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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 […]

LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka recently joined Golf.com’s Claire Rogers to chat about golf and life on her segment, “The Scoop.” One of her questions showed how much respect the LIV Golf pro has for a fellow golfer. She asked Koepka if he had to play golf for the rest of his life with only one player, who […]

Charlie Woods, the 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods, saw his first attempt at qualifying for a PGA Tour event go haywire. The son of the 82-time PGA Tour winner has teed it up with pops in the PNC Championship the last four years, highlighted by a runner-up finish in 2012. Tracing Charlie Woods' swing 🖌️ […]

Austin Reaves checks in with Stephen Curry about the state of his golf game whenever the Los Angeles Lakers cross paths with the Golden State Warriors, but that doesn’t mean Reaves is doling out swing tips to the all-time shooting king. The reticence from Reaves — nearly a scratch player with a golf-themed YouTube channel […]

This week, the PGA Tour descends upon Nuevo Vallarta for the 2024 Mexico Open at Vidanta. The 36-hole, non-signature tournament offers a welcoming pit spot in between the West Coast and Florida swings. The 36-hole cut event will feature a 136-player field and $8.1 million purse. The winner will earn $1.386 million and 500 FedExCup […]

Charlie Woods is following in his father’s footsteps. Tiger Woods’ son is reportedly going to participate in a pre-qualifier on Thursday, per the PGA Tour website. The pre-qualifier is for the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, an event that used to be known as the Honda Classic. Olin Browne Jr. and Ruaidhri Mcgee will […]

Joaquin Niemann has gotten his wish: He’s received an invite from Augusta National to compete in The Masters (April 11-14). Ryo Hisatsune of Japan and Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen also accepted special invitations. “The Masters Tournament has a long-standing tradition of inviting leading international players who are not otherwise qualified,” Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley wrote […]

LIV Golf chairman Yassir Al-Rumayyan is set to compete in the PGA Tour Champions Trophy Hassan II Pro-Am in Morocco. He is paired with Arjun Atwal for the Pro-Am that will be played on Wednesday, February 21, at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Rabat, per Brentley Romine of The Golf Channel: “Playing in today’s […]

PGA Tour pro Tony Finau was facing two separate lawsuits but the Utah Court of Appeals ruled last Thursday to affirm the dismissal of one of them. Finau, the defending champion at the Mexico Open at Vidanta – this week’s PGA Tour stop – was sued, along with his father Kelepi and brother Gipper, by […]

The 2024 Masters is just around the corner. It is scheduled to be held as usual at Augusta National, beginning on April 11. While that is still months away, it is already generating plenty of attention since it is the first major of the year. The interest in the tournament also spiked up Monday when […]

Will Zalatoris didn’t take home the 2024 Genesis Invitational trophy (though he did win two cars), but his runner-up finish may have been as encouraging and, for his competitors on the PGA Tour, as foreboding as anyone’s result at Riviera Country Club. For the first time since a rare back operation in the spring, Zalatoris was in […]

Angel Cabrera, who won the U.S. Open in 2007 and The Masters in 2009, is set to return to the PGA Tour Champions this week after serving nearly three years in prison. Cabrera, 54, is listed in the field for the Trophy Hassan II event in Morocco, as first spotted by Doug Ferguson of the […]

The 2024 Genesis Invitational had controversy, drama and a Tiger Woods health scare. It all culminated with a historic comeback victory for Hideki Matsuyama in the final round. The 2021 Masters champion began Sunday six strokes off the lead but clawed his way to the top of the leaderboard after shooting a spectacular nine-under par […]

It was looking like Jason Day and Patrick Cantlay were going to come out on top at the Genesis Invitational. However, two-shot leads were not at all safe when Hideki Matsuyama started heating up. He notched a nine-under 62 in the final round that had the crowd cheering en route to his victory. Fellow competitor […]

According to Hideki Matsuyama, only the presence of tournament host Tiger Woods at the Genesis Invitational trophy presentation could have made his win at Riviera Country Club — his ninth on the PGA Tour — any more significant. “To win in this tournament was one of my goals ever since I became pro,” Matsuyama said […]

Hideki Matsuyama served notice to the rest of the golfers on the PGA Tour that 2024 is going to be his year. He fired a final round of 62 to come from behind and win the Genesis Invitational. Matsuyama started the final round six strokes out of the lead, but he never let that deficit […]

When it was all said and done at the 2024 Genesis Invitational, it was Hideki Matsuyama who ended up on top of the field, as he broke a five-way tie on Sunday to come away with his first PGA Tour event title in over two years. However, it seemed that his day was not complete […]