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
x
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
x
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:
European Tour: 2021 marks the 50th and last season of the world renowned European Tour, launched in April 1972 at the Spanish Open. From 2022 the Tour will be sponsored by Dubai-based global supply chain and ports operator DP World, and will be known as the DP World Tour.
South African Open: December 2021 events in South Africa have again been impacted by the Covid pandemic. The South African Open (Dec 2-5) will no longer be played as a DP World Tour event, and the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 9-12) has been cancelled.
Who's Who:
Bernhard Langer: at age 64, Langer collected a record sixth Charles Schwab Cup, the only player to have won the season-long points chase more than twice. He also topped the PGA Tour Champions money-list for the 11th time out of a possible 13 since 2008.
Carlota Ciganda: the five-time Solheim Cup star was delighted to record a fourth Ladies European Tour win in her home national championship, the Ladies Spanish Open.
Lee Elder: Trailblazer, Ryder Cup player, four-time PGA Tour winner and eight-time Senior PGA Tour winner, Lee Elder died on November 28, aged 87. In 1975 he became the first African American golfer to play in the Masters tournament, and in so doing provided one of the pivotal moments in the history of professional golf.
Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses in Europe. From France to Spain to the Netherlands and Norway, the Golf World Top 100 panel reveals the places you have to play (published 20 October 2021).
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.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club "makes its tournament debut with the hosting of the Italian Open on the European Tour" by Richard Humphreys
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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