Golf’s most influential in 2023: How high do Tiger Woods, Jon Rahm and Rose Zhang rank?
It was another wild year in professional golf, with the best players in the world still competing on rival tours in the men’s game.
In June, there was a stunning alliance announced between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. But the framework agreement didn’t prevent one of the sport’s biggest names — Jon Rahm — from jumping to the LIV Golf League.
Spain’s Rahm, Germany’s Bernhard Langer and American Lilia Vu kept winning. Rickie Fowler and Brooks Koepka bounced back, while Rose Zhang and Michael Block burst onto the scene.
It was another wild year in professional golf with the best players in the world still competing on Rival tours in the men’s game in June there was a stunning Alliance announced between the PGA Tour DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund here’s a look at the
Biggest newsmakers in Gulf in 2023 one J Monahan the embattled PGA Tour commissioner signed a framework agreement on June 6th to form a new company PGA Tour Enterprises that will combine the golf commercial assets of the PGA Tour DP World Tour and and the piff including
The Rival live golf league two yaser Al ran Al ruman is the governor of the public investment fund which had about $778 billion in assets coming into the year in addition to funding the Liv Golf League for more than $2 billion annually piff would invest an additional 3.5
Billion ion Dollar in PGA Tour Enterprises if a deal is reached three John Ram the Spaniard became the biggest PGA Tour name to jump to the live golf league when he signed a multi-year contract worth more than $300 million on December 7 Ram 29 won four times this year including his second major
Championship at the Masters in April four Tiger Woods the 15-time major champion made only two starts in official PGA Tour events this year because of injuries he tied for 45th at the Genesis a tournament he hosts at Riviera Country Club outside Los Angeles and then withdrew during the third round
Of the Masters in April because of severe pain in his right foot and ankle five Brooks kaepa the former world number one player’s best golf seemed to be in the rearview mirror when he jumped to live golf in June 2022 he was plagued by knee problems after falling and
Trying to pop his right kneecap back into place in March 2021 six Victor havland havland 26 had long been considered one of the most talented golfers in the world his driving and ball striking were topnotch but his short game had held him back from joining the sports truly Elite
Seven Scotty sheffel after winning four times in 2022 including his first major championship at the Masters it would have been difficult to replicate that success again but sheffel won twice more in 2023 at the WM Phoenix Open and and the players and was arguably better leading the PGA tour in nearly every
Ball striking measurement eight Rose xang the former Stanford star turned Pro on May 26th then became the first woman since Beverly Hansen in 1951 to win in her Pro debut at the mizuho American open in Jersey City New Jersey the win earned her an LGA tour card
Making her eligible for the solheim cup nine lelia Vu after losing her LGA tour card and nearly walking away from the game for years ago Vu climbed to number one in the world this year she won four times including two majors at the Chevron championship and an AIG Women’s
Open 10 Jimmy Dunn until the PGA Tour surprising deal with the Saudis and DP World Tour was announced in June Dunn was more of a shadowy figure in the sport who was friends with Tiger Woods Justin Thomas and others
