Tiger Woods and LIV Golf were Google’s most searched-for golf subjects in the United States in 2022, according to data the search engine provided Australian Golf Digest.
When John Key stunned everyone by stepping down as New Zealand Prime Minister in 2016, we (kinda) jokingly speculated he was doing it to play more golf.
Over the nearly half-century that it went by the European Tour rather than the DP World Tour it has become, the Old World circuit’s relationship with the Ryder Cup has undergone a dramatic about-face.
Given the buttoned-up, made-for-live-TV setting, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth won’t get to truly trash talk each other on Saturday night at The Match, which will take place under the lights at Pelican Golf Club (coverage begins at 6 p.m. ET on TNT). As Woods perfectly put it on Wednesday, it’s just not possible to be truly unfiltered when the cameras are rolling.
Any list of controversies for the year should inevitably begin with LIV Golf. Do a quick Google search for “golf controversies 2022” and the first page delivers only LIV-related headlines. The fledging Saudi-backed series made more news than anything else in the sport this year, and it ruffled a lot of feathers along the way, to put it mildly.
Tampa police chief Mary O’Connor was placed on administrative leave after body cam footage caught her flashing her badge to a fellow officer to get out of a traffic stop while operating a golf cart without a license plate on a public road.
Australian Golf Digest
