Earlier than among the world’s greatest skilled golfers converge upon the Residence of Golf in Scotland, the PGA Tour heads to the Quad Cities for the John Deere Traditional, and the DP World Tour will stage the BMW Worldwide Open in Munich, Germany.
LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed, at the moment the One hundred and first-ranked participant on this planet, highlights this week’s discipline in Bavaria. Reed is eligible to play in DP World Tour occasions, in contrast to 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 profitable the Soudal Open in his native Belgium in Could. Pieters completed one stroke behind 37-year-old Nacho Elvira of Spain.
Reed got here up quick final week, too. He hoped he might contend on the Italian Open, which awarded two spots into this 12 months’s Open Championship discipline by way of the Open Qualifying Sequence, 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 an alternative.
The 2018 Masters Champion shouldn’t be at the moment listed among the many entrants for subsequent week’s Genesis Scottish Open, the ultimate occasion of the Open Qualifying Sequence. That might change, nevertheless, 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 discipline embrace 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 will even 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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