Five Years Exactly From The Darkest Dark In PGA Tour History
Friday 13th March, 2020 – the darkest day in the history of the PGA Tour.
The day the PGA Tour, and at their very home in Ponte Vedra, Florida and the hosting of the 2020 Players Championship, led the major US-based sporting authorities with news the Tour was going a CovEid pandemic lockdown.
Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama had posted an opening Thursday first round with a course record equallying 63 on the host Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass but no sooner had play ended for the day and rumours ...
Double Masters Winning Watson Welcomes As A ‘Start’ Majors Entry Doors Opening For LIV Stars
Double Masters winning Bubba Watson has welcomed news as a ‘start’ moves by those running the men’s majors in slowly opening the doors for more LIV Golf stars to compete at the highest level.
We’ve learnt in recent months both the United States Golf Association (USGA), the organization that puts on the US Open, and the Royal & Ancient (R & A), that run the Open Championship, have created pathways for LIV players to participate in their championships.
The R & A ...
McIlroy Lends Weight To The Australian Open Being Among Gloval Events That Need To Be ‘Elevated’.
Australia will always have a warm place in the heart of four-time major winning Rory McIlroy.
It was late 2013 when McIlroy teed-up in the Australian Open at the Royal Sydney club in Sydney.
McIlroy touched down in Australia having then won nine times in his pro career, including also having won at least one tournament a year since his breakthough victory at the 2009 Dubai Desert Classic.
However he had not won anywhere since capturing the 2012 DP World Tour season-ending DP World Tour Championship ...
Woods Now Likely Sideline From Masters Return – Ruptures Achilles
Disappointing news with Tiger Woods taking to ‘X’ to advise another physical setback ……
Woods gave no timeline for his return, with little over four weeks to go before the opening round of the Masters.
Strucken said in a statement that he expected Woods to make a full recovery.
Woods pulled out of last month’s Genesis Invitational days after his mother’s death and later sat out a TGL match.
“I am back home now and plan to focus on my recovery and rehab, thank ...
Monahan Fends Off The Questions All Golf Fans Still Want Answered.
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan’s pre-Players Championship press conference lasted a few minutes shy of one hour within the Media Centre at TPC Sawgrass.
The transcipt provided by ASAP Sports amounted to 7,821 words. The introduction ahead of Monahan speaking was 1,900 words. Monahan was then asked some 30 questions, 18 related to talks of re-unification in the men’s pro game while 12 on general PGA Tour matters.
Monahan spoke initially reading from a prepared speech on a Ipad he ...
Monahan Praises Trump As Reunification Talks Bolstered By His Willingness To Act As A Facilitator
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan wasted little time, in fact just under three minutes of his nearly one hour annual address to the media, by addressing efforts to reunify the men’s pro game.
Monahan opened the formal aspect of this annual meeting with the media by going straight to supposed talks in reunifying the men’s pro game and how committed the PGA Tour is committed to this coming together.
PGA Tour boss Monahan looks comfortable ahead of addressing the media this week’s ...
As Scots Knox & Jamieson Will Attest The Joy During A Tournament Week Of Staying In Your Own Bed
Of course, it’s not comfortable being a touring professional gbbolfer and there’s a golf tournament taking place just down road but then you’re not eligible to tee-up.
I guess it’s a scenario for many, many golfers including the likes of the Scottish-born duo of Russell Knox and Scott Jamieson who each live within minutes of this week’s host Players Championship course at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Florida.
Knox was no stranger to sleeping in his own bed during Players ...
