European Tour champions Brandon Stone, George Coetzee and Justin Harding have added their names to an already strong field for the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open at the Heritage Golf Club from 5-8 December.
The trio of South Africans join a field including Ryder Cup stars Nicolas Colsaerts, Thomas Pieters and Edoardo Molinari, former Asian Tour Order of Merit winner Shubhankar Sharma and Major winner Paul Lawrie.
Coetzee returns to the Indian Ocean island as a four-time European Tour champion and the winner of the inaugural AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open at Heritage Golf Club in 2015. The South African is seeking to win a European Tour event twice for the second time in his career after he won the Tshwane Open in 2015 and 2018. He also recently claimed his 10th Sunshine Tour title when he won the Vodacom Origins of Golf Final at the beginning of November.
‘I feel like I’m in a good space now and playing pretty well. I’m looking forward to the summer season and hopefully my golf will be good. It’s an exciting time for me,’ he said.
Harding, currently ranked 23rd in the Race to Dubai, made his breakthrough on the European Tour this year with his victory in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, which was his fifth win in 12 months wherein he also won on the Asian Tour and Sunshine Tour and broke into the top 50 in the world rankings for the first time in his career.
And Stone heads to Mauritius as a three-time European Tour champion, including his Rolex Series victory in the 2018 Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open.
The €1-million tournament is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year as a leading tri-sanctioned event between the European Tour, Asian Tour and Sunshine Tour.
