AUGUSTA, Ga. — It’s the first piece of advice we all get when patience rather than overreaction is required: Take a breath and count to 10. Which is what Rory McIlroy has done, at least metaphorically. Already a past winner of the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open and the Open Championship, the Northern Irishman will Read more…
In the final round of the 38th Masters at Augusta National in 1974, a diminutive, short-hitting, pipe-smoking, avid ornithologist played one of golf’s most iconic venues as well as anyone ever had to that point.
In a break from long-standing tradition at the Walker Cup, former Italian Open champion Dean Robertson has been named captain of the Great Britain & Ireland team that will take on the United States in September 2025 at Cypress Point for the 50th version of the biennial contest. Although reinstated amateur Jim Holtgrieve led the Read more…
The first Polish native to do just about anything in golf, the 30-year-old four-time winner on the Old World circuit is the first from his home nation to win the award at the end of a season in which he finished a career-high fourth on the Race to Dubai standings.
With less than three months to go before he leaves the DP World Tour, chief executive Keith Pelley [pictured] is talking “unity”. Global unity in professional golf that is.
The story of the 72nd green doesn’t begin to tell the story of a final day littered with a whole range of shot-making, all the way from abysmal to amazing.
For all that the immediate future remains unknown – save for the fact that Pelley will remain with the tour until April to try to help see the negotiations with the PGA Tour, the PIF and the SSG through to a conclusion – the perennial problem facing the DP World Tour (what was the European Tour) is unlikely to change.
It is no surprise, as the DP World Tour resumes this week in Dubai, to see the 10 players who qualified for their PGA Tour cards last season planning the months ahead in their own individual ways.
Although no longer directly involved after his resignation from the PGA Tour Policy Board, McIlroy clearly continues to give the future of professional golf some serious thought.
If all goes to plan, a slightly “braver” target a few yards to the right of the clock will be an option for players in the AIG Women’s Open next August.
The 45-year-old former world No.1 is Europe’s first repeat skipper since Bernard Gallacher rounded off his third successive captaincy with an unlikely triumph at Oak Hill in 1995.
The men who have gained their PGA Tour cards through season-long play on the DP World Tour in 2023 – a Pole, a New Zealander, two Frenchmen, a Dane, a Swede, a Scotsman, a Spaniard, a Japanese and a Finn – are definitely the first of their kind.
Closing with an eight-under-par 64 that included five birdies in his last six holes, the Dane made off with the DP World Tour Championship and the $US3 million first prize, easily the biggest of the 22-year-old’s career.
While all the golfers moving from Europe to the PGA Tour will have played in America before, staying for long periods of time is not quite the same as popping in and out.
Australian Golf Digest
