LIV golfer Richard Bland blasts DP World Tour over partnership with PGA Tour, new Ryder Cup qualifying | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

OTTERSHAW, England — Count Richard Bland as one long-time (and now former) member of the DP World Tour who is not exactly a big fan of the November 2020 “strategic alliance” the ex-chief executive of the former European Tour, Keith Pelley, brokered with the PGA Tour. In an outspoken press conference on the eve of the Asian Tour’s International Series – England tournament at the Foxhills Country Club just outside London, Bland, recent winner of the Senior PGA Championship and U.S. Senior Open, left no doubt as to the depth and extent of his feelings.

In particular, Bland, who famously recorded the first win of his then uneventful European/DP World Tour career at the 478th attempt before defecting to LIV Golf, took aim at the annual agreement that sees the top 10 players on the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai points list who don’t already own PGA Tour cards …