‘No to PGA Tour’

The sentences you don’t expect when you least expect them. During the pre-match interviews of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in St. Andrews, Matt Fitzpatrick, defending champion of the tournament, shared his thoughts very directly.

“I don’t think the Tour should have made an agreement with the PGA Tour” “Honestly, I was quite furious with Wentworth when I found out that a handful of PGA Tour players were coming to play the tournament, and that at that point not all players who kept their card (DP World Tour, ed.) last year are in the field.

That’s our flagship event”

Fitzpatrick, statements

“There were no invitations for European Tour players to The Players Championship. Why did we invite them to Wentworth?”. Heavy words like boulders, said by a player who regularly plays on the PGA Tour.

Fitzpatrick has his own original vision (developed with Billy Foster, his caddy and a legendary figure on the European Tour) about the future of professional golf, and it is based on football, of which he is a huge fan. ‘In principle there are three major championships’ ‘They can be merged, expanding the mechanism of relegation and promotion, an area in which there is room to work’ ‘If they were all together, I think there would be a great advantage would be. anyway” “Of course I know that LIV is a closed circle and that they also have the Teams component” “As a football fan I like the team theme.

But since we are talking about a closed circle, there is not much to say.” “But at the same time, the PGA Tour is also changing and moving in that direction. Which format do they want to continue? A field of 70 players? I have no idea.”

The PGA Tour is an organization that manages the major professional golf tours in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Ponte Vedra Beach, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida. The official name is written in all capital letters, namely “PGA TOUR”.

The PGA Tour became a separate organization in 1968 when it separated from the PGA of America, which is now primarily an association of golf professionals, such as instructors and club managers. The tournament players first formed their own organization, the Association of Professional Golfers (APG).

Later, in 1968, the players abolished the APG and agreed to operate as the PGA “Tournament Players Division”, a fully autonomous division of the PGA, overseen by a new 10-member Tournament Policy Board.