LIV Golf announces, eight-event $255 mn series
LIV Golf, the Saudi backed group headed by Australian legend Greg Norman, has announced an eight-tournament series with US$ 255mn on the line. Called the LIV Golf International Series, the first will tee off at the Centurion Club outside of London the week before the U.S. Open starting June 9. Each event will be a […]
Asian Tour gets a $200mn boost from Saudi
The Asian Tour, which has been dormant since the start of the pandemic back in March 2020, got a huge boost from an announcement that investors from Saudi Arabia have committed US$200 mn over 10 years which works out to 10 new events each year at US$2 million each. US$200 mn represents one of the […]
Are Top Golfers Getting Younger?
The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), known as SONY OWGR until 1995, was introduced on April 6, 1986, when Bernhard Langer became the first golfer to be crowned World No. 1. He was aged 29. The average age of the top-10 golfers at the end of 1986 stood at 30.3, not far from the current […]
Club Round-Up: December 2018
[To share news on your club or updates from across the country, please email Amit and Karthik] JAMMU Golf Course Continues Plantation Drive Continuing its green initiative, the Jammu Tawi Golf Course management—in collaboration with Mahindra Finance Company (MFC)—held a plantation drive at their golf course late September. The management appreciated the team of MFC headed by HR […]
Tiger Woods’ Impact on Golf
22 years ago, August 28, 1996. Less than 72 hours after capturing his third straight U.S. Amateur title—in a third straight come-from-behind victory in the championship match—Woods held a press conference at Brown Deer Park. From behind a three-foot-tall podium adorned with the PGA TOUR logo, the 20-year-old Stanford undergrad announced he would be […]