DP World Tour and Sky Sports to continue to provide coverage of golf's best tournaments
- Ben Rooth
- 24 January 2022
The partnership will see the coverage of the upcoming 2022 season and future Ryder Cup's taken to the next level.
Sky Sports will remain the home of the DP World Tour until 2024, and for the Ryder Cup until 2025. Both organisations announced that coverage from the broadcast company will be extended in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
It's been a partnership which has been strong for almost 30 years and means that Sky Sports customers will be able to watch a minimum of 32 live events across the Tour's schedule.
The coverage will feature the Tour's Rolex Series Events and broadcast the highly anticipated 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, and the 2025 Ryder Cup in New York. Alongside the golf, they'll be analysis from Nick Dougherty, Laura Davies, Butch Harmon and former Ryder Cup captain, Paul McGinley.
The content that Sky Sports are going to be producing with give avid golf fans the chance to take a look at behind the scenes footage at some of the world's biggest events.
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Managing Director of Sky Sports, Jonathan Licht said: "As we kickstart a record-breaking year of golf on Sky, we are thrilled to be extending our long-term partnership with the DP World Tour, further cementing Sky Sports as the home of golf in the UK and Ireland.
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"This year our customers can enjoy the DP World Tour alongside our live coverage of all four men's majors, all five women's majors, the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour, all whilst they countdown the days to next year's Ryder Cup in Rome, live exclusively on Sky Sports."
Keith Pelley, Chief Executive of the European Tour group, added: "Sky Sports have been a trusted partner to our Tour as we continue to grow and transform, ensuring that fans of our sport in the UK and Ireland remain as close to the action as possible - with comprehensive live coverage of our events, world class analysis, and behind the scenes features.
"We're delighted that our partnership will continue until the end of the 2024 season for the DP World Tour and will continue until 2025 for the Ryder Cup. As a Tour, we are focused on giving fans innovative and insightful content, so we're excited about what is to come in collaboration with the talented team at Sky."
DP World Tour
Holding a minimum of 47 tournaments in 27 different countries in the upcoming 2022 season, the DP World Tour is now established as the main global tour for men's professional golf.
Founded in 1972, the European Tour has been replaced by the 2022 DP World Tour. The new season promises to be jam packed with the best golf on show from a string of tournaments.
The schedule includes five Rolex Series events, along with four Major Championships, two World Golf Championship events and three tournaments co-sanctioned with the PGA TOUR. Alongside this, they'll be a minimum of $2million in prize money at each event.
To finish the 2022 season, the field will compete in the final Rolex Series event - the DP World Tour Championship. Many will be hoping to emulate Collin Morikawa, winner of the 2021 DP World Tour Rankings - the Tour's season-long competition.
