Earlier than a few of the world’s greatest skilled golfers converge upon the House of Golf in Scotland, the PGA Tour heads to the Quad Cities for the John Deere Basic, and the DP World Tour will stage the BMW Worldwide Open in Munich, Germany.
LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed, at present the One hundred and first-ranked participant on this planet, highlights this week’s area in Bavaria. Reed is eligible to play in DP World Tour occasions, not like different LIV Golf gamers, as a result of he has no excellent fines or sanctions. The identical applies to Thomas Pieters, who narrowly missed out on successful the Soudal Open in his native Belgium in Might. Pieters completed one stroke behind 37-year-old Nacho Elvira of Spain.
Reed got here up quick final week, too. He hoped he may contend on the Italian Open, which awarded two spots into this yr’s Open Championship area by way of the Open Qualifying Collection, however he got here up quick. Tom McKibbin, who misplaced to Marcel Siem in a playoff, and American Sean Crocker earned these two invitations to Royal Troon as a substitute.
The 2018 Masters Champion shouldn’t be at present listed among the many entrants for subsequent week’s Genesis Scottish Open, the ultimate occasion of the Open Qualifying Collection. That might change, nonetheless, ought to Reed win this week in Germany.
The R&A will invite the highest three finishers—not in any other case exempt—to affix The Open Championship on the Renaissance Membership in North Berwick subsequent week.
Different notable gamers within the BMW Worldwide Open area embody Austrian Bernd Wiesberger, who left LIV Golf on the finish of 2023, former U.S. Open champion Martin Kaymer, and Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald. PGA Tour Champions stars Bernhard Langer, Thomas Bjørn, Miguel Angel Jimenez, and Alex Cejka may also compete this week, recent off the U.S. Senior Open at Newport Nation Membership, the place LIV Golf’s Richard Bland received his second consecutive senior main.
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