Written by Ross Tugwood on Monday 5 February 2024
Can anyone stop the Scheffler ‘three-peat’ in Scottsdale? It’s about to get loud as the PGA Tour arrives in Arizona for golf’s biggest party of the season. ‘The People’s Open’ may not have PGA Tour signature status this year, but that’s unlikely to mute the volume when the world’s best tee it up for golf’s frat party in the desert. Combine a...
Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 31 January 2024
The PGA Tour have a new partner, Jay Monahan has a new job, and nearly 200 players stand to receive over $1.5 billion in immediate and future equity. But what exactly does this $3 billion deal with Strategic Sports Group (SSG) mean for the framework agreement with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF)? And why are Liverpool Football Club’s owners investing...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Monday 29 January 2024
The Jon Rahm fanfare gets underway in Mexico with all eyes on the Spaniard as LIV Golf returns for its third season. Greg Norman landing his man was a milestone moment for LIV Golf back in December, sending an unmistakably clear message to the golf world that the Saudi-backed tour is just loosening up its shoulders. Rahm’s mega-money move will inevitably steal...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Monday 29 January 2024
The iconic Pebble Beach hosts the PGA Tour’s second Signature Event of the season where a stellar field battles it out for a $3.6 million payday. The west coast swing of the PGA Tour’s reimagined 2024 season continues in Califonia where the strongest field in Pebble Beach history takes to the links. Historically, the tournament hasn’t always attracted the strongest field,...
Written by James Hogg on Monday 29 January 2024
The DP World Tour continues its International Swing with a return to Bahrain for the first time in 13 years The Bahrain Championship marks the first time a DP World Tour (formerly the European Tour) event will be hosted in the country since the 2011 Volvo Golf Champions tournament. The winner that week was 34-year-old Paul Casey who’ll be teeing it...
Written by James Hogg on Monday 4 March 2024
The LPGA Tour Asian Swing continues in China with the Blue Bay LPGA returning to the schedule after a five-year absence When another record-breaking schedule for the LPGA Tour was announced for 2024, it saw the inclusion of the Blue Bay LPGA for the fourth time in six years. However, this is the first year since 2018 that this tournament is...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 23 January 2024
Who will take the spoils at the final stop in the UAE before the DP World Tour’s ‘International Swing’ heads up the Persian Gulf? Englishman Daniel Gavins claimed his second DP World Tour title at the Ras Al Khaimah Championship in 2023, stumbling over the line with a double-bogey on the 72nd hole for a one-stroke victory. Gavin had presumed his three-shot...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Monday 4 March 2024
The PGA Tour’s only Caribbean event welcomes a chasing pack of pros, hungry to impress in the absence of the game’s big guns. The Puerto Rico Open plays a supporting act this week to the PGA Tour’s Signature Event over in Orlando – The Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. The tournament, now in its 16th year, has historically run alongside a...
Written by Will Shreeve-Peacock on Monday 4 March 2024
The DP World Tour arrives at its final event of the International Swing as it remains in South Africa for the co-sanctioned Jonsson Workwear Open, at Glendower Golf Club The Jonsson Workwear Open marks the final event of the International Swing before we see the DP World Tour head off to Singapore to start the Asian Swing in two weeks. This...
Written by James Hogg on Monday 22 January 2024
The West Coast Swing continues on the PGA Tour at the Farmers Insurance Open, held at Torrey Pines across the North and South Course in San Diego, California Max Homa returns to the tournament as defending champion having fired in a final round 66 to beat fellow American Keegan Bradley by two shots last January. Homa started the fourth round of...
Written by Rob McGarr on Monday 4 March 2024
LIV Golf enters a new territory this week, visiting Hong Kong in China for the first time. LIV Golf heads to Hong Kong for the first time this week. It’s a good time for golf fans in China, with the DP World Tour due to visit in May for the Volvo China Open, which will be a European Tour event for...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Monday 4 March 2024
18 of the world’s top 20 make up the limited Signature field in Orlando for one of the biggest events of the PGA Tour season. Arnold Palmer’s legacy lives on at the fourth of eight Signature Events on the PGA Tour’s reimagined 2024 calendar, where the best in the business aim for a statement win with Augusta looming. The 46th renewal of...
Written by Rob Jerram on Wednesday 6 March 2024
The winner of The Open at Royal Troon will be given a shorter exemption into the historic golf Major than previous winners, the R&A has revealed. Previously, the winner of the Claret Jug has been exempt until the age of 60, but from 2024 that will be reduced to 55. All past champions’ exemptions will remain unchanged. Tom Watson famously came agonizingly...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 15 January 2024
The PGA Tour heads to California for the American Express with a star-studded field, but the defending champion won’t be there. Jon Rahm shot 27-under-par on his way to a one-shot victory over Davis Thompson in 2023 but, having defected to LIV Golf for huge money in the off-season, the Spaniard is ineligible having been suspended by the PGA Tour. World No.1...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 15 January 2024
Rory McIlroy is favorite to win the Hero Dubai Desert Classic for a fourth time as the DP World Tour heads to Emirates Golf Club for the first elevated Rolex Series event of 2024. McIlroy returns to the tournament as defending champion having beaten Patrick Reed by one shot last January thanks to a dramatic birdie on the 72nd hole. It’s...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 8 March 2024
New and returning faces tee it up in round two of Netflix’s inside-the-ropes docuseries Full Swing, following another year of turbulence on the PGA Tour. Full Swing Season 2: Episode-by-Episode *This review contains spoilers. A little over a year on from Full Swing’s debut season, golf’s all-access answer to F1’s Drive To Survive has landed with another eight 45-minute episodes following the game’s...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 11 January 2024
The DP World Tour has confirmed that Keith Pelley is to leave his position as Chief Executive to return to his native Canada. Pelley has agreed to become the new CEO and President of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), which owns multiple Toronto-based sports franchises. They include NFL’s Maple Leafs, NBA’s Toronto Raptors, and MLS side Toronto FC. Guy Kinnings will...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Monday 11 March 2024
Celebrating 50 years since Jack Nicklaus’ inaugural title, the PGA Tour’s finest target a statement win ahead of Major season. Players Championship 2024: Tee Times Historically dubbed ‘golf’s fifth Major’, The Players Championship has traditionally attracted a field as high in caliber as the four official Majors themselves. The landscape in 2024 is somewhat different, however, with its fractures now so deep thanks...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 11 March 2024
Cho Minn Thant used the Saudi millions to rebuild the Asian Tour. Now he wants to rival the global schedule on the DP World Tour with the help of LIV and an International Series that is setting up roots in the UK. Back when LIV Golf was still just a fantasy and the Asian Tour was trying to remain solvent during...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 10 January 2024
As the newly revamped 2024 season tees off, Today’s Golfer reflects on what it takes to succeed on tour and the metrics that matter most. Merger mayhem, mega money moves, ‘Capgate’ controversy, and the battle to bifurcate – 2023’s off-course antics proved more turbulent than ever before. “Golf is a mess”, puts Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston, as the PGA Tour’s reimagined calendar-year schedule...