“A work in progress.” That’s how PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan described his biggest challenge to date. He was referring to himself. Monahan on Wednesday revealed that anxiety-induced “mental and physical health challenges” precipitated his decision to take a leave from his day-to-day duties with the tour for slightly more than a month. He further Read more…
While the 90-minute gathering was poorly attended and little new information was delivered, several players agreed that it was simply good to see the PGA Tour commissioner back at work.
Finishing in the top 50 opens up a different world, one that guarantees access to bigger purses, smaller fields, and more points in the FedEx Cup and world rankings.
The PGA Tour has reversed course on its plan to alter the makeup of its three invitational tournaments in 2024. Much of that is the doing of Tiger Woods—who only on Tuesday was given a seat on the tour’s policy board.
Either Masters champion Jon Rahm doesn’t appear to be as supportive of PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan as he let on two weeks ago at the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, or he’s been rethinking where he stands.
It has probably been difficult for PGA Tour tournament directors to deny Aaron Baddeley a sponsor exemption this year. His letters had to have scored points for originality. And perhaps pulling at heartstrings. Especially considering he hasn’t been writing them.
Whatever fortune or frustration befalls Corey Pereira in his US Open debut, whatever quality of play he can muster despite just 54 holes of competitive golf this year, his week will end with the sobering reality that living his dream was merely a respite from an ongoing nightmare.
PGA Tour players offered a standing ovation when one of their peers called for new leadership during a meeting with commissioner Jay Monahan Tuesday at Oakdale Golf & Country Club in Ontario, Canada, site of this week’s RBC Canadian Open.
Viktor Hovland, who has come up short in several big events this year, including runner-up two weeks ago in the PGA Championship, finally cashed in on Sunday at the Memorial Tournament by defeating Denny McCarthy with a par on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
The Memorial Tournament’s traditional spot on the PGA Tour schedule has for decades been two weeks prior to the US Open. Jack Nicklaus sounded pretty sure that was changing, being bumped back a week later, just before the year’s third men’s major in 2024.
Going by historical precedent and some quick back-of-the-napkin math, plus more than a pinch of fanciful thinking, it appears that, oh, around 44 guys can win the Memorial Tournament on Sunday.
The R&A and USGA have a lot more work to do to convince PGA Tour players that a rollback of the golf ball is in their best interest or the best interest of the game overall, judging by the players’ reaction to a presentation by the governing bodies and several manufacturers Tuesday at Muirfield Village Golf Club.
Billy Horschel hit two greens in regulation Thursday at the Memorial Tournament – or as many times as he hit his ball in a single stroke during a miserable round that had the defending champion fighting back tears in the aftermath.
Tour officials said that the schedule is about “90-plus percent complete”, and that they expect to make an announcement on the full slate by the end of June either before or in conjunction with a scheduled PGA Tour Policy Board meeting.
Should the majors, including the US Open and Open Championship, find a continual proliferation of purse increases unsustainable, McIlroy said it wouldn’t stop him from competing in golf’s four biggest tournaments, but the organisations that run those championships might risk losing other players. And they can’t afford to do that.
Brooks Koepka should be included on this year’s US Ryder Cup team. That’s the opinion from across the aisle of European Ryder Cup stalwart Rory McIlroy. As for LIV golfers playing for the host team this September in Rome, that’s another story.
Other than Brooks Koepka, Michael Block was the biggest thing going at this PGA Championship. And in some ways, you could argue that he was the biggest. After all, no one else heard his name echoing throughout the grounds of Oak Hill.
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