The German professional golfer Alexander Knappe has signed with the management company Sportyard International AB.

Sportyard Invitational Pro-Am to be played on June 22nd 2020 has been cancelled. However, we are hoping to be able to offer this opportunity again shortly.

On Sunday February 23rd, JC Ritchie became the 31st winner of the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit. At the tender age of 25 he became the fourth youngest player to ever be awarded the Order of Merit title. 

He joins the likes of Gary Player, Nick Price, Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman and Charl Schwartzel who have all gone on to win Majors titles. 

Stockholm, Sweden/Lahti, Finland – January 10, 2020

Finland’s greatest golfer of all times and successful Sportyard (formally Sportyard International AB | www.sportyard.com) client since the beginning of the Millennium, Mikko Ilonen, has assumed the operational role as Client Ambassador.

Mikko retired from his active playing career in March of last year. He has five victories on the PGA European Tour and several as an amateur. The height of his amateur career was his victory in the Amateur Championship in the year 2000.

In the middle of August 2018 JC won the Sun Carnival City Challenge at Ebotse Links. He opened with a 64 and led from start to finish to claim his second victory on Tour and climb to 206 in the Official World Golf Rankings.

The week after (this past weekend), at the Vodacom Origins (also on the Sunshine Tour), JC finished tied 3rd, one shot out of a play-off.

Jens Fahrbring, who this year will be focusing on the Challenge Tour and mixing in a few European Tour events, started the Challenge Tour season by finishing second after a tough playoff against Lorenzo Gagli in Barclays Kenya Open.
 
Jens started the week in the middle of the field and made it into the weekend just two shots clear of the cut-line after rounds of 72 and 70, six shots behind Gagli.

It has been no secret that the 2010 Amateur Champion Jin Jeong's past three years have been a struggle on the golf course. Jin, who won the 2013 ISPS Handa Perth International on the European Tour and followed that up with a T18 in the WGC-HSBC Champions just two weeks later, got an injury mid-season 2014 which not only affected him physically, but also mentally.

The 2017 European Challenge Tour winner, Tapio Pulkkanen, has turned to Sportyard for career management and advise. Tapio is thereby joining the same management team as his fellow country man and the Finnish golfing icon Mikko Ilonen.

The 11 time PGA European Tour winner, Robert Karlsson, has returned and resumed his partnership with the Swedish management agency, Sportyard.

Mikko made history today, September 15 2017, by making an ace on the 122 meters 14th hole of The Dutch in Spijk, The Netherlands. 

Mikko's ace was the 1,000th hole in one on the European Tour since its inauguration in 1972 and, more importantly, Mikko's second on the European Tour.