The win also makes Niemann the sixth first-time winner in the past 11 PGA Tour events.
Moving day was rescheduled for Friday at the Memorial Tournament, with some of the world’s best vaulting up the leaderboard and positioning themselves for the weekend.
The former world No.1 amateur made a blistering start to his professional career.
American Braden Thornberry will likely ascend to the No.1 amateur ranking as a result.
The new Latin American Amateur champion will put on hold plans to turn pro in order to make use of several prized exemptions.
The 23-year-old, who became the fourth golfer in history to lead from start-to-finish and the first since Charlie Sifford in 1969, describes the joy of winning his second PGA Tour tournament which featured the top-10 golfers in the world.
The signing would bolster LIV Golf’s Latin America contingent, joining the likes of Joaquin Niemann, Abraham Ancer and Carlos Ortiz.
Spain’s Adrian Otaegui will make his return to LIV Golf weeks after winning the DP World Tour’s Andalucia Masters at Valderrama in his homeland. LIV Golf officials confirmed Chilean star and Torque GC team captain, Joaquin Niemann, selected Otaegui to tee it up at LIV’s $50-million team finale at Trump Doral outside Miami.
A runaway Joaquin Niemann kept a third Genesis Invitational win out of reach but Adam Scott is confident a victory is close after posting another top-five finish at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
Sebastian Munoz of Colombia took a cue from friend Joaquin Niemann’s victory a week before and won the Sanderson Farms Championship.
Valhalla Golf Club has produced plenty of final-round drama the three previous times it has hosted the PGA Championship, with playoff wins from Mark Brooks (1996) and Tiger Woods (2000) and a back-nine rally by Rory McIlroy (2014). And there’s no reason to think things will be any different this Sunday. A bunched leaderboard and Read more…
Two rounds in the books at Valhalla Golf Club with two rounds to go. As the 2024 PGA Championship reaches the halfway point—a little later than expected with the second round spilling into Saturday morning and then delayed further by fog—the leaderboard is an intriguing mix of major champions and players looking for a breakthrough Read more…
I don’t think we talk enough about Brooks. Not the “brothers,” though I am in need of seersucker and a particularly sporty rep tie. No, not “Garth” or even “and Dunn,” even though both country-music legends would seem ideal for a major championship played in a state famous for consuming distilled spirits surrounded by “friends in Read more…
So far, the headlines at this week’s PGA Championship have had very little to do with the golf that’s set to take place at Valhalla. To that we say that Thursday morning cannot get here soon enough. And once it does, enjoy it as much as you can, because sadly it’s only so often we Read more…
It’s hard to believe that we have already reached the year’s second major, but PGA Championship week is upon us. The Wanamaker Trophy returns to Valhalla Golf Club this week in Louisville for the venue’s fourth major championship. We last saw the Jack Nicklaus design at Rory McIlroy’s most recent major championship victory in 2014, Read more…
The PGA Championship has never been a major where the phrase “par is your friend” necessarily applied. To wit: In the three previous visits the PGA of America has made to Valhalla Golf Club—1996, 2000 and 2014—the average winning score in relation to par has been 15 under. And each successive time the event has Read more…
After a quiet stretch on the PGA Tour schedule following the Masters, the season is about to get another dose of major excitement with the 2024 PGA Championship set to be held at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. This will be the fourth time this course will host the PGA Championship, tied for second Read more…
Receiving invites were Australia’s Lucas Herbert, Dean Burmester, Adrian Meronk and David Puig. Two of those players – Herbert and Meronk – are also inside the top 100 of the OWGR.
The 2023 LIV player of the year announced on social media that he received an invitation from the PGA of America to compete in next week’s PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.