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Editor’s Letter: The (Real) Match
Why a Presidents Cup-style showdown between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would get fans excited about men’s pro golf again
Masters 2024: The Final Hurdle
Rory McIlroy has shed the burden of boardrooms on the PGA Tour to focus on playing golf. Can a freed-up McIlroy finally complete the last leg of the career Grand Slam at Augusta?Â
Masters picks 2024: The 13 best bets to win at Augusta National
Jon Rahm will defend his first title of 2024 when he returns to Augusta National with his green jacket—and some of Mama Rahm’s lentil stew. It’s an odd quirk considering Rahm won three PGA Tour titles before March a year ago, but those are the consequences of leaving for LIV Golf. RELATED: Jon Rahm reveals Read more…
Where did the OWGR come from, and is it becoming obsolete?
The Official World Golf Ranking started, in its nascent form, as an annual passion project from the brilliant and controversial mind of Mark McCormack, who compiled them in his “World of Professional Golf Annual” from 1968 to 1985. There were several key differences in those rankings from the OWGR we know today, but the principle Read more…
Tour pro’s list of quirky golf ‘accomplishments’ grows by becoming first to shoot 59 on Asian Tour
John Catlin’s is the fourth sub-60 score posted in men’s pro golf in 2024.
Players 2024: Justin Thomas gave an interesting answer on whether or not this is the ‘best field in golf’
With so many good players missing this week, it seems downright foolish to refer to the PGA Tour’s flagship event as having golf’s strongest field. Or is it?
Aussie wrap: Cam Smith loses LIV playoff while Aussies stumble at PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Invitational
Australia’s two Cams led the way on the PGA Tour and LIV Golf in a mixed bag for the Down Under gang. Cam Davis led the way during a disappointing campaign for the Australians at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill while Cam Smith lost in a playoff at LIV Golf Hong Kong.
Abraham Ancer coughs up big lead, barely hangs on to win LIV Hong Kong; Cam Smith edged in playoff
Ancer held on when he hit an approach to four feet on the first playoff hole to capture his first LIV Golf victory, making him the 14th different player to win in the league’s three-year existence.
At Internationals’ bonding dinner for Presidents Cup, chatter about LIV wasn’t on the menu
While a few players in attendance expressed a mild level of interest in a what-if scenario that could allow LIV reinforcements, the overriding sentiment was that there is no sense wasting time or energy on a situation out of their control.
Anthony Kim to make non-LIV Golf start next week
With his first outing in the United States a month away at the LIV Miami event, Kim will make a start in next week’s Asian Tour’s International Series Macau in hopes of gaining more competitive play.
Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2024 LIV Golf League Hong Kong
LIV Golf is back in action for its fourth event of the season, a week after Joaquin Niemann won his second event of the year, this one coming in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Chilean is one of the hottest players in the world after cruising to another LIV Golf League title, further justifying the invitation Read more…
Tyrrell Hatton shares funny story about what he bought with his first winner’s check
You know what they say: You always remember your first. Paycheck, that is. Well, if you’re a pro golfer. Years ago I asked a bunch of PGA Tour pros to recount their first time cashing in on golf, and they delivered. And now you can add Tyrrell Hatton to the list. RELATED: Anthony Kim’s ‘HATERS’ Read more…
Golf’s world ranking has become more trouble than it’s worth
There’s something to be said for the Official World Golf Ranking not changing its rules to appease LIV’s undeserved sense of entitlement… but that rigidness to the rules has likewise made the OWGR obsolete.
Age limit lowered for past winners to compete in Open Championship
Golfers who win future Open Championships can no longer count on playing the tournament into their sixties.
The reaction among PGA Tour pros to LIV Golf giving up its push for OWGR points might surprise you
With LIV abandoning its designs for OWGR inclusion and the PGA Tour appearing no closer to an agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia that would reunite all of the game’s top players, it appears that the OWGR system will continue to come under scrutiny. Even among tour players who benefit from the current situation.
Mike Weir confirms no LIV Golf players for Internationals as he plots Presidents Cup strategy
This will be the second Presidents Cup in which a handful of players who might be helpful to the cause are ineligible as LIV Golf League competitors.
Arnold Palmer Invitational DFS picks 2024: Rory McIlroy is peaking
The PGA Tour’s fourth signature event of the season, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, remains one of the year’s best tests with a great field at Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, a Dick Wilson design that has featured numerous renovations by the King himself over the years. It’s the second year in a row Read more…
We NEED to help Steve Stricker with this Zurich Classic campaign
Steve Stricker needs our help. Don’t worry, he’s not sick or anything. He just needs a partner for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the PGA Tour’s lone team event that takes place in late April. RELATED:Â Tour pro suffers BRUTAL six-putt at the Cognizant Classic And Stricker has the ideal running mate in mind. But Read more…
Anthony Kim shoots another 76 in LIV and is 25 strokes off the lead
[PHOTO: Francois Nel] Apparently, Anthony Kim’s ragged first round in LIV Golf Jeddah was an indication of more rough play to come. For the second straight day, the 38-year-old coming off a 12-year absence from the professional game shot a six-over-par 76 and sits last among those heading into the final round in Saudi Arabia. Read more…
Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2024 LIV Golf Invitational – Jeddah
LIV Golf is in Saudi Arabia for its third event of the season and the league has a new face competing that has created headlines in golf circles. Anthony Kim, former American superstar from his early days on the PGA Tour, has been lured out of retirement and will strike a ball in competition for Read more…
