Laurie Canter on hopping fences to play golf, investing and Dryvebox Sport Business 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 Sport Business 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 [...]
Masters: McIlroy closes in on $121m Tiger Woods prize money target Sport Business 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 [...]
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 [...]
WNBA: Serena Williams joins ownership group of basketball franchise March 4, 2025 Tennis superstar Serena Williams has joined the ownership group for a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) expansion franchise. Toronto Tempo have welcomed the 43-year-old into their group alongside Larry Tanenbaum, who is the chairman of controllers Kilmer Sports Ventures and owns the likes of AS Saint-Étienne of Ligue 1. The WNBA has 13 teams but [...]
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 [...]
Over 1m tune in for Tiger Woods hybrid golf show TGL January 9, 2025 Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s debut TGL broadcast peaked at 1.1m viewers in the USA this week. The digital brainchild – in which top golfers team up and compete across both a simulator and a recreated green – kicked off this week and had an average audience of 910,000 across the two-hour show. Reports suggest [...]
Pay Ryder Cup players $5m each, says Tiger Woods December 3, 2024 Tiger Woods has said that the Ryder Cup should pay its participants a fee, but that the fee should go to charity. It comes as Team USA plans to potentially pay players who compete in the inter-continental golfing tournament. The next edition will take place across the pond at the infamous Bethpage Black. “The Ryder [...]
Tiger Woods talks up Open challenge and hits back at former European No1 July 16, 2024 Woods is in the field for this week’s Open at Royal Troon, where he believes he is back in shape to contend.
Sam Torrance: US Open favourite Scottie Scheffler’s form invites Tiger comparisons June 11, 2024 Our golf columnist previews this week's US Open at Pinehurst.