New Tour Alliance Aims For Co-Sanctioned Events Around The Open, Post-FedExCup

Now that I’ve gotten your attention…yes, actually, it takes no imagination at all to picture the above-mentioned in the headline. But that was the one “reveal” Keith Pelley gave Sportsmail in a Monday interview following last Friday’s news dump of a PGA Tour-European Tour alliance.

This should have happened ages ago in the form of WGC’s or when geographically logical:

Starting in 2022, look for co-sanctioned events in Britain for players on both tours built around the Open at St Andrews and in the autumn following the end of the FedEx Cup.

‘Those are areas offering great opportunities where we’ve agreed to look closely to see what we can do,’ said Pelley.

‘I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to sit in the room as partners rather than competitors. It totally changes the dynamic.’

‘Those are areas offering great opportunities where we’ve agreed to look closely to see what we can do,’ said Pelley.

Well, a room being a Zoom call for a while still.

There was also this image from Pelley:

‘We come together with the shared desire to make a global schedule and when you have that as your opening objective, everything can flow,’ said Pelley.

‘I can’t get into specifics and pontificate about tiers because we haven’t had what I would call our white-board meetings, where everyone empties their minds and gets creative. I just think the possibilities are endless.’

Endless until they go to those creativity killers on the player boards where most good ideas go to be tabled for slow play discussions.