Sports-management agency SPORTFIVE is expected to announce Thursday its acquisition of Chicago-based golf event management firm Global Golf Management, Golf Digest has learned. The deal, confirmed by both parties, expands the SPORTFIVE golf-event portfolio, part of its recent strategy to grow its golf business beyond player representation and its own event management position. Terms were
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9:00 AM ET Coming off a marathon playoff won by Harris English at the Travelers, the PGA Tour now heads to Detroit for the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Bryson DeChambeau enters as the defending champion. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worthwhile this week at Detroit
Despite a number of player dropouts and, let’s be honest, a severe lack of buzz, golf remains a full go for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Those that will make the trip, however, seem quite excited, as they should be considering it could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Captain America himself Patrick Reed won’t be
Angela Stanford returns to defend her Volunteers of America Classic title as a bit of a lone veteran ranger. Over the last decade on the LPGA Tour, only four victories came from players over 40 years old. Stanford, now 43, is responsible for two of those—at Old American Golf Club last year and the 2018
2:33 PM ET A representative for Phil Mickelson took issue with a Detroit News report that linked the golfer to an alleged mob bookie in a 2007 trial. Mickelson, 51, is playing in the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Country Club for the first time. The story published Tuesday reported Mickelson’s ties to a bookie
Twitter is an odd place to start this story, but this is an odd story and that’s where it started. I was on my living room couch listening to an office-wide teleconference, which is to say I was aimlessly scrolling through social media, when this popped into my feed: “Billy Mayfair Reveals Autism Spectrum Disorder
1:05 PM ET Associated Press Nelly Korda goes to the Olympics as the No. 1 player in the world, and the Americans will have one extra player than they had in 2016. The 60-player field for Tokyo was set Tuesday, although players for the men’s and women’s competitions will not be certified until next week.
As any bettor knows, there’s no such thing as a sure thing—particularly when it comes to gambling on the PGA Tour. The fields are so deep with talent week to week: It makes our job as golf prognosticators quite challenging. This week, though, is not a difficult week to make a pick. Our experts have
John Smoltz has played in much bigger events than the American Century Championship in his golf career, including the U.S. Senior Open. Yet still, an ACC victory remains at the top of his golf goals list, for the simple reason he’s yet to check it off. “I’ll make no bones about it, I’m not going
12:44 PM ET A London-based bettor won more than $1.36 million this week on a $15.50 bet, and it all came down to a 35-1 long shot battling in one of the longest playoffs in PGA Tour history. The bet — a six-leg parlay or accumulator as they are known in the United Kingdom —
In his return to Detroit Golf Club, DeChambeau has been pegged as a heavy favorite by oddsmakers over the rest of the field—which isn’t too shabby, either. Eight of the top 30 players in the world will tee it up at the 2021 Rocket Mortgage Classic, just two weeks before the Open Championship. And of
5:43 PM ET The PGA Tour is set to end its COVID-19 weekly testing program at the end of July, regardless of vaccination status. Starting with the 3M Championship in Minneapolis, players will no longer need to produce a negative test before being able to compete. Only players who are unvaccinated and come in contact
Tim O’Neal is about to be 49 years old. At 17, Amari Avery could be his daughter. His granddaughter even. And there they both were at Detroit Golf Club on Monday, the very symbols of why the John Shippen National Invitational was molded into reality this year. Named after the first American-born golf professional and
With the Rolex Women’s World Rankings updated on Monday, the field was finalized for the third-ever Olympic women’s golf competition. The United States and South Korea are the two countries sending four players, with their competitors all within the top 15 of the world as of the June 28. All other nations were eligible for
6:44 PM ET Associated Press AKRON, Ohio — Steve Stricker won the Bridgestone Seniors Players Championship on Sunday at difficult Firestone for his second victory of the year and third major title. Eight strokes ahead in the third round and four in front entering the final round, Stricker closed with an even-par 70 for a
You can tie Harris English for 79 holes. You will not get the best of him over 80. English and Kramer Hickok battled, battled and battled like mad men for the better part of two hours in sudden death Sunday night at the Travelers Championship. But current rules allow for just one man to be
8:43 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Harris English birdied the eighth hole of sudden death to win the Travelers Championship on Sunday, beating Kramer Hickok after both birdied the final hole of regulation to force the playoff. It matched the second-longest sudden-death playoff in PGA Tour history. English shot a 5-under 65 to
CROMWELL, Conn. — It carried on so long that the standard bearer tapped out. The simple task of carrying a scoreboard that read ENGLISH -13 and HICKOK -13 had become downright exhausting. He’d been working overtime for 90 minutes, and five extra holes proved to be his breaking point. Neither man would miss a par