Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 22 May 2024
The biggest purse in women’s golf gets a $1 million bump for the 79th US Women’s Open from Lancaster Country Club. The $12 million US Women’s Open purse is more than double the $5.5 million competed for just three years ago at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. The swelling of prize funds and investment in the women’s game is testament...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 22 May 2024
The full breakdown of the players competing at Lancaster Country Club and how they qualified for the US Women’s Open? World No.1 Nelly Korda will arrive for the US Women’s Open as the overwhelming favorite to claim a third major championship and an astonishing seventh title of 2024. We’re not even in June! To do so, however, the dominant force in women’s...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 22 May 2024
Jump To: Tee times Nelly Korda bids to make it two majors from two at the US Open where the world’s best go head-to-head at Lancaster Country Club for a cut of the biggest purse in women’s golf. The history-making six-in-a-row wasn’t to be for World No.1 Nelly Korda at the Cognizant Founders Cup, although it didn’t take long before she was...
Written by Ross Kilvington on Monday 20 May 2024
Everything you need to know about the Charles Schwab Challenge as the PGA Tour heads to Texas to Colonial Country Club for the 77th edition of the tournament Just like that, the second Major Championship of 2024 is done and dusted. Valhalla hosted the 106th US PGA Championship, which saw Xander Schauffele claim his first Major with an impressive final round...
Written by Ross Kilvington on Monday 20 May 2024
The DP World Tour returns this week with the Soudal Open which will be hosted by Rinkven International Golf Club just outside Antwerp. There’s no rest for the wicked as the DP World Tour kicks off its European Swing with the Soudal Open just days after the conclusion of the second major of the year – the US PGA Championship –...
Written by Rob Jerram on Saturday 18 May 2024
Shane Lowry writes his name in the history books as he becomes the fourth player to shoot 62 in a Major Championship. The Irishman took full advantage of moving day at the PGA Championship at Valhalla, as he produced the best putting round of his career to fire a blemish-free nine-under-par 62 to fire himself into contention for his second Major...
Written by James Hogg on Tuesday 14 May 2024
After seven years of marriage, Rory McIlroy has filed for divorce from his wife Erica Stoll, just days before the US PGA Championship. Reports from American celebrity news site TMZ have been confirmed that Rory McIlroy has filed for divorce from his wife Erica Stoll. The pair have been married for seven years, but on the eve of the US PGA...
Written by James Hogg on Monday 13 May 2024
The LPGA Tour is traveling 20 miles southeast for the Mizuho Americas Open played in Jersey City For the second week in a row, the LPGA Tour is hosting an event in New Jersey. Last week’s event, the Cognizant Founders Cup, was played at Upper Montclair Country Club, Clifton, New Jersey. This week the players are making the shortest journey between...
Written by Rob Jerram on Thursday 9 May 2024
Rory McIlroy secures a $3.6 million payday at the Wells Fargo Championship with a dominant five-shot win for his 26th PGA Tour title. Scottie Scheffler might not have been present at Quail Hollow, but even if he were, a vintage performance from the Northern Irishman might have proved too much for the World No.1 to extend his healthy lead as the...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 8 May 2024
Teams on the breakaway tour have one month to trade players and negotiate contract extensions. LIV Golf has launched its first-ever mid-season trading window, allowing teams to improve their rosters in the hope of a strong back end to the 2024 season, currently led by Crushers GC in the team standings and Joaquin Niemann in the individual race. From Wednesday, May 8...
Written by Rob McGarr on Wednesday 8 May 2024
Rory McIlroy’s in-and-out relationship with the PGA Tour Policy Board is not a good look for the PGA Tour. Rory McIlroy’s relationship with the PGA Tour Policy Board is fast becoming a Ross & Rachel-style farce. Only five months ago, McIlroy resigned from his position on the PGA Tour Policy Board, saying: “I just think I’ve got a lot going on in...
Written by Ross Tugwood on 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...
Written by Ross Kilvington on 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...
Written by Ross Kilvington on 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...
Written by Rob Jerram on 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...
Written by Ross Tugwood on 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...
Written by Michael Catling on 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...
Written by Michael Catling on 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...
Written by Will Shreeve-Peacock on 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...