2020 European Tour: Recapping the start of the season
By Matt Coles
With a break on the European Tour this week, we are taking a look back at the first part of the 2020 season, with eight events down.
The new European Tour campaign started just four days after the DP World Tour Championship came to a conclusion in Dubai, as the Alfred Dunhill Championship took place on South African soil.
The non-European swing to start the 2020 season continued in Africa, with the AFRASIA BANK Mauritius Open, before the Australian PGA Championship took place in the week running up to Christmas.
After two weeks off over the holiday period, the European Tour returned to the Southern Hemisphere for the South African Open hosted by the City of Johannesburg, before the Tour moved to the desert for a three-week swing in the Middle East.
The Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship presented by EGA, the first Rolex Series event of the new season, took place from January 16-19, before the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and the Saudi International power by SoftBank Investment Advisers.
Last week’s ISPS Handa Vic Open, the second tournament on Australian soil so far in the 2020 campaign, was the eighth event of the season, which saw the eighth different winner crowned.
Those eight victors have hailed from six different countries, with Australia being the only nation to see its golfers crowned multiple times, with Adam Scott, Lucas Herbert, and Min Woo Lee all tasting success on the European Tour already in the 2020 season.
There have been eight winners, but only three men have topped the Race to Dubai leaderboard so far. Pablo Larrazabal, Branden Grace, and Lee Westwood are the three that have had the honour of leading the Tour’s season-long points race, which will go all the way through to the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai in November.
We are eight events into the season, but how did we get here? Here is our guide to the first part of the new European Tour campaign.