It's another unconventional journey that only golf can take us. Who knows Jordan Webber? Until this week, almost no one knew. Yet the 38-year-old Iowa native will play in the European Open this Thursday, the second stage of the 2024 DP World Tour European swing.
As champion of the NEXT Golf Tour (or SimGolf Tour if you prefer) powered by Trackman Order of Merit, the American traveled to Hamburg, Germany, to tackle one of the most challenging courses of the season, the mighty Green Eagle.
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The DP World Tour has reached an agreement with this professional simulator Trackman circuit (for men and women), in which the best players will qualify for some events on the European Tour and Challenge Tour.
“I still can’t believe what happened to me, but I’m so proud. It changed my life!” Jordan Webber It’s an almost unbelievable story for the player who turned professional in 2008 and, after a few wins on the PGA Tour, hung up his clubs for more than a decade, mainly because he suffered from the yips, which damaged his self-confidence.
In 2012, he was hired as an analyst at Wells Fargo, and he seemed to have found some kind of balance before he got hooked on golf again, especially after starting a golf simulator company with his brother-in-law. “Slowly, over the next few years, the itch came back and it just kept getting to me,” he stressed on the official DP World Tour website.
“The NEXT Golf Tour gave me the opportunity to compete at a high level again. The rest is history. I still have a hard time believing what happened to me, but I'm very proud. It changed my life!” In addition to this week's European Tour event in Germany, he will also compete in the Farmfoods Scottish Challenge (August 8-11), the Vierumaki Finnish Challenge (August 15-18) in Europe's second tier, and the Indoor Golf Team Challenge in Sweden from August 22-25.
