Each of the four golf majors has a slightly different system in place in terms of choosing the host venue. Obviously, the Masters is the most straightforward, as Augusta National is the only course ever used. The US Open and US PGA Championship use a wide range of courses around the country, while the British…
Aaron Rai’s victory at the USPGA Championship back in May will have given any number of golfers hope that they too can upset the odds and claim a major championship. The third major of the year will start on the 18th of June, with things coming to a head at Shinnecock Hills on the 21st….
Ahead of the 108th edition of the USPGA Championship, much of the talk, as usual, was about Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and the other elite players. The tournament has been won so many top golfers over the years and in particular over the last 15 years or so. However, while the likes of Scheffler, McIlroy,…
Rory McIlroy completed his second Masters victory in as many years on Sunday as he joined an elite band of golfing greats to have retained this most storied of major championships. Before McIlroy won by a single stroke ahead of Scottie Scheffler, only Tiger Woods (2001 and 2002), Nick Faldo (1989 and 1990), and Jack…
The 2026 US Masters gets underway on Thursday, and the first major of the year is always one of the most keenly anticipated events of the golfing season. The Masters has a magic about it that makes it extra special, with the iconic and mesmerically beautiful Augusta National a huge part of that. This year’s…
No matter whether you are a casual golf fan or a true die-hard aficionado, the dates of the four majors are among the most important in the golf calendar. The powers that be have shifted the order of the majors around many times over the years. However, since the US PGA Championship was moved in…
The final major of 2025 will take place at Royal Portrush between the 17th and 20th of July. Rory McIlroy completed the career Grand Slam by winning the Masters at the start of the major campaign, with Scottie Scheffler confirming his position as world number one by winning the US PGA Championship. We then had…
The 2025 Open Championship will take place between the 17th and 20th of July. It will be the 153rd edition of the tournament and although some refer to the tournament as the British Open, this year’s showdown will take place at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland. Of course, Northern Ireland is part of…
It rather pains us that JJ Spaun won the US Open and we took it less sportingly than the man he pipped, Robert MacIntyre. Yes, MacIntyre narrowly missed out on a first major and the first-place prize of $4.3m (the poor thing had to make do with the $2.3m he got for second). But we…
Just a month after Rory McIlroy made history by landing the career Grand Slam (when he won the 2025 US Masters), the game’s greatest players will head to North Carolina and the Charlotte suburb of Quail Hollow for the US PGA Championship. Now the second major of the calendar year, the US PGA still struggles…