Players who stayed loyal to the PGA Tour amid lucrative recruitment by Saudi-funded LIV Golf are starting to find out how much that loyalty could be worth. The PGA Tour on Wednesday began contacting the 193 players eligible for the $930 million from a “Player Equity Program” under the new PGA Tour Enterprises. The bulk of that money — $750 million — went to 36 players based on their career performance, the last five years and how they fared in a recent program that measured their star power. How much they received was not immediately known. Emails were going out Wednesday afternoon and Th ..read more

A Masters green jacket wasn’t enough for Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler was running on emotional fumes fresh off his four-shot victory at Augusta National, but full of purpose that more than made up for his lack of preparation for the RBC Heritage. The result not only was similar, it has come to be expected. He rarely missed a shot. He gave little hope to those chasing him. And he walked away from Harbour Town on Monday morning with another victory that extended a dominance not seen since the peak years of Tiger Woods. “I didn’t show up here just to have some sort of ceremony and have ..read more

Nelly Korda couldn’t have imagined the incredible run she’s put together this season while at home recovering from a blood clot that required surgery in 2022. “Because obviously then I was just more scared for my health,” she said. “Competing was kind of on the back seat. I was not thinking about competing at all. But I think all of the sad times and the health scares that I have gone through have made me who I am today.” Fully healthy now, Korda is seemingly unstoppable. The world’s No. 1 player hasn’t lost a tournament since January, and now she’s a two-time major champion. Korda etched her ..read more

This wasn’t the kind of attention Rory McIlroy was hoping for on the day after the Masters. A London financial paper, City A.M., cited anonymous sources as saying McIlroy was believed to be close to an $850 million deal to join LIV Golf. The publication did not say how the sources would know. That set off speculation and innuendo across the internet. McIlroy was able to shut it down when he arrived at the RBC Heritage. “I honestly don’t know how these things get started,” McIlroy told Golf Channel from the range at Harbour Town. “I’ve never been offered a number from LIV and I’ve nev ..read more

Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau will be the in the same place next week, when they head to Augusta National for the Masters. They’re saying the same things this week, albeit a golf world apart. Sounding an alarm going into the year’s first major, McIlroy and DeChambeau were among players from both the PGA Tour and LIV Golf League on Wednesday speaking out — perhaps a bit more forcefully than before — on a need for the game to somehow reunite or risk further eroding its fanbase. “If you look at the TV ratings of the PGA Tour this year, they’re down 20% across the board. That’s a fifth. That ..read more

Charlie Woods could make his PGA Tour debut as soon as next week. The 15-year-old son of 15-time major champion Tiger Woods is attempting to qualify for the upcoming Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches. In order to secure a spot in the tournament, Woods needs to make it through two qualifying rounds over the next several days. He will first compete in a pre-qualifier at Lost Lake Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida, on Thursday. Lost Lake Golf Club will be one of four pre-qualifying sites and approximately the top 25 golfers and ties from each site will advance to a qualifier at Tesoro Club’s P ..read more

Jack Burke Jr., who was the oldest living Masters champion and staged the greatest comeback ever at Augusta National for one of his two majors, died Friday in Houston. He was 100. Burke, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, also won the PGA Championship and was equally skilled as a teacher. He built the fabled Champions Golf Club in Houston and delivered lessons along with a dose of homespun wisdom. “Why did golf give us 34 rules when God only gave us 10 commandments?” he said over dinner at his home in Houston in 2000, one of endless examples of a sharp wit always grounded in common sense ..read more

Lexi Thompson will become the seventh woman to ever compete in a PGA Tour event after she accepted a sponsorship exemption for next week’s Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas. “I’m hopeful that my ability to play with the men next week at the Shriners Children’s Open sends a great message to the young women that you can chase your dream regardless of how hard it is,” Thompson said in a statement. “I’m grateful to Shriners Children’s for this opportunity to spend the week alongside these inspirational kids.” No woman has competed in a PGA Tour event since Brittany Lincicome played at the 2018 ..read more

Europe won back the Ryder Cup on Sunday, just like it always does before its raucous crowd, with Rory McIlroy leading the way and Tommy Fleetwood delivering the winner. McIlroy was still fired up over what he perceived to be bad behavior by Patrick Cantlay’s caddie the previous night. He helped put Europe on the brink by winning his fourth match of the week to cap off his best performance. And then Fleetwood hit a signature shot on the signature hole at Marco Simone, a drive to 25 feet on the reachable 16th. Rickie Fowler hit into the water and eventually conceded a short birdie to Fleetw ..read more

Team Europe is feeling right at home to open the 2023 Ryder Cup. The Europeans are nearly halfway to this year’s crown after taking a 6.5-1.5 lead over Team U.S. to open the competition at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome, Italy, on Friday. Every morning foursome went Europe’s way. Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton beat Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns, Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Aberg beat Brian Harman and Max Homa, Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka beat Rickie Fowler and Collin Morikawa, and Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood beat Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele. It wasn’t until the after ..read more