Oh No Another Florida Swing? European Tour Considers Three Events This May

Nothing says Europe like three weeks of Florida tournament golf.

But with restrictions on traveling to and from Spain and Portugal, the European Tour’s current post-Masters schedule has issues. And since playing opportunities are all that matters, they’ve turned to their new global strategic alliance partners reports The Telegraph’s James Corrigan.

What a gift. A second Florida swing because one wasn’t enough? Who needs Tenerife, Gran Canaria and the Algarve when you can go to Tallahassee, Gainesville and the Villages?

Corrigan writes:

Not only has the PGA Tour given their sanction to the prospective tournaments, but it is understood they first proposed the idea as they saw their new partners struggling with the schedule due to the ongoing crisis.

Immediately after The Masters at Augusta, the Tour is down to visit Tenerife, Gran Canaria and the Algarve. But with Spain banning visitors from the UK and South Africa and with Portugal on the red list, the “elite athlete” exemption would not apply.

On average, roughly a third of European Tour fields are made up by South African and UK pros, making it doubtful this trio of stops could justifiably go ahead. At the moment, the Tour is undergoing a frustrating four-week blank period of regular events and Keith Pelley, the wily chief executive, has made it his mission to give his membership ample opportunities.

Florida here they come!