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              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Andrew Hill
                TGL is golf — but not as we know it

                The sport’s latest bid to win the future offers players and fans an indoor, faster and more frantic form of entertainment

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              • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
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              • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
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                The merger of hospitality and golfing has fallen victim to changing consumer habits and high costs

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              • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
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                The sport’s popularity has surged since the pandemic, with wealthy golfers looking for private access. Developers have taken note

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              • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
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                Cost of joining high-end clubs skyrockets — if aspiring members can get off the waiting list

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              • Monday, 12 February, 2024
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                Richard Blumenthal accused kingdom of trying to launder its image with potential PGA deal

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              • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
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                Deal with Strategic Sports Group led by Fenway Sports Group comes as tour continues talks with Saudi sovereign wealth fund

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              • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
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                Alan Shipnuck’s definitive account of the messy birth of LIV Golf pierces the game’s genteel image

                A flag with the words ‘LIV Golf’ flutters in the breeze on a golf course overlooking the sea
              • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
                Talks between PGA Tour and Saudi sovereign wealth fund set to drag into 2024

                Compensation for players who stuck with the US tour and LIV’s team-golf format are among the big stumbling blocks 

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              • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
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                Combined group’s shares are down 41 per cent so far in 2023

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              • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
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                Men’s professional golf organisation initiates formal bid process amid ‘unsolicited outreach’

                Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner,  speaks to people on a golf course
              • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
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                LPGA hopes to benefit from growing interest in women’s sport

              • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
                ESPN nears broadcast deal with Tiger Woods’ golf league

                Agreement would provide a media partner for upstart virtual tournament helmed by Woods and Rory McIlroy

              • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
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                A truce between the PGA and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund looks far from secure. Plus: how to make the sport more accessible for women; a Columbia Business School professor who revolutionised the game’s analytics; off-course golf points way to the future

                Ruoning Yin of China kisses the trophy after winning the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
              • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
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                The Columbia Business School professor who revolutionised golf analytics

                Mark Broadie’s data-driven research into the millions of shots struck by players has radically altered the game

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              • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
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                Investors line up to join virtual golf league spearheaded by Tiger Woods

                Superstars Woods and McIlroy back data-based format to widen game’s fan base

                TGL - The concept involves six teams of three players facing off each Monday night for a two-hour game played on a golf simulator
              • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
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                Ryder Cup enlists hip-hop’s A-list in attempt to appeal to wider audience

                Hoping to build off the back of the success in Paris in 2018, one of sports greatest events is searching for new ways to engage with untapped markets

                DJ Khaled playing golf
              • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
                Special ReportBusiness of Golf
                How PIF’s financial power bought a seat at the table

                A truce between the sport’s most powerful bodies and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund has been in the works for months but fears grow that the battle is far from over

                PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne and Chief Operating Officer of the PGA Tour Ron Price testify during a US Senate Committee
              • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
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                Female interest in golf continues to rise post-Covid

                Lockdown served as the catalyst for bringing more women to the courses, now efforts are being made to make the sport more accessible

                Ruoning Yin of China poses for a photo with the trophy during the awards ceremony after winning the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
              • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
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                Off-course golf spearheads the way to transforming the game

                Newcomers to the sport flock to its virtual side but, then, not all modernists are shunning the course

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              • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
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                Asian Tour awaits any fallout from the golf war truce

                CEO admits he doesn’t know exactly ‘how and when’ the tournament will be involved in the new PGA Tour and LIV Golf merger

                Cho Minn Thant, Asian Tour CEO during the prize giving ceremony following Day Four of the International Series England at Slaley Hall
              • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
                Saudi Arabia sought central role in professional golf

                PGA Tour officials tell US Senate their planned tie-up with LIV is best chance to preserve sport’s independence

                Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, speaks during a hearing in Washington into last month’s surprise agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi-funded LIV Golf
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