Golf

1/20/2025 |  Justin Hastings earns invites to Masters, majors from winning 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship (CBS Sports) A marathon of a final day at the 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship saw Justin Hastings pull away to win the title. Finishing the tournament at 16 under, Hastings finished one stroke clear of Peru's Patrick Sparks to become the second player from the Cayman Islands to claim the championship. 

1/20/2025 |  2025 Farmers Insurance Open odds, picks, field: Surprising predictions from golf model that's nailed 13 majors (CBS Sports) Jason Day has racked up 13 career victories on the PGA Tour, which includes finishing on top of the leaderboard at the Farmers Insurance Open in 2015 and 2018. Day will be part of a loaded 2025 Farmers Insurance Open field and will enter this week's event full of confidence after recording a T-3 finish at The American Express. Day has finished T-7 or better in two of his last four starts at the Farmers Insurance Open, while missing the cut altogether on the other two occasions. The 2025 Farmers Insurance Open is set to get underway from Torrey Pines Golf Course on Wednesday, Jan. 22. 

1/17/2025 |  LIV Golf announces multiyear media rights deal with Fox Sports (CNBC Sports) LIV Golf inked a media rights deal with Fox Sports to broadcast its League competition.
Fox and its family of networks will begin airing LIV tournaments in February.
The announcement comes just a day after LIV named Scott O’Neil as its new CEO.

1/17/2025 |  Tiger Woods’ golf tournament moved away from Pacific Palisades amid ongoing wildfires (CNN Sports) The Genesis Invitational, a golf tournament organized by the Tiger Woods Foundation, will move locations this year amid the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, the PGA Tour announced Thursday.
The event was due to be held at the Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades between February 13-16 but will now move to another venue.     

1/17/2025 |  Mental health at the forefront of golf’s mind following the tragic death of a player (CNN Sports)              Picture the scene: One of the world’s top golfers has just finished a terrible round on the course at the Dubai Desert Classic and moments later he’s swapped his putter for a crayon, busily working on a coloring book.
It might sound odd, but such a scenario is now likely at this pioneering event, which is leading the way in protecting player mental health and well-being.