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The BMW PGA Championship is one of a number of events set for a prize boost in 2017 as part of the European Tour’s new money-spinning Rolex Series. The series will feature a minimum of seven tournaments in locations across the world, including the traditional season-ending DP World Tour Championship, all offering prize money of at least $7m.Beginning at Wentworth in May, the series will head back to the UK in July for the Irish Open and the Scottish Open before the Italian Open in October. The stretch of tournaments will also include the three current Final Series events in Turkey, South Africa and Dubai, with European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley confident of more events being added in the future. The BMW PGA Championship will have increased prize money on offer in 2017. We are delighted to unveil the Rolex Series today and we are committed to developing and building on it over the coming years, Pelley said. Im going to caveat that by saying a minimum of seven tournaments, as we expect to have eight or nine in 2017. Were currently under discussions with some other partners as we speak. Live European Tour Golf November 17, 2016, 8:00am Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass They are all a minimum of seven million dollar prize purse, and I say a minimum because obviously the DP World is here at eight million, and that is the threshold that we felt that was needed to produce something of a high-quality like the Rolex Series.The new series has been welcomed by world No 2 Rory McIlroy, with the Irish Open, hosted by his foundation, set to have more than €2m extra prize money than the 2016 event. Six months half price Upgrade to Sky Sports to watch Man Utd v Arsenal on Saturday and get the first six months half price Im very grateful for the European Tour and Rolex including the Irish Open in this Rolex Series, McIlroy said. The Irish Opens been given a great date as well. Its two weeks before the Open on a links golf course (Portstewart).Were really excited about it. It doesnt change my schedule that much but it gives guys an incentive to maybe play a little bit more on this side of the pond leading up to the Open Championship and hopefully get some great fields. Rory McIlroy has welcomed the new series Its getting more and more difficult to play two tours. With the regulations that the PGA Tour are putting upon us and with how great the events are becoming over here, its hard to jump back and forth and play tournaments.So I think you might see more guys spending prolonged periods in either/or, because jumping back and forth, you can do it for so long, but in the long run, it just doesnt work too well. Live European Tour Golf November 18, 2016, 8:00am Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass Watch the European Tour throughout the year live on Sky Sports - your home of golfUpgrade to Sky Sports now to watch Man Utd v Arsenal this Saturday and get the first six months half price! Also See: Race to Dubai: The contenders European Tour latest news 2015 recap: Rorys victory Golf live on Sky Sports Kendall Sheffield Youth Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla. Steve Bartkowski Youth Jersey . The Croatian served 21 aces and hit 42 winners against Sijsling, who double-faulted to give Cilic a 4-3 lead in the deciding set. "All the players, they know me and they were really happy to see me and they were really happy that this is over for me," Cilic said. http://www.falconsrookiestore.com/Falcons-John-Cominsky-Jersey/ .Y. - Nelson Mandela will be honoured by the New York Yankees with a plaque in Monument Park. 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France Cricket is attempting to win a similar commitment with the Paris organising committee.If Rome hosts the Olympics, cricket will be included, Simone Gambino, president of the Federazione Cricket Italiana (FCI) told ESPNcricinfo. We have had a firm commitment from the organising committee.It is likely that, if Rome does host the games, cricket would be held in Bologna. The city hosted World Cricket League Division Four matches in 2010 and though the availability of turf pitches may be an issue, there would be time to overcome that should the bid be successful.Which nations would be involved remains open to debate. There would probably be a maximum of 16 teams invited to take part, though there is a possibility of just 12, with Olympic regulations suggesting they will be spread across the globe.So, if only 12 teams were included, three might come from Europe, three from Asia, two from Africa, two or three from America and the Caribbean and two or three from the South Pacific area. It could well be that some well-known cricket nations - notably England, who are part of the UK in Olympic terms - miss out.Roma 2024 would welcome new sports, such as cricket, in the Olympic program also in consideration of the increasing number of people that are actively playing it in Italy, a spokesman for the Rome 2024 organising committee told ESPNcricinfo. We are however fully aware that such a decision belongs to the International Olympic Committee and therefore our planning is exclusively based on the indications received from the IOC in Lausanne.The news emerged as the ICC continued its annual conference in Edinburgh. Having started the week with high hopes of winning agreement on a number of fairly radical proposals - the introduction of promotion and relegation in Test and ODI cricket, the return of a Worrld T20 every two years and a change in the manner in which revenues are pooled and distributed among other things - it now appears it will take longer than anticipated for all the strands to come together.ddddddddddddAs a result the press conference planned for Saturday, when the ICC hoped to unveil the agreements, was cancelled and an extra meeting has been arranged for late August in Dubai. The next ICC board meeting takes place in South Africa in October.While tangible progress has been limited, the mood of the conference has been notably more optimistic than in previous years. After years of being bullied (in the words of one Associate delegate) by a couple of dominant Full Member nations, the talk now is of family and consensus. Plans have not been derailed as much as given a more realistic timeframe for completion.One intriguing suggestion from the meeting concerns qualification for future World Cups. While Associate members will likely be disappointed by the proposal that the tournament remains a 10-team event, some discussion has taken place around the possibility of only the top six teams in the ICC rankings qualifying automatically with the other four gaining qualification through a play-off tournament. Such criteria, even if accepted, is unlikely to be introduced until the 2023 tournament.Other matters dealt with the unanimous election of Saudi Arabia as the 39th Associate member, and the unanimous ratification of the suspensions of the USA Cricket Association (USACA) and the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). They were suspended in June 2015 and April 2016, respectively. An ICC delegation, including board members, will visit both suspended nations shortly.Both Nepal and the US are important Members of the ICC as they have tremendous talent and potential, ICC chairman Shashank Monohar said. The ICC, as part of its game and market development strategy, will continue to provide the countries with as much support as possible so that they can put in place good governance and cricket structures. ' ' '