It was clear from the start what the PGA Tour’s new designated events would be loaded with: money. As in $20 million purses in what is shaping up to be mostly no-cut, 72-hole tournaments with fields of 70 to 80 players.
It is not unusual for a PGA Tour player to change putters. But when you’re Rory McIlroy, and it appears you are doing so a couple weeks before the Masters, that’s news.
It’s hard to keep up with the weather these days. There’s ice storms in Texas, Nevada is so dry the lakes are literally coughing up skeletons, and Tahoe has been caught in a perpetual blizzard this winter, with the snowfall totals at Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort eclipsing 50 feet this week.
Rhein Gibson will draw inspiration from Newcastle favourite Nick Flanagan at this week’s TPS Hunter Valley as he plots a return to the US PGA TOUR in 2024.
Yikes! Proving that accuracy is a golfer’s best friend, this snake was captured by Elite Golf NSW slithering in a bunker on the third hole at North Turramurra Golf Course.
Tired and understandably a little hungover, Cameron Smith says his dream of finally winning an Australian Open after several heartbreakingly close calls will give him the lift in energy he needs after an incredible, but exhausting, Australian PGA Championship victory.
Bale has found a loophole, installing a golf simulator at the team hotel so he and the boys can still get a couple hacks in without needing to commit to a full afternoon round.
Golf fans will certainly remember 2022 most for the emergence of LIV, but it may also go down as the year Tony Finau turned into a prolific winner. After needing more than five years to earn a second PGA Tour title, the 33-year-old has suddenly needed just 15 months to notch his next four.