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Tiger Woods’ numbers are scary. Let’s talk about: 15 wins in the Majors, 82 victories on the PGA Tour, 375 tournaments played, 339 cuts passed, 199 top tens. These are just some of the numbers that summarize the career of Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods, born on December 30, 1975 in Cypress, California. In a memorandum sent to PGA Tour members, the PGA Tour Policy Board announced the creation of a special sponsor exemption category dedicated to the man who changed professional golf forever. The lifetime exemption rule will allow Tiger Woods to participate in all Signature Events from next season…

Tiger Woods has 15 major championships to his name and has long been considered one of the greatest golfers of all time, so his brilliant advice is worth listening to Tiger Woods has some straightforward advice for amateur players looking to up their game – ignore YouTube coaching tips. The 15-time major champion, known for his intense practice regime that’s helped him secure 82 PGA Tour titles, believes that the rise of YouTube golf tutorials isn’t necessarily beneficial. In fact, when asked at a clinic about the best way for golfers to improve, he simply said: “Don’t watch YouTube.” He elaborated on this, advising: “Go…

Greg Norman has spoken out about his future with LIV Golf amid uncertainty over his role with the breakaway league, which he founded in 2022 to dramatically change the professional golf landscape LIV Golf commissioner and CEO Greg Norman has revealed his contract with the breakaway league comes to an end next year amid speculation over his future. The Aussie was the driving force behind the inception of LIV in 2022, being tasked by his Saudi Arabian paymasters to snap up top talent and take on the PGA Tour. In his brief as a disruptor, Norman has delivered. LIV has gradually cemented…

Tiger Woods has earned a lot of respect and recognition in the world of golf. His dominance on course and fame off it has made him a legend in the sporting business. His name has become a brand that is recognized across every corner of the world. He was the face of golf for the longest time and still is for those who are not associated with the sport. With all the fame and fortune often comes a change of personality. Those closest to Woods have had first-hand experience of Woods’ ruthlessness off the course. One such individual who has…

Despite not swinging a golf club, Alan Shipnuck is still at the center of controversies in the golf world. To begin with, a few days ago, he called Tiger Woods and Patrick Cantlay ‘petty, vindictive, and greedy’ according to the reports of Golf Magic. This is because, according to rumors, some of the PGA Tour players want the LIV Golfers to pay back the massive sums that they had taken up to make shifts to the breakaway league. Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, and Cameron Smith reportedly received upfront payments exceeding $100 million each to join the…

Nico Echavarria claimed his second career PGA Tour title in Japan and beat Tiger Woods’ scoring record in the process. Nico Echavarria poses with the trophy after winning the 2024 ZOZO Championship. Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images Colombian Nico Echavarria shot a 3-under 67 to best Justin Thomas and Max Greyserman by a stroke at the ZOZO Championship in Japan on Sunday. He finished at 20-under-par and capped off a stellar week in the Far East with two birdies over his last three holes. He also set a new ZOZO Championship scoring record with an overall score of 260, besting the record Tiger Woods set with…

The golf world is full of crazy stories but trust us this one definitely takes the cake. So, we all know that Tiger Woods is the current golf legend right, and every day we read the news that his old match tickets and whatnot are sold for thousands of dollars. So what if we say that Woods’s most special souvenir is lost somewhere out there? Well, yes billionaire Warren Stephens recently went on an interview with Golfer’s Journal Podcast and revealed something that has left the golf community in utter shock. So, we all know the first time Woods played…

Xander Schauffele’s ‘Idiot’ Move & Tiger Woods’s Grand Escape: PGA Tour’s Two Extreme Attempts Explored In rare cases, you would find Xander Schauffele making a quadruple bogey, but that happened during the opening round of the ZOZO Championship. At the par-4 ninth hole, the 2-time major winner’s tee shot ended up in the rough near the roots of a tree. Schauffele tried to move the ball two times, but he failed and eventually took an unplayable. This ended up giving him a quadruple bogey on the par-4. Talking about his rationale behind the first two shots, Schauffele accepted that he…

Lefty’s days competing on LIV may be numbered. As with Tiger Woods and the PGA Tour, Phil Mickelson may shift into an off-the-course role with LIV Golf. “I see glimpses and my teammates see glimpses of me being where I expect to be able to compete at this level,” Mickelson said on a press call ahead of LIV’s Individual Championship at Bolingbrook Golf Club (Sept. 13-15). “But I’m also realistic with myself, and if I’m not able to I’ll step aside and let somebody come on in and take the HyFlyers to new levels.” Mickelson has struggled with his form since joining LIV. Lefty…

Amanda Balionis revealed that she was visibly shaking when she first interviewed Tiger Woods early into her days as a reporter for the PGA Tour. Speaking to Links Magazine, Balionis recalled her first interview with the golf legend when asked which athlete she was most nervous to speak to. ‘Tiger Woods, for sure,’ she told the outlet. ‘When I started with, PGATour.com, I think Tiger was my second ever sit-down interview. ‘I’m very thankful the camera angle was from the waist up; my legs were shaking uncontrollably from nervousness. I lost a lot of sleep before that interview.’ With the 2024 golf season…

Tiger Woods appeared in only five events this year. The Open Championship in July was the last time he teed off, where he missed the cut. He had assured about appearing at the PNC Championship in December referring to it as the fifth major for him. However, things might have taken a turn for him. The 15x major winner went through lumbar spine surgery in September, making it his sixth back surgery. The surgery was successful, and he is hopeful to get back at golf quickly, but it surely will require him some time. Now, this surgery has made his…

LIV Golf have announced the details for the league’s Q-School event this December, with Greg Norman and co making one key change to the qualification process LIV Golf have confirmed that only one spot on the 2025 roster will be on offer to those competing at LIV Promotions this December. Last year’s qualifying event saw the top three finishers qualify to compete on the breakaway circuit, with Kalle Samooja, Jinichiro Kozuma and Kieran Vincent all prevailing. This time around though, hopefuls have seen their chances limited, with the only promotional spot going to winner. Another change sees the Promotions event played at a different…

Tiger Woods Spoiled Soccer Star Harry Kane’s Family Time in the Bahamas: ‘Said Sorry [To My Wife]’ Harry Kane is one of the most prolific goal-scorers in soccer. After spending the majority of his career with the English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, he moved to the Bundesliga last year. He had an immediate impact at Bayern Munich F.C. scoring 36 goals in the league in his first season. As impactful as he is, he hasn’t had much taste of championship glory. He probably achieved his greatest achievement for the Spurs by becoming the runner-up in the Champions League. While…

Matthieu Pavon’s latest validation came as an invitation from Tiger Woods. The 15-time major champion unveiled the first 17 players in the 20-man Hero World Challenge. Pavon, the 2024 Farmers Insurance winner, is ‘glad’ to have received a second chance after he skipped Woods’s signature event early this year. Pavon became the first Frenchman to win on the PGA Tour since World War I. As a winner, the 31-year-old became eligible for all the remaining Signature events, including the Tiger Woods-hosted one at Riviera, the Genesis Invitational. But he skipped the $20M purse tournament to ‘recharge his battery’. “My putting coach (Jon…

The field for the Hero World Challenge has been announced and Tiger Woods is not a part of the group, with the golf legend having hosted the event for years The line-up for the Hero World Challenge has been announced and while Scottie Scheffler is leading the pack, one significant absence is that of Tiger Woods. The absence of Woods from the Hero World Challenge is particularly noticeable given that the golfing icon hosts the event. The Hero World Challenge forms part of the PGA Tour schedule but as it’s an unofficial event, participants don’t receive FedEx Cup points or official funds. In total, the prize money…

Hudson Swafford was one of the original 84 players to sign up for the breakaway LIV Golf League, but his time in the league has come to an end after he was shown the door earlier this week Recently ousted LIV Golf star Hudson Swafford pocketed well over a million dollars from the Saudi-backed league before he was given the boot. The American golfer was shown the exit earlier this week following a lacklustre 2024 season. The 37-year-old ended up tied for 36th in the first LIV event of the year and the Florida-born player failed to better that result in the subsequent…

82 PGA Tour wins. 15 major victories. Imagine the kind of golfing advice someone like Tiger Woods would be able to give you. Invaluable! That is exactly how Max Homa felt when he got help from the legend. However, if the golfer was at the receiving end of it before a certain point in time, then the 48-year-old would have ‘killed him’ while helping him out. What changed, then? Well, it all happened after Charlie Woods entered the picture, interestingly so. Homa was talking about how he received Woods’s advice in an episode of the Join The Lobby podcast, hosted by FaZe…

The 2024 Hero World Challenge field includes bigwigs but not that one name fans were eager to see the most. Five of the world’s top ten, led by the Masters champion and reigning world no.1, Scottie Scheffler, will travel to the Bahamas in December. Tiger Woods, as the host, will be present but whether he will swing a club or not was under doubt. Chances are he might. The 15-time major champion underwent his sixth back surgery, a microdecompression, last month. Woods was hopeful that it would solve the existing problems of back spasms that he experienced at the Genesis Invitational and…

The Golf League (TGL) will host 15 regular season game-weeks before the top four performing teams will advance to the semi-finals followed by a season-ending finale Social media has been a buzz with enraged golf fans as they tackled the hefty ticket prices for Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s new golf venture, TGL. The innovative league, set to kick off on Jan.7 following a year’s delay, didn’t win fans over with its pricey admission fees. Golf lovers can witness 15 game weeks of the regular season live from SoFi Center in Palm Beach, Florida but the cost is driving a wedge between fans and the…

So, as we all know, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s revolutionary TGL league is ready to change the landscape of modern golf. But how exactly? Well, with this amazing achievement, TGL has reached a whopping $500 million valuation without hosting a single match and we know you might think that we’re joking but trust us it’s true! All thanks go to its groundbreaking blend of traditional golf and brand-new technology. This brainchild of golf legends Woods and McIlroy is really set to shake things up in the golf world. TGL has also received substantial financial support from its parent company TMRW Sports. This support…

Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods’ innovative golf league TGL was initially set to launch earlier this year, but a whole host of problems has seen it delayed by 12 months Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods’ innovative golf league, TGL will finally launch next year, after it was announced that the first round of indoor fixtures will take place on January 7. McIlroy and Woods first revealed their plans back in 2022, with the hopes of then launching the the league earlier this year. TGL organisers were forced to postpone their maiden season however, after their home at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach suffered severe damage. Almost 12…

After many months of waiting, Tiger Woods’ golf league has a week 1 schedule. The strange part? Tiger Woods isn’t on it. Huh? Yes, when the action begins in the brand-new TGL from the brand-new SoFi Center in West Palm Beach in January, it will feature a matchup between neither of the league’s biggest stars: New York Golf Club (belonging to Xander Schauffele, Cam Young, Matt Fitzpatrick and Rickie Fowler) and The Bay Golf Club (Ludvig Aberg, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee and Shane Lowry). Neither Woods nor Rory McIlroy will participate in week one, which will be broadcast on ESPN at 9…

Golf television viewing figures have nosedived in 2024 and Rory McIlroy warned earlier this year that the sport is losing its audience due to LIV Golf and the PGA Tour feud Rory McIlroy’s earlier comments about dwindling golf TV viewership have been validated as recent figures show a significant drop. The Northern Irishman had previously voiced his concerns about the decreasing number of spectators. The world of golf has seen a split in recent years, following the establishment of LIV Golf, which was launched in October 2021. Initially, the PGA Tour suspended players who joined LIV Golf, but a year later, they signed an agreement with the Saudi-backed circuit. As…

Scottie Scheffler will host the 2025 Masters Champions Dinner in April, and the American has admitted he’s considering serving the exact same menu he did in 2023 Scottie Scheffler, the 2024 Masters champion, is already pondering over his menu choices for the prestigious Champions Dinner in 2025. Despite the event being half a year away, Scheffler is considering keeping it simple and sticking to what he knows best as he faces a tricky decision. The tradition at Augusta National sees the winner of the Green Jacket curate and cover the cost of the dinner menu for the annual Tuesday night feast before the tournament…