"European Tour" redirects here. For other uses, see European Tour (disambiguation).
PGA European Tour
Current season, competition or edition: 2024 European Tour
Formerly
Volvo Tour PGA European Tour PGA European Golf Tour PGA European Tournament Players' Division PGA Tournament Players' Division PGA Tournament Players' Section
Sport
Golf
First season
1972
CEO
Guy Kinnings
Director
David Williams (Chairman)
Countries
Based in Europe[a]
Most titles
Order of Merit titles: Colin Montgomerie (8) Tournament wins: Seve Ballesteros (50)
TV partner(s)
Sky Sports (UK) Golf Channel (United States)
Related competitions
Challenge Tour European Senior Tour Safari Circuit
Official website
www.europeantour.com
The European Tour, currently titled as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, and legally the PGA European Tour or the European Tour Group, is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe.[1] The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged 50 or older) and the developmental Challenge Tour; the second tier of men's professional golf in Europe. The tour's headquarters are at the Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. The European Tour was established by the British-based Professional Golfers' Association through the 1970s, and responsibility was transferred to an independent PGA European Tour organisation in 1984.[2]
Most tournaments on the PGA European Tour's three tours are held in Europe, but starting in the 1980s an increasing number have been held in other parts of the world; in 2015 a majority of the ranking events on the European Tour were held outside Europe, though this included both Majors and World Golf Championship events that are ranking events for multiple tours. Europe-based events are nearly all played in Western Europe, with the most lucrative of them taking place in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France and Spain.
The PGA European Tour is a golfer-controlled organisation whose primary purpose is to maximise the income of tournament golfers. It is a company limited by guarantee and is run by a professional staff but controlled by its playing members via a board of directors composed of 12 elected past and present tour players and a tournament committee of 14 current players. The chairman of the board is David Williams who replaced Neil Coles who had held the post for 38 years.[3] The chairman of the tournament committee is Thomas Bjørn.
The PGA European Tour is the lead partner in Ryder Cup Europe, a joint venture also including the PGA of Great Britain and Ireland and PGA of Europe that operates the Ryder Cup Matches in cooperation with the PGA of America. The PGA European Tour has a 60% interest in Ryder Cup Europe, with each of its junior partners holding 20%.[4]
In June 2023, it was announced that the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and the European Tour would merge under a single organisation.[5]
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^"A new era in global golf': European Tour to be renamed DP World Tour". The Guardian. 9 November 2021. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
^"Tour History". PGA European Tour. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
^"European Tour appoints first non-professional chairman". BBC Sport. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
^Harig, Bob (23 September 2014). "At Ryder Cup, follow the money". ESPN. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
^"PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf agree to stunning merger". Sky Sports. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
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Global Information
2024 European Tour
Colin Montgomerie (8)
Seve Ballesteros (50)