Written by Ross Tugwood on Thursday 23 January 2025
How was the prize money distributed at the 2025 Ras Al Khaimah Championship on the DP World Tour? The fourth running of the Ras Al Khaimah Championship at the Al Hamra Golf Club, UAE, offered a $2.5 million purse, consistent with 2024, and $500,000 more than the first two editions. Spaniard Alejandro Del Ray became the third first-time champion on the DP...
Written by Alex Perry on Thursday 23 January 2025
The Claret Jug will return to the Home of Golf for the 155th Open Championship The 2027 Open will be played at St Andrews, the R&A have confirmed. The Old Course last hosted the battle for the Claret Jug in 2022, when Cameron Smith held off Cameron Young and Rory McIlroy to put his name on that famous trophy. It will be...
Written by Alex Perry on Friday 24 January 2025
It will be the first time since 1998 the Tiger Woods-hosted Genesis Invitational will not be played at the Los Angeles club Riviera Country Club will not host this year’s Genesis Invitational, the PGA Tour has confirmed. Fatal wildfires continue to affect the Los Angeles, with Pacific Palisades, the suburb just a few miles from Riviera, worst hit. It will be just the...
Written by Alex Perry on Friday 24 January 2025
Watch as the Farmers Insurance Open throws up one of those instances that just need to be seen to be believed Adam Svensson will want to forget this year’s Farmers Insurance Open as quickly as possible. The one-time PGA Tour winner, whose sole title came at the RSM Classic in 2022, was battling to make the cut at Torrey Pines as...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Saturday 25 January 2025
Everything you need to know ahead of Rory McIlroy’s TGL debut for Boston Common against the Tiger Woods-fronted Jupiter Links at the SoFi Center. Rory McIlroy will make his long-awaited TGL debut in match week four when the tech-infused golf league boots back up for the clash between the two co-founder’s franchises. McIlroy’s Boston Common takes to the stage for...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 27 January 2025
You won’t believe the DP World Tour’s latest viral video – or where Padraig Harrington, Thorbjorn Olesen and Ryan Fox were attempting their hole-in-one challenge from… Say what you want about the quality of the DP World Tour these days, but they surely have the best content creators in the business. Ahead of last week’s Ras Al Khaimah Championship in the...
Written by Alex Perry on Monday 27 January 2025
Rounds at the Farmers Insurance Open were topping six hours – and one tour star-turned-analyst was keen to highlight the issue As the old saying goes: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” We can add slow play being a scourge of tour-level golf to that. It’s an ongoing problem in both the men’s and...
Written by Alex Perry on Monday 27 January 2025
Pat Perez’s long-rumored exit from DJ’s team has been confirmed – but the outspoken American will remain at LIV Golf It’s official. Pat Perez’s time at LIV Golf has come to an end. As a player, that is. The 48-year-old was a member of Dustin Johnson’s 4Aces team for the past three seasons, but with a combination of Perez’s contract expiring and Thomas...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 28 January 2025
What do you get the golfer who has everything? Turns out even Rory McIlroy still has some itches to scratch Four major championships. Thirty-six wins on the PGA and European Tours. Five victories from seven Ryder Cup appearances. Top five for most weeks spent at World No.1. And around $200 million in the bank. Yet Rory McIlroy is still striving for more. The...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 28 January 2025
Of all the people for this to happen to, anyone but Tiger Woods… There’s a classic Viz Comic letter which starts with the writer bemoaning sports commentators using phrases such as “you couldn’t write a script like this”. “If people can write scripts about dystopian futures in which life is in fact a simulation made by sentient machines to harness humans’ heat...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 29 January 2025
How was the prize money distributed at the 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the PGA Tour? The Northern Irishman made it two wins in three worldwide starts at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, storming to an impressive two-shot victory with a closing 66 at the iconic PGA Tour event. McIlroy trailed 54-hole leader Sepp Straka by a stroke going into...
Written by TG staff on Thursday 6 February 2025
Here’s the full LIV Golf roster of players that will be teeing up in the league this season – and the teams they will represent. The LIV Golf roster for the 2025 season has been finalized ahead of the first event in Riyadh. This year will be the third full LIV Golf season and fourth overall after its inauguration in 2022. Once...
Written by Sarah Pyett on Thursday 6 February 2025
World No. 1 Nelly Korda shares her excitement ahead of the new slow play rules being introduced by the LPGA The LPGA Tour’s battle with slow play has taken a step forward as new policies were announced at a recent player meeting, with stricter penalties ready to be handed out. Players that take 1-5 seconds longer than the allowed time to play...
Written by Ross Kilvington on Monday 11 November 2024
Everything you need to know about the final event of the DP World Tour season. The DP World Tour Championship always provides a fitting end to the DP World Tour season as the Race to Dubai concludes. This year, however, Rory McIlroy has all but sewn up his sixth season-ending title following a remarkably consistent campaign. The Irishman won the Hero Dubai...
Written by James Hogg on Tuesday 12 November 2024
How much of the $10 million DP World Tour Championship prize fund did Rory McIlroy take home? It’s curtains close at the end of another wonderful season on the DP World Tour. The 2024 season culminated at the DP World Tour Championship, which saw Rory McIlroy emerge victorious, earning him his sixth Race to Dubai title in stunning fashion. The top 50...
Written by James Hogg on Tuesday 12 November 2024
Rory McIlroy tied for the lead alongside Antoine Rozner and Rasmus Høgaard heading into Sunday at the DP World Tour Championship The 2024 DP World Tour season draws to a close on Sunday at the DP World Tour Championship. The top 50 golfers from the Race to Dubai rankings are teeing it up for the chance to win a share of...
Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 13 November 2024
Exclusive: Guy Kinnings is hopeful that the DP World Tour, PGA Tour and LIV will have a joined-up schedule in time for 2026. Like everyone else in golf, Guy Kinnings is tired of waiting around. He has read the reports about a deal between the PIF, PGA Tour, and DP World Tour being done, something he only wishes was true.
Written by Ross Kilvington on Sunday 17 November 2024
The LPGA Tour heads to Florida this week for the CME Group Tour Championship. The 2024 LPGA season was record-breaking in many ways. The total purse for the entire season was $123.25m, over $20m more than the year before. Furthermore, there were 35 events throughout the calendar year, two more than 2023. Olympic gold medalist Lydia Ko ended an eight-year major drought...
Written by Rob McGarr on Monday 18 November 2024
The numbers show that interest in tour golf is waning as people get their golf content fix on YouTube. As a 40-year-old part-time golf journalist, I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I watch a lot more golf on YouTube than on TV. In terms of traditional TV coverage, I’ll be glued to all four days of the Masters and The Open. I...
Written by Ross Kilvington on Monday 18 November 2024
The 2025 PGA Tour season is nearing its end and the RSM marks the finish of the FedEx Cup Fall Series While most of the elite are winding down ahead of 2025, Swedish sensation Ludvig Åberg is making his return to the PGA Tour two months after undergoing knee surgery. Åberg won the 2023 RSM Classic with a score of 29-under...