LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – An alternate professional golf tour, intent on attracting the top talent in the men’s game with top-dollar guarantees, is once again gaining traction, ESPN reported on Tuesday (May 4). The Premier Golf League first surfaced early in 2020, backed by investors from Saudi Arabia that would give multi-million dollar guarantees to top players for an 18-event […]

World’s top golfers including No 1 Dustin Johnson, four-time major winner Brooks Koepka and England’s Justin Rose among those offered between $30-50m to leave the PGA Tour and join $1bn Saudi-backed Premier Golf League A Saudi-backed global tour is offering a reported $1billion in prize money  Contract sums for the top players have reportedly risen up to $50m (£36m)  Proposed […]

Senior golf writer for ESPN.com Covered golf for more than 20 years Earned Evans Scholarship to attend Indiana University CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Premier Golf League, which was promising multimillion-dollar guarantees to top-ranked golfers to break away from the PGA and European Tours, has reemerged with big offers to Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson. The Daily […]

PHOENIX — Amy Bockerstette is set to become the first person with Down syndrome to compete in a national collegiate athletic championship. The 22-year-old golfer will play with her Paradise Valley Community College teammates at the NJCAA national championships May 10-13 at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club in Ormond Beach, Florida. Bockerstette is the first person with Down syndrome […]

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Eight times this season, Sam Burns has been atop the leaderboard after every round except the one that mattered. That changed, finally, at the Valspar Championship. Burns got some help from Keegan Bradley hitting into the water on the 13th hole, and then the 24-year-old from Louisiana took it from there with two big birdies that […]

Hyo Joo Kim capitalised on a costly finish from Hannah Green to snatch victory at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Final leaderboard HSBC Women’s World Championship Kim overturned a five-stroke deficit on the final day to secure a fourth LPGA Tour title and first since 2016, with a round-of-the-day 64 at Sentosa Golf Club seeing her set the […]

Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama received the Prime Minister’s Award on Friday after becoming the first person from his nation to win the prestigious Masters golf tournament. Matsuyama played his way into the hearts of Japanese golf fans with a one-shot victory over Will Zalatoris at Augusta National in Georgia earlier this month. Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Matsuyama’s victory was […]

Hitting a long and straight drive is challenging enough on the golf course, let alone when a moving car is your target, but Marcus Armitage managed it in spectacular style on his way to breaking a Guinness World Record. The European Tour golfer, nicknamed ‘the Bullet’, was set the task of trying to break the record for the ‘farthest golf […]

Andrew Coltart gives his verdict on the PGA Tour’s $40m Player Impact Program and looks at whether any potential breakaway Premier Golf League will ever take place. The Player Impact Program is certainly an interesting proposition and it may well be something dressed up as something else, to maintain the interest of the current assets that the PGA Tour have. […]

SINGAPORE – Park In-bee was awake, changed and ready for practice well before the first glimpse of the sun appeared over the Sentosa Golf Club (SGC) on Tuesday (April 27). It is this work ethic that has made the South Korean one of the best players in the modern era – she is the reigning Olympic champion and her tally […]