Josh Carpenter
Assistant Managing Editor at Sports Business Journal
Covering golf for Sports Business Journal (@SBJ). Proverbs 3: 5-6
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1 week ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Josh Carpenter
PGA Tour Superstore CEO & Exec Chair Dick Sullivan will retire from his day-to-day duties as CEO this summer. Sullivan will remain in the executive chairman position and will stay on as CEO until his successor is found. The Superstore said a global search is already underway, with Russell Reynolds Associates leading the process. Sullivan has been running the company since it had only 10 stores when Arthur Blank bought it in 2010.
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sportsbusinessjournal.com | Josh Carpenter
The PGA Tour has extended another tournament title sponsor, with Grupo Puntacana signing on for the Corales Puntacana Championship through 2027. The tour’s prior deal with Grupo Puntacana expired after the 2025 tournament, which tees off in the Dominican Republic tomorrow. The event is being played opposite the RBC Heritage, one of the PGA Tour’s Signature events. Financial terms were not disclosed, though an industry source pegged the opposite field events at between $4-5M annually.
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1 week ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Josh Carpenter
CBS showed all 75 of Rory McIlroy’s shots in the 89th Masters on Sunday as he won his fifth major to complete the career grand slam. SBJ tracked every shot CBS showed from when the network broadcast came on the air at 2pm ET to when McIlroy holed his winning birdie. Unsurprisingly, Bryson DeChambeau, who was in the final pairing with McIlroy, had 69 shots shown during his final round 75, which left him four shots out of the playoff between McIlroy and Justin Rose.
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1 week ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Josh Carpenter
LIV Golf has hired longtime sports communications executive Lara Toscani Weems as its new SVP/Media Relations, effective last week. Toscani Weems has been the SVP/Global Communications for Elevate for the last three years and before that was a longtime VP/Corporate Communications for Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment. Toscani Weems joins LIV and her former boss at HBSE, Scott O’Neil, who took on LIV’s CEO role earlier this year.
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2 weeks ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | Josh Carpenter
A pair of high-ranking officials from both the PGA of America and PGA Tour have emerged as top candidates for the vacant LPGA commissioner position, sources told SBJ on Thursday. PGA of America COO Craig Kessler and Korn Ferry Tour President Alex Baldwin are now seen as the leading candidates to replace Mollie Marcoux Samaan, who stepped down from the position earlier in 2025.
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He’s DFL by six shots but Nick Dunlap’s 19-shot improvement today might be the greatest example from Thursday-Friday of how golf is the greatest sport
Thursday’s opening round of @TheMasters earned 2.3 million viewers, per ESPN, a drop of 28% from 3.2 million last year. Last year’s opening round, which included Tiger Woods, was a nine-year high. Two years ago: 2.5 million on ESPN
Guys…my apologies. I was inadvertently given numbers from last year. New numbers incoming
