Jeff Barr

It’s probably a fair assumption that anyone who went into Tuesday evening expecting to like what the new TGL was offering with its giant simulator screen and mesmerizing graphics came away happy while anyone predisposed to dislike the happy reimagining of the game probably didn’t have their mind changed.

With the turn of the calendar to 2025, the PGA Tour's Opening Drive is knitted into the events and attitudes of The Sentry, contested last week at Kapalua’s Plantation Course on Maui, and this week’s Sony Open at Waialae Country Club on Oahu.

For the 1,500 fans in the SoFi Center to witness TGL Golf, it was an adjustment to watch quick-paced golf played with loud music blaring, tons of technological data, occasional booing after bad shots and the ability to watch every player’s shot without leaving their seat. What comes next?

Instead of attempting the annual fool’s errand of trying to predict what will happen in 2025, here’s GGP's take on what ought to happen in the new golf year.

No golf star has ever burned brighter than Tiger Woods and it has been difficult to imagine what the next chapter of his life and career might look like. Yet here we are.

The PGA of America on Tuesday announced Global Golf Post senior writer Lewine Mair as the 2025 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. Mair will be honored in April during the ISPS Handa Golf Writers Association of America dinner in Augusta, Georgia.

Fairways, or 'every golfer's dream,' is a row of four £7.25 million-plus townhouses looking out across the first, 17th and 18th holes of the Old Course in St Andrews.

The check is slowly coming due for players who sold their services to the breakaway LIV Golf circuit. Eligibility into the most important events in golf – the major championships – is leaking away drip by drip as players compete on an exclusive island without access to Official World Golf Ranking points.

Perhaps it’s too much to say that LIV Golf is enjoying a moment but, as the defiant league begins its fourth season, it appears to have found new footing as it charges into whatever the future holds. Read Green In Regulation for more.

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