The two previous Majors in 2023 offered considerably smaller sums than this week's tournament. The Masters atAugusta Nationalhad a purse of $18 million, of which winner Jon Rahm claimed $3.24m, while the PGA Championship at Oak Hill the following monthhad a $17.5m prize fund, earning champi...
These days,Ruoning Yinis the name that has been in the highlight of women’s golf. The young World Number 5 golfer recently won the Women’s PGA Championship. She became the second woman player from China to win a major. On the final round, the 20-year-old golf...
Prize money: $1 million. Winner’s share: $180,000. Television: None. Previous winner: Paul Barjon. Points leader: Tim Widing. Last week: John Pak won the Compliance Solutions Championship. Next tournament: The Ascendant on July 11-14. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry...
Oldest Champion – Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, born in 1884, was 42 when she won the 1926 singles championship. The oldest champion of the Open Era was Margaret Court, who won the last of her five U.S. titles in 1973 at the age of 31 years, 1 month and 23 days. Oldest Doubles Champio...
Just as The Open Championship is the premier event this side of the Atlantic, the U.S. Open is the most important event on the United States Golf Association's calendar. While picking a winner is a fool's errand, one thing is certain; few events produce a more deserving champion than ...
After a rousing tribute from former first lady Michelle Obama, Billie Jean King on Monday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Open becoming the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male competitors, promising to never sto
The ladies are playing the Lower Course during the KMPG Women’s PGA Championship, an A. W. Tillinghast masterpiece, recently restored by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner. Thick, rough, deep sand and bedeviling greens require players to mind their angles and thoroughly think their way around the ...
Prize funds are the drivers of the sport, and golf has a storied history of playing for money going back to 1916, when the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) was formed. By then several prestigious tournaments offering cash to the champion had been...
Rafael Nadal wins US Open — claiming championship title and pocketing $3.7 million in prize moneyTanza Loudenback
Ludvig Aberg is one of the betting favorites at +1400 odds to win the British Open despite it being his event debut. Two-time PGA Tour Winner Akshay Bhatia has +8000 odds to win his first major at his first Open Championship. Davis Thompson has long +12500 odds to become the first debu...