Tour Championship (Eurpn Snrs)
Europe
OKI
Played as the OKI Castellon Senior Tour Championship (Nov 5-7; European Senior Tour season-ending event; replaced in 2011 by the MCB Tour Championship). Second-placed José Rivero (Esp) finished 1 shot behind Mike Cunning (USA) who claimed his second win on the Tour. [GC Mediterráneo, Castellon, Spain].
Europe
OKI
Played as the OKI Castellon Senior Tour Championship (Nov 6-8; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Second-placed Ángel Franco (Par) finished 3 shots behind 50-year-old Mike Harwood (Aus), who recorded his first (and only) win on the Tour. [GC Mediterraneo, Castellon, Spain].
Europe
OKI
Played as the OKI Castellon Open Espana - Seniors Tour Championship (Nov 7-9; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Second-placed Ángel Fernández (Chile) and Katsuyoshi Tomori (Jpn) finished 2 shots behind Sam Torrance (Scot), who recorded his tenth win on the Tour. [GC Mediterraneo, Castellon, Spain].
Europe
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Played as the Kingdom of Bahrain Trophy - Seniors Tour Championship (Nov 8-10; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Second-placed Nick Job (Eng) finished one shot behind Costantino Rocca (Italy), who recorded the second of his two wins on the Tour. [Buckinghamshire GC, Denham, Bucks].
Europe
Arcapita
Played as the Arcapita Seniors Tour Championship (Nov 9-11; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Gordon J. Brand (Eng) beat Adan Sowa (Arg) with a par at the third playoff hole, to record his second win on the Tour. [Montgomerie course, The Royal GC, Bahrain; at the time known as Riffa Views GC].
Europe
Arcapita
Played as the Arcapita Seniors Tour Championship (Nov 10-12; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Second-placed and defending champion John Chillas (Scot) finished 2 shots behind 52-year-old Des Smyth (Ire), who recorded his first win on the Tour. [Montgomerie course, The Royal GC, Bahrain; at the time known as Riffa Views GC].
Europe
Estoril
Played as the Estoril Seniors Tour Championship (Oct 22-24; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Second-placed David Good (Aus) finished 2 shots behind John Chillas (Scot), who recorded his second win on the Tour. Chillas had previously recorded five second-place finishes in 2004, but no wins. [Oitavos Dunes, nr Cascais, Portugal].
Europe
Estoril
Played as the Estoril Seniors Tour Championship (Oct 10-12; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Second-placed Noel Ratcliffe (Aus), Keith MacDonald (Eng) and Yasushi "Dragon" Taki (Jpn) finished 8 shots behind Carl Mason (Eng). [Oitavos Dunes, nr Cascais, Portugal].
Europe
Estoril
Played as the Estoril Seniors Tour Championship (Oct 25-27; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Denis Durnian (Eng) beat Eamonn Darcy (Ire) at the first playoff hole, to claim the last of his three wins on the Tour. In the playoff, Darcy incurred a two-shot penalty for breaking a tree-branch during the practice swing on his second shot. [Quinta da Marinha GC, nr Cascais, Portugal].
Europe
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Played as the European Seniors Tour Championship (Nov 2-4; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Second-placed David Good (Aus) finished 1 shot behind 54-year-old Jerry Bruner (USA), who recorded the first of his three wins on the Tour. [PGA Catalunya, Caldes de Malavella, nr Girona].
Europe
Abu Dhabi
Played as the inaugural Abu Dhabi European Seniors Tour Championship (Oct 26-28; European Senior Tour season-ending event). Second-placed Diniz Priscillo (Brazil) finished 1 shot behind Denis O'Sullivan (Ire), who recorded his second win on the Tour, coming just one week after his first. [Abu Dhabi GC, UAE].
Tournaments:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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