Brian Campbell came out on top at the Mexico Open on Sunday night as viewers were treated to some sudden-death playoff chaos between two antithetical player profiles: Campbell, a journeyman and one of the shortest hitters on the PGA Tour, and Aldrich Potgieter, the 20-year-old South African prodigy who currently leads the tour in driving…
President Trump, using the power of the presidency to intervene in global sports diplomacy, on Thursday deepened his efforts to broker an elusive agreement involving the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league that could ultimately benefit his family’s golf courses. For the second time this month, Mr. Trump hosted key negotiators at the…
Having just arrived home after a disappointing second-round loss at the Australian Open in January, world No. 5 Casper Ruud needed a pick-me-up. As he so often does, he turned to golf. It was far too cold to play outside in the Norwegian winter, so he went to a simulator and felt better after hitting…
The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund are racing to reshape their plans to combine their rival golf circuits, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump’s eagerness to play peacemaker for a fractured sport, according to four people familiar with the matter. Since the start of secret talks in April 2023, PGA Tour executives…
There are a lot of things to admire about Rose Zhang. Before turning pro two years ago, she was arguably the winningest amateur in the history of women’s golf. Now she’s competing on the LPGA and already has a pair of professional wins at age 21. Zhang is as poised as they get and her…
President Trump met this week with the PGA Tour commissioner, the tour said on Thursday, as the Justice Department considers whether to approve a venture between the United States’ premier golf circuit and one backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The meeting at the White House on Tuesday was an unusual foray for an…
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Scottie Scheffler was attempting to make homemade ravioli on Christmas Day — with limited equipment in a rental home — when he realized he’d made a serious mistake. He decided to use an empty wine glass to shape and slice his pasta dough. “I had my hand on top of it…
Kapil Dev and other delegates of PGTI (TOI Sports Photo) NEW DELHI: Indian cricket legend Kapil Dev, currently serving as the president of the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), believes that athletes in other sports work just as hard as cricketers, if not harder. However, he feels they usually don’t receive the recognition and…
If you were to recreate the sport of golf for the year 2025, what would it look like? TGL believes it has that all figured out: A prime-time golf league featuring PGA Tour players competing on teams hitting shots against a giant screen and finishing their holes on a shape-shifting putting green in a stadium…
Sport is often defined by mistakes — fumbled catches, missed penalties, duffed putts — but what about its moments of perfection? Every game has its own version of nirvana in which, put simply, a performance could not be improved. Some may define a match or earn a medal, others may simply be brilliant individual achievements,…