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Rory McIlroy will have a voice in negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf’s backer, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), though he won’t be joining Tiger Woods and Patrick Cantlay on the policy board. A quick refresher for those not playing fantasy negotiation committees: In November, McIlroy — after two years as the […]

Last November, at a key negotiating juncture, Rory McIlroy abruptly resigned from the PGA Tour policy board, citing exhaustion from two years in LIV Golf-related meetings (see: Full Swing). Jordan Spieth took his place. A few months later, Webb Simpson — one of six player directors of PGA Tour Enterprises, with Spieth, Tiger Woods, Adam […]

Some of golf’s biggest names, headlined by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, will reportedly be eligible to receive lucrative equity payouts for remaining loyal to the PGA Tour amid competition from the LIV Golf League. Tiger can net upwards of $100 million in equity, per the Telegraph, thanks to PGA Tour Enterprises — a for-profit […]

Four days after the Masters, the PGA Tour is back at it with the fifth Signature Event of the season: the 2024 RBC Heritage. Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy headline a stacked field at the picturesque Harbour Town Golf Links, on Hilton Head Island. Geographically, Harbour Town isn’t too far from the gusty Augusta, but […]

Rory McIlroy squashed post-Masters speculation that he might be considering a jump to the LIV Golf League and strongly reaffirmed his loyalty to the PGA Tour — seemingly once and for all. An unsubstantiated report circling Tuesday suggested that McIlroy was weighing a LIV offer worth upwards of $850 million, including an ownership stake in […]

The Masters is one of the most celebrated spectacles in sports, and as such, it does not need an abundance of compelling storylines for it to necessarily sizzle. The millions of viewers watching at home, many of whom are probably not diehard golf fans, can understand the magnitude of the event just by the prestige […]

Tiger Woods is bullish on Rory McIlroy’s chances to win the Masters — and therefore become the sixth player in PGA Tour history to complete the career Grand Slam. “No question he’ll do it at some point. Rory’s too talented, too good, and he’s going to be playing this event for a very long time,” […]

While Rory McIlroy and the PGA Tour are at TPC San Antonio for the Valero Texas Open the week before heading to Augusta National, LIV Golf League members are at Trump National Doral in Miami for its pre-Masters tune-up. The presence of LIV’s first 2024 event in the United States days before the tours re-converge […]

Throughout 2024, ClutchPoints contributors will banter on hot topics in golf. This is the second hole of The DisCourse. Michael: David, thanks for joining. I’m still thinking about your All-Star weekend proposal. We’re a week out from The Masters, so I thought we’d focus on Scottie Scheffler (apologies to the Valero Texas Open). Or rather, […]

Tiger Woods is a five-time champion at The Masters with the lowest per-round scoring average in the history of Augusta National Golf Club. Rory McIlroy has accomplished everything on the PGA Tour — except win a green jacket. Ahead of his always-anticipated start in the 2024 Masters, McIlroy — amid a herky-jerky 2024 season — […]

In a revealing conversation with Golf Magazine, per Reuters, Rory McIlroy, one of golf’s most prominent figures, has once again shared his perspective on the ongoing split between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf League, describing the division as “unsustainable” and detrimental to the sport’s long-term interests. As a four-time major champion, […]

The 2024 Valero Texas Open may not be a Signature Event, but it holds a noteworthy place on the PGA Tour calendar as the final stop before The Masters. Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth are among the stars who intend to use TPC San Antonio to sharpen their iron(s) before Augusta National. Corey Conners is the […]

TGL, the experimental golf league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in partnership with the PGA Tour, set a new launch date of Tuesday, January 7, 2025. TGL presented by SoFi will premier on ESPN and ESPN+. The first three matches will air in prime time on the first three Tuesdays of the new […]

Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, and Viktor Hovland paused their opening round of the Players Championship for nearly nine minutes to discuss whether McIlroy’s tee shot on the par-4 7th pitched above the red penalty line before bouncing back into the water. Based on TPC Sawgrass regulations, McIlroy would have been faced with about a 250-yard […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

The PGA Tour’s elite, including Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, are set to reap the bulk of the rewards from the $930 million in initial equity payouts resulting from the Strategic Sports Group’s multi-billion dollar investment in professional golf. On Wednesday — ahead of the 2024 WM Phoenix Open — PGA Tour players received a […]

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler joined the chorus of PGA Tour stars — including Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, and Rickie Fowler — in disagreement with World No. 2 Rory McIlroy over how defectors to the LIV Golf League should be re-ingratiated. “You had some guys that left our tour and then sued our tour. That […]

The PGA Tour announced a substantial financial and strategic investment on Wednesday, though not the long-awaited arrangement with the LIV Golf League. In the meantime, the PGA Tour will partner with private equity firm Strategic Sports Group (SSG) to launch PGA Tour Enterprises, a for-profit venture run by the tour. SSG is comprised of a […]

The world’s no. 2 golfer, Rory McIlroy, made a bit of a U-turn on Wednesday when he said that he would consider joining the Saudi funded circuit. But there is a catch; McIlroy said he would consider it if it was “if it was turned into the IPL of golf,” according to James Corrigan of […]

Jon Rahm sent shockwaves to the golf world when he officially announced his move from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf on Thursday. In light of Rahm’s controversial decision, Rory McIlroy called for rule changes to the Ryder Cup so he could remain teammates with the 29-year-old Spaniard for the 2025 edition of the golf competition. […]

The World Tour Championship is taking place this weekend at Jumeirah Golf Estates, and a memorable moment has already taken place involving a spectator and Rory McIlroy. Rory McIlroy’s tee shot went into a spectator area, and luckily it ended up with everyone laughing and no one being hurt. The ball landed in the lap […]

Ever since LIV Golf came into the picture, the PGA Tour-LIV debate has been a nonstop battle. A lot of prominent names have flipped from PGA to LIV, but Rory McIlroy has stayed with the PGA and has been extremely vocal as a supporter the entire time. However, McIlroy has now decided to step down […]