One month after announcing a four-point plan – regulation, education, innovation and (reduction of) field sizes – to counter the cancer that is slow play in professional golf, the European Tour is proving as good as its word.
Dimi Papadatos’s pursuit of a 2019 European Tour card has been dealt a cruel blow after the New South Welshman was disqualified from the Ras Al Khaimah Challenge Tour Grand Final in the United Arab Emirates.