Monday 26 February 2024
The World No.2 returns in search of a second title at PGA National, 12 years after holding off Tiger to top the world rankings for the first time. Familiar faces return to PGA Tour action this week as Florida’s four-week swing gets underway at the Cognizant Classic, albeit with a fresh coat of paint to the sponsor boards. This year’s edition sees...
Monday 26 February 2024
The DP World Tour continues its International Swing as it returns to South Africa for the co-sanctioned SDC Championship, by the Sunshine Tour at St Francis Links The SDC Championship is the penultimate event of the International Swing before we see the DP World Tour head off to Singapore to start the Asian Swing. This will be the third swing of...
Monday 26 February 2024
LIV Golf visits Saudi Arabia with some fascinating storylines this week, including Brooks Koepka and Anthony Kim… Golf’s breakaway tour returns to what is effectively its home this week for LIV Golf Jeddah in Saudi Arabia from 1-3 March. It’s the third of 14 tournaments making up the 2024 LIV Golf schedule, and the first of two in two weeks, with...
Thursday 22 February 2024
Panini joins forces with LIV Golf as the world’s largest sports entertainment collectibles company reveal first-ever team golf trading cards. The exclusive multi-year partnership will see Panini, famed for their sticker albums and trading cards, step into golf for the first time and develop a new series of products with the Saudi Arabian-funded golf league. “LIV Golf is thrilled to partner with...
Monday 19 February 2024
The DP World Tour continues its International Swing with a return to Africa to play the Magical Kenya Open at Muthaiga GC The DP World Tour lands in Kenya ahead of the Magical Kenya Open. This event marks the first of three in the continent before the International Swing comes to an end and the DP World Tour embarks on its...
Monday 19 February 2024
The PGA Tour heads south of the border where Tony Finau looks to defend his Mexico Open title at Vidanta. Consistent scoring in the mid-60s from Tony Finau fired the American to a three-stroke victory over defending champion Jon Rahm last time out at Mexico’s national open. The top players mostly return to the range following last week’s Signature Event at Riviera...
Friday 9 February 2024
The 15-time Major winner gets his PGA Tour comeback underway as playing-host amongst a stellar field in LA. A scroll through the past champions at the Riviera Country Club is enough to plant seeds of doubt in the most confident of players ahead of the PGA Tour’s third Signature Event of the season. It’s a course where the game’s biggest stars shine...
Thursday 8 February 2024
Jon Rahm was the second highest-paid athlete in the world in 2023… but who was No.1? In a year when men’s professional golf was flooded with more money than ever thanks to LIV Golf’s deep pockets and the PGA Tour’s attempts to compete with its Saudi rivals, 10 players made it into a list of 2023’s best-paid athletes. Unsurprisingly, following his Major...
Thursday 8 February 2024
A week on from announcing the creation of PGA Tour Enterprises in association with Strategic Sports Group, the PGA Tour has revealed how it plans to reward members through its new equity program, with $750 million set to be distributed among 36 of its biggest stars. That figure alone represents half of the money set aside by the Tour to reward...
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...
Monday 5 February 2024
It’s set to be a busy weekend in Sin City as LIV Golf and the Super Bowl visit Las Vegas. After the LIV Golf League’s third season got underway last week at Mayakoba in Mexico, golf’s breakaway tour heads to the Las Vegas Country Club for the second of 12 ‘regular season’ tournaments. Las Vegas seems the perfect locale for LIV Golf...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Thursday 18 January 2024
This week’s HERO Dubai Desert Classic celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. We spoke to the Emirate Club’s Manager, Dean Nelson, to find out how it has changed Dubai golf. This year sees defending champ Rory McIlroy playing alongside some of the world’s biggest stars, all competing for the $9million prize pool at this prestigious DP World Tour Rolex Series...
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...
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...