Mar 1st, 2024 Article
LIV Golf Jeddah: Round 1 Groupings
A look ahead to the round 1 groupings at the LIV Golf Jeddah 2024 event played at the Royal Greens Golf Club.
A look ahead to the round 1 groupings at the LIV Golf Jeddah 2024 event played at the Royal Greens Golf Club.
The LIV Golf League visits Jeddah for the third consecutive season, with Royal Greens Golf & Country Club becoming the first course to host three LIV Golf tournaments.
Reigning U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick defeats defending champion Jordan Spieth in a playoff to win the RBC Heritage, earning his second career PGA TOUR title.
Rahm wins the Masters Tournament by four strokes over Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka, earning his 11th career PGA TOUR victory and second major championship title (18th player to win the Masters and the U.S. Open).
Rory McIlroy wasted no time criticising LIV Golf and Greg Norman after defending his Canadian Open title at St. Charles Country Club in Winnipeg. It was McIlroy's twenty-first PGA Tour title and the man from Northern Ireland was delighted that he moved ahead of Norman's twenty win mark. "I had extra motivation of what's going on across the pond," said McIlroy.
With the 2022 Masters just a few short weeks away, now is a good time to take a look at the competition in detail and try to identify which golfer is best positioned to take the prestigious green jacket.
Francesco Laporta is in pole position to make his maiden European Tour win a Rolex Series title at the BMW PGA Championship, but the Italian has a bunched leaderboard lining up behind him heading into the final day, with several of them vying for a place on Pádraig Harrington’s European Ryder Cup team.
Louis Oosthuizen did not look as assured on day three of the Open Championship but still finished the day with a one shot lead. Oosthuizen who started the day with a two shot advantage was joined in the lead late on by both Jordan Spieth and Collin Morikawa but a birdie at the 17th saw him grab a slender heading into Sunday.
Harris English beat fellow American Kramer Hickok at the eight-hole of a marathon playoff to win the Travelers Championship. After trading pars for seven holes, English finally broke the deadlock when he holed a twenty-foot putt at the 18th hole on the sixth time of asking in the playoff.
Garrick Higgo was the beneficiary of a sad collapse by Chesson Hadley to win the Palmetto Championship at Congaree by one stroke and claim his maiden PGA Tour title at just his second outing. The 22-year-old Higgo finished at eleven-under 273 at Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina, to win by a single shot from a group of six players on ten-under.
The inaugural Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play Hosted by Shadow Creek is down to four players, vying for the LPGA Tour’s first match-play title since 2017. American Ally Ewing will take on Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn in Sunday’s first semifinal match, while China’s Shanshan Feng, who won her quarterfinal match with a 50-foot birdie on the first playoff hole, will face off with Germany’s Sophia Popov.
Taiwan’s Wei-Ling Hsu won her first LPGA Tour by two shots from Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn with 2021 Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions winner Jessica Korda a further shot back in third.