{"id":21953,"date":"2025-11-03T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/james-morrison-seals-dp-world-tour-return-with-son-13-as-caddie\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:55:47","slug":"james-morrison-seals-dp-world-tour-return-with-son-13-as-caddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/james-morrison-seals-dp-world-tour-return-with-son-13-as-caddie\/","title":{"rendered":"James Morrison seals DP World Tour return with son, 13, as caddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">James Morrison thought he was playing in his farewell tournament \u2013 but instead sealed a return to the DP World Tour with his 13-year-old son as caddie.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Englishman, 40, was ready to call it a day before winning the HotelPlanner Tour&#8217;s Rolex Grand Final in Mallorca on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He embraced his son Finley on the 18th green after sealing victory with a two under par final round of 70 to reach 15 under and win by three shots from Italian Stefano Mazzoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I said this was going to be my last event, it really was going to be, 100%. This has completely messed that up,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t feel my arms on my swing at the last, it went so far right, but I couldn&#8217;t care less. A win is a win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel sorry for him (Finley) really. He&#8217;s got a half past six alarm for school tomorrow morning. He&#8217;s amazing. I love him. He did so well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He brought in the teenager as caddie for the event at the Club de Golf Alcanada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory meant Morrison climbed 30 places on the Road to Mallorca rankings to end the season as number six and become one of 20 players to guarantee a place on the European tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He returns a year after missing 14 cuts and losing his his full-time status for the first time in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four other British players qualified for the Tour this weekend \u2013 fellow Englishman Joshua Berry and Scots David Law, Daniel Young and Euan Walker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/ckgzlxdzy8do?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Morrison thought he was playing in his farewell tournament \u2013 but instead sealed a return to the DP World Tour with his 13-year-old son as caddie. The Englishman, 40, was ready to call it a day before winning the HotelPlanner Tour&#8217;s Rolex Grand Final in Mallorca on Sunday. He embraced his son Finley on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21955,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions\/21955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}