3:32 PM ET The LIV Golf League’s team championship is moving from Trump National Doral in Miami to Saudi Arabia in November, LIV Golf sources confirmed to ESPN on Monday. The $50 million team championship will be played at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Jeddah on Nov. 3-5, according to a schedule that
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Majed Al Sorour, LIV Golf managing director and Golf Saudi CEO, is no longer in an administrative role with the breakaway circuit, Golf Digest has confirmed. Sports Illustrated was the first to break the story. Al Sorour, who serves as an adviser to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and is the director of the Premier
4:51 PM ET Representatives of the four major championships in men’s golf will decide whether LIV Golf League players will receive world-ranking points, after PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley recused themselves from the Official World Golf Ranking board that is considering the matter. Pelley told The Telegraph of
DUBAI, U.A.E. — Among the many and varied topics LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman has covered in his on-going long-distance dialogue with the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour is that of World Ranking points. As anyone who has taken the trouble to listen to the two-time Open champion will surely know by now,
8:01 AM ET The Official World Golf Ranking’s formula might say that Rory McIlroy is still the No. 1 player in the world, but there’s little question as to who has been the best player on the course during the past four months. Spain’s Jon Rahm won again on Sunday at the American Express in
Not for the first time in his career, Jon Rahm is on a roll. The 28-year-old Spaniard grinded out his ninth PGA Tour victory Sunday at The American Express after a David-and-Goliath battle with rookie Davis Thompson. Victorious two weeks ago at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii in his most recent start, and
8:35 PM ET ESPN News Services LA QUINTA, Calif. — While Jon Rahm had plenty of chances to pump his right fist after nice shots on Sunday, the look of relief on his face after holding off rookie Davis Thompson put into perspective his victory at The American Express. The Spanish star took advantage of
It’s unlikely Davis Thompson will ever again leave in a flagstick. Not after what happened Sunday on the Stadium Course at PGA West. The 23-year-old PGA Tour rookie was battling shot-for-shot with juggernaut Jon Rahm late in the final round of The American Express in La Quinta, Calif., when the unluckiest of circumstances changed everything.
7:16 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Brooke Henderson sets a goal of winning multiple LPGA Tour titles at the outset of each season. She didn’t wait long to collect her first trophy of 2023. Henderson was dominant throughout and delivered a 2-under 70 on Sunday at Lake Nona to complete a wire-to-wire victory
At Lake Nona Country Club in Orlando, Fla., the 29 pros in the field are competing for $1.5 million overall, with the winner banking $225,000 for her victory. Entering the final round, Canada’s Brooke Henderson holds a three-stroke lead on Nasa Hataoka and Nelly Korda as the 25-year-old tries to become a wire-to-wire winner and
8:26 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Jon Rahm got off to a hot start and shot a 7-under 65 on Saturday on PGA West’s Stadium Course for a share of the lead with tour rookie Davis Thompson in The American Express. Thompson’s run of eagles in the Southern California desert finally ended
It took only a single tournament into the 2023 PGA Tour Champions season for a frontrunner to emerge, the player to beat from here on out. Steve Stricker put down that marker on Saturday with his victory in the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai on the Big Island of Hawaii. Stricker, 55, wrested control
10:30 PM ET Associated Press KA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii — Steve Stricker competed for the first time in three months and nothing changed. He began the PGA Tour Champions year by closing with a 7-under 65 for a 6-shot victory Saturday in the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai. Stricker seized control with a 60 in the second
LIV Golf hails it as a victory. LIV detractors view it as defeat. Those polar responses should not surprise; the past year of civil war in professional golf has proven reality varies depending on the beholder. To an extent that sentiment applies to LIV’s recent announcement of a multiyear media agreement with The CW network,
5:21 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Brooke Henderson went from complete control of her game for two days to having to scratch out a good score Saturday. The result was a 3-under 69 and a 3-shot lead in the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. Henderson was up for the fight and moved
Follow the LIV saga and you’ll see one phrase studded throughout the coverage: business plan. As in, “How does paying players hundreds of millions without much revenue fit a sane business plan?” This week’s announcement of a deal between LIV and The CW Network to broadcast the 2023 LIV schedule in the United States inspires
From friends and colleagues, golf course architect Gil Hanse has taken the good-natured needling with a smile and roll of his eyes. Yes, Hanse could claim three holes-in-one in his life, but they’d all come at one very special, but very small layout—The Cradle par-3 course that Hanse designed and opened at the Pinehurst Resort
8:14 PM ET Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif. — Rookie Davis Thompson made three more eagles Friday for a total of five through 36 holes to tie the PGA Tour record for the most in a 72-hole tournament since 1983, and he still didn’t put any more distance between himself and Jon Rahm at The