Seve Trophy, named after Ballesteros, final featured on the DP World Tour schedule in 2013; Hero Cup – utilizing the same format – was introduced forward of the BMW PGA Championship and can happen in Abu Dhabi in January 2023
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Javier Ballesteros, Seve’s son, criticised the DP World Tour on social media
The son of the late Seve Ballesteros has criticised the DP World Tour following the launch of the Hero Cup, a group match play contest geared toward boosting Europe’s bid to regain the Ryder Cup.
Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald will oversee the occasion in Abu Dhabi from January 13-15 together with two taking part in captains, with two 10-man groups competing in foursomes, fourballs and singles and all 20 gamers participating in every session.
The competitors successfully fills the hole left by the Seve Trophy, which was held eight instances between 2000 and 2013 and gave captaincy expertise to future Ryder Cup skippers Colin Montgomerie, Jose Maria Olazabal, Nick Faldo, Paul McGinley and Thomas Bjorn.
European captain Luke Donald says the brand new Hero Cup will assist put together European golfers for the Ryder Cup by permitting them to expertise group match play
Ballesteros, who died from problems of a cancerous mind tumour in 2011, additionally captained the European facet 4 instances, together with to a one-point victory within the inaugural occasion at Sunningdale in 2000.
The five-time main winner’s son Javier wrote on Twitter: “Final October an ET participant got here to me to say that European Tour was serious about bringing Seve Trophy again (I used to be very completely happy about this).
“I heard nothing extra about it till solely someday earlier than the announcement was made, when ET contacted me to let me know there was a “new” match play occasion – being this an actual copy of The Seve Trophy – and needed my dad to be concerned in a roundabout way.
“We clearly stated NO. We do not need something out of this, however solely The Seve Trophy again, not a replica of it. We consider our dad deserves one thing higher from The European Tour, given the unconditional help he all the time gave to The European Tour and the legacy he left behind.”
The European Tour was rebranded because the DP World Tour in November final yr.
DP World Tour deputy CEO Man Kinnings stated: “The ultimate preparations got here collectively in a short time to allow us to stage a group occasion in early 2023. I used to be personally in contact with the Ballesteros household earlier than the announcement to temporary them and we intend to debate additional with them.
“We honour Seve’s legacy in some ways. His identify adorns one in all our most important assembly rooms at our Wentworth HQ, we modified the identify of our gamers’ participant award to the Seve Ballesteros award in 2017 and I bear in mind within the 2018 Ryder Cup in France the place the very last thing our gamers noticed earlier than they left the locker room to go on the course was Seve’s Ryder Cup bag with the phrase written above it, ‘Because of this you might be right here’.
“We respect Seve’s legacy each single day and we are going to proceed to take action.”
