Pelley Quitting European Tour CEO Role & A Second Leading Golf Official In Two Days
European Tour CEO Keith Pelley is leaving his role and returning to his native Canada, having accepted the post as President and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, based in his home city of Toronto, Canada.
Pelley’s last day as CEO will be 1st April, 2024.
Confirmation of Pelley’s new role already appears on Wikipedia and it comes a day in learning R & A CEO Martin Slumbers will also step down later this year,
News of Pelley’s new comes on the day of his 60th birthday ...
McIlroy’s Starts New Season Seeking ‘Final Piece Of The Puzzle’
“The final piece of the puzzle is trying to knock off one of those four”.
In probably his prior 17 years in pro ranks Rory McIlroy has never stated his New Year intentions as more precise as he did ahead of this week’s inaugural Dubai Invitational in Dubai.
And it was a question that has been source of much copy since last year’s Open Championship when the current World No. 2 walked off Royal Liverpool knowing that it was now 10-yards since he last won at the games highest ...
Donald Eagerly Kick-Starts 19th Pro Year Ending Four Month Competiton Break 30-Years After First In Dubai
Luke Donald heads into a 19th year in the pro competition ranks with the victorious Ryder Cup captain ending a three-month competition break at this week’s inaugural Dubai Invitational in Dubai.
As well, Donald revealed it’s the 30th anniversary of when he first teed-up in Dubai, as a then 21-year-old in contesting the 1994 Dubai Amateur Championship at this week’s host Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club, and just a year since the course was officially opened.
Yes, a lot of numbers ...
McGuire: Slumbers R & A Departure A Big Loss To Golf & One Of The Game’s Nice Guys
Martin Slumbers departure later this year as CEO of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews (R & A) will be a big loss as one of golf’s top administrators.
Slumbers, 63, indicated in an R & A news release he will oversee the hosting of this July’s 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon, the return of the AIG Women’s Open to St Andrews in August and also the 43rd Curtis Cup match at Sunningdale before relinquishing his role.
He also joins long-time R & A rules ...
McIlroy: “The Masters Is The Disneyland Of Golf”.
Rory McIlroy returns to competition this week in Dubai and where he ended his 2023 campaign around three weeks ago at the DP World Tour Championship.
This week is a new tournament for the DP World Tour with the hosting of the Dubai Invitational, and being played on the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club that last hosted a DP Tour event with the 2000 Dubai Desert Classic.
It will also be a first tournament for the World No. 2 ahead of a 17th full season on the Tour since securing his Tour card late in ...
MacIntyre: “America Is America .. Some Things Will Annoy Me, Some Things I’m Really Going To Love”
Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has arrived in Hawaii for a third time in his career but with this latest visit the start of the most important chapter in his short pro golfing career.
MacIntyre is among five PGA Tour rookies, and in a first, to have secured 2024 season membership in finishing top-10, and not already exempt, on last year’s DP World Tour money list to be teeing up in this week’s $US 8.3m Sony Open in Honolulu.
For MacIntyre, it will be the first of three PGA Tour events in ...
Woods Ends 27-Year Nike Relationship Declaring ‘There Certainly Will Be Another Chapter’
After 27-years Nike and Tiger Woods have brought to an end one of the most famous commercial partnerships in sport.
Woods announced the news on Monday in a statement posted to ‘X’ social media account and thus confirming recent rumours he was parting with the clothing and footwear giant.
And in splitting with Nike, Woods indicated in his message: ‘Yes, there will certainly be another chapter’, no doubt in reference who he will sign a new clothing deal with.
Woods signed ...
