With his win at the Valspar Championship on Sunday, Sam Burns jumped into the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time. Unfortunately, that mean Dustin Johnson got bumped from that elite company for the first time – in a long time.
The viability of a golf league to compete with the PGA Tour has always hinged on a single point: How many tour pros would be willing to play on the rival circuit?
How hard was Royal Greens Golf & Country Club playing on Saturday at the Saudi International? Of the 74 competitors who teed-up, only 24 broke the par of 70.
Here’s what few if any of the players competing in this week’s Saudi International want to discuss: the so-called Super Golf League that appears to be creeping ever closer to some sort of inauguration.
The OWGR uses a rolling two-year period to calculate a player’s average points per event, but if it only went back 52 weeks, things would look a lot different.
Those tuning into the first round action at the Northern Trust noticed something off with the tournament’s defending champ: golf’s mighty Thor was without his hammer.
Tour players are required to get a waiver to compete on other tours, and now that the Saudi event is no longer part of the European Tour, the PGA Tour told Golfweek that it will deny requests to play in it.
Australian Golf Digest
