Now that the PGA Tour has altered its schedule and will finish its season before football fills weekends in the United States, its European counterpart is more than happy to claim the late summer and fall.
The result was a huge shift in the 2019 European Tour schedule announced last week, with five of its high-profile events moving from the spring and summer to September and October, which officials hope sets up a more momentous finish.
That cluster includes the tour’s flagship BMW P.G.A. Championship, another Rolex Series event in the Italian Open and longstanding stops in Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands.