Arthur Wedge
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Same as last year - more of an Asian Tour event
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Same as last year - more of an Asian Tour event
Clearly not. Was the Hanan covered last year
BubbaP
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Asian Tour is in Macau, maybe you meant China Tour.
DPWT are giving out R2DR and RC points, so it seems a full DPWT event to me.
Maybe the logistics/costs just didn't stack up.
Although there was coverage of the China Open last week
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1 hour of highlights on Monday I now notice.
wjemather
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It's a new tournament for this season.
It's not an Asian Tour event at all.
Arthur Wedge
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Relies on host broadcast as well - I know there were 3 on the sunshine tour they didn’t broadcast
Does seem strange when China Open was shown. You'd have thought DP productions would have kept the infrastructure in China for it.
simsini
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Only one player in the top OWGR 100 is playing, so just a minor event really.
Arthur Wedge
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There is a gap after as well before they hit Europe
wjemather
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Reflects the sad reality of Keith Pelley's tenure - most regular DPWT events are now minor events with similar owgr ratings to the KFT.
Agreed although as I said strange if the production teams were covering last week why they wouldn't cover this especially with a highlights show on Monday. To be fair there is a gap and the European swing starts in two weeks time followed by the USPGA Championship so I guess those not elgible for the PGA tour are having time off
Arthur Wedge
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Been that way since all the players left to go to the PGAT in the 00’s
Really?
Many have all been supporters of the DP world tour. It has only been since the top 10 get PGA cards that the very top echeleon have opted to chase the $ in the US. Plenty still play the big flagship events
wjemather
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Simply not true. Let's leave the rewriting of history to the PGAT, shall we?
Arthur Wedge
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When was it you think the ET was last “strong” - you have to go back to the 90’s
wjemather
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That's a different question, but you wouldn't have to go back anything like that far.
Anyway, it's one thing naturally losing the top dozen or so players to the PGA Tour (and allowing them to get away with only play a very small number of big events) but it's quite another to send the next best 10 to join them every year and decimate the top end of the regular tour events.
Always had a lot of support well on the DP tour until recently with the top players gettign PGA access. Even now there is a strength in depth and with PGA cards on the line it gives those on the DP tour a huge goal toaim for. How long ago was it Fleetwood and others were regulars. Not that long and certainly since the 90's
BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
Aye.
'In 2016 the 13-event minimum was changed to five events, not counting the four majors and four WGCs; while this change did not affect players eligible for all the majors and WGCs, it made it easier for players not eligible for these to retain European Tour membership while playing a full PGA Tour schedule. The minimum was reduced from five to four in 2018.'
All water under the bridge now though
Arthur Wedge
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Those top players have moved across anyway
But the ET has been a “feeder” tour for a lot longer than before Pelly arrived
Top Europeans haven’t been playing consistently on regular events for decades
Montgomerie was prob the last one