What became all but inevitable on September 1st at the Tour Championship became official on Tuesday: the PGA Tour announced that World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler had been named recipient of the PGA Tour’s Jack Nicklaus Award for Player of the Year in 2024. Scheffler won an incredible seven official…
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan earned more than $23 million in 2023 according to a document obtained by Sportico. Monahan’s earnings also include a remarkable $12.1m bonus, $2.5m in post-retirement benefits and $6.7m in long term incentive compensation while his base salary for the year was $1,887,096. Such earnings would…
America’s Billy Horschel held his nerve to beat Rory McIlroy in a thrilling play-off and clinch the BMW PGA Championship title. Horschel, McIlroy and Thriston Lawrence entered a three-way play-off at Wentworth in Surrey after ending their final rounds on 20 under par. A bogey from Lawrence on the first…
They were scenes from a film we have seen before – and recently. There was the putt on the 72nd hole sliding past. There was the crowd stunned into silence. There was the consoling pat on the back from Harry Diamond. And there was, at the centre of it all,…
Captain Suzann Pettersen says she does not “have any regrets” after Europe were beaten 15½-12½ by the United States, relinquishing their five-year hold on the Solheim Cup. Having trailed to a record 6-2 opening-day deficit on Friday, Europe produced a gutsy display to win Sunday’s single matches 6½-5½ and, at…
Tour Championship final leaderboard -30 S Scheffler (US); -26 C Morikawa (US); -24 S Theegala (US) Selected: -16 R McIlroy (NI), S Lowry (Ire); -11 R MacIntyre (Sco); -10 T Fleetwood (Eng); -6 A Rai (Eng) Scottie Scheffler underlined his status as the world’s number one golfer with a dominant…
Great Britain and Ireland won the Curtis Cup for the first time since 2016 with a thrilling 10½-9½ victory over the United States at Sunningdale. It is a ninth victory for GB&I, who were led by double Solheim Cup winning captain Catriona Matthew, in the 43rd staging of the amateur…
Lydia Ko ended an eight-year major drought by claiming the AIG Women’s Open after a tense finish in blustery conditions at St Andrews. The New Zealander, who won the Olympic gold medal earlier this month, birdied the last as she closed with a three-under-par 69 to win her third major…
