Golf Monthly

6 ARE CATEGORIES FAIR?

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Due to the circumstan­ces last year, European Tour players couldn’t improve their category unless they won a tournament. This means the likes of Laurie Canter (above) and Marcus Armitage, who both came through Q-school in 2019 and made the top 60 on the Race to Dubai, will start 2021 with the same category (17). Obviously their standing in terms of invites has improved, but their 2021 schedule could have been very different.

Any other year they would have found themselves in the top half of Category 10. To get round this, there is a category labelled ‘Exceptiona­l Performanc­es’. This means a maximum of three spots will be held back in each tournament to exempt the highest-ranked players from the final 2020 Race to Dubai rankings not otherwise in the field.

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