Europe, you’ve never had it so good
His members met with unprecedented success in the major championships. Rory McIlroy’s eight-shot victory in the US Open at Congressional in June was all the more remarkable after his collapse in the Masters two months earlier, while Darren Clarke’s British Open triumph at Royal St George’s was a success few could have imagined.
Masters champion Charl Schwartzel is also a regular on the European Tour, a body that has suffered serious blows with the loss of valued sponsorship but which could hardly have finished the year in a more auspicious manner.
