The 2020 European eTour season will come to its conclusion on Wednesday with the season-ending Global Finals.
The 2020 European eTour season will come to its conclusion on Wednesday with the season-ending Global Finals.
Eight of the best WGT players in the world will battle it out in a knockout style format as they aim to take home the 30,000 USD first prize and earn the coveted honour of being crowned the inaugural eTour Champion.
Despite the global pandemic, the eTour has managed to stage each of its planned five regular season events, receiving over 800,000 qualification entries across the year.
The season launched with a live event from the 2020 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship followed by subsequent non-live events featuring the Made in Denmark, the Scandinavian Mixed, the BMW PGA Championship, and latterly the Nedbank Golf Challenge. The final will be live streamed on the European Tours YouTube channel on Wednesday 20th January, 2021 at 4pm (UK).
Live link: https://youtu.be/SpcwQcH-FYQ
Who is playing?
Leading the charge at the Global finals will be golfx3, also known as Payton Gordley, who emerged victorious at the first four regular season tournaments before losing in the final at the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
The 22-year-old from New Mexico in the United States, has been described as “relentless” by fellow competitors boasting an impressive 23 wins from 28 matches in eTour events this season.
Gordley’s first round opponent will be compatriot and father of five, JSmithers. The two-time finalist will be looking to go one step further this time round having lost to Gordley in the final at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and Made in Denmark tournaments.
Watch the highlights show from the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGzPQgrBYPw&t=163s
The only other man in the winner’s circle this year is another American, Young46, who comprehensively beat golfx3, 4&3 in the final at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in November.
Young46 has proved on his day that he is one of the best players in the game and will be the overwhelming favourite when he faces off with Italian, simovoice in his first round, quarter final match up.
Watch the Nedbank Golf Challenge eTour final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClO1-OJSBlQ
And that's a wrap!
— WGT Golf (@wgtgolf) December 7, 2020
Congratulations to @WGTYoung46 on defeating golfx3 and taking home his first European eTour victory. pic.twitter.com/mIaIgpHeuZ
Another highly anticipated first round tie will be the match up of fmagnets and Walk0fLiFe. These two players, whilst not being able to secure a regular season tournament win are regarded as two of the best players in the game by the WGT community. Walk0fLiFe from Canada comes in as the number one seed after topping the leaderboard at the four-round seeding tournament, whilst fmagnets narrowly lost to GolfX3 in the final of the Scandinavian Mixed tournament.
Watch GolfX3 win the Scandinavian Mixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG9LOrvbIYw
🏆🏆🏆🏆@Paytonnnnnnnnn (golfX3) wins the BMW PGA Championship, his 4th consecutive title on the ETour and $5k first prize.
— The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) October 22, 2020
🎮 @etour_gg
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The final match up of the first round will be between Boyet, from the Phillipines and another American, Shefuf. Both players will have a point to prove having qualified for two regular season events but were not able to progress passed the group stages.
The final will be live streamed on the European Tours YouTube channel on Wednesday 20th January, 2021 at 4pm (UK).
Live link: https://youtu.be/SpcwQcH-FYQ
About the European eTour
The European eTour, golf’s first esports series, is played using the online and mobile golf game World Golf Tour (WGT) developed by Topgolf and will comprise of six eTour events in 2020 held at selected European Tour events around the world. The final of the eTour Series will be held in Dubai in January 2021. The total prize money of the eTour Series USD 100,000, with a prize fund of USD 10,000 for each event and a prize fund of USD 50,000 for the final.
