"What the Pro Golf Tour regularly achieves here in Morocco is something you simply have to take your hat off to!" It’s not just German player Moritz Lampert, winner of the Open Madaef Golfs 2019, who appreciates that the Pro Golf Tour has been offering its members an excellent opportunity to start the tour season in the sunny south for ten years now. The Pro Golf Tour’s cooperation with Morocco or rather the Hassan II Golf Trophy Association, the Moroccan golf organisation, which is also responsible for the Ladies European Tour and European Tour tournaments in Morocco, has made a crucial contribution to this high quality offer. And the partnership is constantly growing.

"Ten years have passed since the partnership between the Pro Golf Tour and ATH resulted in the Atlas Pro Tour, a series of tournaments for professionals in Morocco. This anniversary is proof of the close relationship between our two institutions, which have joined forces to develop the sport of golf", says Mustapha Zine, Deputy Chairman Hassan II Golf Trophy
Association. "This partnership has continued to grow over the years. We started with three tournaments in 2010 and there are now eight tournaments scheduled in the 2019 season. We work closely together in this way for almost six months a year, giving hundreds of players from all over the world the opportunity to discover the diversity of Morocco's golf landscape. In addition to the synergies and common objectives that unite us, the close ties that our teams have established during the events are a sign of the success of this collaboration. These tournaments also give our Moroccan talents the opportunity to compete with players from all over the world, and grow and improve as a result."

Mustapha Zine: The Hassan II Golf Trophy Association is very happy to be working with the Pro Golf Tour and looks forward to expanding this successful partnership with great optimism.

This year there are eight Pro Golf Tour tournaments on the programme; five have already taken place in the Casablanca region in February and March. Afterwards, the tour went on to Agadir and Tazegzout. This week the Pro Golf Tour is a guest in Ifrane. The "Open Michlifen" premiere is scheduled to take place there, in the mountainous region near Fez, from 9 to 11 April. The Pro Golf Tour will be a guest at the "Le Michlifen Golf & Country Club" for the first time. The resort features an 18-hole championship course designed by Jack Nicklaus and provides a high-calibre setting for the closing event of the 2019 Morocco series.

The tournament is endowed with the top prize money of 40,000 euros. The host country and Pro Golf Tour are also celebrating their successful ten-year partnership with this event. "We are delighted to be able to acknowledge this extremely fruitful and enjoyable cooperation with a new tournament," says Rainer Goldrian, Pro Golf Tour Managing Director. "Morocco enables us to start the season early in the year on excellent courses and under good conditions, which is crucial for the players' sporting development and therefore for their careers." "We are extremely grateful for that!"