PGA European Tour is an organization that operates three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour , the Senior Tour of Europe, and the Challenge Tour of development. Its headquarters are at the Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. The European tour is a major golf tour in Europe. The European tour was founded by the Association of Professional Golfers based in the UK, and the responsibilities transferred to the organization of the PGA European Tour was independent in 1984. Most of the tour events of three European PGA tours were held in Europe, but in recent years more and more have been held in other parts the world outside Europe; by 2015, most ratings events on the European Tour are held outside Europe, although these include the Main Events and World Golf Championships which are the ratings of events for several tours.
PGA Europe Tour is a golf-driven organization whose main objective is to maximize the tournament's income. It is a company limited by guarantees and run by professional staff but is controlled by its playing members through a board of directors made up of 12 selected and current tour players and tournament committees of 14 players today. The chairman of the board is David Williams who replaces Neil Coles who has held the post for 38 years. The chairman of the tournament committee is Thomas BjÃÆ'¸rn.
Europe-based events on the European Tour are almost all played in Western Europe and the most lucrative of them occur in England, Ireland, Germany, France and Spain.
The PGA European Tour is a major partner in the European Ryder Cup, the joint venture also includes the UK and Ireland PGA and the European PGA operating the Ryder Cup Match in cooperation with PGA of America. The PGA European Tour has a 60% interest in the European Ryder Cup, with each junior partner holding 20%.
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Histori
Professional golf starts in Europe, especially in Scotland. The first professionals are clubmakers and greenkeepers who also teach golf to rich people who can play games (expensive early handmade equipment) and play "challenge matches" against each other for wallets prepared by wealthy supporters. The first multi-competitor stroke play tournament was The Open Championship, which was introduced in 1860. That year was only for professionals, and it attracted eight fields. The following year, amateurs were allowed in. In contrast to many other sports coming from the United Kingdom, amateur-professional gaps never create major problems in golf, at least at the level of elite competition.
For decades after the creation of the Open Championships, the number of golf tournaments with prize money has risen slowly but surely. Most are in England, but there are also some "national openings" in various countries on the Continent. However, for decades it remains difficult if it is impossible for golfers to earn a living from prize money alone. From 1901 British professionals were represented by The Professional Golfers' Association, and it was this body that eventually created the European Tour.
In the post-World War II period, prize money became more significant, driven by the introduction of television coverage. However, each event is still held separately by golf clubs or associations, or commercial promoters. In the US, the official PGA Tour has been around since the 1930s, and in 1972, the Association of Professional Golfers introduced the PGA European Tour. In the early years of the season it ran for six months from April to October, and was entirely based in Europe, mainly in England and Ireland. For example, the 1972 season consists of 20 tournaments, of which 12 are in the United Kingdom and one in Ireland. Of the seven events on the Continent, six are "open nationally", namely the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Spain and the Swiss Open, with the seventh being the Madrid Open.
Over the next three decades, the tour was gradually extended and globalized. The first event held outside Europe was the 1982 Open Tunisia. That year, there were 27 tournaments and the season spanned into November for the first time. In 1984, the PGA European Tour became independent from The Professional Golfers' Association.
The European tour is always sensitive to the risks that its best players will leave to play on the PGA Tour for various reasons. PGA Tour usually offers higher purses and European players want to increase their chances of winning in three majors played in the US by playing in more U.S. style programs. to adjust. In an effort to counter this phenomenon, the European Tour introduced the "Volvo Bonus Pool" in 1988. It is an extra money prize that is distributed at the end of the season to the most successful players of the year - but only golfers who have played in a large number of European Tour events can accept part. This system continued until 1998, after which an updated emphasis was placed on maximizing prize money in individual tournaments.
In 1989, the tour visited Asia for the first time for the Dubai Desert Classic. In 1990, there were 38 events in the schedule, including 37 in Europe, and the start of the season has been moving until February. The first visit to East Asia for the Tour took place at the 1992 Johnnie Walker Classic in Bangkok. It has since proven to be one of the most important initiatives in the history of the tour, as East Asia is almost its second home. Not long after that, the tour also debuted in the former Soviet Block at the Czech Open in 1994, but less than this development because of the participation in golf in former Soviet territory is still low and sponsors are unable to compete financially with their Western Europe. rivals for the limited number of slots available on the main tour every summer. However, the second tier Challenge Tour has visited Central and Eastern Europe somewhat more frequently. In 1995, the European Tour embarked on a co-sanctioning tournament with other PGA Tours, endorsing the PGA Championship of South Africa on the Southern African Tour (now the Sunshine Tour). This policy was extended to the PGA Tour of Australasia in 1996, and most extensively to the Asian Tour.
There is no overall governing body in golf around the world. While golf authorities in different parts of the world work together in total harmony, there is still some competition. The European tour is very conscious about its position relative to the PGA Tour, but both have also been firmly forming partnerships. In 1998, the European Tour added three US majors - the Masters Tournament, the PGA Championship and the US Open - to its official schedule. Leading Europeans have competed in it for years, but now their prize money is calculated according to the European Tour Order of Merit, which sometimes makes a lot of difference in the final season ratings. The following year three of the four individual Golf World Championships, also typically played in America, and also offer far more prize money than most European events, were established and added to the European Tour schedule.
Since the minimum number of events a player must play in order to retain the membership of the Tour of Europe is eleven long, this means that international players can become tour members by playing only four events on top of it besides the majors and the World Golf Championships, where all the elite players enter in any. Players like Ernie Els and Retief Goosen have used this to play PGA and European Tours simultaneously. For the 2009 season, the minimum number of events required for members was increased to twelve; this coincides with the height of HSBC Champions, previously the European Tour event was approved by three other tours, to the World Golf Championship status. The minimum amount increased to 13 in 2011, but starting in 2013, team events such as the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup are allowed to be counted to a minimum. In 2016, a minimum of 13 events are changed to five events, excluding four majors and four WGCs; while this change does not affect the players who qualify for all majors and the WGC, it makes it easier for players who do not qualify for this to maintain a European Tour membership while playing a full PGA Tour schedule. The minimum value will be reduced from five to four by 2018.
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Status and reward money
No doubt that the European Tour is the second most important tour in men's golf, behind the PGA Tour and much more advanced than the others. What is more difficult to define is its position relative to the PGA Tour and whether it has increased or decreased in recent years.
In early 2006 five of the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Rank were full members of the European Tour, namely Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Sergio GarcÃÆ'a, Adam Scott, and Colin Montgomerie. Two years later, at the beginning of 2008, the number of full European Tour members in the top 10 remained at five, namely Els, Justin Rose, Scott, PÃÆ'¡draig Harrington, and Vijay Singh. In early 2009, that number increased to seven - GarcÃÆ'a, Harrington, Singh, Robert Karlsson, Henrik Stenson, Els, and Lee Westwood. In early 2010, the number was back to five, with Westwood, Harrington, and Stenson joining Paul Casey and Rory McIlroy. Apart from McIlroy, who was only 20 years old at the end of 2009, and veteran of Europe's old tour Montgomerie and Karlsson, all the named golfers are also members of the PGA Tour, and moved on to it as the main or joint main tour after playing in Europe. Singh has largely left the European Tour for the PGA Tour in the late 1990s but rejoined the European Tour in 2006. 2010 saw much success for the members of the European Tour, including major wins for Graeme McDowell, Louis Oosthuizen and Martin Kaymer, in the 2010 Ryder Cup. Lee Westwood ended the year as world number one. On January 24, 2011, no. The 1st and 2nd positions in the golf rank are occupied by Europeans (Westwood and Kaymer), for the first time in 18 years. Westwood, Kaymer, no. 4. McDowell and no 7. McIlroy all see the European Tour as their main tour.
The European tour has traditionally been the first overseas move for outstanding players from non-European countries in the Commonwealth, long been a major source for elite golfers, such as Greg Norman and Nick Price. These players tend to move to the PGA Tour as a second step. However, recently the European Tour lost this role because the Commonwealth golfer chose to move directly to the US. There is also a current trend for young English golfers to play especially on the PGA Tour. In some cases, like Luke Donald's case, this is a natural consequence after completing a golf scholarship at a US university. Such scholarships are not available (or even legal) in Europe.
When the European Continent produced the first global golf star in the 1970s, such as Seve Ballesteros, and especially when Europe started winning over the United States in the Ryder Cup in the mid-1980s, there was widespread optimism about the future of the European Tour relative to the PGA Tour. This has subsided because some of the major European countries, such as Germany and Italy, have not produced high-ranking golfer on a regular basis as previously anticipated. Nevertheless, the number of European countries that have produced the winners on the Tour of Europe has been increasing steadily, with tremendous depth of golf growing in the Scandinavian countries. The last point is illustrated by developments in 2008 and 2009. Not only at the end of 2008 the top 10 worlds featured two Swedes (Karlsson and Stenson), but five other Swedes won either on the PGA Tour or European Tour in 2008; Karlsson and Stenson joined Dane SÃÆ'¸ren Hansen at the European Team in the 2008 Ryder Cup; and the season-ending Volvo Masters were won in 2008 by compatriot Hansen, SÃÆ'¸ren Kjeldsen. In 2009, Karlsson came out of the top 10 and Stenson stayed on. Nine Scandinavians won an event in Europe or the PGA Tour in 2009; four of them - Dane Jeppe Huldahl and Sweden Oskar Henningsson, Christian Nilsson, and Alexander NorÃÆ' nà © n - are the first European Tour winners.
The total prize fund of 2005 on the PGA Tour is about $ 250 million. On the European Tour, it's over Ã, Â £ 80 million or about $ 130 million, slightly above 50 percent of what the American tour offers. However, these two totals include approximately $ 50 million prize money for seven jointly-approved events, the majors and the World Golf Championships. Excluding this, the European Tour offers less than 50 percent prize money as much as the PGA Tour. It can be argued that since PGA Tour members have more wins and the top 10 in seven events agreed together in recent years, the 50 percent figure is a better reflection of the actual financial resources of the European Tour relative to its rivals..
Regardless of World majors and Golf Championships events, the most profitable in the schedule, there is still more variation in prize funds on the European Tour than on the PGA Tour. Two key levels can be identified: not far from a million Euros, and those in the range of three to four million Euros. Most of the former groups are for joint sponsored events outside Europe and most of the latter are for events staged in Europe. At a January 2010 rate of around USD 1.40 per euro, a richer group of European tournaments offer wallets approaching and sometimes surpassing people from regular "regular" events on the PGA Tour, with their 2010 prize fund of $ 5-6 million.
The prize fund of many European Tour events has grown considerably since the late 1990s. Nevertheless, in 2005, more media attention was given to the perceived failure of the European Tour to attract many leading players to events such as in the past. It is unclear how the contradiction between this Tour seems to be weakened in a position on the pitch and its apparently strong sponsorship positions will play in the future. The role of Asia may be very important; in November 2005, a new European Tour event in China called the HSBC Champions tournament was played for the first time. For $ 5 million, it's the richest tournament ever played in Asia. Now has a wallet of $ 7 million, and became a World Golf Championships event starting in 2009.
In a decision that, according to the Associated Press, "reflects the changing nature of the global game", one young amateur of America, Peter Uihlein, announced in December 2011 that he would not return for his final semester at Oklahoma State University. and will begin playing professionally in Europe the following month - both through the exclusion of sponsors on the main tour and on the Tour Challenge development.
Financial Tour Europe is very dependent on the Ryder Cup. A few days before the start of the 2014 Ryder Cup, American golf journalist Bob Harig noted,
In simple terms, the European Tour lost money in the non-Ryder Cup year, generating a net profit in a few years when the event was played in the United States (where the PGA of America, not the PGA Tour, had the event and reaped most of the revenue), and then lottery hits in this year's tournament staged in Europe. Earlier this year, Golfweek reported that the European Tour earned more than 14 million pounds in earnings before tax in 2010, the last time the Ryder Cup was staged in Europe. A year later, when there was no Ryder Cup, it lost more than 2.2 million pounds.
Harig also added that the PGA European Tour attracts significant concessions from Ryder Cup venues. The owners of 2006 and 2010 venues (Sir Josheim Smurfit and Sir Terry Matthews respectively) are committed to organizing their European Tour event for more than a decade after winning offers, as well as guaranteeing wallets for these touring events.
The standard 36 hole cuts for European Tour events are 65 top professionals plus relationships.
The structure of the European Tour season
Season outline
Since 2000, with the exception of 2012, the actual season has begun at the end of the previous calendar year, but the season is still named by calendar year, rather than for example 2005-06, which will reflect the actual playing span of time. All events until the end of March take place outside Europe, with most of them subject to sanctions with other tours. Since then, the tour has mainly played in Europe, and events on the continent of his home generally have higher prize money than those held elsewhere, excluding major championships, which were added to the tour schedule in 1998; three World Golf Championship events, added the following year, mostly taking place in the United States; and HSBC Champions, was named to the World Golf Championship status in 2009.
Generally there is only slight variation in the overall pattern from one year to the next. Sometimes tournaments change places, and quite often change names, especially when they get new sponsors, but major events remain and traditional places in the schedule, and this determines the rhythm of the season.
Rolex Series
For the 2017 season, the European Tour launched the Rolex Series, a series of events with higher prize funds than regular tour events. The series starts with eight events, each with a prize fund of at least US $ 7 million; plan is to increase the number of series events in the future. The initial Rolex Series events are:
- BMW PGA Championship
- Open de France
- Irish Open
- Scottish Open
- Go to Italy
- Three events from the Final Series (see below):
- Turkish Airlines Open
- Nedbank Golf Challenge
- World Tour Championships DP, Dubai
Race to Dubai
In 2009, the Order of Merit was replaced by The Race To Dubai, with a $ 7.5 million (initially $ 10 million) pool bonus being distributed among the top 15 players at the end of the season, with the winner taking $ 1.5 million (initially $ 2 million). The new name reflects the addition of a new end of season tournament, the Dubai World Championships, held in late November in Dubai. The tournament also has a prize fund of $ 7.5 million (initially $ 10 million), and is contested by 60 leading players in the race following the season's second last event, Hong Kong Open. The winner of Race To Dubai also received a ten-year European Tour Liberation, while Dubai World Championship tournament winner received a five-year European Tour Liberation. The reduction of prize money, announced in September 2009, is due to the global economic crisis. In 2012, the bonus pool was reduced to $ 3.75 million with winners earning $ 1.0 million and only the top 10 earners earning bonuses. The bonus pool is upgraded to $ 5.0 million by 2014 with the top 15 players getting a share of the pool.
Final Series individual tournament winners
Current season
Order of winners Merit
The European Tour money list was known as the "Order of Merit" until 2009, when it was replaced by Race to Dubai. This is calculated in euros, though about half of the events have fixed prize funds in other currencies, especially the pound or US dollar. In this example, the amount is converted into euro by exchange rate for the week at which the tournament is played. The Order of Merit winner receives the Harry Vardon Trophy, not to be confused with the Vardon Trophy awarded by the PGA of America.
Leading career money winner
The table below shows the top 10 career leaders on the European Tour. Due to the increase in prize money over the years, it is dominated by current players. The numbers are not full player career earnings as most of them have earned millions more on other tours (especially PGA Tour) or from non-tour events. In addition, elite golfers often earn several times more from golf-related support and business interests as they do from prize money.
Start of season 2017
There is a top 100 list on the European Tour website here [1].
Golfers and rookies this year
The European Touring Tourer of the Year, since 2009 officially known as the The Best Dubai Tour of the Year this year is an award submitted by a panel composed of members of the Association of Golf Writers and television and radio commentators.
The European Tour's Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award was named after three-time British Open champion Sir Henry Cotton. Winners are now selected by panels comprising the PGA European Tour, Royal Golf Club and the Ancient St Andrews and the Golf Writers Association. Usually given to rookie who puts the highest on the Order of Merit, but this is not always the case. This award preceded the establishment of an official tour in 1972. There were five years when no rewards were made.
Many Winners - The Best Golfers of the Year
Television
- France: Sports Channel
- Germany: Sky Deutschland
- Italy: Sky Italia
- Portugal: Sports TV
- Spanish: Movistar Golf
- English and Irish: Sky Sports
- Americas: Golf Course
- Middle East and North Africa: OSN
- Sub-Saharian Africa: SuperSport
- China: CCTV
- India: Sony TEN
See also
- List of golfers with most of the European Tour wins
- Ladies European Tour: professional tour of the best European women.
References
External links
- Official website
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