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European Tour: 2019 AFRASIA BANK Mauritius Open Power Rankings

By Matt Coles

POSTE DE FLACQ, MAURITIUS - DECEMBER 02: Kurt Kitayama of the USA walks down the 15th green during the final round of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open at the Four Seasons Golf Club on December 02, 2018 in Poste de Flacq, Mauritius. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
POSTE DE FLACQ, MAURITIUS - DECEMBER 02: Kurt Kitayama of the USA walks down the 15th green during the final round of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open at the Four Seasons Golf Club on December 02, 2018 in Poste de Flacq, Mauritius. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images) /
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Power rankings for the 2019 AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open on the European Tour
Power Rankings for the 2019 AFRASIA Bank Mauritius Open on the European Tour (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images) /

The second event of the 2020 European Tour season takes place this week, with the AFRASIA BANK Mauritius Open taking centre stage.

The event moves back to the Heritage Golf Club in Bel-Ombre, Mauritius this year, and is co-sanctioned by the European, Asian and Sunshine Tours.

Since its inaugural running in 2015, the tournament has alternated between Heritage GC and the Four Nations Resort Mauritius at Anahita, and it returns to Heritage for the 2019 running of the event.

This year marks the fifth edition of the tournament, and although the AFRASIA BANK Mauritius Open is one of the newer events on the Tour, there has already been some history made on this little island in the Indian Ocean

At the inaugural event, played at Heritage in 2015, Spain’s Javier Colomo made a hole-in-one on the par-4 9th, becoming the first player to ever make a hole-in-one on a par-4 in European Tour history.

The course itself is a par-72 which measures at just over 7,000 yards, with low scoring very much available to golfers who put their ball in the right places off the tee.

The first signature hole on the course is the par-3 8th, which measures at a whopping 232 yards from the back tees. It follows on from the 562-yard par-5 7th, in which players will have to make the decision whether to go for the green in two or not, with a small stream running across the front of the green.

The finishing hole at Heritage GC is also a par-5, the longest hole on the course, measuring at 565 yards. It is a double dog-leg right, with a water hazard short left of the green, which also follows back up to the middle part of the fairway, right in the area of where a lay-up might land.

A good card could be ruined on the last hole, but it could also come down to the last, much like it did in South Africa just a few days ago.

The AFRASIA BANK Mauritius Open is the second event of the new season, with Pablo Larrazabal giving his poor feet a rest after he battled through blister pain to win the Alfred Dunhill Championship by a single shot on Sunday, after he birdied the 18th.

Reigning champion Kurt Kitayama is also not featuring this week, but 2015 champion George Coetzee is in the field, and he is looking to become the first multiple champion of this event since its inception in 2015.

The South African is among the top ten on our Power Rankings going into the week’s action at Heritage, but who takes the top spot?

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