BMW PGA Championship Suspended Due To Queen’s Passing
The future of the 2022 BMW PGA Championship is now seriously in doubt following news of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11.
Play in round one of the $18m championship was immediately halted around 6.30pm local time and with some 30 players still to complete their opening round on the host West Course at Wentworth.
The DP World Tour is yet to issue a full statement but did use their social media accounts to reveal the intention to cease play and also to suspend play on Friday.
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Law Lights Up BMW PGA Amid Wentworth Downpours
David Law emerged from the intermittent downpours all smiles to head the tartan charge with a 67 on the opening day of the BMW PGA Championship at Tour HQ.
Law, 31, superbly picked-up from where he left off a year ago when the Aberdonian shot a Wentworth career-best closing round of 66 to share 14th place. The effort was easily his best in three appearances at Tour HQ.
Law trails just three shots behind Norwegian sensation Viktor Hovland, who finished birdie, birdie and then holed a 26-footer ...
Bjorn Sings His Danish Delight For Scottish Duo
Rome Ryder Cup vice-captain Thomas Bjorn was overflowing with praise for the Scottish duo of Ewen Ferguson and Robert MacIntyre on day one of the Made in Himmerland event at Farso in Denmark.
Double DP World winning Ferguson soared into a five-way share of second with an eagle and six birdies for an eight-under 63.
England’s Ross McGowan broke the then five-player deadlock on 63 with his new course record of a nine-under 62 in glorious conditions.
Beardson-based Ferguson capped his round sensationally ...
PGA Tour Remove LIV Golfers From FedEx Cup Standings But Will Guarantee Their Season Bonus Monies
The PGA Tour must be reading GolfByTourMiss as no sooner had we ‘posted’ a story highlighting the FedEx Cup standings and the Tour has gone and removed all LIV Golf playings from the 2021/22 money-list.
In a pre-Wyndham Championship feature ( http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2022/08/beach-umbrellas-margaritas-jimmy-buffett-shane-lowry-can-play-it-cool-at-the-wyndham/ ) this website pointed out the various scenarios at this time of a PGA Tour season facing those teeing-up at this week’s host ...
“See You In Rome!” Luke Donald’s Defiant Response If He’ll Do A Stenson.
“See you in Rome!” was Luke Donald’s defiant response to any suggestions he may face the same fate as Henrik Stenson should the Englishman be a second straight European Team captain to break his Rome contract.
Donald fended-off such a question at a Zoom conference he and Ryder Cup Director, Guy Kinnings hosted just hours after being officially confirmed as the new 2023 European captain.
“Well, I have signed a contract, and I intend to see that through”, Donald said in response to a London-based ...
PGA Tour Releases 2022/23 Schedule – 44 Events In Eight Countries
The PGA Tour released its schedule for the 2022-23 season and the last wrap-around format before reverting in 2024 to a straight January to December schedule.
The 2022-23 slate features 44 tournaments, in eight different countries, and with the season opener once again in Napa, California and boasting the FedEx Cup Playoffs finale again in Atlanta, the four majors and a Presidents Cup in just a few weeks.
The Fortinet Championship kicks things off Sept. 15-18 with the Presidents Cup the very next ...
Donald Formally Confirmed As Replacement 2023 European Ryder Cup Team Captain
Luke Donald has been formally confirmed as the replacement European Team Captain for next year’s 44th hosting of the Ryder Cup in Rome.
Donald, as GolfByTourMiss had predicted some weeks ago, will now take the place of Sweden’s Henrik Stenson who was unceremoniously stripped earlier last month of the 2023 European Team captaincy after breaking his DP World Tour contract to join the LIV Golf Tour.
However In a bizarre twist, Stenson no doubt used the sacking to help inspire him to victory in ...
