Before I get on with the post... In case you hadn't heard, the LPGA has named the new sponsor for their first major of the year, formerly called the Kraft Nabisco Championship. It will now be known as the ANA Inspiration, will be sponsored by All Nippon Airways (one of Japan's largest airline companies, which now becomes the official airline of the LPGA), and will still be played at the same course in Rancho Mirage CA. You can read more details in this article from The Desert Sun .
It's in the end right here. It can be a bit anticlimactic -- after all, Rory quite a lot had the Race to Dubai locked up more than one weeks ago -- however there may be nonetheless a trophy, a few huge greenbacks, and extreme bragging rights up for grabs on the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai.
Most of the large names are there, so you'll get to peer many of your favored players from round the sector. Everybody from Rory and Henrik and Justin to Lee Westwood and "the Most Interesting Golfer inside the World" is teeing it up. According to europeantour.Com, there are 21 distinctive international locations represented.
There are only Americans there, but each are Tour winners -- David Lipsky received the Omega European Masters in advance this 12 months, and of route Brooks Koepka won the Turkish Airlines Open simply this beyond week. (Bear in mind that most effective 29 of the 60 players inside the area gained this 12 months, so it's announcing something.) Koepka is also one of the most effective two newcomers to make the occasion.
GC begins 5-hour coverage in the middle of the night tonight (that's super-early on Thursday morning) for those of us here in the USA at 3am ET . If you're like me and have no intentions of staying up that late, you can catch a shorter version at a more normal 10am ET Thursday morning. ;-)
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