Sunday 14 April 2024
Which golfers have won on their men’s Major debuts? The number to win on their first start is remarkably small when you consider the Majors started 164 years ago. And if we take the Majors as we know them today – The Masters, US PGA Championship, US Open and The Open – and discount The Amateur Championship and US Amateur, which were...
Friday 12 April 2024
In an exclusive interview about his new book, Golf Wars, author Iain Carter tells us why he fears for the future of the DP World Tour and the one thing that is keeping Jay Monahan in a job… The life of a journalist can often feel like being on a hamster wheel, trying to get to the bottom of a different...
Thursday 11 April 2024
In this exclusive and explosive extract from Golf Wars: LIV and Golf’s Bitter Battle for Power and Identity, author Iain Carter reveals how the DP World Tour were left infuriated by Jay Monahan after a series of blunders and selfish decisions last summer… It’s coming up to two years since a Saudi-backed upstart parked its tanks on the lawn of...
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Sin City plays host to the eighth event on the 2024 LPGA Tour calendar Viva Las Vegas! The LPGA Tour is visiting its fourth of fifteen states this week as the best players in the world tee it up in Nevada for the T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards. Being a Match Play tournament, this week provides the players with...
Tuesday 2 April 2024
The Masters countdown begins as a host of top stars head to San Antonio for a last competitive outing before the season’s first Major. The last time Rory McIlroy lined up in a field a week before the Masters was a decade ago in 2014. The Northern Irishman went on to finish T8 in Augusta that year before going on to...
Tuesday 2 April 2024
The Saudi-backed tour returns for its fifth event at the Blue Monster as LIV’s Top Trumps fine-tune before reuniting for the season’s first Major. While the vast majority of LIV Golf Miami’s field will not be making the trip to Georgia, all eyes will inevitably be on those that are. The Augusta-13, spearheaded by 2023’s Green Jacket winner John Rahm, and a...
Monday 25 March 2024
The LPGA Tour heads to Arizona for the first playing of the Ford Championship presented by KCC There are two inaugural events being played this season on the LPGA Tour, and just seven weeks into the 2024 schedule, we’re already being treated to one of those inaugural events – the Ford Championship presented by KCC. The LPGA Tour has played more...
Monday 25 March 2024
Everything you need to know about the Hero Indian Open, including how to watch it live and who is most likely to win. The Hero Indian Open is the final DP World Tour event before the Masters and concludes the tour’s Asian Swing. Last year’s winner, Marcel Siem, has elected not to defend his crown, but there are still some decent...
Monday 25 March 2024
The PGA Tour heads to Texas for two weeks of pre-Masters action, starting in H-Town where the World No.1 headlines the field. Texas Children’s Hospital is the title sponsor of this year’s Houston Open which moves back to its customary Spring positioning in the PGA Tour calendar after two consecutive November editions. Tony Finau returns to defend in Houston where he secured...
Friday 22 March 2024
Masters champion Ian Woosnam weighs in on golf’s current state of play, his concerns for the integrity of world rankings, the future of the DP World Tour, and why golf balls are flying too straight! It’s been a hell of a year in golf. The seismic tremors that continue to fracture the elite game are frustrating and disappointing in one sense,...
Wednesday 20 March 2024
LIV Golf’s stars will head for JCB Golf and Country Club in July after the Saudi-backed league agreed a multi-year deal with the Staffordshire-based brand. LIV Golf UK by JCB will take place from July 26-28. It will be LIV Golf’s third trip to the UK having held events at Centurion Club in 2022 and 2023, including the league’s launch tournament. It...
Monday 18 March 2024
The LPGA Tour returns to the US with a star-studded field set to battle it out at the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship The LPGA Tour’s record-breaking season continues in the United States at the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship. With the first Major of the season less than a month away, a strong field is lining up this week in...
Monday 18 March 2024
Everything you need to know about the Singapore Classic, including how to watch it live and my top picks to win. The DP World Tour begins its Asian Swing this week with the Porsche Singapore Classic. South Africa’s Ockert Strydom emerged victorious last year, finishing on 19-under to win by one shot. It’s not one of the DP World Tour’s showcase events,...
Monday 18 March 2024
The PGA Tour heads to Florida’s west coast for the final stop of the Sunshine State swing as the Masters draws closer. The reimagined 2024 PGA Tour calendar remains in Florida for one more week as a smattering of top stars make the four-hour drive from TPC Sawgrass down to Palm Harbor for the Valspar Championship. The game’s undisputed No.1 and back-to-back...
Friday 15 March 2024
Who has made every hole-in-one in The Players at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. Ryan Fox became the latest player to make an ace at The Players Championship when he holed his tee shot at the famous par-3 17th during the opening round of the 2024 tournament. It came 28 years after Brad Fabel secured the first ace on Sawgrass’...
Friday 15 March 2024
There was a record $25m purse up for grabs at the 50th Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, but how much money did Scottie Scheffler win for his successful title defense and how was the prize fund split? The eye-watering sums of money on offer in men’s professional golf remains one of the sport’s biggest talking points in 2024 and the PGA...
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Merger with the PIF is still on says PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan as he addresses the media for the first time in months at the Players Championship. The PGA Tour boss said he had met with Public Investment Fund (PIF) Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan recently and progress on the framework agreement continued to be made. “We have a shared vision to quiet...
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...
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...
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...