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The 12 European gamers of the Ryder Cup in Rome, in addition to the captain and 4 of the 5 vice-captains, compete within the BMW PGA Championship, a event of the Rolex Sequence of the DP World Tour which reached its 69th version this 12 months.
From 14 to 17 September in England, at Virginia Water, there can be six of the perfect fifteen on the planet competing.
BMW PGA Championship, schedule
From the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy (second) to the Spaniard Jon Rahm (third), from the Norwegian Viktor Hovland (fourth), to the English Matt Fitzpatrick (eighth), Tyrrell Hatton (thirteenth) and Tommy Fleetwood (fourteenth).
These are essentially the most anticipated stars of some of the essential occasions of the best males’s continental circuit which can even see the presence of three Italians: with the Molinari brothers, Francesco (he took up the competitors in 2018, 5 years after Matteo Manassero and 22 after Costantino Rocca) and Edoardo, each among the many vice-captains of the Europe staff on the Ryder Cup in Rome (29 September – 1 October on the course of the Marco Simone Golf & Nation Membership), Guido Migliozzi can even be there.
Defending the title is the Irishman Shane Lowry, additionally within the continental staff within the Everlasting Metropolis. As regards the Europe staff, along with these already talked about, in England there can even be room for the British Justin Rose, the Scotsman Robert MacIntyre, the Austrian Sepp Straka, the Dane Nicolai Hojgaard and the Swede Ludvig Aberg.
And once more: for captain Luke Donald (winner of the BMW PGA Championship in each 2016 and 2017), the Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts and the Dane Thomas Bjorn, vice-captains with the Molinari and the Spaniard Josè Maria Olazabal (the one one absent at Wentworth).
After testing the Marco Simone Golf & Nation Membership course, the Europeans flew to England for a Ryder Cup gown rehearsal.The BMW PGA Championship will supply a prize pool of 9,000,000 {dollars}, the best ever on the 2023 circuit after the DP World Tour Championship (10,000,000 {dollars}).The competitors, named after the trophy donated by Englishman Samuel Ryder (1858–1936) to the American federation in 1924, is co-managed by the European Tour and the PGA of America.From 1927 to 1971 the event happened between the collection of the USA and that of Nice Britain, with a transparent American dominance (15-3) and just one draw.
Eire was included into Nice Britain in 1973 and the remainder of continental Europe in 1979. Following the acceptance of the European staff as an antagonist of the US staff, the event was far more balanced: from 1979 to 2018, in truth, there have been eleven successes for Europe, eight for the USA and just one draw.
