WASHINGTON: The second-placed Spaniard Jon Rahm was eliminated after Friday’s final group in the WGC Match Play Championship but champions Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy moved on. Rahm, a three-time PGA champion this year, lost to 2021 WGC Match Play champion Billy Horschel 5&4 at the Austin Country Club in Texas, where 16 division winners,...
MIAMI: Rory McIlroy admitted on Tuesday that PGA Tour’s top golfers reaped the benefits of the rise of the LIV Golf tournament sponsored by Saudi Arabia. McIlroyhas been one of the PGA Tour’s staunch defenders in its bitter conflict with LIV last year, saying the introduction of the high-profile tour has forced the US tour...
MIAMI: Kurt Kitayama eases his final lap to take first PGA Tour won his biggest career trip to the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando on Sunday. The 30-year-old journeyman, who led by one at the start of the final round, held off a formidable challenge from some of the biggest names in world golf to...
MIAMI: The PGA Tour unveiled its new structure for the 2024 season that includes eight “special events” with special fields, no cut and increased prize money praised by Rory McIlroy such as producing a “compulsory product.” The move follows talks between the tournament and top players such as McIlroy and Tiger Woods after the launch...
LONDON: LIV Golf will have no problems attracting some of the top talent in the game but attracting a TV audience will be more difficult, as viewing for its broadcast debuts on the CW Network are far behind their rivals in the PGA Tour. An average of 286,000 and 291,000 viewers on Saturday and Sunday,...
LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods A poor score was blamed for Friday’s disappointing 74, but he appeared to be a lock to play this weekend when darkness prevented the Genesis Invitational, his first US PGA Tour start. in seven months. It was a disappointing day for the 15-time major champion, who is testing for the first...
LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods birdied his final three holes to finish in a two-under par 69 at Riviera Country Club on Thursday and cheered fans as he returned to PGA Tour action at the Genesis Invitational . The 15-time major champion has not played on the tour since the British Open in July as the...
LOS ANGELES: Rory McIlroy said the PGA Tour’s plans to streamline their majors won’t hurt lower-ranked golfers. The sport has responded to the rise of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf by focusing on the top division ‘organization’ in an effort to bring together the biggest stars. There is no agreed plan for the future development of...
LOS ANGELES: The establishment of golf is still being reinvented 12 months after the rise of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament that rocked the game around the world and pitted longtime friends against each other. . Tiger Woodswho came strongly on the side of the US PGA Tour and the DP World Tour, said that...
LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods He said on Friday that he will play next week’s PGA Tour in Los Angeles, marking his return to competitive golf after a seven-month absence while recovering from injuries in a car accident in 2021. The former world number one, whose appearances have been limited in the past two years since...