Ken Schofield, the former European Tour boss and current PGAs of Europe director, has been reflecting on the impact that tearing down the Berlin Wall has had on European golf.

“Not until that moment of supreme history 20 years ago, when the Berlin Wall was toppled, was our great game permitted to be played in East Germany and all points to Vladivostok!” said Schofield, who had attended the Aegean Airline pro-am in Crete, which welcomed golfers from across Eastern Europe. “This thrilled me,” said Schofield, “because for the first 15 years of my time at the European Tour we saw no golf – or indeed golfers – from Eastern Europe.”