Author: Ollie Reynolds

Thirty-eight players, statistically, drove it better than Rory McIlroy on Thursday at the Genesis Invitational, who gained just 0.661 strokes off the tee in the first round at Riviera. Tiger Woods was not one of those players, yet McIlroy couldn’t help but notice that the 47-year-old Woods, even on a bad leg, had hit a few past one of the PGA Tour’s longest drivers. “I’m going to go work on the range,” McIlroy said Thursday evening. “I put my driver up a click in loft at the start of the week; I might have to turn it back down again.…

Adam Scott had already knocked back approaches from Greg Norman’s LIV Golf, but now the Australian veteran looms as the next moderator in what Tiger Woods called the game’s new reality. Scott, 42, has been voted by his peers as the new chairman of the Player Advisory Council, which advises PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan on issues affecting the US-based circuit. He’ll join a group that includes Rory McIlroy, who Woods is returning to play with at this week’s Genesis Invitational. Woods called McIlroy the PGA Tour’s “ambassador” and someone who had been extraordinary navigating the at times hostile battle…

PGA Tour members Mito Pereira and Sebastian Munoz are the latest to join LIV Golf and will play for Torque GC; Matthew Wolff is shifting from Phil Mickelson’s HyFlyers GC to Brooks Koepka’s Smash GC; Team line-ups to be confirmed this week ahead of league season starting on February 24 Presidents Cup players Mito Pereira and Sebastian Munoz are the latest PGA Tour golfers to officially confirm their switch to LIV Golf. The South American pair, who have been long linked with the Saudi-backed circuit, were announced on Wednesday as members of the Torque GC team for the new 14-tournament…

Golf’s establishment is still redefining itself 12 months after the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit rocked the game globally and pitted longtime friends and colleagues against each other. Tiger Woods, who came down hard on the side of the US PGA Tour and the DP World Tour, said those circuits are seeking the best means to engage fans, honor history and reward players in golf’s changed landscape. “If you go back to this week at Genesis last year to where it’s at now, we all have to say it’s been very turbulent,” Woods said Tuesday as he prepared…

Swedish tour player Alex Noren has formed a brand partnership with Swedish golf apparel brand Macade Golf that will see the world no.37 wear the company’s clothing when competing on the global professional tours this season. Founded in 2019, Macade Golf offers a full range of stylish, non-traditional, yet technical sportswear for men and women, with the latest collection featuring a wide range of polos, trousers, skirts, joggers, gilets, bomber jackets and windshirts.“As a Swedish native, to join a Swedish pioneered brand felt like a great match,” said Noren, 40, who will be wearing items for Macade’s SS23 range when he competes on…

There had been questions about whether all available markets would show the Saudi-backed league; LIV’s 12 teams will be unveiled this week. The LIV Golf League is finally set to unveil all 48 players and its 12-team lineups in advance of the first tournament of 2023 next week in Mexico. It also announced Tuesday that all 14 of its events being carried on the CW Network will be available on all of the network’s affiliates across the country. Starting Wednesday, LIV Golf will unveil four of its teams per day through Friday. The league is also rolling out a campaign that will…

Major champion Jason Day opened up on the “humbling” experience of dropping to 151 in the world as a second straight top-10 finish served as a reminder of the gap he needs to close to achieve his goal of winning again on the PGA Tour. Day has climbed back into the top 100 and held on to finish fifth at the $29m WM Phoenix Open, his best finish in more than a year, as Scottie Scheffler climbed back to world No. 1 with a two-shot win over Canada’s Nick Taylor.  A combination of injuries and swing issues were behind his…

You’d be hard-pushed to call golf an extreme sport. It is a low-risk game played at a leisurely pace in mostly scenic, but ultimately ordinary, locales. Emphasis on most, because in various pockets around the world – and in one instance, outside it – golf is taken to extremes. Across these venues, the familiar rules of course design have been shredded; dress codes are exclusively nude, tee boxes require a helicopter journey to access, fairways sit on the rims of active volcanic craters, and water hazards are home to sharks and alligators. “The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top,”…

The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers executive hired to be the chief operating officer of LIV Golf has resigned after one year as the Saudi-backed rival circuit moves toward a league format, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Mark Schlabach. The news was first reported by The New York Times. Atul Khosla was expected to lead LIV Golf into its franchise model of 12 four-man teams in which players and the LIV Golf League would have equity. Players and agents were told earlier this week Khosla intended to step down. LIV commissioner Greg Norman confirmed the news Friday in a statement to The Times. “At…

LIV Golf League players will be able to compete in next year’s Masters after Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said Tuesday the event will keep “current criteria” for 2023 entrants. Without mentioning the Saudi-backed upstart series by name, Ridley expressed disappointment with golf’s ongoing divide caused by LIV luring away top PGA Tour talent with record prize money for 54-hole events. “Regrettably, recent actions have divided men’s professional golf by diminishing the virtues of the game and the meaningful legacies of those who built it,” Ridley said. Watch LIVE coverage from The USPGA Tour with Fox Sports on Kayo. New…