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US PGA Championship prize money 2016: $1.8m earnings boost on offer at Baltusrol to Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and co July 27, 2016 Victory in the US PGA Championship in New Jersey is the joint-second most lucrative prize money pay cheque for a single event on the golf calendar. Reigning champion Jason Day earned $1.8m, the tournament’s largest ever winner’s reward, at Whistling Straits last year and the prize remains the same this time at Baltusrol. That lucrative take comes from [...]
Short gap between Majors could play into hands of in-form Henrik Stenson at US PGA Championship July 25, 2016 This week’s US PGA Championships is going to have go some to match the Open, which was by any measurement the best golf we have ever seen at a Major tournament. The two tournaments wouldn’t normally be so close in the calendar, but golf’s return to the Olympic Games means that the gap between the [...]
First Major title could open the floodgates for “one of the boys” and supremely talented Henrik Stenson July 19, 2016 All that was missing from his CV was a Major title but it’s there now. There are simply not enough superlatives to do justice to Henrik Stenson’s performance in winning the Open Championship at Royal Troon on Sunday. The golf he produced was as good as it gets. The 40-year-old is just the second player [...]
More than 3m fewer people watched the Open on Sky this weekend than on the BBC last year July 19, 2016 The first year of the Open Championship coverage on Sky endured a 77 per cent drop in viewing figures compared to the final broadcast on the BBC a year ago. Read more: I was destined to win Open Championship, claims victorious Henrik Stenson Last year's peak TV audience of 4.7m plunged to 1.1m last weekend despite the dramatic [...]
I was destined to win Open Championship, claims victorious Henrik Stenson following record-breaking performance Royal Troon July 18, 2016 Sweden's Henrik Stenson insisted he felt a sense of destiny after claiming the first Major of his career with victory at the Open Championship at Royal Troon. Stenson carded a record-equalling final round of 63, having birdied four of his final five holes, to become just the second player in history to finish a Major [...]
Phil Mickelson inches from history as five-time Major winner posts three-shot lead after first round of Open Championship at Royal Troon July 14, 2016 America's Phil Mickelson admitted he felt like crying after agonisingly missing out on carding the lowest ever score in Major championship history on a bittersweet opening day of the Open Championship at Royal Troon. Five-time Major winner Mickelson, who won the Claret Jug at Muirfield in 2013, needed to hole a 15-foot putt on the [...]
British Open 2016 prize money: Brexit effect on pound could mean stars such as Jason Day and Jordan Spieth lose out on over £100,000 worth of prize money July 14, 2016 The plummeting value of the pound since the UK voted for Brexit has caused a dramatic loss in golfers' prize money earning potential at this year's British Open. Players from 23 different countries have converged on Royal Troon in Scotland this weekend for the third Major of the year, where the victor will take home the competition's [...]
British Open 2016 prize money: How much can Rory McIlroy, Danny Willett and Jordan Spieth win at Royal Troon? July 14, 2016 Triumph at Troon this week comes with a lucrative reward; the biggest prize money pay cheque in the history of the Open. Just under £1.18m will be paid to whoever comes out on top of a testing course which includes the longest and shortest holes of any on the Open’s roster. It marks a £30,000 increase [...]
Dustin Johnson targeting hat-trick of wins, Claret Jug and No1 ranking at Troon July 13, 2016 In-form Dustin Johnson believes that his Major breakthrough at Oakmont last month has multiplied his chances of scooping the Open Championship at Royal Troon, which begins on Thursday. Johnson confesses he rarely wants for confidence, but the world No2 says that winning the US Open – and following it up with victory in the WGC [...]
Rory McIlroy deepens golf’s Olympic snub row by saying he may not even bother watching on TV July 12, 2016 Four-time Major winner Rory McIlroy has stoked golf’s Olympic row further by saying he may not even watch the competition in Rio next month because he considers it to be of such little significance. McIlroy pulled out of the Games citing fears over the Zika virus, a position also adopted by Jason Day and Dustin [...]