Reed Full Of Praise Positive Part Played By Golf In Global Pandemic

Leading European Tour No. 1 Patrick Reed has been full of praise for the part played by the PGA Tour, European Tour and the women’s tours during this year’s COVID-19 pandemic season. The Texas-based Reed was among the Players Championship field when around 7pm on Thursday, 12th March when they received a group text to advise the flagship Tour event was cancelled due to the growing concerns of the COVID-19 virus. The European Tour followed quickly in also bringing to a halt any competition ...

Morikawa Targets Unique Euro Tour Double – No. 1 Crown & Rookie Of The Year

Reigning US PGA champion Collin Morikawa is staring a unique first-ever European Tour double when he tees-up in this week’s season-ending DP World Tour championship. Morikawa is lying third in the Race to Dubai standings behind Patrick Reed and Tommy Fleetwood, and knows victory in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship will ensure he becomes the first American in the 48-year history of the Tour to win the money-list title. As well, Morikawa is also in line to be honoured with the ‘Rookie ...

MacIntyre Now Adds European No. 1 Crown To His Masters DP World Wish List.

A year ago, Robert MacIntyre was chasing the dream of ‘Rookie of the Year’ now he’s eye-balling the dizzy heights of European Tour No. 1. MacIntyre mathematically has the chance this week of becoming the first Tartan golfer in 15-years to top the Race to Dubai money list since Colin Montgomerie captured an eighth European Tour in 2005. The Oban lefty entered this week’s £stg 6.9m season-ender at No. 22 on the Race to Dubai money list but with the withdrawal of five ahead on the money-list, ...

Who’s Your European Tour ‘Rookie Of The Year’ Vote – Morikawa Or Hojgaard?

Who should be voted 2020 European Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’? For a first time in many years, the ‘Rookie of the Year’ will be decided by a committee comprising two members of the Tournament Committee and two members of the Tour’s Executive. In past years, it has been decided by who finished higher-up on the Race to Dubai rankings following the close of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Last year, it was Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre winning the one-time only award. The ...

MacIntyre Anxious To Step Into Fowler’s Masters Shoes

Scotland’s Bob MacIntyre is primed to step into the shoes of American golfing heartthrob Rickie Fowler and take his place in next April’s Masters. MacIntyre jumped two places to a new career ranking high of World No. 59 on the back of last week’s top-20 result in the Golf in Dubai championship. In contrast, Fowler will end a remarkable run of 42 straight ‘automatic’ showings in the Majors in dropping two places to World No. 51 after missing the cut by a shot in last week’s Mayakoba ...

Royal Troon Misses Out On Their 2023 Centenary Open Championship

Royal Troon will miss celebrating the hosting of the 100th anniversary of the club’s first Open Championship in 1923 after an R & A decision not to switch the 2023 Open with Royal Birkdale. Prior to the cancellation of this year’s 149th Open at Royal St. George’s, Troon was all set to celebrate the 2023 Open a year after Royal Birkdale in 2022. But with Royal St. George’s now 2021, St. Andrews in 2022, the R & A decided to stick with Royal Birkdale for 2023 rather than swap ...

Fowler Drops Outside Top-50 First Time In A Decade – Loses Automatic Augusta Tee Time.

American golfing heartthrob Rickie Fowler will end a remarkable run of 42 automatic straight in the Majors at the release of tomorrow’s updated World Rankings. Fowler has qualified for every major since the 2010 but now has dipped to World No. 52 having missed the halfway cut in the Mayakoba Championship and the closing event of PGA Tour year. Fowler, and who turns 32 on December 13th, went into the event ranked 49th in the world and now being outside of the 50 means he will forfeit a Deceember ...