How to watch the 2022 World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony featuring Tiger Woods: TV info, live stream for tonight

By Mary OmatigaMar 9, 2022, 12:00 PM EST

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The 2022 World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony takes place this Wednesday, March 9, one night before the first round of the Players Championship, at the PGA Tour’s ‘Global Home’ headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. This will be the first time the induction will take place in the sunshine state since 2013. The ceremony was originally scheduled to take place last year but was postponed due to the pandemic.

Four of the hall’s newest members elected for enshrinement in 2020 will be honored on Wednesday night: Tiger Woods, Susie Maxwell Berning, Tim Finchem, and Marion Hollins. See below for just a glimpse of their career highlights and additional information on how to watch the 2022 World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony live on the Golf Channel. Live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. ET.

2022 World Golf Hall of Fame Inductees:

Tiger Woods, 46, (Induction Category – Male Player) :

Winner, Tiger Slam in 2000-2001
82 PGA Tour wins, tied most all-time (with Sam Snead)
15 professional major championship wins (second all-time)
PGA Tour Player of the Year 11 times
No. 1 on World Ranking for 683 weeks

Susie Maxwell Berning, 80, (Induction Category – Female Competitor) :

11 LPGA Tour victories
3-time U.S. Women’s Open champion (1968, 1972, 1973)
Honored as one of the LPGA Tour’s Top-50 Players and Teachers All-Time in 2000

Tim Finchem, 74, (Induction Category – Contributor) :

Commissioner of the PGA Tour, 1994-2016
Presided over unprecedented growth of purses and coverage
Oversaw initiation of the Presidents Cup, World Golf Championships, and FedExCup
Joins predecessors Joseph Dey and Deane Beman as inductees

Marion Hollins (Induction Category – Contributor) :

*Hollins passed away in 1944 at age 51.

1921 U.S. Women’s Amateur Champion
3-time Metropolitan Women’s Amateur Champion
1932 U.S. Captain in inaugural Curtis Cup
Helped develop Cypress Point Club and Pasatiempo Golf Club

How to watch the 2022 World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony:

Where: PGA Tour’s ‘Global Home’ headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
When: Wednesday, March 9
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. on Golf Channel
Live Stream: Click here to watch

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PGA Tour, DP World Tour to merge with Saudis and end LIV Golf litigation

By Golf ChannelJun 6, 2023, 11:18 AM EDT

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The most disruptive year in golf ended Tuesday when the PGA Tour and DP World Tour agreed to a merger with Saudi Arabia’s golf interests, creating a commercial operation designed to unify professional golf around the world.

As part of the deal, the sides are dropping all lawsuits involving LIV Golf against each other effective immediately.

Still to be determined is how players like Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson, who defected to Saudi-funded LIV Golf for nine-figure bonuses, can rejoin the PGA Tour after this year.

Also unclear was what form the LIV Golf League would take in 2024. Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a memo to players that a thorough evaluation would determine how to integrate team golf into the game.

The agreement combines the Public Investment Fund’s golf-related commercial businesses and rights — including LIV Golf — with those of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour. The new entity has not been named.

“They were going down their path, we were going down ours, and after a lot of introspection you realize all this tension in the game is not a good thing,” Monahan said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.

“We have a responsibility to our tour and to the game, and we felt like the time was right to have that conversation.”

Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, will join the board of the PGA Tour, which continues to operate its tournaments. Al-Rumayyan will be chairman of the new commercial group, with Monahan as the CEO and the PGA Tour having a majority stake in the new venture.

The PIF will invest in the commercial venture.

Monahan said the decision came together over the last seven weeks.

Brooks Koepka wins third Wanamaker Trophy, fifth major title at PGA Championship

By Golf ChannelMay 21, 2023, 6:39 PM EDT

Brooks Koepka promised Sunday at Oak Hill would not be a reprise of Sunday at Augusta National.

Koepka held true to his word, shooting 3-under 67 to win the PGA Championship, finishing at 9 under, two in front of Scottie Scheffler (65) and Viktor Hovland (68).

Koepka and Hovland, playing together in the final pairing, were separated by one stroke at the par-4 16^th, when Hovland hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker on the right. The previous day, leader Corey Conners was in the same spot and drilled his approach into the face of the bunker. He had to take an unplayable lie and made double bogey, losing the lead for good.

Incredibly, Hovland did the same thing on Sunday, losing any chance he had at his first major title.

Koepka, for his part, birdied the 16^th and led by four shots with two to play. He closed with an innocuous bogey at the 17th and a par at the 18th.

This was Kopeka’s fifth major championship win and his third Wanamaker Trophy (2018, ’19). He joined James Braid, John Henry Taylor, Byron Nelson, Peter Thomson and Seve Ballesteros at 15^th on the all-time major-victory list.

It marked his ninth career PGA Tour title and first since February 2021.

It was in that same month, a year later, that Koepka made clear his intention to remain on the PGA Tour, saying of the fledgling Saudi-led rival league, “They’ll get their guys. Somebody will sell out and go to it.”

Four months later, Koepka was one of those guys.

Koepka claimed his first of two LIV titles in October and the second in April, the week before the Masters Tournament. It was in the season’s first major where Koepka led by two shots entering the final round (after completing a delayed Round 3 early that Sunday) but closed in 75 to finish T-2 behind Jon Rahm.

This Saturday, once again with a lead through 54 holes of a major, Koepka was confident – though, coy with his reasons why – that this championship would end differently.

Or, similarly, to that of Bellerive and Bethpage Black.

It appeared that the 105^th edition of the PGA was over 45 minutes after the final group teed off in the final round.

Koepka birdied three of his first four holes and led by three shots.

He was perfection personified, expertly positioning his tee shots and precisely hitting his irons. But a sliced drive off the sixth tee led to bogey and he made another at the seventh. By the turn, he was at 7 under par, one clear of Hovland with Scheffler at 4 under through 11 holes.

Scheffler managed to reach 7 under par for the championship, but never got closer than within two strokes.

It was ultimately a battle between the final two men on the course, with Koepka consistently managed to stay out front. He went birdie-bogey-birdie to start the inward half as Hovland strung together a trio of pars. The Norwegian birdied the par-5 13^th and could have drawn even, but Koepka converted a slick, downhill, 10-footer for par to remain one up.

Both men made birdie at the drivable, 320-yard, par-4 14^th and both men parred 15.

Then came the 16^th, where Hovland thinned his second shot from the fairway sand into the bottom portion of the bunker lip. His ball embedded, Hovland took a penalty stroke and a drop. His double bogey, combined with Koepka’s birdie, ended all of the drama.

But Oak Hill was not devoid of cheers Sunday evening. Club pro Michael Block, playing alongside Rory McIlroy, had a slam-dunk hole-in-one at the par-3 15^th and then made an incredible par save from well left of the 18^th green. His closing 1-over 71 placed him in a tie for 15^th and earned him a spot in next year’s field at Valhalla.

The last time the Louisville, Kentucky course hosted a PGA, McIlroy claimed his second Wanamaker Trophy and his fourth – and most recent – major. The Northern Irishman energized the western New York crowd this Sunday by sticking his approach shot at the first hole to a foot. The birdie got him within four of the lead, but he short-sided himself – from the fairway – at No. 2 and immediately gave the shot back. McIlroy shot 1-under 69 and tied for seventh.

While his major wait will extend to Los Angeles Country Club in June, Koepka will arrive looking for a third U.S. Open title.

And after his performances in the first two majors of the season, he will likely be the favorite.