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 will be distributed at the PGA Tour alternate field event. While the PGA Tour’s big guns battle it out for a share of the $20m bounty at the Truist Championship in Philadelphia, remaining tour cardholders head to the ‘Golf Capital of the USA’ for the second-ever Myrtle Beach Classic. The alternate-field event offers...
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 will be distributed at the returning DP World Tour event. The DP World Tour’s $2.75m purse is again dwarfed this week by the mammoth $20m on offer 5,000 miles away in Philadelphia at the Truist Championship. Returning after a six-year hiatus, the Turkish Airlines Open kicks off the DPWT’s European Swing, offering the...
Written by TG staff on Tuesday 6 May 2025
Here’s how the 2025 Truist Championship prize money will be distributed at the PGA Tour Signature Event. The sixth Signature event of the PGA Tour season represents a final chance for players to fine-tune prior to 2025’s second major – the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. Previously known as the Wells Fargo Championship, the inaugural Truist-sponsored iteration moves to The Philadelphia...
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...
Written by TG staff on Sunday 4 May 2025
Here’s how the 2025 CJ Cup Byron Nelson prize money was distributed as Scottie Scheffler ran riot in Texas. The CJ Cup Byron Nelson prize money has increased to $9.9 million – up $400,000 on the last two years. That’s good news for Scottie Scheffler, who needed a PGA Tour record-equalling 253 shots to earn his 14th title on the American circuit.
Written by Alex Perry on Sunday 4 May 2025
Davis Riley will be wishing the PGA Tour had left the rules as they were… Davis Riley has become the first player to fall foul of the PGA Tour’s new rules that allow rangefinders in certain competitions. With slow play once again one of the hottest topics in the game, the powers that be have decided the way to get the world’s...
Written by TG staff on Sunday 4 May 2025
Here’s the full breakdown of how the 2025 LIV Golf Korea prize money purse was distributed. Bryson DeChambeau will take home the winners’ share of the LIV Golf Korea prize money after a two-shot victory over Charles Howell III in Incheon. Just a week after his X-rated rant at the conditions in Mexico City – where he failed to hold on to...
Written by TG staff on Friday 2 May 2025
Everything you need to know ahead of the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic on the PGA Tour. With the PGA Tour’s elite competing at the Truist Championship Signature event in Pennsylvania, remaining tour cardholders will tee it up at the second running of the Myrtle Beach Classic. Last year saw Myrtle Beach host its inaugural PGA Tour event, bringing professional golf to...
Written by Tom Jacobs on Friday 2 May 2025
Tom Jacobs picks out his top Turkish Airlines Open betting tips for the DP World Tour event. The Turkish Airlines Open makes a welcome return to the DP World Tour schedule this week after a six-year hiatus, kickstarting the circuit’s European Swing. England’s Tyrrell Hatton was the last man to lift the trophy back in 2019, coming through a six-way playoff to...