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GOLF: PGA: English Open back on Euro schedule

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The English Open will return to the European Tour schedule next year.

The event was last played at the Forest of Arden in 2002, when Darren Clarke won for the third time in four years, but its new home will be St Mellion in Cornwall for at least five years.

St Mellion last played host to a Tour event in 1995 when Australian Peter O'Malley captured the Benson and Hedges International Open on the Jack Nicklaus-designed course.

Crown Golf, the United Kingdom's largest golf course owner/operator, counts the St Mellion International Resort as the most prestigious venue among its 33-strong group.

John Weir, chief operating officer of Crown Golf, said: "We are extremely excited at securing this long-term contract to bring European Tour golf to our flagship venue and are delighted to be able to make the news public.

"We look forward to confirming the exact date of the European Tour's return to the St Mellion International Resort when the 2009 schedule is finalised."

George O'Grady, chief executive of the European Tour, added: "St Mellion is a familiar name to our members and the English Open has a tradition of producing great champions - Seve Ballesteros won the first edition in 1979.

"We look forward to Cornwall, Devon and the south west region as a whole welcoming Tour competition back to the area." notas_de_prensa_archivo