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...
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...
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...
Written by TG staff on Wednesday 5 February 2025
The 2025 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters winner is set to receive $425,000 from the $2.5m prize fund. With LIV’s fourth season getting underway this week in Riyadh and the PGA Tour continuing its ‘West Coast Swing’ at TPC Scottsdale, players on golf’s “third” elite tour grind away once more in search of more modest fortunes in Doha. The Commercial Bank Qatar Masters...
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...
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...
Written by TG staff on Tuesday 4 February 2025
The 2025 WM Phoenix Open winner is set to receive $1.65m from the $9.2m prize fund. The WM Phoenix Open purse rises by $400,000 in 2025 with the winner’s cheque also bumping up $72,000 from that won by Canadian Nick Taylor last year. Held once again on Super Bowl Sunday, the event has gained notoriety in recent years for its raucous party...
Written by TG staff on Sunday 2 February 2025
They’ve been married since 2017, but who is Rory McIlroy’s wife? Here’s what you need to know Who is Rory McIlroy’s wife? That’s the reason we’re all here, so let’s dive in. McIlroy’s first high-profile relationship was with Danish tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. The pair were together from 2011 to 2014 and got engaged on New Year’s Eve in 2013. But...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 31 January 2025
Riyadh Golf Club will host LIV Golf’s inaugural night tournament as the breakaway tour returns for its season-opening event. LIV Golf will make its debut under the lights in the Saudi capital after three successive seasons at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club on the outskirts of Jeddah. But that’s not the only shake-up to proceedings as LIV Golf prepares...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 31 January 2025
Everything you need to know about the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters on the DP World Tour. The 2025 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters marks the fourth event of the DP World Tour’s ‘International Swing’, stopping for a final time in the Middle East before returning in November for the DP World Tour playoffs. The tournament boasts an impressive list of former champions including...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 31 January 2025
It’s about to get loud as the PGA Tour arrives in Arizona for the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Not too loud mind… Organizers of this year’s WM Phoenix Open have introduced a ‘zero tolerance’ policy for behavior deemed to cross the line, with fans having to click on a code of conduct acknowledgment before attending the iconic PGA Tour tournament/party. Last year...
Written by Alex Perry on Friday 31 January 2025
Surely no one can boast a better hole-in-one list than Shane Lowry Some people will play golf every week for their entire life and not have a hole-in-one. Some people will have one or two or eight. Then there’s Shane Lowry. The Irishman holed out for a one on the picturesque 7th hole at Pebble Beach to take his PGA Tour tally...
Written by Alex Perry on Friday 31 January 2025
Former LIV CEO Greg Norman won’t be out of work for long when his contract with the Saudi-funded league is up Greg Norman has wasted no time in finding himself a new job when his time at LIV Golf comes to an end. The Australian was replaced by Scott O’Neil as the league’s CEO and commissioner last month, a position he held...
Written by Alex Perry on Thursday 30 January 2025
As the topic of slow play rears its ugly head again, Rory McIlroy believes there’s the simple fix. The PGA Tour, though, want to go another way. Both are wrong. The American Express overran its scheduled broadcast slot by 45 minutes, while the Farmers Insurance Open saw stars clocking close to six-hour rounds. The slow play row is well and truly...
Written by Alex Perry on Thursday 30 January 2025
The worst-kept secret in golf has been confirmed: Tom McKibbin is a LIV player Tom McKibbin has been tipped for big things in golf. The Northern Irishman, still only 22, already has a DP World Tour title on his CV and last season was so solid he not only moved into the world’s top 100 but earned a PGA Tour card...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 29 January 2025
How was the prize money distributed at the 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the PGA Tour? The Northern Irishman made it two wins in three worldwide starts at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, storming to an impressive two-shot victory with a closing 66 at the iconic PGA Tour event. McIlroy trailed 54-hole leader Sepp Straka by a stroke going into...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 29 January 2025
How was the prize money distributed at the 2025 Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship on the DP World Tour? Englishman Laurie Canter secured his second DP World Tour victory at the Bahrain Championship, edging out Dan Brown and Pablo Larrazabal in a playoff. Canter birdied the first extra hole to become just the second player to etch his name into the tournament’s...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 28 January 2025
What do you get the golfer who has everything? Turns out even Rory McIlroy still has some itches to scratch Four major championships. Thirty-six wins on the PGA and European Tours. Five victories from seven Ryder Cup appearances. Top five for most weeks spent at World No.1. And around $200 million in the bank. Yet Rory McIlroy is still striving for more. The...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 28 January 2025
Of all the people for this to happen to, anyone but Tiger Woods… There’s a classic Viz Comic letter which starts with the writer bemoaning sports commentators using phrases such as “you couldn’t write a script like this”. “If people can write scripts about dystopian futures in which life is in fact a simulation made by sentient machines to harness humans’ heat...
Written by Alex Perry on Monday 27 January 2025
Pat Perez’s long-rumored exit from DJ’s team has been confirmed – but the outspoken American will remain at LIV Golf It’s official. Pat Perez’s time at LIV Golf has come to an end. As a player, that is. The 48-year-old was a member of Dustin Johnson’s 4Aces team for the past three seasons, but with a combination of Perez’s contract expiring and Thomas...