PGA Tour Announces 2020/21 Schedule – 50 T’ments, 14 Postponed Of Cancelled From 2019/20

The PGA TOUR today announced the complete schedule for the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season, featuring 50 official FedExCup tournaments – including 14 tournaments that were postponed or cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – culminating with the crowning of the FedExCup champion Labor Day weekend in 2021. The schedule, which reflects a net increase of one tournament over the original 2019-20 schedule, features the most tournaments in a season since 1975 (51). Three events postponed in 2020 – ...

McIlroy’s Defence Of Three 2019 Wins Now Cancelled & Now He’s In Doubt For Atlanta.

If there’s a player more affected by the COVID-19 related cancellation of tournaments then it has to be Rory McIlroy. McIlroy won four times in 2019 – Players Championship, RBC Canadian Open, the Tour Championship and the WGC – HSBC Championship. Three of those have now been cancelled with the Federation of Golf Tours confirming overnight the cancellation of next month’s WGC – HSBC Championship in Shanghai and as had been reported earlier this week by www.golfbytourmiss.com  On ...

McGinley Reveals New Legends Tour Heading In 2021 To Rosapenna

Former Ryder Cup winning Captain, Paul McGinley has revealed the Irish Senior Open will return to the schedule for the first time in 11 years when the newly-formed Legends Tour comes to Rosapenna Hotel & Golf Resort next year. It was announced today (TUES) the formation of a European ‘Legends Tour’, and the first of its kind in world golf, that will replace Europe’s over-50’s Staysure circuit. McGinley along with fellow Ryder Cup captains Ian Woosnam, Mark James and Darren Clarke ...

Tour Championship … What You Need To Know Before Tee-Off

  2020 TOUR Championship Pre-Tournament Notes Dates: August 31-September 7, 2020 Where: Atlanta, Georgia Course: East Lake Golf Club (35-35—70/7,346 yards) Field size: 30 2019 FedExCup and TOUR Championship winner: Rory McIlroy FedExCup bonus pool: $60 million ($15 million/winner) Format: 72-hole stroke play with FedExCup Starting Strokes Things to know • For the second consecutive season, the TOUR Championship is weighted by FedExCup Starting Strokes, with the format crowning a single ...

First The CJ Cup, Now The ZoZo & Next WGC – HSBC Champions

First it was the CJ Cup moving from South Korea to Nevada and now Japan’s Zozo Championship is moving to California. Next it will be the WGC – HSBC Champions being cancelled given continuing Coronavirus fears and with the Chinese government banning all international sporting events to the end of 2020. The PGA Tour announced the ZoZo, and with Tiger Woods with the inaugural event last year, will now be played from October 22nd to 25th, and without spectators, at the Sherwood Country Club in ...

Hojgaard Becomes Second-Youngster Double European Tour Winner.

Dane Rasmus Højgaard has become the second youngest double winner on the European Tour in capturing the ISPS Handa UK Championship. The 19-year old won with a par at the second extra play-off hole in defeating South African Justin Walters after both players had ended regulation play tied at 14-under par at The Belfry. It is the second win for Hojgaard after being the first player born in the 2000s to win on the European Tour when he won in only fifth European Tour start at the start of the 2019/20 ...

Wiesberger Takes An Instant Liking To The Famed Belfry.

Austrian and top-ranked Bernd Wiesberger, and despite the poor weather, clearly enjoyed his first round at the famed Belfry in posting a five-under par 67 on day one of the ISPS Handa UK Championship. The current World No. 30, and highest-ranked player in this week’s field, was still striving to make a name for himself in 2008 on the secondary European Challenge Tour event when the European Tour was last at the course for the 2008 British Masters. Despite the lack of familiarity, the Austrian ...