In its debut season last year, LIV Golf managed to sign a list of PGA Tour stars from Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and reigning British Open champion, Australia’s Cameron Smith. The rival league was always going to turn its attention to the biggest stars in women’s golf. Could that be happening sooner rather than later?
Less than two weeks after Tiger Woods had to withdraw from the final day at the Masters—underlined by the sight of a hobbled Woods limping back to his bag during a downpour Saturday afternoon—Woods announced Wednesday that he underwent a subtalar fusion procedure to address post-traumatic arthritis from the injuries suffered in a car accident two years ago.
Greg Norman has doubled-down on his commitment to LIV Golf on the eve of its Australian debut, telling a packed media conference “we are not going anywhere. LIV is here for a long, long period of time”.
Right after making the cut at Augusta National earlier this month, Tiger Woods cut his Masters weekend short. Now it appears the rest of his major championship season will suffer the same fate.
A study from the National Golf Foundation published earlier this year found for the first time that total off-course golf participation (27.9 million) exceeded that of on-course golfers (25.6 million) in 2022. A force behind the growing off-course movement is Topgolf, whose 80-plus venues worldwide combine tech-driven driving-range games with the food, drinks and atmosphere of a sports bar. The core of its mission is to make the game more accessible, diverse and fun.
In an interview with Sky Sports ahead of this week’s Zurich Classic, Matt Fitzpatrick didn’t go after Patrick Cantlay, but clearly the Englishman is fed up with slow play.
We’ve all had a chance to shoot a personal best and fumbled the bag on the 18th hole, usually in the form of an in-the-pocket “double” as so not to inflate the handicap.
The inaugural playing of such a tournament was supposed to take place in late 2022. That didn’t happen, but many of the same organisers have kept pushing forward, and the event will become a reality later this year.
In advance of this week’s championship, we ranked the top 25 players we see as most likely to raise the Dinah Trophy at the end of the week and emerged a historic first winner at the Chevron’s new home.
With Patrick Reed seen taking in an AFL game ahead of LIV Golf’s Adelaide stop this week, the waters were ripe for fishing and @useGolfFACTS – either unthinkingly or simply because they do not care anymore – gobbled up the bait.
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Australian Golf Digest
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