Golf

Former India captain Kapil Dev had earlier said he would have scored "2000 runs extra in cricket" if he had taken to golf during his playing days.

Strong field awaits Indian Open from March 27

The event, starting March 27, will have a dozen winners from the 2024 DPWT schedule and they will be joined by the four champions from the 2025 schedule at the DLF Golf and Country Club.

World number one golf player Scottie Scheffler charged with assaulting police officer

Masters champion Scheffler was detained in handcuffs after a misunderstanding of traffic flow led to his attempt to drive past a police officer and into the Valhalla Golf Club around 6:00 a.m. (1000 GMT), ESPN reported

Dronacharya Award Recipient Jesse Grewal Held A Golf Masterclass at Noida Event

Five Iron Golf India organised a two-day event at Greater Noida's Venice which included several contests, demos and club fittings. The event also featured pro golfer Jessie Grewal, a recipient of the Dronacharya Award, who held a Master Class in golf. Grewal indicated where the growth of the golf industry was headed and was emphatic that there was a need of more of these places. Watch for more details!

Billionaire Steve Cohen invests big in golf as he sees 4-day workweek due to AI

The hedge-fund manager believes that with the advent of AI, companies will move to a four-day week policy, which could give rise to more time for leisure activities

Andre Agassi was my favourite and I was in love with Steffi Graff: Romiit Raaj

Baatein Kuch Ankahee Si actor Romiit Raaj on his enduring love for sports, especially for the game of tennis.

Veer Ahlawat finishes in a tie for second, Nakajima clinches maiden DP World Tour win

Japan's Keita Nakajima made the Indian Open Golf a one-sided affair and a predictable turn of events. But the day patently belonged to Indian upcoming golfer Veer Ahlawat, who was in the sixth position at the end of the penultimate day of the Open, shot three under on the final day to finish tied second with 13 under. Watch the video to know more

Hero Indian Open To Return With A Bigger Prize Purse and More Rewards

The country's National Open and flagship golf tournament, Indian Open, will have 144 players including 33 Indians competing for an enhanced prize money of $2.25 million. The tournament is scheduled from March 28 to 31 at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram. Manu Gandas, who is currently ranked second in the PGTI Order of Merit, and Aman Raj will also be part of the Indian field and they are geared up for the prized golfing tournament. Watch here for more details.

PGA Tour, Europe to merge with Saudis and end LIV Golf feud

As part of the deal, the sides immediately are dropping all lawsuits involving LIV Golf.

From greens to browns: Burkina Faso's eco-friendly golf course

Founded in 1975, the Ouagadougou Golf Club boasts an 18-hole and two nine-hole courses -- all certified by the French golf federation. Visitors to the club, lying amid buildings on the outskirts of the Burkinabe capital, will find the courses a tawny colour, the natural tint of the site.

'Full Swing': The new golf documentary times it well with the PGA Tour 2022-23

The eight-episode Netflix series 'Full Swing', which dropped on February 15, does for golf what 'Drive to Survive' does for Formula One racing and 'Break Point' did for tennis.

Indian golfers make modest start at Women's World Amateur Team Championship in Paris

Avani (75) and Smriti (73) carded the two best scores among the three as India was tied-24th with a day's total of 148.

Anirban Lahiri misses cut at FedEx St. Jude Championship

Lahiri, who shot one-over par on the first day, needed a low round to get into the weekend, but a late double bogey ruined his chances as he shot one-under 69 and missed the cut by two shots.

In Pics | Tiger Woods defies the odds in quest for sixth Masters title

Woods, a 15-time major champion, played the back nine at hilly Augusta National on April 6 in a final practice round before start of the 86th Masters on April 7, making one last test of his surgically repaired right leg.

India is not far from having a Major winner, says golf legend Gary Player

Anirban Lahiri finished sole second at the PLAYERS Championship in Florida, US on March 14 to walk away with a career-best $2.18 million in earnings.

Olympics | The role of NGOs and CSR in creating champions

Despite budgetary cuts in sports programmes, the involvement of private entities has given Indian Olympic sportspeople more than a foot up 

Bryson DeChambeau’s Work Evolving Golf Is Not Done Yet

On Tuesday, DeChambeau, the reigning U.S. Open champion, roared back into Augusta National Golf Club, and while he is too polite to behave like an anarchist, he could not help but ponder the next stage of the rebellion he has begun.

Tiger Woods says recovering at home after car crash

The golf superstar thanked the hospital staff who cared for him following his single-vehicle car accident on February 23.

Peter Alliss, the ‘Voice of Golf’ on British TV, dies at 89

Alliss won 23 tournaments worldwide in a professional career that ended in 1974 and was the Vardon Trophy winner — for the leading player on the British PGA, the forerunner to the European Tour — in 1964 and ’66.

US Election 2020 Result: A day later, Joe Biden goes to church, Donald Trump hits golf course

Biden, 77, drove down to the St. Joseph, a historic Roman Catholic church in Delaware for Sunday prayers. Trump, 74, headed to his golf course in a Virginia suburb of Washington DC.

US Election 2020 | Trump was at his golf course when Biden was declared US President

The race was called roughly an hour after President Donald Trump arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, at 10:39 am

Saudi Arabia to host first-ever women's golf tournament in March 2020

The Ladies European Tour (LET) event will be staged in collaboration with Golf Saudi and the Saudi Golf Federation and will carry a winning purse of $1 million.

Opinion | Towards a sporting nation: Focus of Indian sports should be to consistently 'win big' in 2019

When India starts producing dominating athletes – someone who dominates like LeBron James in basketball or Tiger Woods earlier in golf, that will inspire and take the Indian sporting eco system to the next level.

Wife assaults golfer husband for performing badly in a USD 10.5mn purse tournament

Glover recently missed the cut at the Players Championship on Saturday which has a $10.5 million purse, with the winner collecting $1.98 million

Climate change threatens future of golf: Report

Golf is facing an increase in unplayable holes, winter course closures and disruption to professional tournaments due to increased rainfall, while rising sea levels could jeopardise all the world's coastal courses by 2100.