DP World Tour ISPS Handa Championship Tee Times
The DP World Tour begins this week after the break for the Masters, won by one of their greatest stars, Jon Rahm.
It's the inaugural event in Japan, the ISPS Handa Championship, all the tee times available above.
Aaron Cockerill who recently signed a lucrative contract with Richardson Wealth has been at home near Winnipeg, playing Dad with new daughter Addison for the last 3 weeks, so we'll see what shape his game is in.
His last outing T13 66 69 72 65 at the Jonsson Workwear in South Africa.
Group 22 7.55am 10th Aaron Cockerill, Matthew Southgate, Ryuko Tokimatsu
Here is some news from europeantour.com re this event.
The DP World Tour further enhances its credentials as golf's global tour this week as Japan becomes the 51st different country to host an event on Tour. This week's event in Omitama is the fourth held in Asia in 2023 in a season that has already seen the Tour visit four continents and nine different countries. It is being co-sanctioned with the Japan Golf Tour Organisation and builds on the recently announced partnership between the DP World Tour, PGA TOUR and JGTO, that will see the top three players on the JGTO Order of Merit earn membership onto the DP World Tour each season.
The only previous event on Japanese soil to feature on the DP World Tour schedule was the Olympic Men’s Golf Competition at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Saitama in 2021. Isao Aoki was Japan's first winner on the DP World Tour in 1983 and since then Hideki Matsuyama has added a Major triumph at the Masters Tournament and two World Golf Championships to the nation's roll of honour. Could we see a fifth Japanese win this week?
Four-time Major Champion Ernie Els is sure to take big crowds with him as he goes in search of a third career win in Japan. The Big Easy won the 1993 Dunlop Phoenix Tournament at Phoenix Country Club and the 2001 World Cup of Golf at Taiheiyo Golf Club alongside fellow South African Major winner Retief Goosen, and arrives in Omitama fresh off a recent PGA TOUR Champions win. Thomas Bjørn is also looking for more success in Japan, having won the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament in 1999 and 2003, with Rafa Cabrera Bello, Rasmus Højgaard, Robert MacIntyre, Guido Migliozzi, Antione Rozner, Yannik Paul, Marcel Siem and Nicolas Colsaerts all teeing it up.
Japanese stars have been making a big impression on the DP World Tour so far this season and will be out to further impress on home soil. Last year's JGTO Order of Merit winner Kazuko Higa arrives after a Major Championship appearance at the Masters Tournament and will have Masahiro Kawamura and Ryo Hisatsune - both in the top 25 on the Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex - for company. Current JGTO Order of Merit leader Shugo Imahira is also in the field alongside DP World Tour members Rikuya Hoshino, Aguri Iwasaki, Taiga Semikawa and Takumi Kanaya
Bryan Angus
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