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The continental European swing continues with the Austrian Open, which this year is being held at Kitzbühel-Schwarzsee-Reith golf club (KSR). KSR had previously hosted a Hotel Planner tour event in 2003 that was won at -23 with an average score 0f -0.92. For this year's event, the nines have been swapped and a number of new tees have lengthened the course by a net 300 yards. This includes losing 100 yards by turning what was a short par 4 into a long par 3. A short par 5 has become a long par...

The Soudal Open is back at Rinkven Golf Club in Belgium for the fifth year in a row. Rinkven is a very short 6,940-yard par 71 weaving through thick forest with some ponds and creeks occasionally coming into play. Despite its lack of length, it hasn’t been a complete pushover with narrow playing corridors and bentgrass greens. The last four years have seen a winning score and scoring averages of -13 and -0.04, -18 and -1.22, -17 and -0.65 and -13 and +0.28. Last year had a dramatic 3-way...

The European swing of the DPWT begins this week with the return of the Catalunya Championship at Real Club de Golf El Prat. Since a big renovation in 2003, El Prat has twice hosted the Open de Espana in 2011 and 2015. Both of those events were won at 10 under. There are 45 holes at the El Prat complex, and while the back nine this week will be the same as in those events, this week uses a different front nine making up the Pink course. The Pink course at El Prat is a very short 7,057 yard par...