The Futu Ladies World Championship will be played in Hong Kong in March next year and has a $3.4 million purse. The tournament will be at the Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club, dubbed the “Pebble Beach of Asia,” and replaces the Blue Bay LPGA tournament that has been played in China since 2014. This year, the tour held three events in Asia over February and March and is scheduled for four more beginning in mid-October. While the PGA Tour finishes up its season on Sunday, the LPGA still has eight official events—sandwiched around the Solheim Cup—after this week’s FM Championship.
The R&A announced that next week’s two-day competition between the U.S. and Great Britain & Ireland, being held for the first time at Ireland's Lahinch Golf Club, is sold out, with 8,000 fans expected to attend. That includes more than 1,700 kids 15 and younger watching for free with a paying adult. The R&A is now making a plea for fans without tickets to “not travel to the venue” since they will not be able to purchase tickets on site. This follows highly attended matches at St. Andrews in 2023 and Cypress Point Club in 2025. A year ago, I wrote about how the Walker Cup might have the best lineup of venues of any golf competition in the world, with Bandon Dunes, Oakmont, Chicago G.C, National Golf Links, Pine Valley, Cypress and Seminole lined up to hose in the U.S. between now and 2052. If you're not lucky enough to be able to attend in person this year, Golf Channel will have live coverage in the U.S. for both days.
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view allGolf Digest's Jamie Kennedy was the first to notice this admission from Wyndham Clark during his Tuesday presser at East Lake:
I know the kids are doing things differently these days, but telling the world you're "hopefully" getting engaged, before actually popping the question, is certainly a new one. Perhaps Clark's girlfriend of seven months, Emily Tanner, already knows it's coming. Otherwise, this would be a WILD way to find out a proposal is coming. Anyway, congrats, in advance, to the happy couple (this is assuming she says yes).
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view allThat would be the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte. Every current signature event has been named a Championship stop and Wednesday’s announcement keeps that trend rolling. At this point the only genuine wonder on the tour’s 2028 schedule involves where the postseason will be played.
The video, which drew backlash and apologies after it portrayed a man shoving a woman to the ground as she approaches his new driver, seems to have led to the postponement of Tuesday night’s debut of the Golf Channel’s "Big Break x Good Good" series. The first episode was postponed suddenly on Tuesday after one of the show’s advertisers pulled its sponsorship. Several outlets reported that the company in question was the show’s presenting sponsor, Golf Galaxy. A Golf Channel announcement postponing the show until Sept. 1 did not include a reference to Golf Galaxy, which had been listed as a presenting sponsor in all previous mentions.
Both Golf Galaxy and its parent Dick’s Sporting Goods stocked Good Good merchandise in its stores and on their websites, including the driver featured in the video. Those items are no longer available from the company online and a post on Reddit appeared to show an in-store image of an empty shelf of Good Good merchandise at a Dick’s Sporting Goods: “Overheard the employee telling a coworker that he got an emergency call to ‘rip it all down,’” read the post. Dick’s/Golf Galaxy has not released a statement on the matter and messages to the company’s media relations office have not been returned. There also has been no additional comment from Golf Channel’s parent, Versant.
ESPN's Senior NFL Insider took a break from breaking football scoops to deliver the news that the five-time major champ will be joining TGL's Motor City Golf Club. According to Schefter, Koepka was the first player selected by the league's first-ever expansion franchise.
Koepka re-joined the PGA Tour in 2026 as part of the Returning Member Program after spending three years on LIV Golf. On Tuesday, PGA Tour commissioner Brian Rolapp said there are no plans to revive that program for LIV players who missed that window. Motor City Golf Club will play its inaugural season in 2027, which will be the third overall season for TGL. The tech-infused golf league has yet to release the 2027 schedule.
Think you've already had your fill of Pat McAfee? Think again. This man is taking over everything in the sports world. And it sounds like his latest takeover will take place at the PGA Tour's flagship event - The Players Championship. The golf hardos are going to love this:
Anywhere? Knowing McAfee, he might set up shop directly on the 17th green.
All that's left to do to send the core golf fan into an absolute TIZZY is to somehow get the Kelce brothers involved at TPC Sawgrass next year. You think I'm joking, but that's 100 percent the next move here.
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view allThis dark satirical comedy from director Rafael Manuel tells the story of a 17-year-old "tee girl" on a prestigious course in the Philippines. It's both a gorgeously shot thriller and a scathing criticism of wealth. The movie premiered earlier this year at the New York Asian Film Festival and is opening this week at the Film Forum in New York (and across the U.S. in the coming months). It’s certainly not the uproarious golf comedy we’re used to, but you can’t do better if you’re looking to be transported and find out more about the ebbs and flows of the sport internationally.
Furyk had worked several tournaments for the network this year to solid reviews. On Wednesday the broadcaster announced it had signed the 2003 U.S. Open champ multi-year deal to serve as the main analyst for men’s major championship coverage, PGA Tour Signature and Championship Series events. The Golf Channel release also noted Furyk will contribute to the “Live From” show during majors. Furyk is set to be the American Ryder Cup captain for the 2027 match in Ireland.
Less than two hours before Golf Channel was to premiere “Big Beak x Good Good” on Tuesday, the cable network put out a social media announcement that it had postponed the program until next Sept. 1. Golf Channel said in a post, which included the series’ logo, “This will allow for necessary production updates following a request from one of the show’s sponsors to remove its branding from the series.”
This new “Big Break” is set to be the first to air since 2015 and is the 24th edition of the competition franchise. The delay in its debut comes on the same day that Callaway and Good Good issued further apologies about an ad for a Good Good-logoed version of the new Quantum driver in which a male golfer shoves a female golfer to the ground. In a press conference on Tuesday, PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp expressed disappointment with the two companies’ handling of the ad and their initial handling of the reactions to it, and he deemed the standing of the upcoming inaugural Good Good Championship as “fluid.”