The PGA Tour finally came to its senses, calling a halt to the Players Championship after round one and cancelling tournaments up to the Masters thereafter. But did the decision arrive a day too late?
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50% of $15 million set aside to console Players Championship field
Some of us were sent home to work this week so we could fight for scraps around Lidl & Aldi. The PGA Tour sent their players home after one round of golf at TPC Sawgrass with more than 50gs in their respective pockets
Is it time to question Rory’s closing ability once more?
After four top-5’s from four starts and returning to world number one in 2020, it seems absurd to be picking holes in Rory McIlroy’s golf game, or is it, ahead of this week’s Players Championship?
It’s better out than in!
Tyrrell Hatton was in explosive form at the Arnold Palmer Invitational but were he to bottle up that fire, would the Englishman be the same force in golf?
Agents and representatives, please do us a favour and stop…
The more famous people get, the further their voices become removed from reality. Maybe it would help if we could hear the truth from the players themselves and not the lies from those representing them?
Golden era dawning for women’s sport in Ireland
Women in sport – their time is now, and it’s long overdue #20×20 #CantSeeCantBe #InternationalWomensDay
Ryder Cup Legends: Tom Kite
The fourth to feature in our series of Ryder Cup legends in the lead up to Whistling Straits is perhaps a forgotten man in this category, whose overall record of 15-9-4 speaks for itself
Crossing Every Ocean*
Kevin Markham recently travelled between Ballycastle and Campbeltown on the Kintyre Peninsula to visit a place of mystical allure, Machrihanish
Tour players at the mercy of loudmouth fans who want to be noticed
“There have been a number of those incidents, happily rare enough, but I wonder will we ever see a day when a golfer does an “Eric Cantona” and lamps a fan for giving him grief?”
Azinger’s comments wrong but welcomed
Paul Azinger channeled his inner Eamon Dunphy on co-commentary at the Honda on Sunday night and although you might not have agreed with everything that was said, at least it’s made things interesting
Cracking America
Paul Azinger stirred the golfing pot last night when dismissing the credentials of Tommy Fleetwood & Lee Westwood for their failure to replicate their European Tour form on the US circuit, but did he have a point?
Why Golf Must Get Gender on the Agenda
‘To put the argument at its most basic, a man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organisation is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to being male’
PGL a long way from pole position
Not one to sit on the fence, after Brooks Koepka became the latest star name to air his doubts about a proposed breakaway Tour, it seems the Premier Golf League is further away from fruition than ever
Power Over Me
When you consider how some golf clubs are holding on by their fingertips, you would be doing communities and their golf clubs a huge favour by taking your next golf break in Ireland
No one likes him. He doesn’t care. Ladies & Gentlemen, Patrick Reed
Love him or hate him – and there’s a queue to join the latter group – you can’t help but be impressed by the sheer bloody-mindedness of the former Masters champion
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