‘BMW PGA Championship matches everything The Players has to offer’

Let us all say a huge thank you to golf bosses in America for the favour that was greatest they’ve ever done the European Tour.
In a stroke, they’ve dramatically elevated the status of this BMW PGA Championship, however although it was not something they planned.
By switching the PGA Championship to May to leave its FedExCup is cleared for by August, the interests of golfing forced the BMW PGA to move to September. In doing this, they unwittingly helped the European Tour resolve.
For the first time lately, the championship was all good news for lovers, sponsors, and the players, and the outcome has been a showcase event to coincide with some in the history of Wentworth.
And now, below the personalities in a championship earmarked exclusively for the PGA Tour’s Players Championship, the Wentworth occasion has, in my estimation, instantly climbed only following its autumn rebirth.
Most in America may scoff at that given the strength of the area each year but they would possibly be underestimating the importance of Tony Finau, Patrick Reed, along with Billy Horschel being at Wentworth last week. That trio may turn out to be an advance party for many more to come after the positives begin to feed back over the Atlantic.
Today, the European PGA Championship was respected by Americans but not recognised as a world event and you are able to understand why. For a beginning, the European Tour has struggled to acquire its best players to tee up in their flagship championship, never mind draw players from around the planet.
There really are a range of factors, most of them related to Wentworth’s position on the golf calendar, squeezed into a May that then comprised the Players Championship and also Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial Tournament. That week in May, early in the united kingdom growing season made it difficult for the path we’ve come to expect at tournaments.
Participants were often critical of their greens and also with the added complication of redesigns of the course, the build-up into the tournament every season was plagued by controversy. Without doubt, the event’s image was ruined and it appeared to be boxed in one way or another, though it was a highlight in the European Tour.
It was not helped four decades ago after the chief executive said it was the flagship event of the Union since its prize fund lagged behind the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
The following came rumblings of discontent itself when tensions were created by a new regime with members and together the Tour, that has its headquarters . All of the negative baggage – calendar-related or not – appears to have been left in the old May slot because the tournament has been still riding high on a tide of optimism.
September gives lots of freedom to the European Tour within the schedule and that is something they will surely utilise year to avoid any clashes in the. All in allthe enforced reboot of the BMW PGA Championship has, with the PGA Tour’s flagship , invited comparisons for me personally.
Aside from the obvious disparity in power of fields as matters stand, Wentworth matches everything Sawgrass has to offer and sometimes more, and I say this as someone who considered the Players Championship as my event in world golf.
On location alone, Wentworth, 15 minutes from Heathrow and on the edge of London, trumps Sawgrass easily. Ponte Vedra is over just two hours north of Orlando and its airport, Jacksonville, is not exactly an airline trip. Bear in mind who arrives in his private jet, there are thousands of others who have to get to championships on airlines.
It’s true that Wentworth includes a hole that could wreck any card as the par-three at Sawgrass, although the courses are different and not possible to compare like-for-like.
Additionally, much as I love the 18th in Sawgrass, I think Wentworth includes a more spectacular stadium arena on its finishing hole. What can not be contested is that Wentworth has a background of, although opinions about the two classes are subjective.
Between the BMW PGA, the older World Matchplay Championship and the 1953 Ryder Cup, the famous old course 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 have their own history at Sawgrass too and the Players Championship is considered to be the gem from the PGA Tour’s crown, however the European Tour has burnished its own gem and – handed a couple of years in its own new September championship – it may be a dazzling as brightly.

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