The Macau tournament is part of the R&A’s Open Qualifying Series, giving out exemptions into this summer’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush to the top three finishers who haven’t already qualified. Seventeen LIV golfers competing have yet to earn a spot in the Open.
Right place, right time is a mantra that covers most any top-level professional golfer playing on the PGA Tour these days. In the wake of the schism in pro golf, and the overriding way in which it has been address—by throwing money at the problem—pro golfers have become the beneficiaries of bloated purses and seven-figure Read more…
There was a time on the ninth hole during the final round when Spaun could have played his way out of the tournament, only to figure out a way to use the Rules of Golf to his advantage and keep him momentum going.
Dani Holmqvist’s wedding to Charles Schick on Friday at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., was bound to be a memorable affair, the opulent setting making for several picturable moments. Attending the wedding of the 37-year-old LPGA veteran, who is playing in 2025 on a medical extension after back and nerve issues caused her to Read more…
After Matt Fitzpatrick’s missed cut at the Players Championship, his caddie Billy Foster took to social media to reveal that they had agreed to split after six years together.
Going home early is always disappointing when you’re playing on the PGA Tour. Going home early in one of the biggest events of the year with $25 million on the line and a tractor-trailer FedEx Cup points available is even more frustrating. But come Friday at the Players Championship, several players considered contenders heading into Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — His cellphone buzzed around 7 a.m., less than two hours after Danny Walker woke up but earlier than he ever truly expected to feel it vibrate. As first alternate at the 51st Players Championship, the 29-year-old PGA Tour rookie who has lived in Jacksonville area for five-and-a-half years assumed getting into Read more…
When the inaugural Players Championship was held in 1974, Jack Nicklaus was the winner, earning a $50,000 prize money payout for his victory from an overall purse of $250,000. It was the 54th of 73 PGA Tour titles that Nicklaus won in his career, and the $50K payday matched the largest check the Golden Bear Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — As Scottie Scheffler arrives at this year’s Players Championship, he boasts a first-of-its-kind accolade: No one has ever been able to call himself a two-time defending champion in the PGA Tour’s flagship event. Yet while it sounds like an impressive accomplishment, the man who did the accomplishing was quick to downplay Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — There’s a swath of golf fans who have grown weary of the influx of money on the PGA Tour, tired of hearing the millions that tour pros are banking. In the same vein, talking about new money milestones that players are starting to topple rings a bit hollow as well. Consider Read more…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — Tour pros are just like everyday golfers in that they’re always curious if a new driver or iron might unlock a little something extra in their game. And by tour pros, we mean ALL tour pros, even ones with four majors and $95 million in PGA Tour earnings. So it was Read more…
Forty-eight of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are in the field as the PGA Tour holds the 51st edition of the Players Championship, tournament officials revealing the field on Friday afternoon. Leading the charge is World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who a year ago became the golfer ever to repeat Read more…
Mike Keiser’s first golf course development was a modest nine-hole layout built in Michigan in the mid-1980s to help prevent a picturesque parcel of lakefront property from being turned into condominiums and townhouses. His work at The Dunes Club started the New York native along a journey in which he would become a champion of Read more…
In her two seasons at Stanford, Rose Zhang dominated women’s college golf like few others, winning 12 titles and becoming the first woman to win the NCAA individual championship twice before turning pro in 2023. Yet, as the cliché goes, records are meant to be broken, and one of Zhang’s more impressive accomplishments at Stanford Read more…
The wait was worth it, even if it didn’t work out quite the way Nick Hardy had hoped. Needing to hole a 21-foot birdie putt from just off the green on TPC Scottsdale’s par-4 ninth to make the cut at the WM Phoenix Open—which he chose to hold off on trying until Saturday morning—the 29-year-old Read more…
Playing an entire tournament “under the lights” always had the potential to create some unusual Rules of Golf situations, particularly with a $20 million prize money payout on the line. But the Rules violation that tripped up Lee Westwood during Friday’s second round of the LIV Golf season-opener in Saudi Arabia had everyone befuddled. “Well Read more…
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