Surprising Money TGL Players Will Make

Happy Saturday! There’s plenty of golf action this weekend with three PGA championships in play.

We bring you all the exciting updates and more on what’s happening in the world of golf, in today’s edition of Golf Reporter.

ALBATROS
Day 2 Leaderboards from 3 PGA Matches

Butterfield Bermuda Championship: Sweden's Alex Noren maintained his two-stroke overnight lead at the Bermuda Championship on Friday, carding a five-under-par in the second round to move to 15-under.

The ANNIKA Driven: First-round leader Brooke Henderson of Canada fired a 5-over 75 and dropped down the leaderboard at the Annika Driven LPGA event in Belleair, Fla., on Friday. She finished the day at 3-under, nine shots back of Emily Kristine Pedersen, who carded a second-round 65 to go with her 63 from Thursday.

Charles Schwab Cup Championship: After a first day leading round, Ernie Els is at T7 on day 2 at Pheonix Country Club, with a total of 9-under. Steven Alker and Marco Dawson finish tied first at 11-under, with just a one shot lead. Day 3 is going to be exciting!

EAGLE
The Whopping Money TGL Players Will Make

Tiger Woods- and Rory McIlroy-backed golf league, TGL, will feature 24 PGA Tour players playing inside a South Florida arena on Monday and Tuesday nights. The purse for the entirety of Season 1 is $21 million.

The winning team will take home $9 million at the end of the season. Split four ways, that’s a $2.25 million payout for each member of the team.

The league will have six teams playing a round-robin schedule before four teams advance to the semifinals. So, the winning team will play five matches to advance to the playoffs and then two matches to win the championship.

Considering that each team only needs to field three of its four players each night, we’re likely talking about a $2.25 million payout for players on the winning team on what would likely be a 6-night commitment.

BIRDIE
Golfers That Spent Longest Time as World #1

Most weeks spent as men’s world number 1 golfer:

1. Tiger Woods - 683

2. Greg Norman - 331

3. Dustin Johnson - 135

4. Rory McIlroy - 122

5. Nick Faldo - 97

6. Seve Ballesteros - 61

7. Scottie Scheffler - 60

8. Luke Donald - 56

9. Jon Rahm - 52

10. Jason Day - 51

Most weeks spent as women’s world number 1 golfer:

1. Jin Young Ko - 163

2. Lorena Ochoa - 158

3. Lydia Ko - 125

4. Yani Tseng - 109

5. Inbee Park - 106

6. Annika Sorenstam - 60

7. Nelly Korda - 37

8. Jiyai Shin / Stacy Lewis - 25

9. Shanshan Feng / Ariya Jutanugarn - 23

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LOCKER ROOM
What else is making news

• Max Homa maintained a share of the lead at the Nedbank Golf Challenge by shooting a 4-under 68 in the second round Friday, with Matthieu Pavon joining him atop the leaderboard.

• Experience Pinehurst just days before the 2024 U.S. Open field does. The three-day-two-night event — called the Countdown to the U.S. Open at Pinehurst — is set for May 28-30, 2024, and costs $7,000 per person, or $10,500 for double occupancy.

• After switching driver head and shaft, Ernie Els shoots 63 to open Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Els got a little lighter shaft in his driver and went with a different driver head from XXIO. A bogey-free, 8-under 63 has staked him to a two-shot lead after 18 holes at Phoenix Country Club.

• Lydia Ko fell from No. 1 to outside the top 100 on the CME points list. Just over one year ago, Lydia Ko was quite literally on top of the world. What does this mean for next year?

DRIVING RANGE
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PAR FOR THE COURSE
This Day In History

On 11th November 1889, Willie Park Jr. won his second British Open Men’s Golf title after beating Andrew Kirkaldy by 5 in 36-hole playoff.