Rory McIlroy has squashed rumours of a mega-money move to Saudi- backled LIV golf, re-iterating his loyalty to the PGA Tour. Leading business publisher City AM reported that he was mulling over $850m (£630m) plus a minority equity stake in the fledgling, 54 hole, cut-less league.
It has been reported that LIV Golf will allow player trades via a transfer window and trade deadline in 2024. Per Sports Illustrated, the initial plan had been to introduce transfers for its 12 four-player teams from the outset but the idea took a back. According to the report, that is set to change next year, with the introduction of player trading similar to US sports such as NFL and MLB.
Ryder Cup heros Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood are all ineligible to play in this year's event after quitting the DP World Tour.
Ten years ago, Guan Tianlang of China became the youngest player to compete in the Masters at just 14 years old. Sadly, the fairy tale was spoiled when the young man was singled out for a slow play penalty that jeopardised his chances of making the cut. The incident divided opinion but the positive takeaway was that something was finally being done about slow play.
– the pioneer of big data and Artificial Intelligence for golf – has announced a series of product innovations and platform extensions as it continues to leverage the power of its unrivalled and largest on-course dataset that now includes 700 billion data points and more than 625 million shots taken by Arccos users during over 13.5 million rounds.
The Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), the Masters Tournament and The R&A today announced that the 14th Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship (AAC) will be contested at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia, 26-29 October 2023. The AAC will return to Royal Melbourne nine years after the Championship was hosted in 2014.
Golfers using the most sophisticated shot tracking system in the game chose to play the highest number of 18-hole rounds in Britain at courses around London and the Southeast during the first half of this year, according to the pioneering Arccos dataset.
Carmen Alonso of Spain holds a one-stroke lead in the Jabra Ladies Open presented by Bitstamp after shooting an opening round of five-under-par 66 in warm and sunny conditions at Evian Resort Golf Club in Evian-les-Bains, France.
Arccos – the pioneer of big data and Artificial Intelligence for golf – today announced Strokes Gained by Club, a groundbreaking new feature that allows players to see which clubs in their bag are gaining or costing them strokes on the course, and to make more informed purchasing and set-up decisions via head-to-head product comparisons.
It’s April 1997 and Lee Elder is sitting at home in Pompano Beach, Florida, watching the Masters on his television. At the end of the third round, the 21-year-old American phenomenon Tiger Woods enjoys a nine-shot cushion at the top of the leaderboard and is fast closing in on a victory that would make him the first black player to win the Masters six years after the club admitted its first...
The last time the Open was held at Turnberry Stewart Cink broke the hearts of thousands of golf fans when he pipped a 59-year-old Tom Watson. Sadly, the great links on the west coast of Scotland are unlikely to see a return of the Open any time soon.
Finland’s Sanna Nuutinen shot a second round of 68 to claim a share of the lead alongside Australia’s Stephanie Kyriacou at the halfway stage of the Big Green Egg Open. After an opening round of 70, Nuutinen followed that up with a round of four-under-par (68) to head into the weekend tied at the top of the leaderboard.
