Let us all say a massive thank you to golfing supervisors in America for the greatest favour they completed the Seminar.
It wasn’t something they intended, but, in a stroke, they elevated the standing of the BMW PGA Championship.
By changing the PGA Championship to May to depart August clear for the FedExCup, the vested interests of American golf effectively compelled the BMW PGA to move to September. In doing this, they aided all of the downsides that have afflicted the tournament for many a long time are resolved by the European Tour.
For the very first time lately, the championship was all good news for fans, patrons, and those players, and the result was a showcase event to coincide with any in Wentworth’s background.
And now, after its powerful fall rebirth, the Wentworth event has instantly risen only.
Many in America could marvel at the the strength of the field each year at Sawgrass, but they be underestimating the significance of Tony Finau Patrick Reed, and Billy Horschel being at Wentworth weekly. This trio may prove to be an improvement party for a lot more to come once the positives start to feed back over the Atlantic.
Today, the European PGA Championship has been admired by Americans but not recognized as a world event and you may understand why. For a beginning, the European Tour has sometimes struggled to acquire its own players to tee up in their own flagship tournament, never mind draw players from around the world.
There were a range of variables, the majority of them associated with the position on the golfing calendar of Wentworth, squeezed to a May that then contained the Players Championship and also Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial Tournament. This week in May, ancient in the UK period, also made it hard for the path to become conditioned to some degree we’ve come to expect at tournaments.
Participants were critical of these greens and also with the extra complication of redesigns of this course, the build-up into the tournament each season has been plagued by private and public controversy. Without doubt, this event’s image was ruined and it appeared to be in 1 manner or another even though it was a highlight on the Tour.
It wasn’t helped when the chief executive said because its prize fund lagged behind the DP World Tour Championship at Dubai, it was the flagship event of the European Union.
The following came rumblings of discontent at the Wentworth Club itself if tensions were created by a new regime with the Tour, that has its headquarters and members. Now of the negative bags – calendar-related or not – seems to have been left behind in the May slot that is aged because the tournament rode high on a tide of optimism.
September gives the Tour plenty of liberty within the program and that is something they use next year to avoid any clashes from the. All in allthe enforced reboot of the BMW PGA Championship has, with the PGA Tour’s flagship, The Players personally, encouraged comparisons because of me.
Apart from the obvious disparity in strength of subjects as things stand, Wentworth matches what Sawgrass has to offer and sometimes more, and I say this as somebody who considered that the Players Championship as my favorite event.
On place Sawgrass is, trumped by Wentworth, 15 minutes from Heathrow and around London’s edge . Ponte Vedra is over just two hours north west of Orlando and Jacksonville, its own airport, isn’t exactly an airline trip. Remember, for each celebrity who arrives in his private jet, then there are thousands of others who need to get to championships on airlines.
Obviously, the classes are impossible and completely different to compare like-for-like, however it is true that Wentworth has a hole which can wreck any card just as quickly as the par-three in Sawgrass.
Much as I love the 18th I believe Wentworth now includes a stadium arena on its hole. Feedback about the 2 courses are subjective, but what cannot be disputed is that Wentworth has a history of which the Players Championship can just dream.
Between the BMW PGA, the older World Matchplay Championship and also the 1953 Ryder Cup, the famous old class in Surrey has hosted Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Seve Ballesteros, Greg Norman, Sir Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam, Colin Montgomerie and Tiger Woods.
To be honest, some of them possess their own history in Sawgrass as well along with also the Players Championship is rightly considered to be the gem from the PGA Tour’s crown, but the European Tour has burnished its gem and – given a few years in its own new September slot – it may be a sparkling just as brightly.
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