Before LIV Golf kicked off the season in the Mayakoba Resort-area of Mexico this week, several teams rendezvoused in the home cities of their captains.
LIV Golf has revealed the format of qualifying school for its 2024 season, with major champions from the past five years, as well as winners of PGA Tour and DP World Tour events in the 12 months prior, among those given exemptions to bypass the first of four rounds.
It doesn’t appear Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy will mend fences any time soon. On Thursday, ahead of the season opener for LIV Golf, where former Masters champ Garcia now plays, the Spaniard said the breakdown of his friendship with four-time major winner McIlroy is a “sad” development.
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Patrick Reed points to his final-round face-off with Rory McIlroy at last month’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic as evidence that the current divide in professional golf between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour/DP World Tour can heal sooner rather than later. Reed nearly chased down McIlroy in a weather-delayed Monday Read more…
Last week, the golf corners of social media lit up when New Zealand pro Danny Lee was spotted grinding on the range mats of the municipal Rancho Park Golf Course only hours after a poor opening round at the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. Lee could have used the manicured turf practice fairway at Riviera to work on his swing, but chose the muny where Jack Nicklaus cashed his first check as a pro in 1962.
DP World Tour star Thomas Pieters revealed on Wednesday that he wanted to join LIV Golf since its debut last summer and that he’ll accept whatever repercussions the move has on his Ryder Cup hopes. The Belgian native and world No.35 was unveiled by LIV earlier this week as part of Bubba Watson’s Range Goats Read more…
Why the 2023 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass will look a lot different to 2022, when Cameron Smith one-putted eight of the final nine holes to win golf’s unofficial fifth Major.
Many golf fans would see Will Zalatoris shooting the best round of the day (64) at Riviera Country Club to backdoor an impressive fourth-place finish at the Genesis Invitational and think, he’s back. Apparently, he’s not quite back though. Almost, but not quite. “It was fun,” Zalatoris said Sunday at Riviera. “[But] it was kind Read more…
A young fan in the crowd at Riviera tried to warn media and officials that Tiger Woods was soon to start walking through a busy crowd after finishing his second round Friday at the Genesis Invitational.
Adam Scott leads the Australian tilt at the Genesis Invitational after an opening round 69 left him two under and five shots behind co-leaders, Max Homa and Keith Mitchell (64, seven under).
In his prime, Tiger Woods was expected to win at any course he played on the PGA Tour, particularly any course he’d played more than once. En route to claiming a record-tying 82 tour titles, there were a handful of venues—notably Bay Hill, Firestone and Torrey Pines—where Woods won on several occasions, only fuelling expectations.
Like many golf pros, England’s Aaron Rai grew up a fan of Tiger Woods. It started by watching him play on old VHS video tapes. Then he got to see him in person, at an Open Championship 10 years ago.
Adam Scott loves the game like all of us. But after more than 20 years on the PGA Tour, the 42-year-old’s favourite tournaments to play have shrunken to the four majors, the Players Championship and this week’s Genesis Invitational at Riviera CC in Los Angeles, where he’s won twice.
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — A cyclone ravaging New Zealand has prompted Adam Scott to find a backup caddie for Wednesday’s pro-am at the Genesis Invitational, with his usual bagman, Steve Williams, scrambling to get a flight out of his home in Auckland in time for Thursday’s first round at Riviera Country Club. Government officials in Read more…
Not getting picked to play for Europe at the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits was one of the more crushing moments for Justin Rose during a four-year slump which only ended recently with a victory at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
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