It seems something of a pity that, a week after the high falutin’ announcement of the European Tour rebranding as the DP World Tour, some of the players who gushed about the idea can’t be bothered to turn up at the DP World Tour Championship.
Two-time winner Jon Rahm? Not here. No Justin Rose or Viktor Hovland either.
Which is not to say the field is poor. It’s not.
But Rahm could have won the top spot in the seasonal rankings. Now he’s left it to be squabbled over by two Americans who’ve earned the top two spots more or less off the back of non-regular European Tour events.
Open champion Collin Morikawa enters the week ranked first and he’ll be chased by compatriot Billy Horschel, who won the BMW PGA Championship.
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