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World golf tour coming, tips Kuchar

Roar Guru
12th November, 2013
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US golfer Matt Kuchar predicts Australian events will be part of a worldwide tour before his career ends.

And the 35-year-old believes the recently-floated idea of the US PGA Championship being played in other countries is also likely to become a reality.

The consistent Kuchar, the world No.8, flew into Melbourne on Tuesday for this week’s Australian Masters and next weeks World Cup, both at Royal Melbourne.

It’s a return to the scene of the 2011 Presidents Cup, where Kuchar was part of the victorious US team.

He said with the US PGA Tour staging events in Canada, Latin America and China, the world tour concept, which Greg Norman mooted in the 1990s, was moving closer.

“I absolutely do see the PGA Tour, the European Tour, the Asian Tour, the Australian Tour somehow turning into some sort of global world tour,” Kuchar told reporters in Melbourne.

“I think it will be in my time.

“I think it seems like it’s coming quicker in this last year … we may all be saying Greg Norman was right in the day.”

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Kuchar said a proposal for the US PGA Championship to eventually be played overseas had received a lukewarm initial reception in the US, but was still a genuine possibility.

“I can absolutely see it happening,” he said.

“I think most people’s initial take on it is it’s the PGA of America, how do you take it outside of America?

“But the game of golf growing the way it is – being such a big tennis fan, I can see how their sport is much more global and worldly than the PGA Tour that I call home.

“I kind of see that as a real possibility.”

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