How many DP World Tour events are currently sanctioned with the PGA Tour?
There’s just one – the Genesis Scottish Open.
Though listening to Rory McIlroy following his final round earlier today at the 37th edition of the Hero Dubai Deser Classic there could soon be two.
The Hero Dubai Desert Classic has been played in Dubai since 1989 and when the Emirates Golf Club course was all alone in the desert, and the road back to a then virtual, unattractive looking overgrown fishing port was a two-lane, sand-blasted stretch of bitumen you couldn’t wait to get off.
COULD @DubaiDCGolf #DPWT BECOME CO-SANTIONED WITH THE @PGATOUR
Talking with @McIlroyRory there’s a possibility it may
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While that two-lane stretch of bitumen is now an 18-lane super highway surrounded by a new skyscrammer emerging every week, the Emirates club could be soon hosting a second DP World Tour/PGA Tour event.
That’s why Rory was hinting following his Dubai final round.
“Dubai’s in a good spot. It always has been. I’ve always enjoyed playing it,” he said to media.
“There’s only one co-sanctioned event at the minute, obviously depending on what happens with the Strategic Alliance and where the PGA Tour are and sort of where they see themselves fitting into golf globally, I would say it would be an obvious one to co-sanction, just like The Scottish Open.
“But again, that’s up to people that are making the decisions and not me.”
And in other news, the World No.2 has welcomed former LIV Golf star Brooks Koepka back to the PGA Tour but he won’t be watching the return of his fellow five-time Major winner at the Farmers Insurance Open this week.
“I’m very interested in my own game,” he said .
“Maybe if you’d asked me five years ago, I’d have said yes. But I’ve got too much or enough going on in my life to worry about other players at this point.”
I wonder what new Hero Dubai Desert Classic champ Patrick Reed will think.
Reed, and competing in his 121st DPWT event and winning for a fourth occasion, sounding out how pleasing it was for him to finally win a DPWT tournament that is not co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour.
You see, his earlier trio of wins were co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour.
Well played, Patrick.
