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Bradley Dredge, here teeing off on the 18th at St Andrews, hopes his liking for links golf will help him thrive at Royal Porthcawl The tournament this year returns to Royal Porthcawl for the third time and starts three weeks after Dredge's 50th birthday.ĭredge says home advantage will "definitely help" as he looks to compete with a field which is likely to feature numerous big names.ĭarren Clarke is the defending champion after victory at Gleneagles last year, when Padraig Harrington - who has just confirmed that he will play in Wales - came second.īernhard Langer has won four times in the past 13 years - including both the previous Royal Porthcawl editions of the event - with Miguel Angel Jimenez and Fred Couples among the other notable names who have triumphed in recent times.

His debut on what used to be known as the European Senior Tour comes in its biggest investment, the Senior Open. For me I see my future more on the Legends Tour." I don't want to be one of those guys who is taking up a space when it is just a bit of practice for me now. "I saw it when I was starting off and it was very difficult to get into events. "I would only have wanted to play a few events at the start of this year, so I didn't want to take up a place of one of the younger guys starting ,"

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The fitness troubles meant Dredge had the option of applying for a medical exemption to compete on the DP World Tour this year, but he opted against the idea because his focus is switching to the Legends Tour. He continued to be a prominent figure on the tour until the pandemic heavily limited his involvement, before a planned return to more regular golf was ruined by a back injury.

Mtg dredge professional#

The Tredegar-born player's European Tour - now known as the DP World Tour - victories came at the 2003 Madeira Islands Open and the European Masters three years later.Ī professional since 1996, Dredge represented Great Britain and Ireland at the Seve Trophy in 20, around the same time as he featured in the top 50 of golf's world rankings. I am still trying to improve and I still love the competitive nature."ĭredge has not competed much in recent times thanks to a combination of Covid-19's impact and his own fitness issues.

"I still love playing golf, I love practising.

"I am very lucky as a golfer that you get that option to go on and play in your fifties. "It's another chapter of your life, of your golfing career," Dredge said. That means he will be eligible to make his debut on the Legends Tour - for players aged 50 and over - at the Senior Open Championship at Royal Porthcawl, which runs from 27-30 July.