Despite being a golf league without any physical golf course, the TGL has its own actual clubhouse, with lockers customised for each of the league’s five teams.
In an interview with the BBC this week, McIlroy says that he and LaCava have subsequently patched things up in the wake of Europe’s 16½-11½ victory.
If Rory McIlroy can’t address slow play on the course, he’ll be able to get some satisfaction with his latest investment. McIlroy is one of a star-studded set of new investors in the Alpine Formula One team, joining athletes and pop star boyfriends like NFL players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce and champion boxer Anthony Read more…
There wasn’t much that went wrong for Europe during its latest Ryder Cup romp on home soil. It turns out, the ensuing celebration was a different story.
Maybe a little inebriated on the adrenaline of the occasion, the four-time major champion chose the winning European side’s post-match press conference at Marco Simone to make a rather bold announcement.
For four-time major winner Rory McIlroy, nothing seems to compare to the Ryder Cup – especially when Europe wins on home soil like Sunday in Rome.
ROME — Caddie Joe LaCava reached out to apologize to Rory McIlroy following Saturday’s incident at the Ryder Cup. In the final match of the second session on Saturday, Patrick Cantlay dropped a 40-foot putt that ultimately won his fourball battle against Matt Fitzpatrick and Rory McIlroy. The putt came after Cantlay had been harassed Read more…
After another foursomes session pummeling by the European team on Saturday morning in Rome, it appeared as though the 2023 Ryder Cup was dying a very slow death. All it took was a 3-1 afternoon session victory by the American squad, capped off by a monstrous birdie putt by Patrick Cantlay, to dial up the Read more…
Rory McIlroy has been seen yelling at a person while arguing with caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay as he was leaving Marco Simone.
It’s not often that fan-favourite Jordan Spieth hears boos ring out around him, but Ryder Cups are a different breed. When you’re representing the US on European soil, even somewhat boring rules exchanges like this one take on some added tension. And that’s what we saw on Saturday morning at the Ryder Cup. The exchange Read more…
Fitzpatrick and McIlroy’s gallery looked and sounded more like an AS Roma soccer match than a Ryder Cup four-ball.
ROME — Let’s get right to it. The point that is. Matt Fitzpatrick arrived at this Ryder Cup as a veteran of two previous biennial encounters between the best from the United States and Europe. And, much to his obvious annoyance, the former U.S. Open champion came armed with a 0-5-0 record. He had, however, Read more…
The Americans had life. At least, in one Friday morning match. The scoreboard in Rome was a sea of blue already at the 2023 Ryder Cup, but the final foursome on the course was up in the air with two holes to play after the Americans won the 16th hole to claw to within one. Read more…
The Ryder Cup is one of the rare times golf – a sport that pulls for all of its competitors – turns provincial. Wyndham Clark is well aware of this dynamic, which is why he expertly quelled an attempt to turn his recents comments into a controversy.
Rory McIlroy can’t seem to escape the topic of LIV Golf. But of all weeks in professional golf, the topic of the rival league was always going to come up at the Ryder Cup, given the impact Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia had on the European team over the past 20 years before joining LIV Read more…
It was 2009 and Rory McIlroy had just turned 20 years old. He had yet to play on a Ryder Cup team, and he only had one victory as a professional, the win coming earlier that year in February at the DP World Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic. As a young rising star, he received the Read more…
Despite a surge of golf course fight videos going viral in recent years—including one of the wildest ones yet earlier this week—it’s still practically unheard of for the game’s best players to ever come to blows. But Rory McIlroy admits he once at least thought about belting Billy Horschel. And years later, even Horschel can Read more…
Speaking on the eve of the BMW PGA Championship, the DP World Tour’s flagship event, the world No.2 was close to his interesting and informative best during a 20-minute joust with the media.
The legend of “Blockie” continues to grow.
The 2023 Ryder Cup is on the horizon—a thunderous storm cloud forming in the blue skies above Rome. This week, both the European and U.S. teams got their first taste of Marco Simone Golf & Country Club, showing up Monday for name games, ice breakers and, of course, plenty of range reps. The atmosphere, in Read more…