Lasting no more than 20 minutes by one observer’s estimation, the expected clash between the LIV players in the BMW PGA Championship field was over almost before it began.
This week’s BMW PGA Championship represents the first time Fitzpatrick will tee it up competitively in his come country since his US Open victory three months ago.
The changing face of professional golf at the highest level is something on which Fitzpatrick holds some strong views, especially with regard to the DP World Tour’s place in any new order.
Third-round leader Francesco Laporta was having a disappointing final round when a wild approach shot on the 13th hole struck Pietro Consenza in the side of his head.
As the endless intricacies of the European Ryder Cup qualification played out in the background, the BMW PGA Championship was claimed by an American, Billy Horschel.
Christiaan Bezuidenhout – the world’s 44th-ranked golfer and number-one most difficult name for golf writers to spell – had a great opening round at the BMW PGA Championship on Thursday.
Making his first competitive appearance at Wentworth in 15 years, Scott nipped round the 7,267-yard Burma Road layout in a nifty 65 shots to sit only one stroke behind the early leader at the BMW PGA Championship, Kiradech Aphibarnrat.
One month after announcing a four-point plan – regulation, education, innovation and (reduction of) field sizes – to counter the cancer that is slow play in professional golf, the European Tour is proving as good as its word.
The four-month gap between May and September is going to have an influence on the kind of golf and the sorts of shots the perennially sizeable galleries will be treated to this week.
For a man boasting only a 50 percent success rate while leading through three rounds, Molinari put on a near impeccable display in search of the $US1,166,660 first-place cheque.
Australian Golf Digest
