Euro Tour future in jeopardy?

The sun may have set on the final major of the year but the world’s leading golfers have already switched their attention to the PGA Tour’s lucrative FedEx Cup play-offs.

This week marks the final tournament of the American tour’s regular season at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina, where Padraig Harrington will be among those scrambling to break into the top 125 in the FedEx points standings and qualify for the first play-offs The Barclays, beginning in two weeks.

Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, European Tour members sit idle, their schedule having thrown up a blank week in the height of summer. In fact, for those not fortunate enough to have qualified for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational or the PGA Championship, the last opportunity a rank and file member had to tee it up was at the M2M Russian Open, which ran July 22-25.