Posts Tagged European Tour


Eagle from bunker gives Noren first European Tour title

The second man who ever walked on the lunar surface may have been in the galleries but it was Sweden’s Alexander Noren who was over the moon at the Omega European Masters in Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland. Noren, being watched by former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, shot a five-under-par 66 in the final round for total of […]

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Slocum slays big guns for opening FedEx Cup win

Heath Slocum nailed a 21-foot pressure putt on the 18th to emerge from a list of golfing luminaries led by Tiger Woods and win The Barclays tournament by a single stroke. Slocum barely qualified to compete in the FedEx Play-offs and the last thing he expected was to be fighting on the final day of […]

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Dubai finale prize money down 25 per cent, say media reports

The Race to Dubai is still on but without the bellows of record prize money that accompanied its launch last year. The European Tour, in its efforts to match the rival US PGA Tour in prize money and prestige, last year devised a revamped circuit, running through a calendar year and replacing the Order of […]

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Casey leads Race to Dubai

It is well past the half-way stage of the inaugural Race to Dubai of the European Tour that eventually ends in a US$20 million grand finale called the Dubai World Championship. There was a lot of hype leading up to its launch last year as European Tour organisers looked to lift a flagging product with […]

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Europe and Asia join forces to form new golfing alliance

In what appears to be a pincer movement on the Aussie-backed OneAsia Tour, the Asian Tour and European Tour have joined forces to create a regional mega-organisation to strengthen their presence. EurAsia Golf Ltd is a new alliance between the Asian Tour and European Tour and represents a tangible joint venture in which a company […]

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Waters supports Asian Tour over China Open status

The Asian Tour has enjoyed a fruitful if somewhat strained relationship with the Europeans over the past few years. There are several tournaments in Asia that reside on both tours, including events in Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Australia and China. Their biggest bust-up was in 2008 when Asian Tour chiefs accused their European Tour counterparts of […]

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