Video: Euro Tour's Beat The Pro Challenge Had Something For Everybody
/As previewed earlier in the week, the European Tour's "Beat The Pro" Challenge planned to throw amateur golfers into the middle of tournament action.
Hitting one shot on the par-3 14th in a closest-to-the-hole competition, the amateurs were part of the proceedings on just Thursday and Saturday. As you'd hope, there were highs and lows, as depicted in this compilation from the European Tour's Instagram account.
As far as gimmicks go, it appears to have had little impact, especially since no one was injured by the one shank. To put it another way: if pro golfers were given the opportunity to be interrupted twice in four days for one shot, they'd take that over a pro-am any day!
Meanwhile, Joost Luiten won the KLM Open with a final round and course-record-setting 63.
