The golf pros of the European Seniors Tour will be competing for the 26th time at the Swiss Seniors Open in Bad Ragaz from Friday to Sunday. The 60-year-old André Bossert from Zurich is representing Switzerland.
12.07.2024, 05:31
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It is in the nature of the game of golf that professionals can perform at a high level even at an advanced age and compete with younger players. On the Legends Tour, the over-50s keep to themselves. This tour has been hosted in Bad Ragaz since 1997 and brings world-class golf professionals to Eastern Switzerland every summer.
No fewer than nine former European Ryder Cup players will be teeing off this week at the Swiss Seniors Open 2024, which has prize money of 300,000 euros. One of them is 56-year-old Englishman Peter Baker, who celebrated four victories on the Legends Tour in 2023 and also won the annual ranking. He achieved his best ranking in Bad Ragaz in 2019 with second place; victory this week should go to him and last year's winner Adilson Da Silva. The Brazilian not only won in Bad Ragaz in 2023, but also in Austria, France and Vietnam and finished second in the annual rankings. Both professionals continued their winning streak in 2024 - Baker in Barbados in May and Da Silva in Ireland three weeks ago. Clark Dennis is another 2024 season winner in the 60-strong field of participants at the Swiss Seniors Open; the US American won in Greece a month ago. The 55-year-old New Zealander Michael Campbell, winner of the 2005 US Masters, is also the winner of a major tournament in Bad Ragaz.
For André Bossert, the only Swiss player in the field, Bad Ragaz is the first Legends Tour event of the 2024 season. Born and raised in South Africa, the Zurich native only has a few starting opportunities due to his ranking position; to get into tournament mode, he played at the Mémorial Olivier Barras in Crans (14th place) and at the weekend on the Sunshine Senior Tour in Angola (11th place). He is still capable of top results, with daughter Nina on the bag "Bossy" finished 4th in 2023 - his best ranking to date in Bad Ragaz. The Swiss played his best round on this course on the final day in 2015, when he equaled the course record that still stands today with 61 strokes (9 under par).
