McGinley rues lack of tempting Euro events

For a moment there, Paul McGinley had the cream of European golf within arm’s reach as the European Tour staged its flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship, on home turf at Wentworth.

By yesterday, though, they had scattered to the four winds once more.

Newly-minted BMW PGA champion Rory McIlroy and his fellow US-based stars such as Luke Donald, Justin Rose, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter had headed back across the Atlantic to Ohio for Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial tournament at Muirfield Village. And as the European Tour moves on to Malmo to play the Nordea Masters, Swedish heroes Henrik Stenson, Jonas Blixt, Robert Karlsson and Peter Hanson, along with Gothenburg-based Race To Dubai leader Thomas Bjorn of Denmark, will all be heading home to lead a strong field at PGA Sweden National.