Bjørn praises European standards

Thomas Bjørn believes that Europe’s third successive triumph in The Ryder Cup, and the manner in which they did it, only serves to underline the quality bursting from the ranks of The European Tour.

Paul McGinley’s European side beat the USA by a score line of 16½ - 11½, making it eight wins in the last ten matches for the continent

Bjørn, The European Tour’s Tournament Committee Chairman, thinks The Ryder Cup and Europe’s recent record in golf’s greatest team competition epitomises the strength in depth on the tour.

“It's massive for the Tour,” said the 15-time European Tour winner. “We are going through a transition of a lot of things within the tour changing, and to stand up as a tour and have these players representing the tour this week. Paul said it all week, it's shown how far we've come.

“You know, to go in as favourites and win it is a special thing, and it's something that goes through the whole tour. We are extremely proud of our players.

“This team of players is unbelievable, and we go forward with this. We have got new guys coming into this team, Stephen (Gallacher), Jamie (Donaldson) and Victor (Dubuisson) coming into this team and performing extremely well worldwide and that's what The European Tour is all about.

“We'll just keep feeding players into this team, and hopefully help them become worldwide players and world stars. There are certain guys sitting at this table that have come through the Tour and turned into the best players in the world. And you know, as a Tour, we're so proud and we'll go forward from here and try and win The Ryder Cup in America in two years, as well.”

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