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In a historic move, the European Tour will be renamed the DP World Tour from 2022 and in what also will be the 50th anniversary since the foundation of the Tour in 1972. The name European Tour will remain is administering the Tour, the secondary Challenge Tour, the Legends Tour and also the hosting every four years the Ryder Cup but it will a title change for golf’s second largest tour. In making the announcement at Expo 20 in Dubai, European Tour CEO Keith Pelley singled out the Tour’s ...

New European Tour members Ewen Ferguson and Craig Howie will waste little time taking advantage of their full European Tour status in jetting off next fortnight to South Africa. Glaswegain Ferguson, 25, and Peebles-born Howie, 27, secured full  2021/22 wraparound season European membership after finishing top-20 in the overall secondary Challenge Tour’s Road to Mallorca rankings following the close of Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final in Mallorca. Ferguson’s share of 21st place on the T-Golf ...

Scotland’s Grant Forrest remains determined to sign off his best season in the pro ranks in style after putting himself into contention heading to the weekend rounds of the Portugal Masters. Forrest, 28, birdied his second and then buried a long eagle putt at the next in a round of 67 to move to a share of eighth heading to the weekend rounds on the Dom Pedro Victoria course at Vilamoura. Italian Nino Bertasio continues to show the way despite having his opening four-shot lead cut in half following ...

Scotland’s Martin Laird is looking to make it a seventh time lucky, soaring with an eagle on the opening day of the renamed World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba in Mexico. Laird returned from a three-week competition break with his Denver-based family in posting a three-under par 68 in the £stg 5.6m event being again staged on the El Camaleon course laid out just to the south of Cancun along Mexico’s southern Caribbean shoreline. American Matt Woolf brilliantly set the early ...

Former champ Padraig Harrington boosted his season-ending Tour Championship qualifying credentials with a bogey-free 67 on the opening day of the Portugal Masters. Harrington, and winner of the event five years ago, ended the round in a six-way share of fourth place at four-under par on the Victoria course at Vilamoura. Swiss-born Italian Nino Bertasio went within two shots on the third-year anniversary in matching England’s Ollie Fisher’s 2018 Tour milestone of a score of 59 with an impressive ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre will make his Portugal Masters debut this week promising a far more ‘aggressive’ approach on the course to host the European Tour’s only 59. It’s just over three years since Englishman Ollie Fisher became the first and still only Tour player to finally become a a member of the Tour’s ’59 Club’. MacIntyre got his first look at a rain-softened host Victoria course and reckons 69 would be good score as he returns to competition after a fortnight’s break. He ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox was heading to Mexico looking for less bruising weather conditions than he faced on the final day of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Knox had been out in the second group on day one experiencing cramps in  both hands as he fought to control his umbrella in the wet and very windy conditions on the Port Royal course. And it was a repeat of the wild Atlantic weather on day four with Knox standing tall in shooting a gutsy four-under par 67 for an eventual 10-under ...