McIlroy Masters success tees up PGA TV rights price hike for Sky Sports Sport Business Ahead of the Game: Can Sky Sports hold on to PGA rights, how do Hundred teams claim their cash, will Everton’s women stay at Goodison Park, and what will Super League look like in 2028? The PGA Tour is hoping to capitalise on the Rory McIlroy effect by securing a significant increase in the value [...]
Sam Torrance: McIlroy not Scheffler the man to beat at 2025 Masters Sport It’s Masters week and that means the start of the short but lucrative major season, with one a month from now until the Open Championship in July. It can be a hectic period with little downtime for players but I think it’s great from the golf fan’s point of view. Although the US PGA Championship [...]
Masters 2025: Spectators paying $1,000 shut out at Augusta National Sport Business Spectators and players at this week’s Masters are set for early disruption after thunderstorms caused organisers to delay Monday’s practice round at Augusta National. Rain is forecast to fall all day, but it is hoped that players will be able to get out onto the famous course in the afternoon if, as expected, the worst [...]
City favourite Pitch Golf opens Canary Wharf flagship March 6, 2025 City golf favourite Pitch has expended its footprint in the capital with a flagship Pitch Wharf venue near the Isle of Dogs. The waterside Canary Wharf venue was launched last month with a vibrant party across its two-floor space, which is within touching distance of the London underground and the famed financial hub. Pitch Wharf [...]
Finca Cortesin in the Costa del Sol: Golf meets five star luxury February 24, 2025 Anyone who has visited southern Spain will know there is much more to the region than the tackier excesses of the Costa del Sol. For culture there is Moorish-steeped Malaga; Mijas and Estepona retain traditional white-washed Andalusian charm; while even Marbella has an enchanting old town a world away from the beach clubs. Like the [...]
LIV: Trump, Yasir Al-Rumayyan and Tiger Woods meet in White House February 21, 2025 President Trump, Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan met at the White House on Thursday with a new deal with LIV Golf edging closer. The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf have been in discussions surrounding a potential mega-merger which would unite golf as one global sports [...]
Trump to fix PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger ‘very soon this year’, says Woods February 17, 2025 Tiger Woods expects talks between the PGA Tour and Donald Trump to mend the rift in men’s professional golf “very soon this year”. Since returning to office last month, President Trump has already met with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and player director Adam Scott with a view to unblocking the impasse over a proposed [...]
Suzann Pettersen on taking Solheim Cup experience into her new agency Voxa February 11, 2025 Suzann Pettersen plans to lean into her experience as a Solheim Cup captain as she looks to assemble another successful team at her new women-only athlete agency Voxa. The Norwegian, a winner of two majors, is launching Voxa with five fellow golfers already on board, including European colleague Carlota Ciganda and current world No3 Ruoning [...]
Voxa: Pettersen launches agency and signs fellow Solheim Cup icon Ciganda February 10, 2025 Former Solheim Cup captain Suzann Pettersen has made European golf star Carlota Ciganda one of the first signings to her new athlete management agency Voxa. Spaniard Ciganda, 34, is joined in the Voxa stable by Chinese world No3 Ruoning Yin, 22, and three more national No1s, Mexican Gaby Lopez, 31, Shannon Tan of Singapore, 20, [...]
New golf deal sees DeChambeau and Rahm on free-to-air in the UK February 7, 2025 The likes of Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm will be part of golf’s return to free-to-air broadcasting in the UK this weekend. It comes as the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf League confirmed the 2025 season will be broadcast on ITVX in the United Kingdom. The league has previously been broadcast on YouTube in the UK [...]