Monday 6 May 2024
Everything you need to know about the first-ever Myrtle Beach Classic as the PGA Tour debuts on the Grand Strand. Myrtle Beach hosts the first PGA Tour event in its history, bringing professional golf to America’s favorite traveling golf destination, long known as ‘The Golf Capital of the World’. It’s the third of five opposite-field events on the PGA Tour in 2024...
Monday 6 May 2024
The Cognizant Founders Cup returns this week to Upper Montclair Country Club in New Jersey for the third consecutive year on the LPGA Tour. Cognizant has been the main sponsor of the tournament since it moved to New Jersey in 2021 and the company has been a champion of women’s sports as a whole, especially golf. This year’s LPGA event has...
Monday 6 May 2024
The 20th edition of the Wells Fargo Championship takes place at Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina for the final PGA Tour event before next week’s PGA Championship. The Wells Fargo maintains its elevated status in 2024 as one of the eight signature events on the PGA Tour, bringing with it an increased prize purse along with smaller no-cut fields. Following 12...
Sunday 5 May 2024
Brooks Koepka secured his first LIV Golf victory of 2024, picking up the winner’s cheque of $4 million in Singapore. The five-time Major winner finally hit form at the Sentosa Golf Club ahead of his upcoming defense of the PGA Championship at Valhalla with a timely fourth victory in the Saudi-backed LIV series. The American’s 3-under 68 in the final round...
Thursday 2 May 2024
How much did each player win at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson where Taylor Pendrith won for the first time on the PGA Tour? Signature Events aside, the $9.5 million on offer in McKinney, Texas represented the largest PGA Tour purse of the regular season, $100K more than the RBC Canadian Open at the end of the month. Picking up the winner’s...
Thursday 2 May 2024
In a compelling extract from his new book ‘Rainmaker’, former super-agent Hughes Norton reveals the origins of LIV Golf and how Greg Norman claimed them as his own. Once described as the ‘most powerfully hated agent in golf’, Hughes Norton managed the lives and affairs of the world’s best golfers including Tiger Woods and Greg Norman in his role at IMG...
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Hughes Norton was golf’s first superagent, a man who worked for Tiger Woods and Greg Norman – and was ruthlessly sacked by both. Ahead of Norton’s tell-all new book, he gave us the bombshell-laden inside story. There was a time when Hughes Norton would have featured high up on our list of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Golf. He...
Monday 29 April 2024
The DP World Tour arrives in China this week for the Volvo China Open in what is the final event of the Asian Swing, which will be held at Hidden Grace Golf Course in Shenzhen. The tour returned last week following a four-week break for the penultimate event on the swing as the ISPS Handa Championship took place in Japan. It...
Written by Ross Kilvington on Monday 29 April 2024
It’s the seventh event of the LIV Golf season and the final warmup before the PGA Championship. The seventh event of the 2024 LIV Golf league takes place on the Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf Club from May 3-5 as the series returns to Singapore for the second consecutive year. The 2023 event was won by Talor Gooch, who claimed back-to-back wins...
Sunday 28 April 2024
Brendan Steele took home $4m as he sealed his first LIV Golf victory in front of huge crowds in Adelaide. The American finished a shot ahead of Louis Oosthuizen and two clear of a group that included Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann. There was delight for the Aussie fans as home favorites Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, and Lucas Herbert secured...
Saturday 27 April 2024
Teenage star Kris Kim became the youngest player to make the cut on the PGA Tour since 2015 at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson as golf fans get a glimpse of the future. Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Ben Crenshaw, Fred Couples, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods. The roll call of previous champions at the Byron Nelson reads like a list...
Wednesday 24 April 2024
“Whether he’ll win another tournament or not is debatable,” says one of golf’s greatest players. “Tiger Woods had his career completely ruined by golf coaches.” That’s the view of nine-time Major champion Gary Player, a man never short of a strong opinion. “Tiger’s 14th Major win was the US Open at Pebble Beach,” recalls Player, talking to YouTube channel KW Golf. “And...
Wednesday 24 April 2024
By the end of the 2023 season, Scottie Scheffler had become the first PGA Tour golfer to earn over $20m in a single year. Jump To: PGA Tour All-Time | 2024 Season Scheffler’s final total of $21,014,342 smashed the previous record by almost 50%, and he set that year before. This is despite winning half the number of tournaments and achieving...
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Some of LIV Golf’s biggest stars suggest 72 holes would be a better solution and CEO Greg Norman has added fuel to the fire… One of LIV Golf‘s main unique selling points is its format. 54 holes played via a shotgun start was seemingly an attempt to appeal to the modern world’s shorter attention spans, with all the action happening on...
Tuesday 23 April 2024
The LPGA Tour returns to the City of Angels for the JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro LPGA Tour goes to Hollywood! The tenth event of the LPGA Tour’s 2024 schedule is being played in California, not San Jose, but back in Los Angeles. 144 golfers are going to war this week not too far from the waves of the...
Tuesday 23 April 2024
McIlroy to return to PGA Tour board at a pivotal time for negotiations with LIV Golf that will shape the future of the sport. Only five months ago, Rory McIlroy resigned from his position on the PGA Tour Policy Board, saying: “I just think I’ve got a lot going on in my life between my golf game, my family, and my...
Monday 22 April 2024
The DP World Tour arrives in Japan for the penultimate event on the Asian Swing for the co-sanctioned ISPS Handa Championship, at Taiheiyo Club Gotemba Course The ISPS Handa Championship marks the penultimate event of the Asian Swing, a swing disrupted by both the Masters and the US PGA Championship. The ISPS Handa Championship returns for its second edition in 2024...
Monday 22 April 2024
Another huge prize fund was offered at the RBC Heritage as the latest PGA Tour Signature Event attracted a star-studded field to South Carolina. Masters champion Scottie Scheffler could took his 2024 earnings to more than $18.5m with a win in the limited-field event at Hilton Head, just eight days after his second Major victory at Augusta. He received $3.6m – the...
Monday 22 April 2024
Get ready for the biggest event of the LIV Golf season, featuring the showpiece ‘Watering Hole’… Australia has taken to LIV Golf more than any other country. 77,000 tickets were sold for last year’s inaugural LIV Golf Adelaide tournament, roughly double the estimated attendance of LIV’s second most popular event. The reason is simple. Australia isn’t well-served by traditional tour golf, so...
Saturday 20 April 2024
The World No.2 delivers on ‘drunken lunch’ promise and teams up with pal Lowry to make his debut in the Louisiana team event. 2024’s edition of the Zurich Classic celebrates the insurance group’s 20th year as title sponsor of the event which only became a team competition from 2017. Stealing the pre-event headlines this year is Rory McIlroy, making his debut in...