At the end of a long, tough opening day for Marcel Siem in the DP World Tour’s PGA BMW Championship, just about the only good decision the German veteran seemed to make was to take to social media in the evening to explain a strange choice he made that got him disqualified.
It’s better to be lucky than good. It’s an old saying and not an altogether true one, but you wouldn’t have known it if you were watching the final hole of Jon Rahm’s second round at the BMW PGA Championship.
There’s something inherently poetic about a golfer searching for “the one” – not a swing or a coach, but a putter. For Adam Scott, that search has stretched across a decade.
At the end of a week in which just about every conversation and scrap of speculation revolved around the upcoming Ryder Cup, the winner of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth turned out to be someone who will never play for either side in the biennial trans-Atlantic tussle.
The BMW PGA marked the first time since the Open Championship nearly two months ago where significant points were available to the contingent who jumped to the eight-event series, which is not eligible for the ranking.
As ever, Reed was stout in his defence of the Saudi-backed circuit that has done so much to upset professional golf’s equilibrium and insistent that his trips across the Atlantic continue to be filled with nothing but fun and laughter.
DP World Tour officials, following advice in accordance with Official National Mourning Guidance from the British government’s department of Digital Culture, Media and Sport in the wake of Thursday’s death of Queen Elizabeth II, announced that they will restart the BMW PGA Championship on Saturday.