Open odds: Bookies facing seven-figure payouts if Rose blooms July 16, 2025 Rory McIlroy may be the popular choice but long-odds Justin Rose is the winner that bookmakers truly fear at this week’s Open Championship. Rose tied for second at Royal Troon last year and the Englishman has looked a future winner of the Claret Jug since starring at the 1998 edition as a 17-year-old amateur. Now [...]
Chelsea’s Club World Cup winners’ prize? A £10m US tax bill July 16, 2025 Chelsea will be hit with a US tax bill of around £10m as a result of winning the Club World Cup on Sunday. The stunning 3-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in New York last weekend ensured Chelsea will receive £85m in prize money from competition organiser Fifa. Some £39.7m is to be paid immediately and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Scheffler passes £60m earnings with US PGA victory May 19, 2025 World No1 Scottie Scheffler has become only the fourth golfer to surpass $80m (£60m) in career earnings after winning the US PGA Championship on Sunday. Scheffler withstood a final-day charge from Spain’s Jon Rahm at Quail Hollow to claim his third major title and prize money of $3.3m (£2.5m). The American has now banked $82m [...]
McIlroy Masters success tees up PGA TV rights price hike for Sky Sports April 16, 2025 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 [...]
Masters: McIlroy closes in on $121m Tiger Woods prize money target April 14, 2025 Masters champion Rory McIlroy has closed the gap to Tiger Woods in the PGA prize money rankings after completing golf’s career grand slam on Sunday at Augusta National. It was the Northern Irishman’s first major since 2014 and he won it with victory over Englishman Justin Rose in a play-off. The feat at the iconic [...]
Masters 2025 prize money: How much do players earn at Augusta? April 10, 2025 Prize money at the 2025 Masters has doubled in under a decade, with the winner at Augusta National this week set to earn $3.6m (£2.8m). The total prize fund at the year’s first major has now swollen to $20m (£15.5m) and the top three players are all assured of seven-figure payouts. As recently as 2016, [...]
Scottie Scheffler: Tiger feat in world No1’s crosshairs at Masters April 7, 2025 Scottie Scheffler has become accustomed to being compared to Tiger Woods and this week at the Masters the world No1 has another chance to emulate the 15-time major winner. Woods is the last man to win back-to-back Green Jackets at Augusta National, a feat which has gone unrepeated since he was in his heyday in [...]
Rory McIlroy hits $100m in PGA Tour prize money with Players win March 17, 2025 Rory McIlroy has taken his PGA Tour prize money to $100m with a St Patrick’s Day victory at the Players’ Championship. The Northern Irishman’s second win at the prestigious tournament earned him $4.5m and took his total prize money from events on the tour to nine figures. McIlroy has also banked more than $50m on [...]