Before a number of the world’s finest skilled golfers converge upon the Home of Golf in Scotland, the PGA Tour heads to the Quad Cities for the John Deere Classic, and the DP World Tour will stage the BMW International Open in Munich, Germany.
LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed, at the moment the One hundred and first-ranked participant on the planet, highlights this week’s subject 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 similar applies to Thomas Pieters, who narrowly missed out on profitable the Soudal Open in his native Belgium in May. Pieters completed one stroke behind 37-year-old Nacho Elvira of Spain.
Reed got here up brief final week, too. He hoped he might contend on the Italian Open, which awarded two spots into this 12 months’s Open Championship subject through the Open Qualifying Series, however he got here up brief. 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 just isn’t at the moment listed among the many entrants for subsequent week’s Genesis Scottish Open, the ultimate occasion of the Open Qualifying Series. 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 hitch The Open Championship on the Renaissance Club in North Berwick subsequent week.
Other notable gamers within the BMW International Open subject 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 even compete this week, recent off the U.S. Senior Open at Newport Country Club, the place LIV Golf’s Richard Bland received his second consecutive senior main.
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