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…
The Old Course at St Andrews is to host The Open Championship for a record-extended 31st time in 2027. Considered by most golf fans and players as the “home of golf”, St Andrews first hosted The Open – which is the world’s oldest golf tournament – back in 1873, and most recently in 2022. The…
The pinnacle of many sports comes at the Olympic Games, whilst in football, players most want to win the World Cup, the Champions League or their own domestic league. Tennis has its four Grand Slam events and in golf, there are of course the four majors. The Open Championship, the Masters, the US Open and…
On the 16th of June 2024, Rory McIlroy won just over $2.3m with a golfing performance that moved him up the world rankings to number two. It was also one of the worst days of his life. The Northern Irish ace, who alone with the game’s two GOATs, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, won four…
The four major championships in golf all have their quirks and things that make them stand out from other tournaments. The Masters is unique in that it is played at the same venue every year, the iconic Augusta National in Georgia. The Open Championship, the only one of the quartet played outside the USA, has…
On Sunday Rory McIlroy finished second at the 2023 US Open. By almost any measure, that represents a fine four days of golf and the Northern Irish star earned a cool $2.16m for his troubles. He’s ranked the third-best golfer on the planet at the time of writing and in terms of wins at the…