Puntacana Resort & Club celebrates Mid-Amateur Devil’s Elbow Invitational tournament

The winner will play in the amateur category of the Corales Puntacana Championship, to be held from March 21-27, 2022.

Punta Cana , La Altagracia, DR November 19, 2021.- With the participation of 42 foreign Mid-Amateur players, Puntacana Resort & Club held for the first time from November 11 to 13 the Mid-Amateur Devil’s Elbow Invitational tournament in the field of Corales golf.

With a cumulative score of -4 during the 3 days of play, the winner was player Jerónimo Esteve of Puerto Rican descent and resident of Orlando, Florida ; followed by Ryan Abbate, who finished the event with a score of even par. Esteve secures a space to play in the Corales Puntacana Championship PGA Tour Event, to be held from March 21 to 27, 2022.

The rules committee was chaired by Francisco Rivera, a certified rules officer by the United States Golf Association (USGA); Hiram Silfa, tournament director and director of Golf Courses at Puntacana Resort & Club; and Jay Overton, Golf professional at Corales Golf Course, Puntacana Resort & Club.

The Mid-Amateur Devil’s Elbow 2021 invitational tournament aims to bring together the best mid-amateur players in the world to qualify for a competition slot in the Corales Puntacana Championship on the PGA Tour. The event also seeks to earn World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) points to be ranked globally; and had the support of Cerveza Canita and Brugal.

Mid-amateur players are required to have reached the age of 25 before November 11, 2021, in addition to meeting a handicap index of 3.4. The 54-hole stroke play tournament is endorsed by the USGA and points have been approved for the Amateur World Ranking.

For more information, visit: https://puntacana.com/devilselbowinvitational/

About the Corales golf course

The Corales Puntacana Resort & Club, home to the Dominican Republic’s first and only PGA TOUR Event, was designed by world famous architect Tom Fazio. Opened in 2010, it is located next to the cliffs, bays, natural ocean inlets, inland lakes and coral quarries of the Caribbean Sea. It has 18 holes, six of them facing the sea and culminates with its last three holes known as the “Devil’s Elbow”, which is positioned among the most spectacular and difficult final holes in the world. Corales has been listed as the best golf course in the country, and one of the 10 best in the Caribbean by “10 Best US Today Reader’s Choice 2018” and, in 2020, Puntacana Resort & Club was awarded the Best Resort in the Caribbean and Bermuda for Golf “Digest Editors’ Choice Award.”