The Road to Mauritius: A Spectacular Showdown at the MCB Tour Championship 2024

There is nothing on the Legends Tour quite like the season-ending MCB Tour Championship. The circuit’s schedule takes its elite golfers to all four corners of the globe but their collective eyes are always on the ultimate destination in a rankings race that is appropriately known as The Road to Mauritius.

The tournament is the Legends Tour’s jewel in the Indian Ocean. First played in 2011, the former world number one and 1996 British Open champion Tom Lehman immediately established a trend for high class winners. Since then, 10-time PGA Tour winner David Frost, European golfing giant Colin Montgomerie and his fellow Ryder Cup stars Barry Lane, Jarmo Sandelin, Thomas Bjorn and Peter Baker have all maintained that pattern by adding their names to the trophy.

Just as Mauritius connects the continents of the world, so the MCB Tour Championship draws together the finest talent in senior golf on a quest to claim prestigious glory on the Legend Course at Constance Belle Mare Plage – and this year’s edition is no different.

Baker is the defending champion and the Englishman has backed up his stellar 2023 with a sixth victory at senior level in May’s Barbados Legends event. His triumph 12 months ago also secured number one spot in the seasonal rankings but he lies third this year, trailing the two stars of the 2024 season.

The first of those is the Australian Scott Hend who is a three-time runner-up this year and desperate to add to his one win at this level earned at 2023’s WinstonGOLF Senior Open in Germany.

Both Hend and Baker are some way distant of Brazil’s Adilson Da Silva whose golf has been in a different league to his opponents this season. In addition to victory in June’s Irish Legends and September’s European Legends Cup he has chalked up another six top 10 finishes to sit over 700 points clear of Hend on 3,632 points in the rankings. Da Silva has finished fourth in his two previous visits to the MCB Tour Championship and is hoping to round out his sensational year by landing a third win for the year. 

Course expert James Kingston (South Africa) returns with hope of adding to his two runner-up finishes while European golfing legends Ian Woosnam, a former world number one, and Colin Montgomerie, a World Golf Hall of Fame member and the event winner in 2015, are also in the field. 

The first round action starts at Constance Belle Mare Plage on December 6.

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