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This Tiger Woods anniversary will make you feel really, really old.

It's now been 30 years since Woods won his first PGA Tour title at the 1996 Las Vegas Invitational, defeating Davis Love III in a playoff. 

And later this month will mark seven years since Woods won the 2019 Zozo Championship in Japan—now the Baycurrent Classic, which will be played this week—for his 82nd career PGA Tour title to tie Sam Snead's record. Although, both of their win totals have been debated through the years. In any event, time flies. 

How far do you hit your driver?

Our friends over at Arccos Golf use their massive database to track these stats, and every year they release the updated results (which you can see below).

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Green plaid and Irish whiskey.

No, you didn't fall asleep and wake up on St. Paddy's Day. It's just the latest collaboration from golf style provocateurs Malbon and legendary Irish whiskey label Bushmills. Combining Malbon's retro silhouettes, vintage graphics from the Bushmills archive and of course some of the finest Irish whiskey money can buy, the new capsule collection comes in two sets: The head-to-toe Heritage Set and the more casual Weekend Set.

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The Heritage Set (left) includes the Bushmills x Malbon track jacket and pants, as well as a bottle of 10-year-old Bushmills Single Malt Irish whiskey hand-engraved with the trademark Malbon "M." The Weekend Set (right) includes a high-quality brown cotton tee-shirt with front and back graphics—featuring the "You Can't Beat a Round of Bush" slogan from Bushmills' early '80s marketing campaigns—plus the same bottle of 10-year-old single malt. The Heritage Set retails for $619 and the Weekend Set for $191.99

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Three-time Spanish Open winner Jon Rahm has an understandable reason for withdrawing from his home open this week:

his wife Kelley is expecting their fourth child any day. But the move puts the LIV golfer in a precarious position regarding his status on the DP World Tour. In May, Rahm agreed to a deal with the DP World Tour to keep his membership but play in LIV events without being hit with fines or other penalties. To do so, Rahm agreed to compete in five DP World Tour events in the 2026 season, of which he’s played three so far. The DP World Tour has four more events remaining—stops in India, South Korea and Abu Dhabi before the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Rahm wasn’t expected to play in either of the first two. With Rahm ranked 43rd in the Race to Dubai standings, he’s likely to get into the Abu Dhabi event (top 70 qualify), but he’ll need to be in the top 50 after that tournament to advance to the DP World Tour Championship. It’s unclear what happens if Rahm fails to play in five events.

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There was a significant change in LIV Golf's bankruptcy documents.

In the original bankruptcy filings a month ago, there was a stipulation of a requisite number of players signing up for LIV 2.0, and should LIV fail to reach that benchmark—at least 50% of players with financial claims, and those agreeing players had to represent at least two-thirds of the amount owed—the investor was allowed to back out of the deal. But in Monday’s new filings, those figures are no longer in the amended agreement. With LIV golfers now given an extra two weeks to decide if they want to re-up, it appears the goal posts are moving to allow LIV a chance at survival.

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There are quite a few golf sickos in NBA circles.

But Payton Pritchard may have taken the lead after attempting to tee off despite record-breaking South Carolina rain. There’s been historic rainfall in Charleston, where the Boston Celtics training camp is located—and yet, that didn’t stop Pritchard from trying to get teammate Mike Conley onto the course. “He’s texting me in the middle of a flood warning, saying, ‘Hey, we can still get out there. It’s just sprinkling,’” Conley told CelticsBlog. ”I’m like, ‘Bro, it’s not happening today.’”

Because he always has an unorthodox quote, coach Joe Mazzulla chimed in. “If you don’t play in the rain, you don’t physically love it,” he said. “And I’m about to see how many guys on this team truly love what they do.”

Pro golf is returning to Hawaii’s Kapalua Resort in 2027.

On Monday, the LPGA Tour announced the Lotte Championship, won by Jeeno Thitikul on Sunday, will be moving from Hoakalei Country Club, where it has been held since 2022, to Kapalua’s Plantation Course. The date of the event is also moving from October to March to coincide with the Nanea Cup, a new LPGA tournament coming to the Big Island that will feature LPGA and college players. This will allow for a two-week Hawaiian stretch that will follow the LPGA's early year Asian swing.

From 1999 to 2025, Kapalua played host to the PGA Tour’s season-opening Tournament of Champions event, but tour officials postponed the event in 2026 due to water issues with the course. Then, in April, the tour announced it was ending the Maui tournament altogether with the coming change to its two-tiered series format. In 2008, the LPGA held a tournament at the Bay Course at Kapalua.