World Golf News, London (2026)

02/09/2026

Jackson Koivun has been handed a Team USA debut for this month's Presidents Cup, just months after turning professional, as former world No 1 Jason Day missed out on a spot in the International Team.

Koivun enjoyed a glittering amateur career before turning professional after the US Open in June, with the 21-year-old winning the PGA Tour's 3M Open three starts later and qualifying for the season-ending FedExCup Playoffs.

He will become the youngest American to feature at the Presidents Cup since Jordan Spieth in 2015 after being named among Brandt Snedeker's six captain's picks for this year's edition at Medinah Country Club, where Team USA chase a record-extending 11th consecutive victory in the biennial contest.

https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/13580066/presidents-cup-2026-jackson-koivun-handed-shock-team-usa-debut-as-brandt-snedeker-geoff-ogilvy-reveal-captains-picks

02/09/2026

LIV Golf is entering a major transition after completing its 2026 season. The Saudi-backed league has made significant changes to its operations as it prepares for a proposed new phase called “LIV 2.0.”

The league has reduced its workforce and is seeking new investment after the Public Investment Fund’s financial backing ended at the 2026 season. LIV is also working on a new ownership structure that would give players a greater stake in the competition.

Questions over player contracts, unpaid vendors and contractors, and the league’s plans for 2027 now surround LIV as it attempts to build a sustainable future.

Jon Rahm remains the biggest player in terms of financial obligation for LIV Golf. Front Office Sports says the two-time major champion is still owed more than $100 million from the $300 million signing agreement he received when he joined LIV ahead of the 2024 season.

LIV could seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as soon as next week, according to the “Financial Times.” The process would aim to restructure the league and extend its operations rather than immediately shut it down.

https://heavy.com/sports/golf/jon-rahm-100-million-liv-golf-bankruptcy-filing/

31/08/2026

Scottie Scheffler came through a final-round tussle with Viktor Hovland to cap off another PGA Tour season in style with FedExCup glory at the Tour Championship.

Scheffler overturned a three-shot deficit during an eventful Sunday at East Lake Golf Club, where he mixed six birdies with two bogeys to post a four-under 66 and pull clear of the field.

The world No 1 finished on 16 under and three strokes clear of Hovland, who led at various points on the final day, with Scheffler claiming the $10m first prize and joining Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods as the only multiple FedExCup champions.

Hovland posted a final-round 72 to finish second ahead of Ryan Gerard, with Rory McIlroy recovering from three bogeys in his first five holes to post a one-under 69 and share fourth spot.

McIlroy was joined on 11 under by Ludvig Åberg, Chris Gotterup, Russell Henley, Jacob Bridgeman, first-round leader Min Woo Lee and England's Alex Fitzpatrick, with defending champion Tommy Fleetwood a further shot behind.

https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/13578960/tour-championship-scottie-scheffler-holds-off-viktor-hovland-to-claim-fedexcup-title-and-break-more-pga-tour-records

31/08/2026

South Africa's Casandra Alexander claimed victory at a weather affected KPMG Irish Open with a dominant performance across a sodden week in County Kildare.

A five-time runner-up this season, the Ladies European Tour's leading player finally broke her duck with a wire-to-wire victory, highlighted by a course-record 63 on day one at The K Club's Palmer South Course.

Alexander birdied three of her first four holes and rarely looked back, finishing 20-under par and three shots clear of runner-up Sara Kouskova of Czechia, with Finland's Noora Komulainen a shot further back.

Leona Maguire finished as the leading Irish player, five shots off the pace in fourth place, on a week where a record number Irish players featured – nine professionals and seven amateurs, comprising the strongest home representation in the tournament's history.

The week was a battle with the weather from the outset, with Saturday's third round halted for 45 minutes by heavy rain sweeping across the Palmer South Course, while the closing par-five was shortened for Sunday's final round.

For a few minutes on the final day, the coronation itself threatened to stall as Alexander dropped shots at each of her opening two holes - her first real hint of vulnerability all week. But any fears of a collapse were quickly extinguished by three consecutive birdies from the fifth, rebuilding her cushion and restoring control as she marched towards a triumph that had felt a long time coming.

https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/13578955/kpmg-womens-irish-open-leona-maguire-finishes-fourth-on-home-soil-ahead-of-solheim-cup-as-casandra-alexander-claims-second-let-victory

31/08/2026

Former supermarket delivery driver Joe Dean fired a sensational bogey-free nine-under-par 63 to sn**ch the British Masters title at The Belfry.

It is a first DP World Tour victory in his 70th event for the 32-year-old Englishman who is ranked 292nd in the world.

He collected the trophy and about £440,000 in prize money, more than he had earned in total from his previous 19 tournaments in the 2026 season.

"All those painful hours and all the work, it's finally led to something," said Dean, who two years ago was delivering groceries to help fund his golf.

"It was a rare day when everything felt right and the putts were dropping and I couldn't do anything wrong."

It caps a busy summer for the Sheffield golfer who won the inaugural Last Chance Qualifier on the Monday of Open Championship week in July to earn the final spot in the field at Royal Birkdale.

He then married Emily, who carried his bag that week and this.

"I can't thank her enough," said Dean on Sky Sports. "I hope I made her proud."

Dean started Sunday's final round seven shots behind leader Dan Hillier and made a move with four birdies in his opening six holes. Five more followed on the back nine, including a 10-footer at the last to set the target at 14 under par.

He then had to wait about 90 minutes to be crowned champion as challengers came and faded.

Dean eventually won by three strokes from four players, including 2023 champion Hillier, at a tournament that was disrupted by stormy conditions in Warwickshire.

More than nine hours of play was lost on Thursday and Friday, leaving organisers scrambling to complete the event before more forecast inclement weather returned.

Marco Penge, who had a breakthrough year in 2025 with three wins, led on 10 under after a sparkling 65 in round two.

He also started the final round on that total after completing a third-round 72 on Sunday morning.

Five birdies and two bogeys in his first nine holes of round four catapulted Penge into a one-stroke lead with nine to play.

However, a third bogey of the round, on the 11th, halted his momentum and five more pars followed to leave him 12 under with two to play.

Penge compounded the error of a wild drive into trees on the par-five 17th by hitting a branch with his second shot and then had to chip out sideways with his third.

That led to a bogey and with his challenge over, he dropped a shot at the last too to finish with a 72 and 10-under total.

A double-bogey six on the sixth hurt Hillier's tilt at winning a second title. And while the New Zealander had two birdies on his back nine, he closed with a one-over 73 to finish on 11 under.

That left him joint second alongside the Danish pair of Niklas Norgaard and Jacob Skov Olesen who both signed for 71s, and Spain's Nacho Elvira who carded a 69.

Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti threatened to trouble Dean's lead late on after firing four birdies in five holes during a purple patch on his back nine to get to 12 under, but he had a triple bogey on the last after taking two shots to get out of a fairway bunker and then finding water.

The British Masters was the first event in the race to qualify for the European team to take on the United States at next year's Ryder Cup in Ireland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/c23xvx9rgleo

31/08/2026

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LIV Golf may file for bankruptcy protection as soon as the week of September 7, as the challenger golf league races to find funding in the coming days for a slimmed-down version slated for 2027, according to people briefed on the negotiations.

The league in recent days has sent settlement offers to the current LIV players who are owed millions in guaranteed payouts past 2026, with those initial offers at just a few cents on the dollar.

People with knowledge of the situation said the reluctance of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which launched the league in 2022, to provide more funding had played into the meagre offer to the players. The LIV management, meanwhile, remains dependent on the Saudi Public Investment Fund for financial support needed to facilitate the transition.

For several weeks, LIV has been negotiating a funding package with the credit division of private capital firm BC Partners and BC executives have attended recent LIV tournaments in Indiana and New Jersey to make their pitch to players.

The FT previously reported on LIV’s attempt to strike a “grand bargain” whereby its golfers would simultaneously settle claims with the current LIV regime and agree to equity awards and other financial terms for the “LIV 2.0”. Such a deal could be clinched in a pre-packaged bankruptcy.

However, getting commitments from enough top players to entice BC Partners and other funders has proved challenging so far. The DP World Tour, which runs events in Europe and the Middle East, has said recently that players on a future LIV circuit may face fines or bans for playing in league events scheduled in the same weeks as the DP World Tour.

https://www.ft.com/content/5051e92f-371f-4a46-bdee-e8877b68caf8?syn-25a6b1a6=1

31/08/2026

LIV 2.0, as it might be called, could live or die on the decision of Jon Rahm.

LIV Golf’s long-term future has come under renewed scrutiny, with questions surrounding its finances, its player base and, perhaps most importantly, its ability to attract new talent.

Where Rahm plies his trade in 2027 could therefore be central to what comes next.

Even if LIV returns in a new guise, perhaps with the reduced schedule of 10 events that has been reported, the strength of its playing roster is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

Its veterans are another year older and, in some cases, players who were already approaching the latter stages of their careers when they joined LIV are now at an age where they might be considering the Champions Tour, or the Legends Tour in Europe.

That has always been one of the criticisms aimed at the league. LIV managed to attract some outstanding players, but it also became a lucrative destination for ageing golfers looking for one final substantial payday.

The issue now is where their replacements are going to come from, if we start to see players exit.

In its early years, LIV had the financial muscle to prise players such as Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau away from the PGA Tour. Hugely lucrative contracts gave some of the best golfers in the world an obvious reason to take the risk.

But if the financial landscape has changed, where are the waverers now?

It is difficult to see LIV attracting established PGA Tour stars in their prime if the extraordinary financial incentives that drove the original recruitment spree are no longer available.

Instead, the potential player pool could increasingly consist of PGA Tour players who have lost their cards or DP World Tour players who aren’t competing at the highest level but still see enough money on offer to make the move worthwhile.

https://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/tour/liv-golf/jon-rahm-gave-liv-golf-legitimacy-what-will-be-left-if-he-leaves/

30/08/2026

Ruoning Yin produced a final-hole chip-in to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the LPGA Tour’s FM Championship, as European title hopes faded in Boston.

Yin holed her chip from just off the 18th green, having also posted a 20-foot birdie on the par-three 16th, to close a four-under 68 and move to 12 under at TPC Boston.

The five-time LPGA Tour winner holds a slender lead over South Korean duo Sei Young Kim and Hyo Joo Kim, with Somi Lee a further three strokes back alongside American Jenny Bae.

https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/13578731/lpga-tour-ruoning-yin-grabs-fm-championship-lead-after-late-chip-in-as-european-title-challenge-fades-in-boston

30/08/2026

Marco Penge holds a share of the lead heading into marathon final day at the weather-affected Husqvarna British Masters, with Tom McKibbin heading the chasing pack.

Penge was one under after five holes of his third round at The Belfry when play was suspended at 7.56pm due to darkness, following multiple weather delays over the first three days.

The halfway leader sits on 11 under alongside Daniel Hillier, who has also played five holes, with McKibbin - only playing due to the cancellation of LIV Golf's Team Championship - a shot back after two birdies in his opening six holes.

https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/13578746/british-masters-marco-penge-co-leads-alongside-daniel-hillier-as-marathon-sunday-lies-ahead

30/08/2026

Viktor Hovland will head into the final round of the PGA Tour's $40m Tour Championship in Atlanta on Sunday with a one-stroke lead.

The season-ending event will also crown the FedEx Cup champion, which was won by Hovland in 2023.

The Norwegian, who came into the third round tied for the lead on 10 under with American Ryan Gerard, birdied the 17th and 18th holes to post a five-under-par 65 to improve to 15 under.

Gerard also birdied the final hole to finish one back on 14 under after a round of 66.

"I mean, 65 out there, especially with that finish, super happy with that," said Hovland.

"It's been just one of those weeks where I've been able to put it together every single day for three days.

"It's pretty bunched up around 11 and 12-under-par. You've seen some 62s out there, you can take it low. So it was nice to get a little bit of distance, especially from the group of guys that are around that number."

Lurking in the chasing pack are the world's top two players, with number one Scottie Scheffler, the 2024 champion, producing a serene bogey-free round of 66 to finish three adrift on 12 under.

Back-to-back Masters champion Rory McIlroy - a record three-time FedEx Cup winner in 2016, 2019 and 2022 - catapulted himself into contention with a hugely impressive 63 to sit five shots off the lead.

The 37-year-old found form with his putter as he holed nine birdies, including three in a row on 15, 16 and 17 to post the joint lowest round of the day.

"I just left myself in better spots on the greens," said McIlroy.

"I gave myself easier putts, putts that didn't break two ways. When I got it rolling there on the back nine, every putt was like a cup right or a cup left.

"It's the last round of the PGA Tour season. I've still got a lot of golf left this year, but it will be nice to go out and give it a really good run tomorrow to finish this season over in the States."

Australia's Adam Scott, 46, who won the Tour Championship 20 years ago is alongside Scheffler after also carding a 66, while Sweden's Ludvig Aberg posted a 65 to also finish on 12 under.

McIlroy is joined on 10 under by Players Championship winner Cameron Young.

England's Justin Rose and Matt Fitzpatrick are probably too far back to challenge or the title at eight under par.

Defending champion Tommy Fleetwood and fellow Englishman Alex Fitzpatrick are a shot further adrift after both signed for 67s.

Scotland's Robert MacIntyre, first out and playing on his own in the 29-man field (reduced from 30 because JJ Spaun pulled out injured during round one) whipped round in 63 shots to improve to joint 25th on four under par.

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