Thursday 2 May 2024
Singles strokeplay action resumes at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson where players compete for a cut of the $9.5 million purse. Signature Events aside, the $9.5 million on offer in McKinney, Texas represents the largest PGA Tour purse of the regular season, $100K more than the RBC Canadian Open at the end of the month. The prize money payout is identical to...
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 is set to make his PGA Tour debut against a host of stars in Texas for 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...
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...
Wednesday 17 April 2024
This year’s Chevron Championship had the largest purse in its history – how has the purse and prize money evolved at this Major Championship over the years? The Chevron Championship was elevated to Major Championship status in 1983 – 11 years after it had been introduced on the LPGA Tour as a regular event on the calendar. Since 1983, The...
Monday 15 April 2024
The best players in the world are heading to Texas for The Chevron Championship – the opening Major of the season on the LPGA Tour The Chevron Championship is the first Major played on the LPGA Tour calendar. This is the second year The Chevron Championship will be played in Texas. Previously, The Chevron Championship was played in California, from its...
Monday 15 April 2024
The dust had bearly settled in Georgia before the PGA Tour cogs started grinding back into gear, pulling in a stellar field to its next stop in South Carolina. Attention turns straight to regular season PGA Tour action and to the East Coast for the RBC Heritage – the traditional post-Masters event that has Signature Event status in 2024’s reimagined calendar.
Monday 15 April 2024
The Louisianan looper added a second Green Jacket with Scottie Scheffler at the 2024 Masters, taking his tally to four titles at Augusta National. The red-hot favorite stormed to Masters glory for a second time, out-shooting his rivals with an assured four-under-par 68 to demonstrate why very few could see past him at the 88th Masters. Navigating him through a week...