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Smyth can sympathise but is also more positive about the future of the European Senior Tour.

“Yes I suppose it is [like Perry’s summation] but with the experience I’ve had in my career, I played the Champions Tour and now playing the European Senior Tour, the players are at a certain stage in their lives and their careers where their families are raised and they give a lot more back,” he says.

“They’re a happier bunch, they’re prepared to go to their functions and whatever else is going on and they’re interested in passing on their knowledge, they give lessons, and they are kind of enjoying the fact that we’re still in business, you know.”

So could a seniors Desert Swing get off the ground?

“This will be a bit of an eye opener I hope for any prospective companies that 3

T3 with Seve Ballesteros in 1990, six shots adrift of winner and fellow Irishman Eamonn Darcy. Darcy pipped David Ferherty, today of NBC Sports/Golf Channel fame, by four.