Exclusive: BBC makes late swoop for Open highlights deal July 15, 2025 The BBC has secured a last-minute deal to show evening highlights of the Open Championship at Royal Portrush this week. The R&A has agreed a new three-year deal with the BBC for highlights in a contract that also covers the Women’s Open, starting with the 2025 edition at Royal Porthcawl at the end of the [...]
LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed loses appeal in $750m defamation suit July 11, 2025 LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed has lost an appeal in a $750m defamation suit relating to comments made about his move to the Saudi Arabia-backed league. The 34-year-old former Masters champion had initially said that comments – made by the Golf Channel, commentator Brandel Chamblee and others – after Reed chose to ditch the PGA Tour [...]
Trump’s Scottish golf tournament gets crypto sponsor in Nexo July 2, 2025 The DP World Tour has signed a major three-year partnership with crypto firm Nexo that will see it sponsor the revived Scottish Championship held at Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course. Nexo will also become a partner to six of the European circuit’s biggest events, including the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, and become the tour’s [...]
Laurie Canter on hopping fences to play golf, investing and Dryvebox June 26, 2025 English golfer Laurie Canter on the sport’s accessibility problem, his passion for business and investing in mobile golf simulator business Dryvebox. Laurie Canter took the first steps towards a career in professional golf by hopping the fence to the public course across the road from his childhood home in Bath. Twenty-odd years later he is [...]
Trump made £260m from golf in 2024, US filings show June 19, 2025 President Donald Trump’s global business empire saw him make £260m from golf in 2024, according to his most recent filings. The latest documents, filed with the US Office of Government Ethics, cover the last year and show that the US leader earned a total of $600m across 2024. Trump’s golf properties range from the highly [...]
Spaun banks $4.3m US Open prize as MacIntyre wins career best $2.3m June 16, 2025 US Open winner J.J. Spaun picked up $4.3m at Oakmont on Sunday as Brit Robert MacIntyre secured a career-best $2.3m. The American won his first major at the weekend, sinking a 65-foot birdie putt on the 18th green to win by two shots and conclude the fourth round as the only player under par. His [...]
Aston Villa figure joins LIV Golf League June 6, 2025 Former Aston Villa bigwig Chris Heck has joined LIV Golf as the Saudi Arabia-backed league’s new president of business operations. Heck left Villa this season after a two-year stint that saw the Premier League club reach the Champions League. It comes as the US Amateur champion Jose Luis Ballester snubbed a spot on the Korn [...]
US Women’s Open prize money: How much will winning golfer get? June 1, 2025 The 2025 US Women’s Open has the biggest prize purse in women’s golf, but how much will the winner walk away with? A total of $12m will be dished out at Erin Hills come Sunday evening as the 156 golfers look to secure a major title in 2025. Organisers are set to hand out $10,000 [...]
Saudi Arabia’s PIF sponsors new $13m prize golf series May 8, 2025 The Saudi Arabia investment vehicle the Public Investment Fund (PIF) is to be the title sponsor of a revamped golf programme. The PIF Global Series will replace the Aramco Team Series and will have a total prize pot of $13m. The PIF Global Series will span five events on the Ladies European Tour (LET) – [...]
LIV Golf close to South Africa deal, government says May 6, 2025 The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf league could soon head to South Africa, according to the country’s government. The rebel LIV Golf League, currently in its fourth season, is backed by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund and has not previously staged an event in Africa, though many players on the tour have played in International [...]