European Tour principles out staging gatherings in U.S. this yr

(Reuters) – The European Tour has dominated out staging some occasions in the United States this 12 months, Main Government Keith Pelley mentioned.

As portion of a strategic alliance with the U.S.-centered PGA Tour, the European Tour was checking out the risk of keeping a number of tournaments in Florida owing to COVID-19 journey constraints in Europe.

“As a worldwide Tour we facial area worries due to current worldwide travel constraints and we consequently should investigate all selections offered to make certain our members play a comprehensive routine,” Pelley explained in a statement.

“The offer you to stage functions in the United States was a generous just one by the PGA Tour and exhibits the strength of the strategic alliance in between our two Tours that we introduced late final year.

“Nonetheless … our intention is to keep with our existing timetable and that stays our program. At the same time, however, we are consistently monitoring the fluid predicament throughout Europe.”

In December the Tour announced its world wide routine for the 2021 time featuring 42 tournaments in 24 countries, with each individual of the 4 Rolex Series occasions supplying an increase in prize funds.

The routine noticed the return of 18 tournaments which ended up both cancelled or postponed in 2020 owing to the pandemic.

Functions are scheduled to just take location in Spain and Portugal up coming thirty day period, followed by tournaments in France, England and Denmark in May.

(Reporting by Arvind Sriram in Bengaluru Modifying by Peter Rutherford)