Commercial Bank Qatar Masters will tee off from Thursday
DOHA: The Commercial Bank Qatar Masters 2024, a European tour event, will tee off at the Doha Golf Club from February 8, the organisers announced at a press conference here on Thursday.
The four-day event will feature a 132-player field, populated by many circuit regulars.
Finland’s defending champion Sami Valimaki will not back defend his title this week, but there are a host of past champions in action.
In total there are no fewer than eight players who have held aloft the Mother of Pearl Trophy teeing it up.
2023 Hero Cup players Ewen Ferguson and Antoine Rozner, who won the tournament across back-to-back years in 2022 and 2021 respectively, are joined by Spaniard Jorge Campillo, who has also won the event since the turn of the decade.
Before them, Eddie Pepperell and Wang Jeunghun won in 2018 and 2017 respectively, while Ryder Cup player Chris Wood was a winner in 2013 and Alvaro Quiros celebrated success in 2009.
South African Darren Fichardt, back on the DP World Tour after progressing from the Final Stage of Qualifying School last year, is the oldest past champion having won in 2003.
Since it was founded in 1988, the Qatar Masters has been held at Doha Golf Club on all but two occasions – 2020 and 2021.
The championship course at Doha Golf Club, part of the first wave of grass golf courses to have been built in the Middle East, measures in at 7,475 yards and features a double green on the par five ninth and 18th holes.
