Gavin Green 25/1 © Volvo China Open, Richard Castka/Sportpixgolf.com
This is the final week of what has been dubbed the UK Swing of the rescheduled European Tour before moving to continental Europe.
The European Tour moves from one Ryder Cup venue to another going from the Celtic Manor to the Belfry and to the venue that basically changed the history of the modern-day Ryder Cup matches. The Brabazon course has hosted four Ryder Cups and Europe has won two, halved one and lost one and is a firm favourite for European spectators, but it was the 1985 matches here when Europe finally turned the tide of American domination in the biannual event.
The Brabazon opened for play in 1977 with a match between Seve Ballesteros and Johnny Miller against Tony Jacklin and Brian Barnes and how poetic that it was Seve and Jacklin who played that opening match as they would go on to become entwined in the Belfry’s history.
