ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The return of live golf to television brought 2.35 million viewers across all platforms, which NBC Sports says was 16% higher than the final of the Dell Match Play last year.
Rory McIlroy says he wouldn’t play golf again with President Donald Trump and doubts he would even be invited after questioning his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Four top golfers are set to play a $3 million coronavirus charity relief match to be broadcast by NBC Sports on May 17, reports say.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — As U.S. sports leagues weigh whether to bar fans from ballparks and stadiums to help stall the coronavirus outbreak, San Francisco Giants pitcher Jeff Samardzija is one of the few players who can tell them exactly what that feels like.
INZAI CITY, Japan (AP) — Tiger Woods is returning from another surgical procedure on his left knee — his fifth on the same problem spot.
Who could forget the time Matt Kuchar paid his caddie $5,000 after winning $1.2 million, thus sparking an internet uproar, and charges that Kuchar had shortchanged his caddie?
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — David Duval lost a few golf balls on his own Thursday in the British Open. It’s one that was found that brought him the wrong kind of attention with a score of 14 on one hole and a 91 when he walked off Royal Portrush.
July 18 (UPI) — Rory McIlroy — the betting favorite to win the 2019 British Open — began the tournament with a quadruple-bogey on the first hole Thursday at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland.
Three-time tournament winner Tiger Woods rallied to defeat Patrick Cantlay 4&2 on Friday, advancing to an electrifying Saturday knockout match against Rory McIlroy at the WGC-Match Play Championship.
Rory McIlroy played down injury fears after Thursday’s opening round of the 100th PGA Championship, in which the four-time major champion wore an anti-inflammatory patch on his right forearm.
Not to overstate it, but this is the most anticipated tournament in the history of golf! Tiger is back! Phil is a winner again! Rory is hot! Justin Thomas is on fire! Jordan Spieth has re-discovered his stroke! Dustin Johnson is ready for redemption! Sergio is looking to repeat!
Miami (AFP) – Rory McIlroy ended an 18-month PGA win drought in sensational fashion Sunday with birdies on five of the last six holes to capture the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
When Irish golfer Rory McIlroy accelerated his rehab stint for a stress fracture to his ribs to play a round of golf with the newly elected 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, he took a pounding from fans and the press.
Unkind tweets to golf commentator Brandel Chamblee upset him so much that he deletes 10 tweets a day and calculates that he has banned over 20,000 people from his Twitter account since he started criticizing PGA players from his throne at the Golf Channel.
New York Times Reporter Karen Crouse queried 56 PGA players at the Genesis Open last week in Los Angeles and found a whopping 50 of those players (89.3%) would play golf with President Trump if invited.
Monday Breitbart reported that Irish Golfer Rory McIlroy came back early from a rehab stint for a stress fracture in his ribs to play a round of golf in Florida with newly elected U.S. president Donald J. Trump.
Golfer extraordinaire, Rory McIlroy, admitted in a recent interview that he wasn’t forthright when he blamed fear of contracting the Zika virus as the reason that he withdrew from the 2016 Rio Olympics in August.
The #2 ranked golfer in the world Rory McIlroy acknowledged that he is “drawn” to Tiger Woods and admits he’s “one of the biggest Tiger fans you will ever come across.”
From Bill Murray playfully chanting “America! America!” to drunken rowdies tauntingly serenading Rory McIlroy with “Sweet Caroline,” the Ryder Cup offered plenty of strange sounds and sights this weekend.
Rory McIlroy has had the misfortune of having to deal with hecklers on every single hole at the Ryder Cup. From his introduction yesterday on the first tee where a few spectators yelled out “Rory is short” to a psychotic fan running up to him today between the seventh and eighth green and yelling, “Suck a d***, Rory!”
Team Europe was practicing for the 2016 Ryder Cup Thursday when Rory McIlroy was struggling with a 12-foot putt. A man in the gallery yelled out, “Even I could make that putt,” which is when Henrik Stenson singled the man
The raucous, sunbaked crowd at Baltusrol saw Robert Streb put on a show with a major championship record 63 vaulting him into a tie for the lead heading into the weekend at the PGA Championship.
LONDON (Reuters) – Four-times Major winner Rory McIlroy will not compete in this summer’s Rio Olympic Games, citing health fears over the Zika virus, he said on Wednesday. “After speaking with those closest to me, I’ve come to realise that
The greatest golfers in the world take on the hardest golf course in America for the 2016 U.S. Open beginning on Thursday near Pittsburgh.
Irish golfer Rory McIlroy finds it is funny that the PGA removed the multimillion-dollar Memorial Tournament from Donald Trump’s Doral resort near Miami and moved it to Mexico City.
Play gets underway today in one of the most anticipated PGA tour events of 2016. The top-three players in the world arrive in Dublin coming off thrilling victories in their last appearances. Jason Day won the Player’s Championship; Rory McIlroy the Irish Open, and Jordan Spieth won last week’s tour event.
What’s it take to win the Masters? The answer: ice water in the veins. No sporting event puts as much pressure on an athlete than the Masters. If you can’t handle it, you’ll never wear the green jacket.
Next week in Augusta Rory McIlroy bows out of a portion of the “tradition unlike any other,” choosing not to play in the annual three-par competition at the Masters.
Rory McIlroy made his first hole-in-one at the age of 9, won the Irish Amateur Championship at 16, and became the youngest and quickest ever to secure his European Tour card in just two events at the age of 18.
The R&A announced that the 148th Open Championship in 2019 will return to Royal Portrush, making it only the second time in British Open history, and the first time in nearly seventy years, the tournament will be held outside England or Scotland.
Despite his recent ankle injury, the PGA has announced that the world’s top golfer, Rory McIlroy, will play the 2015 PGA Championship. McIlroy will be joined by Jordan Spieth and Zach Thompson.
While speaking about Irish golfer Rory McIlroy’s recent injury, Fox News Channel’s Kennedy commented Rory McIlroy, saying “He’s a leprechaun. I can’t stand him.” Kennedy explained her comments on the Tuesday showing of “Outnumbered,” saying she was not happy with how McIlroy broke
The world’s top-ranked golfer and reigning British Open Champion Rory McIlroy tore his ATFL—the anterior talofibular ligament—in his left ankle while playing in a soccer “kickabout” on Saturday.
Unlike Jordan Spieth, who won the 115th U.S. Open on Sunday, English golfer Ian Poulter suffered through a rough day at Chambers Bay shooting seven over par for a finishing round of 77 and eleven over for the tournament.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, the world’s number-one ranked golfer, Rory McIlroy, said that he will donate all of the prize money he earns at the Irish Open to his charity foundation.
Rory McIlroy, according to a survey of industry marketers, tournament directors, and journalists, ranks as the most marketable golfer.
On Monday gaming company Electronic Arts Inc. announced the replacement of Tiger Woods on the cover of their PGA Tour game with Rory McIlroy.
Next week New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, will tee it up with the world’s best golfer, Rory McIlroy, at Augusta National the home of the Masters Tournament.
Defeating the odds, about 7,500 to 1 for a professional golfer, Rory McIlroy shot his first professional hole-in-one on the par-3 15th hole at the Abu Dhabi Championship on Friday.