EUROPEAN TOUR CONSIDERS NAME CHANGE
AS IT PREPARES TO GO GLOBAL

The European Tour is considering a change of name as it looks to forge even closer ties with the rest of the world in battling the strength of the American circuit.
Europe's players already find themselves travelling to Australasia, Asia and the Middle East, but many of the tournaments at home and abroad now take place with weaker fields because of conflicting events in the United States.
"The idea of amalgamating with other tours to put on a really attractive schedule by whatever name we call it is one that we are in the final stages of refining," European Tour executive director George O'Grady said today at Wentworth.
"Certainly it won't be a world tour - that's far too grand a title for me to come up with. We're the European Tour and we're working with all our partners to make, I would say, a hugely strong alternative to the US PGA Tour. We will be administering it and there might be a name change, yes."