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Jay Monahan was asked to resign as PGA Tour commissioner in December, according to a report from No Laying Up’s Kevin Van Valkenburg. Here’s what Van Valkenburg wrote: “When Sky Sports reporter Jamie Weir asked Monahan directly if any of the player directors on the policy board had asked him to resign at any point […]

Speaking nearby PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, ahead of the 50th edition of its signature event — the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass — World No. 2 Rory McIlroy called for a true acceleration in negotiations with LIV Golf League as fan interest appears to be waning. “The more we go down […]

When you have been competing at a professional level for almost 30 years, it is understandable to get a bit jaded. Constant injury problems can only further temper an athlete’s enthusiasm. According to world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, that is not the case for Tiger Woods. The 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational winner (also won […]

Scottie Scheffler sees an obvious culprit in the division in professional golf. Speaking ahead of The Players Championship — where he’ll vie to defend his title — the World No. 1 identified defectors to the LIV Golf League when asked how PGA Tour loyalists feel about increased fan disillusionment. “When you’re talking about a fan […]

Ahead of the 50th Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan addressed the media for the first time since August, as talks with LIV Golf’s backer, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), appear stalled and the sport’s star power remains segregated. With varying degrees of vagueness, Monahan addressed a bevy of pressing topics […]

The 50th Players Championship goes down this week at TPC Sawgrass, and PGA Tour star Rory McIlroy is getting ready to participate in the storied event. While speaking to the media on Tuesday, McIlroy recalled a hilarious story about getting busted with a fake ID after his first time playing in the Players Championship back […]

The 50th Players Championship goes down this week at TPC Sawgrass. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will vie for his second straight win on the PGA Tour — after his dominant showing at the Arnold Palmer Invitational — and at The Players. Tiger Woods will not participate. The Masters is weeks away. The winner of […]

The second season of Netflix’s Full Swing was released on Wednesday, March 6. ClutchPoints spoke with a key character in the show, six-time PGA Tour winner Keegan Bradley, before its release.  Bradley, 37, has been a stalwart of professional goal since winning the PGA Championship and Rookie of the Year in 2011. Since then, he’s […]

It has been a long time coming but Scottie Scheffler is once again back to being the top-ranked golfer in the PGA Tour. His win in the Arnold Palmer Invitational surely gives him a lot of momentum heading into The Masters. With tough opponents like Wyndham Clark, Nick Taylor, Max Homa, and Shane Lowry making […]

Brice Garnett retained his PGA Tour card status for the next three years by sinking a 15-foot birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole to win the 2024 Puerto Rico Open at Grand Reserve Country Club in Rio Grande. By winning in his first start of the season, Garnett also secured a place in next […]

We can’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Scottie Scheffler switched to a mallet putter for the Arnold Palmer Invitational at the suggestion of Rory McIlroy, but the motive is irrelevant. What matters to the rest of the PGA Tour is that Scottie, like Happy, appears to have learned how to putt. The lead is […]

PGA Tour golfer Rory Mcllroy is opening up about his play at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Mcllroy crushed a 365-yard tee shot on the 1oth hole that made the green and got fans buzzing on Saturday. “That tee shot onto the green at 10 was pretty good,” Mcllroy said, per Yahoo Sports. “I had no […]

Tiger Woods was not listed in the field for next week’s THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Many expected Tiger to use the TPC as his lone tune-up for The Masters (April 11-14). The 144-player field for The PLAYERS was announced on Friday at 5 p.m. ET. Tiger’s lack of communication about a potential start […]

The LIV Golf tour has an event coming up in Hong Kong on Friday followed by an event in Miami, Florida next month which has ambassadors including PGA legend Phil Mickelson talking. Mickelson joined HyFlyers teammates Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale and Andy Ogletree for a press conference shared by the LIV Golf YouTube channel on […]

As long as the PGA Tour and LIV Golf continue to operate as separate entities, fans are going to analyze any soundbite that might indicate a change of heart or loyalty. Imaginations have run wild after Rory McIlroy eased up on the critical comments he made about the Saudi-backed league, leading to some speculation that […]

Gone are the days when the PGA Tour was the sole and premier golf league in the world. LIV Golf has been able to get top players in Cam Smith, Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm, Lucas Herbert, and Adrian Meronk among others. While massive stars like Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy have chosen to stay in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]