Sport business quiz 2025: Test your knowledge with City AM’s topical teasers Sport Business Quiz fans, have you been paying attention to the ever-changing sport business landscape in 2025? We at City AM have been breathlessly documenting it and have devised a test to see how much you remember. If you think you know your Hundred auctions from your Formula 1 minority sales and your record breaking NBA team [...]
The Old Course Hotel is bringing a modern twist to a classic Life&Style St Andrews is known for three things: being the third oldest university in the English-speaking world; sparking the love affair between Prince William and Kate; and being the home of golf. If you’re thinking of checking it out, the famous The Old Course Hotel has teamed up with some impressive experts to create a variety [...]
LIV Golf is Formula 1 and PGA Tour is IndyCar, says CEO O’Neil Sport Business LIV Golf chief Scott O’Neil says he wants the challenger circuit to be the Formula 1 to the PGA Tour’s IndyCar. The PGA Tour remains home to most of the top players in men’s golf but is US-centric, while LIV Golf is more international in outlook and innovative in presentation but has few stars at [...]
Golf’s Open to move into August to accommodate Olympics December 8, 2025 Golf’s Open championship will be moved to accommodate the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. The 156th edition, which is yet to have a confirmed host course, will shift into August to ensure the top players can compete in the Olympic golf at Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades. Mark Darbon, the chief executive of [...]
Trump International, Scotland scoops world’s best golf course award November 13, 2025 US President Donald Trump has welcomed the “great honour” of his Trump International property in Scotland winning an award for the world’s best golf course. The New Course, which opened this year at Trump International in Aberdeenshire, scooped the top gong at the World Golf Awards, which is voted for by professionals, media and the [...]
Decade-long DP World sponsor extension largest in European Tour golf history November 11, 2025 The decade-long sponsorship extension between DP World and golf’s European Tour is the largest in the circuit’s history. In its entirety the fresh deal, described as record-breaking, will see the European Tour known as the DP World Tour until at least 2035. It comes ahead of this weekend’s Tour Championship, the climax of the European [...]
Europe’s Ryder Cup drama draws 5m UK viewers on Sky Sports September 29, 2025 Europe’s nail-biting Ryder Cup triumph at Bethpage Black pulled in 5m UK viewers across three days of coverage on Sky Sports, the broadcaster said. Average viewing was up 45 per cent on the last Ryder Cup in Rome two years ago, while the audience for Sunday’s final session peaked at 24 per cent higher than [...]
Ryder Cup fomo? Here’s how to buy tickets for Adare Manor in 2027 September 26, 2025 If you’ve got Ryder Cup fomo from watching the action at Bethpage Black, help is at hand: packages for the next match at Adare Manor are already on sale. An estimated 250,000 golf fans are descending on New York this week for the biennial match, in which the USA are attempting to win back the [...]
Why Ryder Cup is commercial gold and other sports have failed to copy it September 25, 2025 If the Ryder Cup didn’t exist, could you create it today? After all, this is an event that bends an individual sport into a collective enterprise, is rarely won by the away team, and hasn’t produced a close contest for 13 years. It also sees a roster of golfers playing for love pitted against another [...]
LaLiga overseas game set to be axed as Fifa delays decision September 24, 2025 LaLiga’s hopes of staging a match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami in December have suffered another setback with Fifa opting against ruling on the request at its forthcoming council meeting next month. Sources with knowledge of Fifa’s deliberations have told City AM that it has no plans to formally discuss the controversial issue of [...]