Rolex Trophy Switzerland

I just finished up the week in Geneva, Switzerland. It was a very fun week as it was a limited field, only the top 40 on the Order of Merit were invited. I arrived to Geneva Monday morning at 7:30. The event started on Wednesday. I had a couple days to catch up on jet lag and a few days to get some practice on the course. We played at Geneva Country Club, a very nice course built in the middle of the city! To say the least a very expensive club as Geneva is probably one of the top 3 most expensive places in the world!!

On Tuesday I got to walk around the city for a few hours after my practice round tuesday morning. It is a very cool city built around a massive lake. I didn't get to see too much of the city as I had no idea where to go but I did see watches in every shop it seemed! They are known for their watches, hinting the event we played was sponsored by Rolex. Every high end shop you could image was also in this area.

So for the tournament, the event was quite unique as it was a pro-am format all week long. The first day I played with a junior from France. My score obviously counted for the tournament but there was also a tournament for the low team for the day. I played well just putted VERY bad. Shot even 72 and our team wasn't much better! The following three days were played in a foursome with three being amateurs from the club. This is a huge tournament for them so they were looking forward to this week! The second and third days I played similar to the first, hit the ball well just struggled on the greens. I shot rounds of 70 and 71. The final day I shot 68 which was nice it moved me up a little on the leaderboard but maybe just a bit too late. I hit the ball solid tee to green and thankfully unlike the first couple days didn't have the dreaded three putts! Overall it was a good week as everyone in the field made a check which was nice! However, I needed to finish in the top 20 for the money to count on the Money List. I didn't get this done so that wasn't good but I have 5 more weeks to make something good happen! I finished the week in a tie for 23rd on the week.

Every night Rolex set up a huge dinner banquet for us to attend. They had a different country theme to every dinner, pretty cool as they had great food. Something I can't say about all these places over here! Rolex put on a great show for us and this was definitely one of the finer tournaments I have ever been apart of!

Next week I am off to Hamburg, Germany. Looking forward to the week, hopefully good things will happen! I will possibly get to see some relatives over in Germany so looking forward to that as well! I am currently staying at a friends house just south of London. I might be making London my home away from home for the next few weeks.

Thanks for following and I will get another post up at the end of this week in Germany!