The European Tour
The European Tour is often used as an abbreviation for the PGA European Tour (PGA standing for Professional Golfers’ Association) which is golfing organisation responsible for leading three of the leading professional men’s gold tours across Europe. These are the elite European Tour, the Challenge Tour and the European Seniors Tour. The organisation has its headquarters in Virginia Water, Surrey, England at the Wentworth Club, but it is run by the playing members themselves through a selection of 12 past and current members.
Of course often the ‘European Tour’ simply refers to the tour itself of the same name, and this is a very large and prestigious golfing event. The reason that the European Tour is such a ‘big deal’ in the golfing world is that it is the primary golfing Tour in Europe, and only second to the US PGA Tour on the world stage. As the main purpose of the event is to raise the income of professional golfers this ensures that it attracts a lot of players and attention, and for this reason it has a ‘purse’ of around $7 million dollars meaning that it has $7.5 million or more to give out in prize money.
The European Tour, like any golfing tour, is made up of a number of tournaments (47 for the 2010 European Tour) which take place across the season with each golfer collecting a cumulative score over this time (there are generally roughly 60 golfers competing in the seasons). The seasons of the tours do not line up with calendar years despite being named as such – so it is named 2005 rather than 2005-2006. Each of these tournaments will take place in different countries Despite being named the European Tour, not all of the events take place in Europe, and in fact many such as the Hong Kong Open do not. The majority of those tournaments played in Europe meanwhile tend to stick to Western Europe, with the more lucrative tours taking place in Ireland, England, Germany, Spain and France. Many of the championships are co-sanctioned with other tours. Since 2009′s, the final tournament has taken place in Dubai – and thus the European Tour’s money list has been renamed ‘Race to Dubai’ instead of ‘Order of Merit’.
The European Tour Teams
A number of the tournaments in the European Tour then attract a lot of attention and take place in some stunning locations meaning that it gets lots of viewers and lots of media coverage. It also includes four major championships, four World Golf Championships and the Ryder’s Cup.
This post was written by admin on March 30, 2011
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