A healthy prize fund and world ranking points for the amateurs are just two of the positives that Bermuda Golf Association are hoping will attract players to the new-look Bermuda Open.The combined tournament, which now includes the Amateur Seniors Championship and Bermuda Amateur Stroke Play Championship being played alongside the Open, will see golfers of all abilities take to Port Royal Golf Course between June 16-19.With HSBC returning as lead sponsors, and the entry fees from all three events being used to bolster the Open prize fund, the BGA are hoping to be able to offer a purse of $50,000 for the professionals to fight over.“A portion of the fees will go in, obviously not all, because some will go into paying administration costs,” said BGA president Nick Mansell. “I would like to see it being at that level, it might be a little harder to get there in these economic times, but we’ll do our best.”For the amateurs, meanwhile, the tournament will be the second time that an event in Bermuda has offered ranking points, and some of those who competed in the Amateur Match Play Championship in March have already expressed an interest in coming back next month.“Some of the travelling amateurs go through the schedule and look for world ranking points,” said Mansell, “and that’s how they found out about the Match Play, and they expressed a keen interest then in coming back.“This is the first year that we’ve been doing it, and it has already started to peak a bit of interest.”The combination of tournaments, however, does leave the BGA with a difficult task when it comes to setting up the course. A fair test for a professional is not necessarily a fair one for an amateur.“There aren’t too many events where you have all the guys and the girls playing at all different levels, I think it should come off quite well,” said Mansell.“We’re debating now what length we want to play the course at. It won’t just be traditional red tees for example. We’ll try and get them to a certain length, the same with the seniors, we don’t want to stretch them out beyond where they really should be playing at.“We want nice, comfortable yardage, then of course the pros, and younger amateurs, we’ll stretch them out, but we’re not going to have it unfairly stretched out.“We’ve actually gone out and looked at the golf course, got some different ideas, and different scenarios on how we’d set the course up to make it challenging, yet fair. And to make it creative on the greens, I can be quite devious in some of my pin placements.“It’s all about being fair and accessible and at the same time being challenging and fun.”