MCB Tour Championship Pressbook December 2022

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MCB Tour Championship preview: Who's in contention as the Legends Tour season comes to a close?

MCB Tour Championship preview: Who's in contention as the Legends Tour season comes to a close?

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Matt Cooper is in Mauritius for the Legends Tour season fnale

by Matt Cooper | December 7, 2022 | Tour

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There have been winds of change around Europe’s senior circuit for quite a while now and, as it prepares for the season-ending MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius at Constance Belle Mare Plage, the prospect is for more of the same in 2023.

Seven years ago what was once the European Senior Tour had descended to just 12 events on the schedule, down from a high of 22 in 2011.

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By 2018 it had been re-branded the Staysure Tour, the frst instance of a European Tour Group circuit taking sponsorship.

The entire 2020 season was cancelled due to Covid, a decision that provoked ire from many players but one which was understandable given that the tour’s members were quite literally the defnition of one of the most-at-risk demographics.

That campaign should have been the debut of yet another rebranding exercise – the launch of the Legends Tour. Instead that was delayed until 2021.

It saw the operating of the tour taken in-house by Staysure and away from Wentworth. An alliance competition gave amateur golfers – albeit ones with deep pockets – the opportunity to play alongside the pros while a Celebrity Series added a dash of glamour.

As middle aged and old men are prone to, there was grumbling among the members by the season’s end. A lot of their golf was played in the presence of hackers (tournaments always feature pro-ams as well) and some carped that the celebrities, rather than the golfers, had become the stars of the show.

Ryan Howsom, owner of Staysure and the driving force behind the changes, argued that increased prize money and more attention in the long run would overcome the doubters.

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And now, as 2022 has just a week of action remaining, further prospects of change have emerged.

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