Watching the Scottish open really makes you realise how we are missing a trick by not having the Irish open on links.
The desert swing is in winter time, you have the florida swing for another example leading up to the Players, we could be part of the links swing in july. Such a missed opportunity
At 10over I’m not too surprised at Padraig missing the cut, but JT on the same score!!!
The money will be a lot more than the KFT though do you might get more Americans chancing the ET instead. Still a feeder tour, but it has been for years now and has really gone to the dogs since covid
..and they will, and who could blame them, the money is vastly different and the weather, oh the weather
Exactly! Now that the full PGA tour card is guaranteed to the top 10 who don't already have it...they can sail into the sunset and forget about the DP World Tour...for one year at least.
There was no automatic PGA playing card though, now it's straight in with a card. Lot's of well performing ET players would not gain a PGA Card as they still had to commit to ET events and did not gain enough PGA points to earn card
When has it not been? Name one player in the last 10 years who turned down the PGA Tour after playing well on the European. Would Lucas Herbert be back at the Irish Open if he wasn't defending. I don't think he would.
It is been like that for years. They just got there via world ranking points
Upcoming change in the World Rankings system will be the final nail in the coffin for the DPWT. I don't see why they had to remove the minimum points award for DPWT events when they were bringing in the other changes.
European Tour is now effectively The Korn Ferry Euro Edition.
Play well in the European Tour...secure a top 10 finish...move to the PGA and forget all about the DP World Tour.
They'd have been better off getting into bed with LIV.
Anything that hurts Liv is a good thing imo.
I guess the European tour feel they either get more into bed with pga tour, fly solo or get into bed with liv. Flying solo and they’ll probably crash
Absolutely, bit of token money to the European tour while they continue to steal all the best European players over to the PGA tour.
I read that as PGA digging in against LIV and turning what was the European Tour into yet another feeding tube into the PGA, all geared towards moving the cream into the PGA tour
https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/news/articles/detail/dp-world-tour-pga-tour-expand-and-strengthen-alliance/
Garcia was there also
Some win for Haotong Li and a great celebration too, dropped a couple of F bombs in the sky interview aswell, great stuff
So I see Kaymer is in the BMW. I didn't check for anybody else, just seen his name well up there after the first round.
Obviously the European tour aren't banning any golfers, at least not yet.
It'll be interesting to see what happens at the Scottish Open as it's co-sanctioned by the European tour and the PGA tour.
They are in a bind as they have a couple of co-sanctioned events with the PGA tour this year. Scottish Open is one, Barracuda is another. I think there's one more but can't think what it is.
This could've been a great opportunity if they hadn't have hitched their wagon quite so tightly to Dubai and more recently the PGA Tour. Pelley was behind that tie-up, so can't see him going back on it and upsetting the PGA Tour. Although doubt the Saudis want to be on the Dubai Tour anyway!
This was a chance to restore the European Tour parity and maybe even above the PGA Tour once more.
That’s a potential
Or do a proper amalgamation with the PGA Tour at this stage - Better yet, LET, ET, PGA, LPGA by right should all be in contact right now to see what they can do
only weisberger and kaymer be regular. So no real lost.
Or could they team up with liv golf? They could be the tour the guys go back to when not on liv golf.
Can European Tour afford to suspend them though? They need every name they can get
Sergio Garcia, Martin Kaymer, Louis Oosthuizen and Bernd Wiesberger, who are currently playing in the LIV golf series event in Centurion today are on the entry list (as things stand at present) for the BMW International Open at Germany in two weeks time. Only a matter of time before Keith Pelley and the DP World Tour, tow the PGA Tour line and suspend players for their tournaments. Entry list that also includes Billy Horschel too, see link below.
https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/bmw-international-open-2022/entry-list
Looks like a second win on tour for nico hojgaard and he’s only 20!
Watching Richard Bland on the practice ground in the UAE this morning. Looks like a Gaelic pitch at the end of the range.
Ya I've been keeping an eye out for his results the last year or so, last summer he seemed to be bottom of every leaderboard, fair dues to him for carrying on.
Similar story for Haotong Li
Nice to see Pavan have a few good results after having a horror few years.
Hovland wasn't born when Bland turned Pro.
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