There is no doubt in my neck of the woods that Fall has arrived, the temperature is just 5*c this morning, and for many the pro golf season was over after the PGA Championship, if not then certainly after the euphoria of the Ryder Cup.
In fact nothing could be further from the truth, as Fall in the northern hemisphere, spring in the southern brings tons of important, exciting meaningful golf.
The Race to Dubai continues at the Portugal Masters this week, ( live scoring http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2014/tournamentid=2014080/leaderboard/index.html ) and after the Volvo World Match Play in Kent next week travels to Hong Kong, Australia then the Final Series with 2 huge events including a WGC in China, then Turkey and the $10m finale in Dubai..
The aptly named Fall Series begins today on the PGA Tour in Napa, California at the Frys.com ( live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/frys-com-open/leaderboard.html ) where a record 6 Canadians, Mike Weir, David Hearn, Graham DeLaet, Brad Fritsch, Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor are in the field with a seventh, Roger Sloan as the fourth alternate, followed by the Shriners in Las Vegas, the McGladery Classic at Sea Island in Georgia, before flying to Malaysia for the CIMB then to China for the WGC- HSBC and any money won here counts fully in 2015..
With 4 events left to go in the Charles Schwab Cup race,the Champions Tour continues with the SAS this weekend in North Carolina (live scoring http://www.pgatour.com/champions/tournaments/sas-championship/leaderboard.html,) the LPGA continues their 6 event Asian swing in Malaysia at the Sime Darby (live scoring http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx) and they still have Q School looming, Stage 1 of the Web.com Q school gets underway this weekend (live scoring http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq14/schedule/upcoming.htm ), while the PGA Tour LatinoAmerica carries on through December in Mexico then South America. ( http://www.pgatourla.com/leaderboard/m2014130/?lg=en#.VDZ6qzpMvMx)
Rory McIlroy will join Adam Scott and all the Aussies, Kiwi's, Springboks and a handful of invited Americans playing the Australasian Tour starting next week culminating in their PGA, Masters and Open championships..
Then there is the silly season invitational events like the Nedbank Challenge in Sun City and Tiger's challenge event in California..
I'll have it all right here, live scoring, stories galore. Pro golf is a global game these days, huge prize money, big fields, big names all this Fall..
Bryan Angus..
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