1997 European Tour
Golf tour season
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The 1997 European Tour, titled as the 1997 PGA European Tour,[1] was the 26th season of the European Tour, the main professional golf tour in Europe since its inaugural season in 1972.
Bernhard Langer (4)
Colin Montgomerie| Duration | 23 January 1997 – 2 November 1997 |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 38 |
| Most wins | Bernhard Langer (4) |
| Order of Merit | Colin Montgomerie |
| Golfer of the Year | Colin Montgomerie |
| Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year | Scott Henderson |
← 1996 1998 → | |
Changes for 1997
There were several changes from the previous season, with the addition of the South African Open, which replaced the FNB Players Championship, and the loss of the Catalan Open, the Austrian Open and the Scottish Open, which was effectively superseded by the Loch Lomond World Invitational.
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 1997 season.[2][3]
Unofficial events
The following events were sanctioned by the European Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.
| Date | Tournament | Host country | Purse (£) |
Winner(s) | OWGR points |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep | Ryder Cup | Spain | n/a |  Team Europe |
n/a | Team event |
| 12 Oct | Toyota World Match Play Championship | England | 650,000 |  Vijay Singh |
42 | Limited-field event |
| 12 Oct | Open Novotel Perrier | France | n/a |  Anders Forsbrand and Michael Jonzon |
n/a | Team event |
| 19 Oct | Dunhill Cup | Scotland | 1,000,000 |  Team South Africa |
n/a | Team event |
| 9 Nov | Subaru Sarazen World Open | United States | US$2,000,000 |  Mark Calcavecchia |
40 | |
| 23 Nov | World Cup of Golf | United States | US$1,300,000 |  Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley |
n/a | Team event |
| World Cup of Golf Individual Trophy | US$200,000 | Colin Montgomerie |
n/a | |||
| 4 Jan | Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf | United States | US$3,650,000 | Colin Montgomerie |
58 | Limited-field event |
Order of Merit
The Order of Merit was titled as the Volvo Order of Merit and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Pound sterling.[4][5]
| Position | Player | Prize money (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colin Montgomerie | 798,947 |
| 2 | Bernhard Langer | 692,398 |
| 3 |  Lee Westwood | 588,718 |
| 4 |  Darren Clarke | 537,409 |
| 5 |  Ian Woosnam | 503,562 |
| 6 |  Ignacio Garrido | 411,479 |
| 7 | Retief Goosen | 394,597 |
| 8 | Pádraig Harrington | 388,982 |
| 9 | José María Olazábal | 385,648 |
| 10 | Robert Karlsson | 364,542 |
Awards
See also
Notes
- The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of European Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for European Tour members and are inclusive of the three United States-based major championships which were included on the schedule for the first time in 1998, with earlier editions having retrospectively been recognised as official tour wins.
- AFR − Southern Africa Tour; ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia.
- Unofficial money event at the time, but retrospectively counted as an official win.