig Hutcheon and Euan McIntosh.
Also in the field are winners of Majors in the part of their career before landing among the “over 50s”: Welshman Ian Woosnam, Spanish José Maria Olazabal, Scotsman Paul Lawrie, New Zealander Michael Campbell and Americans Shaun Micheel and John Daly.
Canonica is having a good season, placing three times in the top twenty with a best result of 11th place in the Swiss Seniors Open. As for the Legends Tour, this year it will touch 17 different countries in a year with nine new events and a record prize pool of 18 million euros.
The Legends Tour, formerly known as the Women’s Senior Golf Tour, is a professional golf tour for women over the age of 45. The tour was founded in 2000 by the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). Since its founding, the tour has been organized by the LPGA.
It is similar to the Champions Tour, a golf tour for men over the age of 50. All golf tournaments on the Legends Tour take place in the United States.
In 2000, the tour was founded as the Women’s Senior Golf Tour until it was renamed the Legends Tour in 2006.
In 2000, the first golf season began and there were two golf tournaments on the calendar. From 2001 to 2006, 16 golf tournaments were organized. Since 2006, the Legends Tour has organized a team golf tournament called the Handa Cup.
It is a team competition between American female golfers and female golfers outside the United States. It is similar to the Solheim Cup, a team competition between American and European female golfers. In 2009, the Legends Tour founded the Legends Tour Open Championship and it was the only “Major” of this golf tour until 2013.