Tuesday 21 February 2023
What are the teams and who is playing in the inaugural LIV Golf League season in 2023? The LIV Golf Invitational Series becomes the LIV Golf League for 2023, with 12 teams and 48 players competing across 14 global events. Find out everything you need to know about LIV Golf here, but the season starts in Mayakoba in February and ends...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 13 February 2023
Our in-depth Full Swing review, the access-all-areas Netflix documentary that takes us inside one of the PGA Tour’s most dramatic seasons. JUMP TO: Episode-by-episode review The first season finally hits the international streaming service on February 15, with eight 45-minute (ish) episodes going behind the scenes on the PGA Tour, and getting up close and personal with some of the game’s biggest...
Written by Rob Jerram on Wednesday 1 February 2023
The G4D Open will see the world’s most talented golfers with disabilities compete in the inaugural championship across three days at Woburn in May. The R&A has announced the new tournament in partnership with the DP World Tour, which will see up to 80 players over the Duchess course from May 10-12 May. EDGA, formerly the European Disabled Golf Association, has been...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 30 January 2023
LIV Golf announce the full 14-venue schedule for the 2023 league, including a return to England. Centurion Club outside London, England (July 7-9), Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, New Jersey (August 11-13), Rich Harvest Farms outside Chicago, Illinois (September 22-24), Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Florida (October 20-22) and Royal Greens Golf & Country Club near Jeddah,...
Written by Chris Bertram on Thursday 15 December 2022
We visit Finca Cortesin, the course that will host the 2023 Solheim Cup, while European Captain Suzann Pettersen reveals the key holes and the skills needed to succeed around one of Spain’s best golf courses. There is good reason to suggest the 2023 Solheim Cup will be the most eagerly anticipated in the history of the matches. Europe will try...
Written by Rob McGarr on Monday 5 December 2022
As LIV Golf’s battle to get OWGR recognition continues, Greg Norman has an unlikely backer in the form of Jon Rahm… World number five Jon Rahm has repeatedly quashed rumours that he is going to join golf’s breakaway league, the LIV Golf tour. “To be honest, part of the format is not really appealing to me,” Rahm said, earlier this year.
Written by Michael Catling on Saturday 3 December 2022
LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman believes Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy have an “agenda” and has suggested they fear his leadership in a world-exclusive interview with Today’s Golfer. The Australian issued a firm response to the 15-time and four-time Major champions’ calls for him to resign, telling us that he’s going nowhere. “I pay zero attention to McIlroy and Woods, right?,” Norman,...
Written by Rob Jerram on Tuesday 18 October 2022
LIV Golf players could play in their own Majors if they are banned from the four flagship men’s events, according to Golf Saudi boss Majed Al Sorour. Sorour has vowed to “create his own Majors” for LIV’s stars if they find themselves pushed out of The Masters, US PGA Championship, US Open, and The Open and says he will “celebrate” if...
Written by Rob Jerram on Tuesday 15 November 2022
Tee times and pairings for the 2022 season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The DP World Tour season draws to a close this week with the Tour Championship being played on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai from November 17-20. The top 50 players in the Tour rankings will tee it up in the United Arab Emirates sunshine...
Written by Rob Jerram on Wednesday 9 November 2022
Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari, the Ryder Cup stars who formed a formidable partnership in Paris in 2018, will each lead a team at the Hero Cup in January. The new golf matchplay event, will see teams of British and Irish players take on their continental European counterparts in Abu Dhabi in January 2023 as preparation for the Ryder Cup. The match,...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 24 October 2022
LIV Golf’s $50m season-ending Team Championship will continue to shake up the world of golf as the rebel series combines knockout match play and stroke play for its dramatic finale. Taking place at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami this week (October 28-30), the field will once again be made up of 48 players in 12 teams as the Saudi...
Written by Rob Jerram on Tuesday 11 October 2022
LIV Golf players will not yet receive Official World Golf Rankings points, despite a “strategic alliance” with the MENA Tour intended to secure them. The Saudi-backed LIV Golf series has been battling with the authorities in a bid to get its events recognised since its launch but, despite all of LIV’s players writing to Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) chairman Peter...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 10 October 2022
The Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series arrives in Jeddah for its seventh event and middle-east debut. Once again, 48 players will compete across LIV Golf‘s latest three-round no-cut tournament, with a $25m dollar purse on offer at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club, a venue that will prove popular with the newly-crowned LIV Individual Champion Dustin Johnson, who has twice won the...
Written by Rob Jerram on Thursday 6 October 2022
Tee times and groups for LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok, as the rebel series makes its debut in Asia. The LIV Golf Series heads to Stonehill in Bangkok for its sixth event, where world ranking points look set to be on the line for the first time following LIV’s “strategic alliance” with the little-known MENA Tour (read the full story here). Cameron Smith...
Written by Rob Jerram on Thursday 22 September 2022
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has ruled out ever working with LIV Golf, despite a host of the world’s best players moving to the Saudi Arabia-backed rebel tour. Speaking at the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow, where LIV players are banned from both the US and International teams, Monahan reiterated his stance on the Greg Norman-fronted tour and shot down any...
Written by Michael Catling on Thursday 30 June 2022
Golf’s new world order: Breaking down the PGA Tour’s ‘historic’ partnership with the DP World Tour and what it means for fans, players and the LIV Golf series After months of flirting with the Saudis, DP World Tour chief Keith Pelley has sided with the PGA Tour and extended their ‘strategic alliance’ until 2035. As part of the extended partnership which is designed to counter the...
Written by Rob Jerram on Wednesday 5 October 2022
Golf will make its debut in the Commonwealth Games when the quadrennial event takes place in Australia in 2026. The sport will be part of the showpiece event for the first time in Victoria with men and women competing, while organisers are also exploring the possibility of adding a para-golf competition. They will work with a host of golf organisations and...
Written by Rob Jerram on Wednesday 27 July 2022
The LIV Golf Invitational Series will become the LIV Golf league in 2023, with the same 48 players competing in 14 events across the world as part of 12 established teams. LIV will add events in Latin America, Australia and Asia, while changes to their format will also see players compete in International Series events on the Asian Tour, where they...
Written by Rob Jerram on Wednesday 20 July 2022
Henrik Stenson has been stripped of the Ryder Cup Europe captaincy and confirmed move to LIV Golf, worth a reported $40m. Stenson, who will turn his back on the DP World Tour and move to LIV Golf, was removed as captain of the European Ryder Cup team on Wednesday morning for breaching his contract, just months after calling it his “dream”...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 23 August 2021
We preview the Solheim Cup as Europe look to defend the trophy they won two year ago at Gleneagles… JUMP TO: Course guide | Catriona Matthew Q&A | The inside view | Key holes | The teams | How to watch Inverness Club (in Ohio, not Scotland) will stage the 17th Solheim Cup, from September 4-6, when Catriona Matthew looks to become the first European captain in history to win home and away. RELATED: Read...