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The second stop on the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing lands in Orlando for the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club & Lodge. It’s one of the sport’s most prestigious, challenging, and, literally, Signature Events. An exclusive field of 69 players — including all of the PGA Tour’s best — will vie for a chunk […]

The newly established PGA Tour Enterprises announced its Board of Directors on Wednesday. It includes Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth, and Patrick Cantlay. Woods has been named Vice Chairman. The 13-member Board consists of nine PGA Tour Directors and four Strategic Sports Group (SSG) Directors. The six current Player Directors on the tour’s Policy Board will […]

After a heated battle by LIV Golf to be recognized by the Official World Golf Ranking, the upstart golf league withdrew its bid to garner points in the rankings for its players. LIV players will now have a harder time getting into PGA Tour tournaments, as well as the four majors, though some will be […]

With merger negotiations not progressing as fans initially anticipated, The PGA Tour is clearly focused on growing on its own. That is, with a little help from some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. Actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Olympic skiing legend Lindsey Vonn and blockbuster movie star Chris Pratt are joining […]

Netflix’s Full Swing Season 2 drops this Wednesday. Ahead of its release, ClutchPoints screened the episodes and chatted with PGA Tour stars Tom Kim and Keegan Bradley, as well as executive producers Chad Mumm and Warren Smith. In Full Swing Season 1, released on Netflix in February 2023, the series aimed — with varying degrees […]

LIV Golf is done pursuing the World Golf Ranking accreditation of its players. In a letter to the players, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman explained why the Saudi-backed organization is no longer applying for recognition from the Official World Golf Ranking or OWGR. “It is now clear that the best way forward for LIV as […]

Throughout the remainder of 2024, ClutchPoints’ contributors will use this space to banter on hot topics in the game of golf. In the wake of Austin Eckroat’s first career win at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, Michael Corvo and David Rooney discussed the trend of longshot winners to start the PGA Tour season. […]

Another week, another long shot has won a PGA Tour event. This time, it’s Austin Eckroat, who topped the field at the 2024 Cognizant Classic at PGA National Resort (The Champion) in Florida. The win ended a long drought for Eckroat, who, before Monday, had never tasted a PGA Tour victory in his pro career. […]

Joaquin Niemann, winner of two of the first three LIV Golf events of 2024, has received a special invitation to compete in the PGA Championship, he revealed to golfwrx.com. The Chilean earned a special invitation to The Masters two weeks ago. The major — operated by the PGA of America, not the PGA Tour — […]

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, his agent, Rich Paul, and Drake are among the high-profile names who have recently invested in the PGA Tour, according to the New York Times. Earlier this year, the PGA Tour partnered with Strategic Sports Group (SSG) — a consortium of sports owners led by Fenway Sports Group (FSG). […]

The jam-packed leaderboard at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches will have to be sorted out on Monday, as a three-hour, 28-minute afternoon weather delay caused the final round to be postponed when darkness set in at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The final round will begin at 8 a.m. ET on […]

If you weren’t streaming the CW app in the wee hours, you may have missed LIV Golf Jeddah at Royal Greens Golf Club — the third event of the league’s third season. Former PGA Tour sensation Anthony Kim made his return after a 12-year hiatus, Joaquin Niemann cemented himself as a Masters contender, while Bryson […]

Rory McIlroy was enjoying a solid round on moving day at the Cognizant Classic, firing four birdies during a 5-hole run from the 9th hole through the 13th that allowed him to get into prime contention with a score of 10-under par. However, McIlroy took a bogey on the par-3 15th hole and followed that […]

There is an all-star lineup of PGA Tour golfers, celebrities and athletes heading to Florida to play in this year’s Seminole Pro-Member golf event. Tiger Woods and Tom Brady are expected to play in the tournament, per 5 Clubs Golf. The tournament is scheduled for Monday, and is a one-day event in Juno Beach, Florida. […]

Tiger Woods, a name synonymous with golf’s most thrilling victories and heart-stopping moments, has been honored with the Bob Jones Award by the United States Golf Association (USGA) for an unprecedented ninth time. This accolade stands as one of golf’s highest honors, celebrating Woods’ unparalleled commitment to sportsmanship, respect for the game’s time-honored traditions, and […]

Anthony Kim is in last place in the 54-player field at LIV Golf Jeddah after shooting a six-over-par 76 in his first professional golf round since his last PGA Tour appearance in 2012. Of course, rustiness and nerves are to be expected. Kim began his round on Friday — at the Royal Greens Golf & […]

If all goes according to plan, the 2024 LIV Golf season — the third campaign for the league funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) — will pick up steam beginning this Friday, in Jeddah. The third event of the year will be highlighted by Anthony Kim’s startling return to professional golf. LIV Golf […]

LIV Golf — the league funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) — is reportedly embroiled in a secretive lawsuit levied by a group behind the Premier Golf League, which claims its proposed format for a competitor to the PGA Tour was copied. The PGL, backed by British financiers, supposedly planned on creating a […]

Rory McIlroy once took some heat for insinuating that Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were on the “back nines” of their Hall of Fame careers in golf. A decade later, the 34-year-old acknowledged that he’s on the “10th green or 11th tee” of his own prolific run on the PGA Tour. “I said a few […]

The PGA Tour membership has voted to elect Camilo Villegas as the next named Chairman of the PGA Tour Player Advisory Council (PAC) — a position previously held by Jordan Spieth. Villegas, a five-time PGA Tour winner, will serve as PAC Chairman for 2024. He’ll succeed Spieth as a Player Director on the Policy Board […]

PGA Tour pro Rory McIlroy was all smiles when he was asked about his ex-agent Chubby Chandler’s comments that McIlroy could make the move to LIV Golf: I saw this quote earlier today and was waiting on the video because I was sure it was just a joke. It’s definitely lighthearted but feels like.. less […]

Rory McIlroy took the high road when asked on multiple occasions — ahead of the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches at PGA National — about the comments from Talor Gooch, in which the former PGA Tour member claims a victory at The Masters in 2024 for McIlroy would come with an “asterisk” because of […]

Onetime PGA Tour phenom Anthony Kim officially announced his stunning return to professional golf — this weekend at LIV Golf Jeddah — after a reclusive 12-year hiatus. Kim will compete as a season-long Wild Card player for the 2024 season. Kim’s partnership with LIV, rumored for months, was reported by Golf Channel last weekend. On […]

Nine-time PGA Tour winner Patrick Reed, now playing over at LIV Golf, saw his appeal to reverse a dismissal of his $750 million defamation lawsuit against various members of golf media denied on Wednesday, according to Front Office Sports. Back in September, a U.S. District Court threw out defamation cases filed against 18 entities in […]

The PGA Tour’s Florida Swing begins Thursday with the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches (formerly the Honda Classic) at PGA National. The 144-person Full-Field Event includes bigwigs like Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tom Kim, and Rickie Fowler. Chris Kirk will seek to become the first person since Jack Nicklaus (1977-78) to go back-t0-back at […]

The PGA Tour will have a plethora of talent taking the course for the spring Masters Tournament. Most notably, Rory McIlroy will attempt to complete a Grand Slam with a win at the event. LIV Golf’s Talor Gooch was omitted from the player field and gave his bold claim on a potential McIlroy win. Would […]

The 2024 PGA TOUR season is in full swing, and every year there are some exciting young newcomers to the Tour that skyrocket towards the top of the world rankings. Sometimes, these are players who came out of nowhere to move into the top-50 or top-25 players in the world. Other times, this could be […]

DJ Khaled is used to being the center of attention on stage. It also seemed that he thought he was going to be among the main competitors in the latest installment of Capital One’s The Match on Monday. He learned that he was not, though, when he arrived at The Park in West Palm Beach […]

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman confirmed what has been long speculated: the Saudi-backed golf league wants Japanese superstar Hideki Matsuyama. Matsuyama, currently ranked No. 20 in the Official World Golf Ranking, became the first Asian-born player to win The Masters in 2021. He holds nine PGA Tour victories, including at the 2024 Genesis Invitational at […]

The ongoing feud between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour has lost its juice in recent months as the two sides try to complete an unprecedented merger. Greg Norman and Rory McIlroy – two of the biggest advocates for their respective sides – have slowed their public clashing as another season of golf ramps up. […]

On Sunday, instead of contending in the final round of the PGA Tour’s Mexico Open — as he did in 2023 — Jon Rahm talked with ESPN’s Marty Smith about his decision to join LIV Golf — and how Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy handled the news. In 2022, Rahm, arguably the best player in […]

Jake Knapp used to prevent folks from entering a nightclub. After posting a 19-under at the 2024 Mexico Open at Vidanta, he’s now a proud member of the exclusive club of PGA Tour winners. Knapp’s oddball final round in Nuevo Vallarta reflected his unconventional trek to the tour. Knapp became the second player since 1983 […]

Former PGA Tour phenom Anthony Kim will make his long-hoped-for return to professional golf at LIV Golf Jeddah in Saudi Arabia next week. The news of Kim’s return was first reported by Golf Channel. Soon after he burst onto the scene, Kim became arguably golf’s most exciting emerging star since Tiger Woods. He won three […]

While the PGA Tour is currently garnering the attention of most Golf fans, action has similarly been heating up in the Asian Tour. At the moment, the International Series Oman is ongoing, and one of the players participating is Peter Uihlein. Uihlien, a familiar face in the PGA and European scene, ranked T3 following Friday’s […]

LIV Golf has accomplished several of the goals it set for itself upon forming two and a half years ago, doling out insane sums of money to secure some of the biggest names in the sport and seeing Brooks Koepka successfully represent the alternative league with a PGA Championship victory. But it is still not […]

The Florida portion of the PGA Tour gets underway next week at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, and Rory McIlroy is in the field and is expected to play in the 72-hole event. The Cognizant Classic is the tour’s last full-field event before the Arnold Palmer Classic. The tournament was previously known as […]

Golf is lauded as a sport of supreme concentration and sophistication, but when an underdog tale is etched in the greens for fans around the globe to see, the game will resonate through the screen. Those emotions run even deeper for Uganda, a nation that is currently celebrating the improbable journey of one of its […]

In his 58th event on the PGA Tour, the 2024 Mexico Open at Vidanta, Rafael Campos has finally carded an ace. Campos pulled off the hole-in-one on the par-3 17th hole in the second round at Vidanta Villarta on Friday. Initially, the ball looked like it may be headed for the drink, prompting Campos to […]

Being the son of a PGA Tour legend and someone with a green coat from The Masters is never easy. Charlie Woods is always getting compared to his father and that may never stop. The challenge at Lost Lake Golf Club was rough for Tiger Woods’ son. He struggled to sink shots during the Cognizant […]