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    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Sport
      Women’s golf tour explores capital-raising in bid to boost sport’s profile

      LPGA hopes to benefit from growing interest in women’s sport

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      ESPN nears broadcast deal with Tiger Woods’ golf league

      Agreement would provide a media partner for upstart virtual tournament helmed by Woods and Rory McIlroy

    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special Report
      Business of Golf

      A truce between the PGA and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund looks far from secure. Plus: how to make the sport more accessible for women; a Columbia Business School professor who revolutionised the game’s analytics; off-course golf points way to the future

      Ruoning Yin of China kisses the trophy after winning the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      The Columbia Business School professor who revolutionised golf analytics

      Mark Broadie’s data-driven research into the millions of shots struck by players has radically altered the game

      man playing golf
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      Ryder Cup enlists hip-hop’s A-list in attempt to appeal to wider audience

      Hoping to build off the back of the success in Paris in 2018, one of sports greatest events is searching for new ways to engage with untapped markets

      DJ Khaled playing golf
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      Investors line up to join virtual golf league spearheaded by Tiger Woods

      Superstars Woods and McIlroy back data-based format to widen game’s fan base

      TGL - The concept involves six teams of three players facing off each Monday night for a two-hour game played on a golf simulator
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      How PIF’s financial power bought a seat at the table

      A truce between the sport’s most powerful bodies and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund has been in the works for months but fears grow that the battle is far from over

      PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne and Chief Operating Officer of the PGA Tour Ron Price testify during a US Senate Committee
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      Female interest in golf continues to rise post-Covid

      Lockdown served as the catalyst for bringing more women to the courses, now efforts are being made to make the sport more accessible

      Ruoning Yin of China poses for a photo with the trophy during the awards ceremony after winning the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      Off-course golf spearheads the way to transforming the game

      Newcomers to the sport flock to its virtual side but, then, not all modernists are shunning the course

      customers at a bar and restaurant that uses simulators to create a virtual driving range and a number of simulated golf courses
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Special ReportBusiness of Golf
      Asian Tour awaits any fallout from the golf war truce

      CEO admits he doesn’t know exactly ‘how and when’ the tournament will be involved in the new PGA Tour and LIV Golf merger

      Cho Minn Thant, Asian Tour CEO during the prize giving ceremony following Day Four of the International Series England at Slaley Hall
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Saudi Arabia sought central role in professional golf

      PGA Tour officials tell US Senate their planned tie-up with LIV is best chance to preserve sport’s independence

      Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, speaks during a hearing in Washington into last month’s surprise agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi-funded LIV Golf
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      News in-depthAmanda Staveley
      Amanda Staveley: the ‘fearless’ financier easing Saudi drive into sport

      Secret broker of golfing peace deal is facing a legal fight with a Greek shipping magnate

      Newcastle United co-owner Amanda Staveley is described as ‘a relentless enthusiast’
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Fenway Sports Group to join Tiger Woods-backed virtual golf league

      Liverpool FC and Red Sox owner buys team in new tournament played on a simulator

      Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods on a golf course
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      PGA Tour Inc.
      PGA Tour rushes to contain fallout from golf tie-up with Saudi fund

      Many players remain frustrated while deal faces scrutiny in Washington

      Montage of logos of PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s PIF and a golf player
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      News in-depthScotland
      ‘For money alone’: Scotland’s home of golf takes swing at Saudi Arabian ambitions

      St Andrews, where the ancient game is said to have begun, shows little love for the merger that gives Riyadh great sway over the professional sport

      Rory McIlroy plays at the British Open on The Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Golf’s warring factions finally swing a peace deal

      Wall Street power brokers at heart of detente between US PGA Tour and Saudi-funded upstart LIV

      Rory McIlroy, Jay Monahan, Yasir al-Rumayyan and Brooks Koepka
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      McIlroy says PGA Tour-LIV deal will ultimately be good for golf

      Face of resistance to Saudi Arabia-backed venture says he still ‘hates’ rival tour after shock tie-up was announced

      Rory McIlroy at a press conference ahead of the RBC Canadian Open
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      PGA Tour Inc.
      Saudi Arabia to spend billions on shock merger of PGA Tour and LIV Golf

      Deal resolves bitter dispute between established series and breakaway league that has divided men’s game

      PGA Tour and LIV Golf logos montage with player driving
    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      If it ain’t got that swing: three of Hong Kong’s top golf courses

      It’s always tee-time in HK — for players of all levels, on gorgeous courses

      A tree-lined course at Hong Kong Golf Club, with trees and hills in the distance
    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Donald Trump
      Trump’s Scottish golf courses trapped in lossmaking bunker

      Two resorts lost £4.4mn in 2021 hit by Covid curbs, Brexit and staff shortages

      Turnberry resort on the Ayrshire coast
    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Saudi-backed LIV Golf to air on CW Network

      Breakaway tour had struggled to find a home on channels with existing commitments to PGA

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Scotland’s R&A joins sports streaming rush to find golf fans

      The organiser of the game’s oldest tournament plans to use platform to grow its audience

      Cameron Smith tees off
    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      News in-depthSport2 min
      LIV Golf is shaking up the sport | FT Scoreboard

      It’s captured some star names, but the PGA is fighting back, says Josh Noble

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Media
      Saudi-backed LIV Golf searches for US broadcaster

      Finding a partner will be critical in establishing new league as competitor to PGA Tour

    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      PGA Tour Inc.
      PGA can block golfers who joined Saudi-backed rival from playoffs, judge rules

      Players allege unfair ban after joining start-up circuit backed by Saudi sovereign wealth fund

      Golfer Talor Gooch at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey
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