ORLANDO, FL. – PGA Tour Champions opens its season in Hawaii and the PGA Tour has shifted its events to California, but — for the next couple weeks, at least — Orlando is where most of the action is in professional golf. The Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions – first event of the Ladies…
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LPGA retains Tournament of Champions theme in its opener
The PGA Tour no longer starts its season with a Tournament of Champions. The field at last week’s Sentry event in Hawaii, for better or worse, was dominated by players who got in by finishing in the top-50 finish in last year’s FedEx Cup. The LPGA, though, will again celebrate its recent winners at its…
McIlroy is changing his tune as Sentry opens PGA Tour season
The first event on the pro golf tours teed off at The Sentry tournament in Hawaii, on Thursday. Formerly the PGA Tour’s Tournament of Champions, it had a new format, with 35 winners on the PGA Tour in 2023 and the top 50 in the 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs eligible to compete. It’s a good…
Men’s pro golf faces another year of turmoil
It’s most appropriate to wish all our golf enthusiasts a happy holiday season. This is a season-ender is like no other, however. Only the much-debated “Framework Agreement,’’ that is to bring together the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Tour, is left among major golf developments in 2023. The agreed upon deadline for…
Rahm’s jump to LIV puts the golf world in a tizzy
What? Jon Rahm has jumped to LIV? Who woulda thunk it?’’ Certainly not me, at least not until the rumors of his signing dragged on long enough to make the actual event almost anticlimactic. This development made it emphatic that the Saudi-backed circuit is here to stay. So, how big was it? Too big for…
PGA Tour Champions now has its own World Cup
BRADENTON, Florida — Who says who can’t teach an old dog new tricks? In the case of the wonderful world of tournament golf the “old dog’’ is PGA Tour Champions, and the 50-and-over circuit has never been reluctant to try something new. This week, though, it may have gone overboard with its World Golf…
Price, Leadbetter will be a great team in creating Soleta course
MYAKKA CITY, Florida – When you put Nick Price and David Leadbetter together on a golf project you most likely will have a winner. This week those two were in the spotlight at the ground-breaking for the Soleta Golf Club on the outskirts of Sarasota, FL. Soleta’s expected opening is in late 2024 and…
LIV’s second season is over; now the fun begins
LIV Tour’s second season is history. The team championship at Doral created great drama and was an appropriate ending to the 2023 campaign. Now, however, the real fun begins. LIV chief executive officer Greg Norman took at least a brief look ahead during lulls in the action at Doral.. He started by confirming that…