No decision has yet been taken on whether to increase the number of tournaments required to be a member of the European Tour.

Currently, players must compete in a minimum of 11 events to maintain their European tour member and therefore eligible for the likes of the Ryder Cup team and, from next season, the $10 million season-ending Dubai World Championship, which is open to the top 60 players on the Order of Merit.

The possibility of increasing the requirement to 12 or 13 events was discussed by the Tour's tournament committee during the Barclays Scottish Open, but a final decision will not be taken until the next meeting at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at the start of October.

"We said from the beginning we weren't going to rush into any decisions, we are going to look at all the angles," said committee chairman Thomas Bjorn. "There needs to be a commitment to the Tour from our guys and in the past we've had that, but if we make it too easy to be a member of this Tour then you have to look at in the long run are we shooting ourselves in the foot?

"That's what we have to look at and there are good arguments from both sides."

CZECHING IN: The European Tour will return to the Czech Republic for the first time in 12 years with the announcement that the Czech Golf Open will feature on the 2009 schedule.

The Miguel Angel Jimenez-designed course at the Prosper Golf Resort will host the $4 million tournament from July 30 to Aug. 2.

The European Tour last visited the Czech Republic in 1997, when two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer took the title by four strokes from Niclas Fasth and Ignacio Garrido, and by five from Jimenez.

PLAYER OF THE MONTH: Spain's Pablo Larrazabal has been named European Tour golfer of the month for June after his maiden victory in the French Open.

The 25-year-old led from start to finish and held off a chasing pack that included Colin Montgomerie and Lee Westwood, becoming the first player in history to come through the qualifying event to triumph in continental Europe's oldest national open championship.

"I played great golf in France and to win the golfer of the month award is a superb feeling for me," said Larrazabal, whose victory at Le Golf National secured an appearance the Open Championship.

"In the third and fourth rounds in France, I probably played the best golf of my life and to beat guys like Colin Montgomerie and Lee Westwood is amazing."

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