Elliott Heath

1 week ago | golfmonthly.com | Elliott Heath

The 2025 PGA Championship is the second men's Major of the year and it has a lot to live up to after Rory McIlroy's incredible Green Jacket triumph last month at Augusta National. A stellar cast will be in tow at Charlotte's Quail Hollow Club, where McIlroy won his first ever PGA Tour event and triumphed three more times - most recently in 2024 when he took down Xander Schauffele in the final group.

1 week ago | golfmonthly.com | Elliott Heath

Tiger Woods' son Charlie Woods fell short in his quest for the 2025 US Open after shooting a three-over-par 75 at Florida's Wellington Golf Club. The 16-year-old was teeing it up in one of the many regional qualifying events where a limited number of players make it through to one of the 13 Final Qualifying sites ahead of next month's championship at Oakmont.

1 week ago | golfmonthly.com | Elliott Heath

Lucas Glover has been the most outspoken PGA Tour player on the Signature Event model where fields are cut down to just 72 players who compete for inflated prize pools and FedEx Cup points. The move was brought in after the inception of the rival LIV Golf tour and created somewhat of a two-tier system on the PGA Tour, with the big names reaping the rewards of the Signature Events and the rank-and-file players on the outside looking in.

1 week ago | golfmonthly.com | Elliott Heath

When Dustin Johnson won the 2020 Masters, delayed until November due to Covid-19, we thought it meant he had qualified for the other three Majors for the next five years. Johnson's Green Jacket triumph gets him into The Masters for life, while he is in the US Open until 2026 after winning at Oakmont nine years ago so he doesn't need to worry about that until 2027. The PGA Championship and Open Championship are the two Majors he hasn't won, though, so he has to rely on other means to make those.

1 week ago | golfmonthly.com | Elliott Heath

The PGA Tour's Signature Event model has been called into question again after Erik Van Rooyen stated that he hates the $20m purse, limited-field, no-cut format of events - after qualifying for one. “How honest do you want me to be?” he asked reporters after qualifying for the Truist Championship. “I hate it. I strongly believe that the strongest fields are the ones with the most players in them. The guys on the PGA Tour are so good.