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7 ways Ripper GC can grow in 2026
A new face joins the all-Aussie outfit on the LIV Golf circuit this year as greater opportunities await the men in maroon.
EXCLUSIVE: Elvis Smylie’s first sit-down interview as a Ripper GC player
LIV Golf’s latest smash-hit Elvis Smylie reveals his reasons for joining Ripper GC, how he’ll deal with the haters, and why his major championship ambitions remain non-negotiable.
‘Traitor, Terrorist, Ozempic’: Jon Rahm details Ryder Cup abuse at Bethpage Black
No player has gone into specific detail of the Ryder Cup fan abuse quite like Jon Rahm did during an appearance on GOLF’s Subpar podcast.
Best of 2025: Our most-read tournament-related articles
From major championships to pivotal moments on tour, these were the tournament-related articles our readers followed most closely in 2025.
Breakout DP World Tour star can’t wait for this one moment at the Masters
Perks come thick and fast when you take the golf world by storm, as Marco Penge is discovering. A PGA Tour card, starts in the Players Championship and majors, almost $US4 million earned this year in prize money. But the big-hitting Englishman, who won three DP World Tour titles this year, has marked down one Read more…
Min Woo Lee denies LIV Golf rumours: ‘I’m not going’
The West Australian has ended speculation that he is signing with LIV Golf, telling AAP that he will not defect to the Saudi-backed circuit.
Rising LIV Golf star wins Hong Kong Open, earns Masters and Open Championship invites
With the seven-shot victory over fellow LIV golfer Peter Uihlein, 22-year-old Northern Irishman Tom McKibbin earned exemptions into the 2026 Masters and Open Championship.
The Old Course at St Andrews set to undergo changes ahead of 2027 Open
Cameron Smith and his caddie will have some changes to navigate when the winner of the 150th Open Championship returns to the Old Course in 2027 for the next edition of the links major at the Home of Golf.
The heads of the R&A and the Masters offer a warning they hope the golf world will heed
Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley and R&A chief executive Mark Darbon have echoed Rory McIlroy’s sentiments from the recent controversial Ryder Cup at Bethpage that golf should be held to a higher standard of fan behaviour than other sports.
Ryder Cup 2025: Rory McIlroy endured hell at Bethpage – and came out the other side a deserving winner
McIlroy’s conduct this week in New York – as both performer and human being – cannot be measured by score alone.
Ryder Cup 2025: Phil Mickelson as the next US captain? Here’s what he had to say about it
The idea of a LIV Golf player becoming captain of either the US or European teams seems very unlikely; the Europeans would actually have to re-write their rules to allow it to happen. It also seems like Mickelson isn’t biting on the idea, either.
Ryder Cup 2025: Grading all 24 players, from Fleetwood’s A+ to Burns’ F
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Two years ago in Rome, and two years before that in Whistling Straits, we justified running our Ryder Cup report card on Saturday, rather than after the event concluded Sunday, by saying that “the match is tipping toward a conclusion before anyone hits a shot in Sunday singles.” Well, folks, here we Read more…
Ryder Cup 2025: How rainy conditions negated one of the event’s most unique dynamics
On the opening hole of the Ryder Cup, Bryson DeChambeau unleashed a monster tee shot that landed just shy of the first green. Due to heavy rains the night before, lift clean and place was employed, leading to this exchange between commentators Terry Gannon and Notah Begay. “You’re not only able to lift the ball, Read more…
Undercover Caddie: Revisiting the heated Ryder Cup exchange between Rory McIlroy and Joe LaCava
Joe LaCava was in the wrong for his celebration at the 2023 Ryder Cup but for the right reasons.
The Ryder Cup beer prices are here and let’s just say nobody will be getting drunk in this economy
With these Ryder Cup beer prices, nobody will be able to afford to get drunk at Bethpage Black.
PGA Tour of Australasia: Hollywoods
How the first PGA Tour of Australasia qualifying school held in the United States injected a new breed of golf stars into our summer of golf.
Opinion: The recipe for better golf tournaments is deceptively simple
Why the ‘recipe’ of executing exceptional golf tournaments is deceptively simple.
Ryder Cup 2025: The list of top-100 courses Robert MacIntyre is playing to prepare for the Ryder Cup is out of this world
The average is golfer is lucky if they get to play a single one of those courses in their lifetime. MacIntyre will be playing all of them, back to back to back to back.
Australian Open winner to add Masters invitation to Open Championship start
The Australian Open has been given an enormous boost by being named as one of a handful of national championships that will award the champion an invitation to the Masters, after a bombshell announcement by Augusta National and the R&A.
Opinion: The Ryder Cup Seve won by losing
Thirty years ago, Seve Ballesteros inspired his fellow Europeans to a rare away Ryder Cup victory despite barely being able to find a fairway.
Open Championship 2025: Bryson DeChambeau sounds off about getting put on the clock
Bryson DeChambeau was put on the clock on Saturday at the Open Championship and afterwards shared his thoughts about how the professional game should combat its systemic pace-of-play issue.
