Tony Finau is no longer in the field for this week’s Hero World Challenge, the annual exhibition event in the Bahamas hosted by Tiger Woods. Finau has not commented and tournament organizers have not given a reason for his withdrawal
LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan will step down on Jan. 9, ending a tenure of unprecedented growth for professional women’s golf. Under her leadership since 2021, the LPGA’s prize fund increased by more than 90 percent and athlete earnings soared
Mollie Marcoux Samaan is stepping down in January as LPGA commissioner, a surprise announcement Monday after record growth in prize money along with criticism women’s golf wasn’t gaining in popularity. Marcoux Samaan is leaving on Jan. 9, three weeks before
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Unheralded American Ryggs Johnston won his first professional title by claiming the Australian Open by three stokes, while South Korea’s Jiyai Shin claimed her second Women’s Australian Open, which was played concurrently at two courses on
The PGA Tour-LIV Golf made-for-TV matchup on Dec. 17 featuring four of the sport’s biggest names will have a purse worth a minimum of $10 million in crypto currency, Front Office Sports reported on Wednesday. The newly named Crypto.com Showdown
LIV Golf is replacing CEO and commissioner Greg Norman with former NHL and NBA executive Scott O’Neil, ESPN reported Wednesday. A spokesman for LIV Golf declined ESPN’s request for comment. Norman, 69, told Sports Illustrated last month that his contract
LIV Golf is hiring Scott O’Neil, former CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils, to replace Greg Norman in running the Saudi-backed rival league about to enter its fourth season, The Athletic reported Wednesday. Sports Business Journal reported
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Getting a PGA Tour card is difficult enough. Joel Dahmen can attest to that. He was a natural talent whose life got turned upside down when his mother died of cancer his junior year
Tiger Woods won’t be playing in the Bahamas next week at the Hero World Challenge as he recovers from a sixth back surgery he had in September. In announcing Monday on social media he won’t be playing, Woods said the