Strategic sports group

November 26th, 2025

How real is the possibility of a 20-event PGA Tour season? Let’s lay it out

article, Brian Rolapp, Features, golf digest, Harris English, News, PGA Tour, Strategic Sports Group

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June 9th, 2024

PGA Tour officials say ‘progress was made’ in meeting with PIF governor, but still no specifics revealed

PGA Tour officials say “progress was made” in a Friday meeting with the PIF governor, but there are still no specifics on a possible deal.

June 7th, 2024

Rory McIlroy intends to listen more than talk during ‘big boy’ meetings designed to find PGA Tour–LIV Golf solution

What seems clear to McIlroy is that LIV probably isn’t going away anytime soon. That means the split in men’s professional golf could linger.

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April 25th, 2024

PGA Tour awards $1.43 BILLION(!) to players in equity grants

The PGA Tour informed players Wednesday of their individual grants in the tour’s new equity program.

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March 15th, 2024

Eight questions (and answers) on the status of the PGA Tour’s deal with Saudi Arabia

Though the incontrovertible takeaway from the past two years in professional golf is that no one knows anything, at least for certain, we’ve spent much of this week at TPC Sawgrass gathering intel on the status of the deal.

March 13th, 2024

The 10 most significant quotes from Jay Monahan’s Players press conference – and what they really mean

March 7th, 2024

Tiger Woods, Jay Monahan awarded crucial positions with newly created PGA Tour Enterprises

Left unsaid was what role, if any, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will have in the new business.

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February 28th, 2024

How the PGA Tour’s new billion-dollar equity plan could help prevent further player defections

It’s no surprise that the PGA Tour’s recent deal with the Strategic Sports Group (SSG) could serve as a calculated hedge against a continued spending war with LIV Golf and the Saudi Public Investment Fund.

February 9th, 2024

The LIV Golf question that the PGA Tour must answer

Golf’s civil war is near its endgame and those deciding its fate are down to two roads. The problem for those making this decision is many have these roads confused for the other.

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February 8th, 2024

PGA Tour to grant initial $US930 million in equity to membership, according to tour memo

The PGA Tour released a memo to its membership overnight informing how equity stakes in the new for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises will work.

Does the PGA Tour still need a PIF deal? Jordan Spieth doesn’t think so

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Many players are pleased with the new PGA Tour deal, even if they don’t quite know what it means

Money is not the solution to golf’s greed problem

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The people behind Strategic Sports Group, the PGA Tour’s new $4.5 billion investment partner

PGA Tour agrees to private equity investment from Fenway-led Strategic Sports Group, launches PGA Tour Enterprises

Addressing this one key point can help the PGA Tour/PIF/DP World Tour ‘get a deal done quickly’, says a negotiator

Leaderboard

Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard - 2026

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
-	Joel Dahmen	-	-	1
-	Daniel Bennett	-	-	1
-	Jhonattan Vegas	-	-	1
-	Tom Hoge	-	-	1
-	Ryan Fox	-	-	1
-	Billy Horschel	-	-	1
-	Brian Campbell	-	-	1
-	Patrick Rodgers	-	-	1
-	Matt McCarty	-	-	1
-	Max Greyserman	-	-	1
-	Taylor Moore	-	-	1
-	Andrew Putnam	-	-	1
-	Daniel Berger	-	-	1
-	Alex Noren	-	-	1
-	Min Woo Lee	-	-	1
-	Michael Thorbjornsen	-	-	1
-	Harry Hall	-	-	1
-	Corey Conners	-	-	1
-	Cam Young	-	-	1
-	Sepp Straka	-	-	1
-	Harris English	-	-	1
-	Patrick Cantlay	-	-	1
-	Andrew Novak	-	-	1
-	Robert MacIntyre	-	-	1
-	Brian Harman	-	-	1
-	Akshay Bhatia	-	-	1
-	Collin Morikawa	-	-	1
-	Justin Rose	-	-	1
-	Xander Schauffele	-	-	1
-	Shane Lowry	-	-	1
-	Scottie Scheffler	-	-	1
-	Russell Henley	-	-	1
-	Aldrich Potgieter	-	-	1
-	Adam Scott	-	-	1
-	J.T. Poston	-	-	1
-	Keith Mitchell	-	-	1
-	Nicolai Højgaard	-	-	1
-	Austin Smotherman	-	-	1
-	S.W. Kim	-	-	1
-	Bud Cauley	-	-	1
-	Lucas Glover	-	-	1
-	Ryo Hisatsune	-	-	1
-	Ryan Gerard	-	-	1
-	Jason Day	-	-	1
-	Taylor Pendrith	-	-	1
-	Denny McCarthy	-	-	1
-	Kurt Kitayama	-	-	1
-	Pi Coody	-	-	1
-	Jordan Spieth	-	-	1
-	Sam Stevens	-	-	1
-	Jake Knapp	-	-	1
-	Matt Fitzpatrick	-	-	1
-	Sam Burns	-	-	1
-	Sungjae Im	-	-	1
-	J.J. Spaun	-	-	1
-	Nick Taylor	-	-	1
-	Keegan Bradley	-	-	1
-	Maverick McNealy	-	-	1
-	Ben Griffin	-	-	1
-	Tommy Fleetwood	-	-	1
-	Nico Echavarria	-	-	1
-	Ludvig Åberg	-	-	1
-	Jacob Bridgeman	-	-	1
-	Chris Gotterup	-	-	1
-	Justin Thomas	-	-	1
-	Hideki Matsuyama	-	-	1
-	Rory McIlroy	-	-	1
-	Viktor Hovland	-	-	1
-	Rickie Fowler	-	-	1
-	Michael Kim	-	-	1
-	Chris Kirk	-	-	1
-	Sahith Theegala	-	-	1

Adelaide 2026 Leaderboard

PlayersTeams

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Anthony Kim	-23	18	4
2	Jon Rahm	-20	18	4
T3	Bryson DeChambeau	-17	18	4
T3	Tyrrell Hatton	-17	18	4
T3	Peter Uihlein	-17	18	4
T6	Lucas Herbert	-16	18	4
T6	Dean Burmester	-16	18	4
T8	Cameron Smith	-15	18	4
T8	Sebastian Muñoz	-15	18	4
T8	Branden Grace	-15	18	4
T8	Marc Leishman	-15	18	4
T12	Abraham Ancer	-14	18	4
T12	Joaquin Niemann	-14	18	4
T14	Matthew Wolff	-13	18	4
T14	Graeme McDowell	-13	18	4
T14	Brendan Steele	-13	18	4
T17	Caleb Surratt	-12	18	4
T17	Jason Kokrak	-12	18	4
T17	Dustin Johnson	-12	18	4
T17	Charl Schwartzel	-12	18	4
T17	Ben Campbell	-12	18	4
T17	Talor Gooch	-12	18	4
23	Richard Bland	-11	18	4
T24	Byeong Hun An	-10	18	4
T24	Scott Vincent	-10	18	4
T24	Yosuke Asaji	-10	18	4
T27	Ian Poulter	-9	18	4
T27	Thomas Pieters	-9	18	4
T27	Elvis Smylie	-9	18	4
T27	Victor Perez	-9	18	4
31	Thomas Detry	-8	18	4
T32	Danny Lee	-7	18	4
T32	Minkyu Kim	-7	18	4
T32	Josele Ballester	-7	18	4
T32	Michael La Sasso	-7	18	4
T32	Charles Howell III	-7	18	4
T37	Louis Oosthuizen	-6	18	4
T37	Sergio Garcia	-6	18	4
T37	Bubba Watson	-6	18	4
T37	Wade Ormsby	-6	18	4
T37	Richard T. Lee	-6	18	4
T42	Adrian Meronk	-5	18	4
T42	Carlos Ortiz	-5	18	4
T44	Younghan Song	-4	18	4
T44	Harold Varner III	-4	18	4
T44	Tom McKibbin	-4	18	4
T44	Miguel Tabuena	-4	18	4
T44	Ben Schmidt	-4	18	4
T44	Luis Masaveu	-4	18	4
50	Anirban Lahiri	-3	18	4
T51	David Puig	-2	18	4
T51	John Catlin	-2	18	4
53	Laurie Canter	E	18	4
T54	Bjorn Hellgren	+2	18	4
T54	Paul Casey	+2	18	4
56	Sam Horsfield	+3	18	4
57	Cameron Tringale	+4	18	4