European Tour - Seve Trophy

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Bit late in offering up this weeks ET extravaganza.... Well it's matchplay team event, designed to rival the presidents cup and give the european tour an extra team event.

Late change to the team for Continental Europe with and Injury to Alvaro Quiros, Raphael Jacquelin has been called into the team as the next in line on the qualifying list.

So what do we know about this relatively new offering.

1. The events inception back in 2000 was the birth of an idea from the great Seve himself. This was a time when the teams had playing captains and despite his form the great man carried his team to victory. To this day that remains the only victory Continental Europe have managed. The Mantle being held by GB&I in ebery subsequent event since.

2. The original event held at Sunningdale, we now move onto St Nomme la Breteche in france, with JVD captaining in his home land. Paul McGinley captains GB&I for a 2nd time in hope that another victory may enhance his chances of moving upto the big leagues and becoming a future RC captain.

3. Miguel Angel Jiminez will have the honour this year of hitting the opening tee shot at the event in memory of Seve himself who did so back in 2000 at Sunningdale. Fellow compatriot and RC captain JM Olazabal will be ever present to keep an eye on proceedings and maybe looking at who could do a job for him this time next year.

So to the teams for this year:
Europe:
T Bjorn
A Hansen
P Hanson
A Noren
M Mannasero
F Molinari
R Jacquelin
P Larrazabal
MA Jiminez
N Colsaerts
GB&I
L Westwood
D Clarke
I Poulter
J Donaldson
M Foster
S Dyson
R Fisher
D Horsey
R Rock
S Jamieson

So work out your pairings and winners from those of the above.

Briefly onto the challenge tour, a good win for Tommy Fleetwood last week in Kazahkstan taking the challenge tours richest regular event prize. After a slow start from Fleetwood a couple of top 3's and now a win have rocketed him up the rankings to No1 on the money list

2 other englishman in the top 5 on the CT list this year #4 Daniel Denison and #5 Jamie Moul. The rest of the top 5 made up with #2 Ricardo Santos of portugal and frenchman #3 Ben Herbert.

Herbert is the exception though and will no longer be competing on the CT and has no need to worry about gaining full exemption by way of his money list ranking. herbert has 3 victories on the CT already this year so has already gained his full exemption for the tour for remainder of this year and all of next.

Good to see the continetals making a comeback yesterday to help add something to the event this year, have to say been nice to watch it so far this year. Also Greensomes thi s morning an under used format imo. Good fun and really allows one person to play very aggressively once they know their partners safely in play.

On a side note does Raphael Jacquelin have the best swing and tempo on the european tour

Snapshot:

Poulter two down.
Just like Arsenal.

Westwood all square.
Just like Forest.

Is poulter now only one down?

He was!

Fair do's to Poulter, he and Dyson showed more character than Arsenal today; not even any sign of an own goal.

Very early start tomorrow due to storm expected in the afternoon. 7am start UK time.

Might get up and watch that.

Poulter v Matteo going to be quite a match up.

Europe up in 4, GB & I in 2, as in 2.

Makes for an exciting day.

For all its negatives from people, I thought the final days play was excellent and got really exciting which i didnt think it would do judging by the scores going into the final day.