- Forbes
Has Billionaire Bob Parsons Created Golf's Wildest Member-Guest Tournament?
Standing over a 5-foot putt to extend her team’s run in the member-guest tournament at Scottsdale National Golf Club, Jolene Gabbay can’t hear a pin drop. At least not when a car horn sounds as she prepares to pull the putter head back. That distraction is followed in quick succession by a loudly crowing rooster, the pounding of a jack hammer, a thumping helicopter and even Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from the movie ‘Full Metal Jacket’ yelling, “Get on your knees, scumbag!” The sound effects come one after another from three massive speakers atop a beefed-up entertainment cart parked two paces off the green. Queuing up the auditory barbs are two deejays from Hawaii flown in just for the event, while
- Golf Channel
McIlroy to play British Masters, then Dunhill Links
After failing to qualify for the Tour Championship, Rory McIlroy has added another start to his upcoming schedule. McIlroy has signed up for next week’s British Masters on the European Tour, an event hosted by one of his longtime friends, Lee Westwood. Battling a rib injury for all of 2017, McIlroy said at the PGA Championship that he was considering shutting it down for the rest of the year. Instead, because of “outside expectations,” he played the first three playoff events, and now will tee it up at the British Masters and the Dunhill Links (with his father, Gerry) in consecutive weeks. After that, he won’t pick up a club for six weeks to allow his injured rib to heal, then turn his attention
- CBS Sports
Report: Tiger Woods Foundation's PGA Tour event leaves Congressional, needs sponsor
Add finding a sponsor for the former Quicken Loans National to the PGA Tour's to-do list this offseason. The Washington, D.C.-based tournament, which is often played at Congressional Country Club, will not be played there in 2018 or 2020, according to a report. It was slated to be played at Congressional in both of those years with a stop at a yet-to-be-determined location in 2019. The event is hosted by the Tiger Woods Foundation, which also hosts the Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles, and it apparently cannot find a title sponsor, thus the cutting of ties with Congressional. Rex Hoggard reported for Golf Channel that Congressional was told of the ending of the relationship via letter. The
