Tag: PGA Tour
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Xander Schauffele won 2024 PGA Championship with skill, but deserved it on attitude
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Spend enough time around elite golfers and it becomes clear that the ingredients for success – and sanity, for that matter – are a short memory, a thick hide and a stout ego. All three are intimately connected, but ego is the most important component, with the others essential for keeping it…
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Jimmy Dunne resigns from role on PGA Tour Policy Board: ‘I’m superfluous. It’s time to move on’
Jimmy Dunne, the Wall Street deal maker who helped architect the PGA Tour’s controversial deal with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund last summer resigned from the Tour’s Policy Board on Monday. Dunne informed his fellow board members in a letter sent at 5 p.m. In a call with Golfweek, Dunne explained his decision. “There’s a…
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Jack Nicklaus remembers the exact moment he knew it was time to pass the baton (and it included Tiger Woods)
For Jack Nicklaus, the moment came in 2000 at Valhalla, the site of next week’s PGA Championship. Nicklaus, then 60, was playing in what would be his final PGA Championship. He missed the cut at 4 over, not able to recover from an opening-round 77. And when he walked off the course it hit him.…
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After scintillating Korn Ferry Tour start, 15-year-old Miles Russell planning out a busy summer
Miles Russell is still an amateur golfer and intends to remain so for the foreseeable future. Russell, the 15-year-old Jacksonville Beach native who became the youngest player in history to finish among the top 20 in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event last week at the Korn Ferry Tour’s LECOM Suncoast Open, said he will keep to…
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The Five Biggest Recent Changes To Augusta National For The Masters
Augusta National has regularly made changes for The Masters to keep up with the times, here’s the five biggest ones of recent years: As the host of the first Major of the year, Augusta National has become an iconic course in the world of golf, but how has it changed recently to make The Masters more of…
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Scottie Scheffler makes PGA Tour history with 2024 Players Championship win, title defense
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Scottie Scheffler refused to relinquish the Players Championship trophy. It didn’t matter if he suffered from neck pain, or if he fell as many as nine strokes off the pace in the third round, Scheffler made no excuses. He persevered until his neck improved on Sunday and fired a final-round…
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LeBron James, Drake lead list of celebrities who have invested in PGA Tour
The discussion around professional golf lately has been less birdies and bogeys and more dollars and bills. The PGA Tour recently partnered with the Strategic Sports Group (SSG), an outside investment conglomerate headlined by Fenway Sports Group and comprised of several high-level U.S.-based sports owners, to create a new, for-profit entity called PGA Tour Enterprises. The deal…
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Hideki Matsuyama Wins 2024 Genesis Invitational: First Win since 2022
Sizzling 62 at Riviera: Hideki Matsuyama smiling again after winning 2024 Genesis Invitational Hideki Matsuyama is his own toughest critic. The 31-year-old past Masters champion has developed a reputation for reacting as if he hated his shot more than hot sauce on ice cream only for the shot in question to be a thing of…
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Tiger Woods, TaylorMade officially launch Sun Day Red
Tiger Woods, TaylorMade officially launch Sun Day Red. Could a TaylorMade IPO be far behind? PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – The worst-kept secret in golf was officially unveiled – Tiger Woods and TaylorMade have partnered to launch a new premium active-lifestyle apparel and footwear brand. “We’re going to sunrise a brand,” said TaylorMade CEO David Abeles…
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Tyrrell Hatton signs with LIV Golf
Tyrrell Hatton signs with LIV Golf: World No. 16 will join Jon Rahm’s team for 2024 season, per report Just days before the start of its third season, LIV Golf has signed another big-name European competitor as Tyrrell Hatton is the latest to join the upstart league, according to The Telegraph. The Englishman will join his…