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The Telegraphreported the league is prepared to offer fees ranging from US$30 million (NZ$42 million) to US$50 million (NZ$70 million) to marquee players, including Dustin Johnson and Justin Rose, to join a new circuit that would begin playing as early as September 2022. “He has listened to their presentation, like all the other top players. No commitment whatsoever,” Johnsons manager, David Winkle, said in a text. Gregory Bull/AP Rory McIlroy has made it clear he is more interested in cre...

Webb Simpson: Breakaway PGL pretty farfetched Field Level Media Count Webb Simpson among the skeptics of the proposed Premier Golf League. A member at the Quail Hollow Club, site of this weeks Wells Fargo Championship, Simpson was the first to meet with the media Tuesday. His availability came hours after a report by The Telegraph that the backers of the PGLhave made lucrative offers to several of the sports biggest stars. The offers made to the likes of world No. 1 Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeCha...

James Corrigan12:56, May 05 2021 Many of golf’s biggest names including world No 1 Dustin Johnson and England’s Justin Rose have received contracts worth up to US$100 million (NZ$139.6 million) to take part in a breakaway ‘World Tour’ that has forced them to choose between Saudi money and the PGA Tour and perhaps even The Masters and Ryder Cup. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monagan on Tuesday night (Wednesday NZT) warned the would-be rebels that they face an instant suspension and a lifeti...

Players have 40 million reasons to shine on social media By MURRAY GREIG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-28 09:57 Share   Tiger Woods of the US on the 4th hole during the final round during The Masters in Augusta, Georgia, US, Nov 15, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] Some of the richest stars in golf are about to get considerably richer. The PGA Tour has unveiled a new season-long bonus structure aimed at rewarding the games biggest names－but in or...

Announced by Golfweek on Tuesday, the PGA Tour’s recent Player Impact Program will connect with the tours’ largest golf athletes and pay out bonuses for their popularity. The program was initiated because of popular players like Tiger Woods, Bryson DeChambeau, and Rickie Fowler. According to the report, an athletes’ value must be based not only on tournament execution but preferably on an Impact Score, which will be decided on a player’s popularity in Google Search, their Nielsen Bra...

The bold Peter Alliss once suggested that golf was “an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.” Goodness knows, then, what this dearly departed voice of the game would’ve made of the latest money-making venture unveiled, or rather leaked out, from the cash-sodden PGA Tour. Cor Blimey O’Reilly? You can say that again. Forget mysteries, enigmas and conundrums. Golf is now wreathed in Meltwater Mentions, MVP Indexes and Nielsen Brand Exposures. And, no, I don’t know what ...

PGA Tour offering $40 million in bonus money to top stars Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, bumps fists with Jon Rahm, of Spain, on the 18th green during the second round of the Masters golf tournament on Friday, April 9, 2021, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) Matt Slocum Dustin Johnson watches his drive down the ninth fairway during the final round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C., Sunday, April 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) Stephen B. Morton Publ...

PGA Tour offering $40 million in bonus money to top stars Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, bumps fists with Jon Rahm, of Spain, on the 18th green during the second round of the Masters golf tournament on Friday, April 9, 2021, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) Matt Slocum Dustin Johnson watches his drive down the ninth fairway during the final round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C., Sunday, April 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) Stephen B. Morton Modi...

Called the Player Impact Program, its design is to “recognize and reward players who positively move the needle” on fan and sponsor engagement, a Tour spokesperson told Golfweek. The $40 million will be distributed among 10 players at the end of the year, with the most valuable getting $8 million. The program began Jan. 1. There are six criteria the players will be judged on to determine the distributions. According to Golfweek, those criteria are: 1. “Ranking on the season-ending FedEx C...