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Tour row talks look to thaw golfing relations

Hopes of a resolve in the row between golf’s governing bodies the Asian Tour and European Tour are edging closer.

The two sides have been at loggerheads after the European Tour confirmed events on its calendar in India and South Korea.

Asian Tour chiefs were angered at the moves and publicly vented their anger at what they saw as the European Tour muscling in on their territory.

But now Gerry Norquist, senior vice president of the Asian Tour, says talks have thawed the ice between the two parties, although he warned peace had not yet broken out.

He said: “We’ve held talks and relations are better, but there are still issues to be sorted out. The European Tour has admitted it breached protocol with the two events and we have accepted that.”

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