Asian Tour set to begin staging tournaments in England

The Asian Tour will stage a tournament in England for the first time in the latest chapter in golf's global power struggle.

As part of a 10-event International Series, the Centurion Club in Hertfordshire will host a €1.6 million event from 9-12 June, the week before the US Open and clashing with the DP World Tour's Scandinavian Mixed event.

Tournaments previously staged at Centurion Club include the Aramco Team Series event on the Ladies European Tour and two editions of Golf Sixes on the European Tour, now rebranded as the DP World Tour.

The announcement was made by former world number one Greg Norman, who is chief executive of LIV Golf Investments, a company formed to run an expanding golf empire backed by $300 million from the Saudi Arabian government's Private Investment Fund.

"We are setting the Asian Tour up as a powerful new force on the world golf stage," Norman said