Written by Rob Jerram on Wednesday 14 May 2025
An each-way bet on DP World Tour and PGA Tour winners saw one lucky gambler celebrating almost as hard as the tournament champions. When Sepp Straka holed his winning putt at the PGA Tour’s Truist Championship on Sunday, there was a huge cheer… but not just at Philadelphia Cricket Club. While Straka’s fourth PGA Tour win banked him $3.6m and, almost...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 13 May 2025
The governing body used their platform at the PGA Championship to speak about one of golf’s most divisive subjects. When the R&A and USGA announced their plans for a golf ball rollback in December 2023, they were met with opposition from all corners of the game. Including, it turned out, fellow governing bodies. PGA of America chiefs used their press conference ahead of...
Written by Rob Jerram on Tuesday 13 May 2025
Eddie Pepperell opens up after walking out of last week’s DP World Tour event in the middle of his round. Eddie Pepperell has revealed he’ll take a break from golf, admitting he’s felt unhappy on the golf course for a long time following his mid-round withdrawal at Regnum Carya in the DP World Tour’s Turkish Open last week. Pepperell dunked two balls...
Written by Alex Perry on Monday 12 May 2025
A two-shot victory at the Truist Championship might just have a knock-on effect for the career of Sepp Straka’s caddie… It was Sepp Straka’s second PGA Tour title of the year, fourth overall, and comfortably his biggest yet. The Austrian’s Truist Championship victory not only moved him into the world’s top 10 for the first time, as well as all but cement...
Written by Will Shreeve-Peacock on Friday 9 May 2025
Golf personality Erik Anders Lang triumphs in Greenland-inspired Ecco Biom H5 RGC shoes, blending performance with storytelling. Golf creator and ECCO GOLF ambassador Erik Anders Lang led his team to victory in the latest PGA Tour Creator Classic, wearing the all-new ECCO GOLF x Random Golf Club BIOM H5 – a high-performance golf shoe inspired by the wild, icy landscapes of...
Written by Rob McGarr on Thursday 8 May 2025
LIV Golf promised disruption, stardom, and sky-high ratings. But with viewer numbers trailing everything from the PGA Tour to pickleball – and even the Puppy Bowl – does golf’s breakaway league have a future? LIV Golf was supposed to be the big disruptor. The challenger to the established order. The threat to the very existence of the PGA Tour and DP...
Written by Alex Perry on Thursday 8 May 2025
The R&A has signed up another world-class golf course to host the Walker Cup… The roster of courses to have held the Walker Cup is as good as any golf tournament. The Old Course, Seminole, Hoylake, LACC, Lytham, Merion, Royal County Down, Ganton. And that’s just since the turn of the century alone. Dig deeper into the history books and you’ve got Sunningdale,...
Written by Alex Perry on Thursday 8 May 2025
As Rory McIlroy prepares to win back-to-back majors at the PGA Championship, his former Ryder Cup captain has set him a target… Paul McGinley believes Rory McIlroy’s Grand Slam achievement “moves him into a different place” when it comes to golf’s top table of major champions. At the 17th time of asking, McIlroy finally slipped into the Green Jacket at the Masters...
Written by TG staff on Thursday 8 May 2025
The Ladies European Tour have teamed up with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to create a new series of tournaments with some of the biggest purses in the women’s game. The PIF Global Series will consist of five tournaments across three continents and each event will feature an individual and team element. One event – the PIF Saudi Ladies International – has...
Written by TG staff on Thursday 8 May 2025
The full Creator Classic leaderboard, results and highlights from the Truist Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club. The second of the three PGA Tour Creator Classic events took place at Philadelphia Cricket Club ahead of the Truist Championship on Wednesday. Everything you need to know about the Creator Classic After the success of the first event at The Players, the second was made up...
Written by Rob McGarr on Wednesday 7 May 2025
He won two majors by 21 and looked destined to dominate golf for the next decade. But Jordan Spieth’s journey since 2015 has been anything but smooth. Now, after surgery, setbacks, and signs of a resurgence, he’s chasing history once again at the PGA Championship. In 2015, a 21-year-old Jordan Spieth captivated the golf world by clinching the first two majors...
Written by Alex Perry on Wednesday 7 May 2025
The next stop on LIV Golf will have a slightly different look to it as the league signs a new sponsorship deal. With the 2025 LIV Golf schedule taking a little break at the halfway stage, the moneymen have been busy behind the scenes. And the league’s latest deal means that when the season gets back under in June, the players won’t...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 7 May 2025
Is the balance of power in golf’s civil war tipping after the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s investment in LIV Golf is revealed? At the height of the breakaway tour’s influence in late 2023, it was unclear who had the better hand at the negotiating table. Golf’s most recent major winners were defecting on a whim to Greg Norman’s promised land of team...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 6 May 2025
It looks like LIV Golf’s finest will be headed to a new country – and continent – in the near future… Africa and South America are the only two continents on which LIV Golf is yet to hold an event. But that will soon change, according to one country’s government. Gayton MacKenzie – South Africa’s minister for sport, arts and culture...
Written by TG staff on Tuesday 6 May 2025
Here’s how the 2025 Myrtle Beach Classic prize money was distributed at the PGA Tour alternate field event. While the PGA Tour’s big guns battled it out for a share of the $20m bounty at the Truist Championship in Philadelphia, remaining tour cardholders teed it up in the ‘Golf Capital of the USA’ for the second-ever Myrtle Beach Classic. The alternate-field event...
Written by TG staff on Tuesday 6 May 2025
The Scottish Championship is returning to the DP World Tour schedule. And what a place to do it! Donald Trump may not have the pulling power to get The Open back to Turnberry, but another of his spectacular Scotland layouts will host Europe’s finest this summer. The Scottish Championship will fill the last remaining gap in the DP World Tour’s 2025 calendar at...
Written by TG staff on Tuesday 6 May 2025
Here’s how the 2025 Turkish Airlines Open prize money was distributed at the returning DP World Tour event. Martin Couvra took home the winner’s share of the Turkish Airlines Open prize money – but how was the purse split among the field? The young Frenchman carded a final-round 64 to edge Jorge Campillo and Haotong Li by two at Regnum Carya. There was...
Written by TG staff on Tuesday 6 May 2025
Here’s how the 2025 Truist Championship prize money was distributed at the PGA Tour Signature Event. It was a fantastic battle down the stretch, but ultimately a three-putt on the 18th from Shane Lowry handed Sepp Straka the title and the winner’s share of the Truist Championship prize money. Both players will now move into the world’s top 10 for the first...
Written by Alex Perry on Monday 5 May 2025
With the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow later this month, the Truist Championship will spend a year at Philadelphia Cricket Club. But why is it called that? Golf Club. Golf & Country Club. The something Club. All suffixes with which we’re familiar when scoping out the venue of an upcoming tour event. So if, like us, you’re wondering why this week’s...
Written by Alex Perry on Monday 5 May 2025
Erik van Rooyen has mixed feelings about earning a spot in this week’s Signature Event at the Truist Championship… Spare a thought for Erik van Rooyen. The South African shot rounds of 66, 67, 65 and 63 at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson and still lost by eight to record-equaling champion Scottie Scheffler. But the runner-up finish at 23-under-par does get the...