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Robert MacIntyre wasn’t about to finish second at the Genesis Scottish Open for the second year in a row. And certainly not to a person named “Scott.” On Sunday afternoon at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick, MacIntyre sunk a cold-blooded walk-off birdie putt to take his native event in the rowdiest possible fashion. Cue […]

The University of Alabama filed a trademark lawsuit on June 30 against LIV Golf, citing similarities between their scripted “A” and the logo for the 4 Aces Golf Club — the team captained by two-time major winner Dustin Johnson. Sports attorney John Nucci first reported the lawsuit. NEW: the University of Alabama has filed an […]

Austin Reaves has a golf-themed YouTube channel and sneaker named for his lifelong fandom of Kobe Bryant. Since joining the Los Angeles Lakers, he’s developed a close connection to LeBron James. So, one might be surprised to learn who earns the title of Reaves’ personal sports GOAT … unless you understand his golf obsession. At […]

After the initial shock — experienced by Keegan Bradley himself — wore off, the decision to appoint the six-time PGA Tour winner as the United States Ryder Cup captain for 2025 was met with widespread enthusiasm by the golf world. “I was in complete shock.” Keegan Bradley describes his reaction when he found out that he […]

With the Open Championship fast approaching, Rory McIlroy would prefer to accentuate the overall positive form of his golf game, rather than let a devastating U.S. Open collapse define his season, which does include two PGA Tour wins. The no. 2 ranked player in the world fired an encouraging 65 in the opening round of […]

LIV Golf members Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, and Jon Rahm expressed genuine surprise and full-throated support after the PGA of America’s stunningly tapped Keegan Bradley as captain for Team USA at the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. Tiger Woods turned down the gig. “I heard so many people say it was going to be […]

Rory McIlroy used his first media appearance on the PGA Tour since his U.S. Open heartbreak to fiercely defend his caddie and childhood friend, Harry Diamond, in the wake of criticism levied by NBC analyst Smylie Kaufman and Hank Haney, who carried Tiger Woods’ bag for six major titles. Ahead of the Genesis Scottish Open […]

24 days later, Rory McIlroy is finally ready to publicly discuss his historical heartache at Pinehurst No. 2, where he missed two putts inside of four feet to hand the 2024 U.S. Open to Bryson DeChambeau. The PGA Tour is back in action at the Renaissance Club this week, where McIlroy will defend his title […]

The PGA Tour heads to Scotland for the Genesis Scottish Open! This post will continue our PGA Tour odds series as we hand out a Genesis Scottish Open prediction and pick. We will also let you know how to watch the event. The Scottish Open is held at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland. […]

Tiger Woods formally turned down the opportunity to captain the United States Ryder Cup team in 2025 at Bethpage Black. Instead, the gig went to six-time PGA Tour winner Keegan Bradley. “With my new responsibilities to the Tour and time commitments involved, I felt like I would not be able to commit the time to […]

Count Xander Schauffele among the PGA Tour stars shocked by the announcement that Keegan Bradley — not presumptive first-choice Tiger Woods — will captain the U.S. Ryder Cup team in September 2025 at Bethpage Black. “Yeah, it’s surprising,” the reigning PGA Championship winner said Tuesday at his press conference ahead of the Genesis Scottish Open. […]

In a surprise move, six-time PGA Tour winner Keegan Bradley will captain the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black in September 2025. Tiger Woods reportedly turned down the offer. The PGA of America officially announced Bradley as captain at a press conference held Tuesday afternoon in New York City. New York is going […]

As the golf world continues to try to untangle from the current divisions between the PGA Tour and LIV golf, an unusual on-course development continues to make headlines. Golfer Hayden Springer became the latest professional to break 60 this season when he shot a 12 under par 59 at the John Deere Classic in Silvis, […]

Jordan Spieth is competing at TPC Deere Run for the first time since winning the John Deere Classic way back in 2015 — two years after securing his inaugural PGA Tour victory in the same event. A decade later, the Texan — with four major championships, 13 career PGA Tour wins, two children, but amidst […]

As the Open Championship approaches, the golfing world focuses on those PGA & LIV players who have consistently performed at a high level yet still seek their first major victory. Here, we highlight the ten best active golfers who haven’t won a major, detailing their achievements and potential as they head into one of the […]

Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob recently invited Klay Thompson for a round of golf at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles — the star-studded venue that plays host to Tiger Woods’ annual Signature Event, the Genesis Invitational. Instead of chatting about how to continue their historic partnership over their 18 holes at the hallowed […]

Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake have reportedly gotten the official green light to bring their experimental sports bar project to the home of golf: St. Andrews, in Scotland. The PGA Tour legend and pop superstar have been granted permission by the Fife Council to convert the town’s old movie theater into a second T-Squared Social. […]

Joost Luiten has won a lawsuit against Netherlands Golf Federation (NGF), opening a pathway for the Dutchman to participate in the men’s competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Last week, the AP reported that Dutch Olympic officials were holding back three golfers from joining the 60-person fields at the Summer Games, citing their relatively low […]

Qualifying has wrapped for the 152nd Open at Royal Troon. LIV Golf representatives — excluding Sergio Garcia — fared slightly better in their efforts to crack into the 2024 British Open field than they did ahead of the U.S. Open. The winner at Pinehurst No. 2, Bryson DeChambeau, headlines the cohort of 16 LIV players […]

Sergio Garcia blasted the patrons and officials after he failed to qualify for the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon. The LIV Golf player is sitting on 99 career major starts. Garcia posted a three-under aggregate score after his 36-hole Final Qualifying at West Lancashire Golf Club on Tuesday — two strokes back of grabbing […]

Patrick Cantlay, currently ranked no. 8 in the world and arguably the most prolific professional golfer without a major on his resume, has withdrawn from this week’s PGA Tour event, the John Deere Classic, with an unspecified back injury. The final major of the year, the Open Championship, begins on July 18. “While training for […]

Nike is set to commemorate yet another historic sporting event as the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club will take place in just a few short weeks. It’s rare that we see Nike partner with events other than the Olympics like this, but the momentous occasion and popularity of golf at the moment […]

While 15-year-old Miles Russell dazzled golf fans with his impressive play at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Frank Bensel Jr. defied logic at the 2024 U.S. Senior Open. The 56-year-old tallied consecutive holes-in-one on Friday afternoon at the Newport Country Club, becoming the first player on the PGA Tour to record two aces in the same […]

Miles Russell’s first taste of the PGA Tour is officially in the books. The teenage phenom sits at even par after two rounds of the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club, below the projected cut line of -3. “I think it was a good week, just the golf didn’t go the way I wanted […]

A dog bite has forced World No. 1 Nelly Korda to withdraw from next week’s event, the Ladies European Tour (LET) Aramco Team Series, in England. Korda has six LPGA victories in 2024. Her three career LET wins include the 2032 Aramco. “I regret to announce that I must withdraw from next week’s Ladies European […]

One of the LIV Golf League’s primary streaming partners, Caffeine TV, announced it will be shutting down operations on Wednesday. The company released a statement citing struggles to make a profit. “We’re at the point where we are still not quite profitable, so we’ve made the decision to end the service as of June 26th […]

Seth Waugh, who recently voiced concerns over the “messy” state of men’s professional golf amid the PGA Tour-LIV Golf split, is stepping down as CEO of PGA of America. The PGA of America elected not to renew Waugh’s contract, which runs through the end of June, according to a report in GolfWeek. Waugh released a […]

Miles Russell, the 15-year-old no. 1 ranked junior, is set to make his PGA Tour debut this week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. “This has always been the goal, to play at the highest level,” he said Wednesday at Detroit Golf Club. “Kind of just happened a little faster than I was thinking it might. […]

Instead of lamenting a missed opportunity to secure a fourth PGA Tour victory, Tom Kim is accentuating the positive from his runner-up finish to Scottie Scheffler at the Travelers Championship. “It was a really good week last week,” Kim said at his press conference ahead of the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Kim is the favorite (+1200 […]

The men’s and women’s 60-person fields for the 2024 Paris Olympics have been solidified. The men’s field has been set since the 2024 U.S. Open results were made official. Controversially, LIV Golf League star Bryson DeChambeau — who ranks sixth on DataGolf, based on his performance in all three majors — will not be a […]

TMRW Sports, the company behind TMRW Golf League, aka TGL, the arena-based venture founded by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, and former Golf Channel executive Mike McCarley in 2022, was valued at nearly $500 million after closing its Series A investment round. TGL has partnered with the PGA Tour for the project. Bloomberg first reported the […]

LPGA stars Nelly Korda, Rose Zhang, and Lilia Vu will represent Team USA in the women’s golf competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The qualification period for the Paris Games ended after the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, which concluded on Sunday. (South Korea’s Amy Yang won her first major; Vu finished runner-up, Zhang tied for […]

Nick Bienz, an employee at a Golf Galaxy in Indianapolis, guzzled down three cold ones in an effort to quell his nerves before a five-person, eight-hole playoff to determine which four golfers would gain entry into the PGA Tour’s next event — this week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic. It worked. Bienz, 27, was one of five […]

The PGA Tour heads to Detroit this week for the Rocket Mortgage Classic! This will continue our PGA Tour odds series as we hand out a Rocket Mortgage Classic prediction and pick. We will also let you know how to watch the event. Scottie Scheffler won last weekend at the Travelers Championship, and nobody is […]

It was a tough battle at TPC River Highlands for the Travelers Championship, and the protesters who disrupted the event did not make it any easier. Tom Kim was about to do the unexpected and chase down Scottie Scheffler for the championship. But the PGA Tour superstar was just a stroke ahead of everyone, which […]

Climate change protestors invaded ithe 18th green during the final round of the Travelers Championship Sunday from multiple angles and sprayed white and red colored residue on the green to interrupt the tournament. 🚨⚡️😲 ‘SCARED FOR MY LIFE’ — Akshay Bhatia explains what he felt when climate activists stormed the 18th green. pic.twitter.com/L5Uk2pw8hc — NUCLR […]

Scottie Scheffler (-22) outlasted Tom Kim to win the Travelers Championship in a wild finish that included a protest on the 18th green before a sudden-death playoff. With the victory, Scheffler became the first golfer since Arnold Palmer (1962) to win six events in a PGA Tour season before July, and the first to win […]

Cameron Young is one of the PGA Tour’s most powerful ball-strikers. When his putter gets rolling, he becomes an all-world talent. The 27-year-old’s ceiling was on historic display on Moving Day at the Travelers Championship. Amid the humid conditions in Cromwell, CT., Young flirted with Jim Furyk’s 2016 mark for lowest single-round score in PGA […]

Considering his performance in 2023, this PGA Tour season has been especially disappointing for Rickie Fowler. After an encouraging 64 in the opening round of the Travelers Championship on Thursday, Fowler said he identified the primary culprit. “Putting was something that I could rely on last year, something I’ve tried to get back to where […]