In the wake of Strategic Sports Group’s commitment to the PGA Tour, it’s difficult to discern to what extent PIF’s involvement is needed. Or wanted. Then again, maybe it isn’t.
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Viktor Hovland sure has a thing for the Monterey Peninsula. You wouldn’t necessarily know it judging by his relatively modest three-under-par 69 Thursday at Spyglass Hill—using preferred lies in the closely mown areas—in the opening round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Let PGA Tour players have ball in hand and Read more…
Jordan Spieth, a member of the PGA Tour Policy Board that approved the agreement with SSG, flatly said on Wednesday (US time) at Pebble Beach Golf Links, “I don’t think that it’s needed,” referring to a deal with PIF.
PEBBLE BEACH — Rory McIlroy believes that golf possesses a natural pay-it-forward element that is a calling for the game’s most successful players, and perhaps no one responded better throughout his career than Arnold Palmer. “If you think of the values he represented and the way he went about trying to help people,” McIlroy said, Read more…
With an announcement imminent that the tour has agreed to a reported $3 billion investment deal with Strategic Sports Group – with PIF still also in the picture – McIlroy said the men’s professional game that became bifurcated by LIV Golf’s inception in 2022 must reassemble.
Although Nick Dunlap is not the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event, Jim Nantz believes that Dunlap’s victory Sunday in The American Express represents a kind of breakthrough in the game, calling it a “Roger Bannister moment.” The late Sir Roger Bannister was the first man to break the four-minute mile, achieving the Read more…
Meeting with the media at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Woodland appeared to be his old self. He was relaxed. He smiled easily. It’s time to play golf again. He’s as ready as can be.
Exactly 50 years after his mom, Laura Baugh, won LPGA Rookie of the Year, Eric Cole is the recipient of the Arnold Palmer Award as PGA Tour Rookie of the Year for the 2022-23 season, the tour announced on Wednesday. The coincidence extends beyond that golden anniversary to the manner in which each won the Read more…
One effective impact of this change will be that players competing in limited-field, no-cut events are no longer guaranteed points simply for having qualified to play in the event.
Woods finished 18th in the 20-man event, but the key was that he completed 72 holes without incident or re-injury to his right leg, which has plagued him since he badly injured it in a single-car accident in 2021.
One of the things Keegan Bradley has done during the offseason is test golf balls. Srixon made him a special set of balls. They were of the potential rollback variety.
With rumours of additional player defections from the PGA Tour to the LIV Golf League swirling this week at the Hero World Challenge, the six player directors of the PGA Tour Policy Board sent a two-page memo to the membership late on Friday night expressing their encouragement with ongoing negotiations with potential investors.