European Tour BMW PGA Championship final leaderboard http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2019/tournamentid=2019080/leaderboard/index.html#/results
Danny Willett was ranked 462 in the world when he missed the cut at this event last year. His form was all but gone, he struggled with injury after he won the 2016 Masters. However he was still young and he battled back, making slow gains in confidence and finally entered the winners circle at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, and yesterday he hung on to best a determined Jon Rahm by 3 shots for his 7th career win, and a spot in the world's top 40.
"It doesn't get much better does it?" he said. "An emotional week. It was a good battle out there today with myself more than anyone else and it was nice to come through the other side.
"(I've had) an undying want to get back there. I was willing to change whatever had to be changed and I think that's pretty hard to do, it's hard to jump full throttle into something that you're not quite sure if it's going to work out or not. I was able to jump in there and I had the correct people around me. All the work that we've put in has come forward."
* Funny old game is golf. Rory McIlroy had another of his "gone walkabouts" rounds on Thursday struggling to get in with a 76, completely at a loss for why. He came out Friday morning seven shots better at 69, then right back on form had a 65, 67 weekend to finish in the top 10 yet again T9 at -11.
* Our former colleague here in Toronto at Rogers, the Argos and TSN, Keith Pelley was a complete unknown to the European Tour, until his interview for the CEO position, and in typical Pelley form he has won everyone over with his leadership. He has listened intently for a year, travelled to all 48 events over 5 continents, and steadily introduced his insights and vision to improve the tour for it's players and fans worldwide.
Yesterday he introduced his plan to rebrand the European Tour. Read all about it here https://www2.europeantour.com/european-tour/news/articles/detail/european-tour-reveals-brand-refresh-aimed-at-driving-golf-further/
"(I've had) an undying want to get back there. I was willing to change whatever had to be changed and I think that's pretty hard to do, it's hard to jump full throttle into something that you're not quite sure if it's going to work out or not. I was able to jump in there and I had the correct people around me. All the work that we've put in has come forward."
* Funny old game is golf. Rory McIlroy had another of his "gone walkabouts" rounds on Thursday struggling to get in with a 76, completely at a loss for why. He came out Friday morning seven shots better at 69, then right back on form had a 65, 67 weekend to finish in the top 10 yet again T9 at -11.
* Our former colleague here in Toronto at Rogers, the Argos and TSN, Keith Pelley was a complete unknown to the European Tour, until his interview for the CEO position, and in typical Pelley form he has won everyone over with his leadership. He has listened intently for a year, travelled to all 48 events over 5 continents, and steadily introduced his insights and vision to improve the tour for it's players and fans worldwide.
Yesterday he introduced his plan to rebrand the European Tour. Read all about it here https://www2.europeantour.com/european-tour/news/articles/detail/european-tour-reveals-brand-refresh-aimed-at-driving-golf-further/
* José María Olazábal played his 25th BMW PGA Championship, 25 years after he lifted the trophy at Wentworth Golf Club. His 25th appearance was also his last and he was given a fitting send off as fellow Spaniards gave him a guard of honour. It was an emotional goodbye to the two time Major winner.
PGA Tour Sanderson Farms Championship final leaderboard https://www.pgatour.com/competition/2020/sanderson-farms-championship/leaderboard.html
* Meanwhile it wasn't a great start to the year for the 5 Canadians who teed it up at the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi with David Hearn the only one to make the cut. He shot 68 73 67 70 -10 T23 and put $59,070 into his 2019/20 bank account as a result.
Bryan Angus
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