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Is this statistic key to unlocking value when picking golf major winners?

Who will win this year’s majors? We’ve found a hidden stat to help you work it out

Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 11 February 2025

If you fancy a (responsible) flutter on golf majors this season, be sure to factor this lesser-known stat into your deliberations. Finding value in golf betting markets can be as elusive as searching for the ball you’ve just sliced into the rough on the first hole for the sixth round in a row. It’s there somewhere, just not where you’re looking. Conventional thinking...

Which LIV golfers will play in this year's majors?

Which LIV Golf players are exempt for the 2025 majors?

Written by Alex Perry on Monday 10 February 2025

Two of the majors have offered a direct qualification path for LIV golfers – but which of the league’s stars are exempt for the four biggest tournaments of the year? For the first time since LIV Golf was founded in 2022, the league’s stars have a direct pathway into two of the major championships. The USGA was first, revealing that the...

LIV Golf players will have a direct route to play in The Open at Royal Portrush

It’s official! LIV Golf players WILL be handed qualifying spot at The Open

Written by Alex Perry on Monday 10 February 2025

LIV Golf players will have a direct pathway to The Open, starting at Royal Portrush in July. The Open has become the latest major championship to offer qualifying spots for players competing in the LIV Golf League. The R&A announced on Monday that, starting from this year, “a new category has been introduced which will enable players competing in LIV Golf to...

Legion XIII won the team prize at LIV Golf Riyadh

LIV Golf Riyadh prize money: How much did each player win in Saudi Arabia?

Written by TG staff on Monday 10 February 2025

The 2025 season is underway – but how much money did each player bank in the desert? Here’s the full LIV Golf Riyadh prize money breakdown It was a good week for Adrian Meronk in Saudi Arabia as he went wire to wire to take the $4 million top prize from the LIV Golf Riyadh prize money pot. Meanwhile, Legion XIII...

Tiger Woods will make his PGA Tour return at the Genesis Invitational

Tiger Woods out of Genesis Invitational

Written by Alex Perry on Friday 7 February 2025

The GOAT had committed to his first start of 2025, but has since decided he is not ready. Tiger Woods has decided he is “not ready” to play in this week’s Genesis Invitational. Organisers of the tournament, which will take place at Torrey Pines following the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles, including areas close to regular host venue Riviera Country Club, had...

Everything you need to know ahead of LIV Golf Adelaide.

2025 LIV Golf Adelaide preview: Everything you need to know about LIV’s biggest event

Written by TG staff on Friday 7 February 2025

LIV Golf Adelaide is back, featuring the showpiece ‘Watering Hole’. Australia has taken to LIV Golf more than any other country with 94,000 tickets sold for last year’s LIV Golf Adelaide, over double the attendance of the tour’s second most popular event. The reason is simple. Australia isn’t well-served by traditional tour golf, so LIV has provided the best chance for Aussie...

2025 Genesis Invitational betting tips from Today's Golfer.

2025 Genesis Invitational betting tips: Our expert’s top picks for Torrey Pines

Written by TG staff on Friday 7 February 2025

Our resident betting expert picks out his top Genesis Invitational betting tips ahead of the PGA Tour Signature Event. The Tiger Woods-hosted Genesis Invitational moves from its spiritual home at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles for just the third first time since 1973 following the recent wildfires that ravaged the neighboring suburb of Pacific Palisades. Instead, the third Signature...

The PGA Tour has enlisted the help of Donald Trump to aid negotiations with LIV Golf, but the public's response has been less than positive...

‘How does Monahan still have a job?’ Golf fans angered by PGA Tour-Donald Trump union

Written by Rob McGarr on Friday 7 February 2025

The PGA Tour has enlisted the help of Donald Trump to aid negotiations with LIV Golf, but the public’s response has been less than positive… It’s been more than 18 months since the PGA Tour and DP World Tour reached a “framework agreement” with LIV Golf to reunite the men’s game. The end of 2023 deadline for finalizing a deal has...

Report: The Open to create LIV Golf pathway

Written by Alex Perry on Friday 7 February 2025

The R&A is set to follow in the USGA’s footsteps to offer LIV golfers a direct way into The Open, according to a report UPDATE: The below news is now official. Click here to read the full story. What a start to life at the helm of LIV Golf it’s been for Scott O’Neil. He only took over from Greg Norman...

The LIV Golf TV schedule will see the league broadcast on Fox in the US and ITV in the UK

LIV Golf TV schedule: How and where to watch the 2025 season in the US and UK

Written by TG staff on Friday 7 February 2025

New partnerships will see the league’s 14 events broadcast on major networks in the US and UK for the first time. Here’s the full LIV Golf TV schedule for 2025 The new LIV Golf TV schedule has been announced – and the league will be on major television networks in the US and UK for the first time. The league signed a...

LIV Golf will be shown on ITV in the UK.

LIV Golf signs broadcasting deal with major UK TV network

Written by Alex Perry on Friday 7 February 2025

You will be able to watch the 2025 LIV Golf season on free-to-air TV in the UK. Here’s how… LIV Golf will be on a major UK TV network for the first time. Starting with the second round of the first event in Riyadh, each of LIV Golf’s 14 tournaments will be shown on ITVX. ITVX – which is ITV’s online...

Sergio Garcia wants to play in the Ryder Cup in September.

Sergio Garcia sets sights on more Ryder Cup records as LIV Golf season gets underway

Written by Alex Perry on Thursday 6 February 2025

Could we see Sergio Garcia returning to the Team Europe fold? The Spaniard seems quietly confident While the 2025 LIV Golf season begins under the lights in Riyadh, Sergio Garcia is looking ahead to September and dreaming of what might be. The Spaniard has paid off his DP World Tour fines, following talks with his good friend and captain Luke Donald, and...

Nelly Korda has responded to the slow play penalty changes

Major champions respond to ‘harsher’ LPGA slow play rules

Written by Sarah Pyett on Thursday 6 February 2025

World No. 1 Nelly Korda shares her excitement ahead of the new slow play rules being introduced by the LPGA The LPGA Tour’s battle with slow play has taken a step forward as new policies were announced at a recent player meeting, with stricter penalties ready to be handed out. Players that take 1-5 seconds longer than the allowed time to play...

The LIV Golf roster for 2025 includes defending champion Jon Rahm

LIV Golf roster: Meet the teams and players ahead of the 2025 season

Written by TG staff on Thursday 6 February 2025

Here’s the full LIV Golf roster of players that will be teeing up in the league this season – and the teams they will represent. The LIV Golf roster for the 2025 season has been finalized ahead of the first event in Riyadh. This year will be the third full LIV Golf season and fourth overall after its inauguration in 2022. Once...

The US Open will offer an exemption spot to a LIV Golf player.

US Open makes groundbreaking LIV Golf decision

Written by Alex Perry on Wednesday 5 February 2025

The US Open has offered a direct pathway for LIV golfers to play in the third men’s major of the season. It’s taken three years, but LIV Golf’s players finally have a direct route into one of the four major championships. While Augusta National has extended an invite to Joaquin Niemann for the past two Masters, and the PGA of America has...

LIV Golf has a new format for 2025 that should make the team element much more interesting.

LIV Golf makes huge format change for 2025 season: ‘Nobody can hide!’

Written by Rob McGarr on Wednesday 5 February 2025

LIV Golf’s new format promises more drama and volatility as action gets underway this week. Season 4 of LIV Golf gets underway this week and with it comes a new format designed to make the team element more dramatic and interesting to watch. For the first time in LIV Golf’s history, every player’s score in every round will count toward his team’s...

Charley Hull sitting waiting to tee off on the 18th hole during the third round of the Kroger Queen City Championship

LPGA introduce strict new rules to tackle slow play

Written by Sarah Pyett on Wednesday 5 February 2025

The LPGA have announced new slow play rules will come into play in March as the tour makes a strong bid to tackle the issue. It’s no secret that slow play is a huge issue in the world of golf, we’ve all had five or six hour rounds out on the course. But it’s not just the amateur game that experiences...

Purse and prize money payout at the 2025 Qatar Masters on the DP World Tour.

Qatar Masters prize money: How much did each player earn at the Doha Golf Club

Written by TG staff on Wednesday 5 February 2025

Haotong Li claimed a one-shot victory at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters with a birdie at the last for his fourth DP World Tour title. The No. 300-ranked Chinese golfer edged out Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen of Denmark, returning to the winner’s circle for the first time since the 2022 BMW International Open. The Commercial Bank Qatar Masters has been a mainstay on the...

Rick Shiels faced a backlash from fans when he joined LIV Golf

Rick Shiels exclusive: ‘Why I had to join LIV Golf’

Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 4 February 2025

Rick Shiels is just about the most talked-about personality in golf right now. Alex Perry sat down with the YouTube sensation to discuss his next chapter. When you run golf’s biggest YouTube channel and your name is on our sport’s most popular podcast outside of the United States, it will take something special to turn your head. But that’s exactly what happened...

Should AimPoint be banned? One PGA Tour star and Major champion thinks so.

Major champ hits out at AimPoint: “It takes forever and should be banned!”

Written by Rob McGarr on Tuesday 4 February 2025

Should AimPoint be banned? One PGA Tour star and major champion certainly thinks so… AimPoint tends to be one of the most divisive things in golf. Proponents swear it makes green-reading much easier and helps you hole more putts, while detractors say it looks ridiculous, takes forever, and doesn’t work anyway. It’s the “takes forever” part that makes AimPoint so controversial. At...