Honorary member of the DP World Tour in 2019 after winning the Masters the previous year Patrick Reed was still on the entry list for this week’s Genesis Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick.
Since this morning the American Patrick Reed for which a doubt remained since he had not participated in the first tournament of the LIV Golf Invitational is no longer in the Entry List of l’Open d’Ecosse which kicks off in East Lothian on Thursday.
He joins the banned list along with Americans from the PGA Tour like DeChambeau, Mickelson, Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Na. The South Africans Oosthuizen, Schwartzel also deprived of this Rolex Series preparatory to The Open.
Europeans fined
European players who did not renounce their membership on the DP World Tour were also removed from starters last week under penalties imposed par Keith Pelley, le boss de l’European Tour Groupafter the US Open.
Exit therefore Poulter, Westwood, Garcia, McDowell, Kaymer, Horsfield, Canter, Otaegui or Wiesberger winner in 2019. It was whispered Sunday evening that aa request was going to be filed this Monday with a judge in order to ask to invalidate this sanction and allow these players to participate. To be continued.
Despite his absence the field of players is the strongest ever for a regular tournament since the 2007 Wachovia Championship with 14 of the top 15 players in the world.
Apart from Majors, WGC and The Players, the last tournament to have brought together the top 15 in the world rankings without exception was the Bay Hill Invitational in 1995!
