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    Harry Kane moves into new sport as England captain makes investment to be part of ‘exciting journey’ with Tiger Woods

    HARRY KANE has teamed up with Tiger Woods by investing in a new golf team.The England captain has been officially announced as a limited partner of TGL side Jupiter Links.Harry Kane has become a limited partner of a TGL sideCredit: GettyTiger Woods is co-owner and player of the Jupiter LinksCredit: GettyThe Florida-based outfit feature in the new TGL (Tomorrow’s Golf League) event.TGL is an indoor technology-infused competition that is said to be the “brainchild” of Woods and Rory McIlroy.It launched in January and it aims to combine “traditional play with elements of simulated indoor golf”.PGA Tour stars make up the players – with Woods, Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner forming the Jupiter Links line-up.READ MORE IN FOOTBALLThe 15-time major winner co-owns the team alongside billionaire David Blitzer.Blitzer is on the board of Premier League club Crystal Palace, he is managing partner of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and NHL side the New Jersey Devils.Several celebs and sporting greats have also invested in TGL – with pop star Justin Timberlake a limited partner of the Jupiter Links alongside Kane.Meanwhile, tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams, F1 icon Lewis Hamilton and basketball heroes Steph Curry and Shaquille O’Neal are all involved.Most read in FootballJOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUSOn joining the Jupiter Links, Kane said: “I’ve always loved golf and TGL’s new format is something special. “I can’t wait to be part of this exciting journey.”‘It felt like the beginning of the end for Harry Kane’ says Man Utd legend as he admits fears for England captain The Bayern Munich striker is a talented golfer himself, reportedly playing off a handicap of 3.7.He has played in pro-am tournament in the past and had a round of golf with Woods while holidaying in the Bahamas. Kane is a passionate golfer in his spare timeCredit: Getty More

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    PGA Tour and LIV Golf Look for Merger Deal Under Trump

    A tie-up involving the tour and LIV Golf was stalled under President Biden. They’re aiming to forge a new agreement under President Trump.The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund are racing to reshape their plans to combine their rival golf circuits, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump’s eagerness to play peacemaker for a fractured sport, according to four people familiar with the matter.Since the start of secret talks in April 2023, PGA Tour executives and their Saudi counterparts have been weighing how they could somehow blend the premier American golf circuit with the Saudis’ LIV Golf operation. But negotiators have struggled to design a deal that would satisfy regulators along with players, investors and executives.Mr. Trump’s return to Washington has offered a new opening: After an Oval Office meeting this month that ethics experts have said tested the bounds of propriety, the two sides are considering options that might have stalled during Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidency but that the Trump administration’s antitrust enforcers could offer a friendlier glance.The details of any prospective agreement, including LIV’s fate, remain in flux. In general, regulators would see any transaction that led to the dissolution of one of the leagues as anticompetitive; under Mr. Trump, though, antitrust regulators could take a more relaxed view.The two sides are looking beyond a simple cash transaction, though it is unclear how exactly the deal would be structured. The PGA Tour commissioner, Jay Monahan, has said they are looking at a “reunification,” but there are many complicating factors, including how to value both ventures.There is also the matter of how to handle any deal alongside a separate $1.5 billion investment in the PGA Tour by a band of American sports magnates.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Golf’s Highs and Lows in 2024

    There were a lot of exciting tournaments, but LIV still looms over the sport.Winning streaks — illustrious and quirky — defined professional golf for the best male and female players in 2024. They came amid pressure on the business models of both the men’s and women’s professional tours.The PGA Tour continues to struggle with how it’s going to make its tournaments more attractive to sponsors (who are asked to pay more in prize money) and fans who have been tuning out the weekly tournaments. It’s been over two years since its first star players joined LIV Golf and a year since the PGA Tour and its commissioner, Jay Monahan, announced a tentative agreement with LIV to coexist, and the PGA Tour still hasn’t worked out a way to unify the men’s game.For the L.P.G.A. Tour, prize money has continued to rise, but the tour itself continues to struggle to get attention for its roster of top-flight players.Nelly Korda lining up a putt at the CME Group Tour Championship last month in Naples, Fla. She began the year by winning five straight tournaments, tying the L.P.G.A. record.Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesNelly Korda, the No. 1 ranked women’s golfer, began the year by winning five straight tournaments. She tied the L.P.G.A. record, held by Annika Sorenstam and Nancy Lopez.“If I’m being honest, I have not thought about it at all,” Korda said in a press conference after the fifth consecutive victory.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    DP World Tour Championship: Five Players to Watch

    The tournament will also determine the winner of the Race to Dubai.The DP World Tour Championship, which starts on Thursday at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in the United Arab Emirates, isn’t lacking in familiar names. The contenders include the major champions Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Adam Scott and Shane Lowry.A winner will also be crowned in the season-long Race to Dubai. It will either be McIlroy, who enjoys a substantial lead, or Thriston Lawrence. Others pointed to receive the extra payout that goes to the top 10 in the final standings — first place will receive $2 million — include Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood and Robert MacIntyre.Here are five to keep an eye on:The Italian golfer Matteo Manassero, now 31, seems to have turned things around after a decade-long slump.Warren Little/Getty ImagesMatteo ManasseroManassero, 31, was supposed to be the next big thing in professional golf.Consider what he accomplished as a 16-year-old amateur in 2009:Youngest winner ever of the British Amateur.The low amateur in the British Open at Turnberry in Scotland, finishing just four strokes behind Stewart Cink and Tom Watson.The No. 1-ranked amateur in the world.Bottom line: The future for the star from Northern Italy was limitless.Correction: Definitely limitless.He turned pro in 2010 and picked up his first tour victory that October, followed by one triumph apiece in 2011, 2012 and 2013. But after that, he didn’t win on the DP World Tour for the next 11 years.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    How Did a Golf Course in Dubai Get So Lush? Let Us Explain.

    For the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, it took planning and water. “The desert golf courses are actually the most efficient users of water out of necessity,” a U.S.G.A. official said.Up close, Rory McIlroy teeing off at the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates, the host of this week’s DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, looks no different than it would anywhere else in the world.His swing is balanced, fluid and powerful, and his ball flies far and straight, landing on a lush green fairway. There’s water around, some rocks and sand. The skyscrapers surrounding the course present a nice contrast to an always blue sky. But overall, the course looks like another pristine tournament venue for elite professional golfers.Yet what happened to get the Earth Course ready to host the best players on the DP World Tour, let alone to create it out of the desert when Greg Norman built it in 2009, is vastly different to how other top venues on the DP World Tour are prepared.Dubai receives only about four inches of rain a year. Summer temperatures can surpass 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius). The sun is so extreme that working outdoors from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the peak summer months in the United Arab Emirates is strictly prohibited.So how does an area so inhospitable to being outdoors, let alone playing golf, have such a premier facility that serves as the venue for the culmination of the tour’s season?The answer is very carefully and very deliberately.Matt Fitzpatrick and his caddie at the Earth Course during the 2023 DP World Tour. The course uses Bermuda grass, a popular warm-weather grass.Andrew Redington/Getty ImagesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    DP World Tour: Five Events That Stood Out

    Here are five tournaments that stood out in 2024.Another year on the DP World Tour is about to go into the books, filled, as usual, with heroics and heartaches.Which leads to this week’s finale, the DP World Tour Championship at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where the 50 players who accumulated the most points will compete for the title.There will also be a winner — either Rory McIlroy, who has a big advantage, or Thriston Lawrence — in the Race to Dubai that will award 10 golfers a total of $6 million.Below are five events in the 2023-24 season that provided their share of suspense:Jan. 11-14: Dubai InvitationalDown the stretch, it was McIlroy’s tournament to win or lose.He lost.Up by a stroke on the 72nd hole at the Dubai Creek Resort, McIlroy of Northern Ireland found the water with his tee shot, leading to a bogey. Taking advantage was Tommy Fleetwood of England, who knocked in a 16-foot birdie putt for the victory.“I think I was very happy with the way I played today for the large majority of the round,” said Fleetwood, who prevailed by one over McIlroy and South Africa’s Lawrence.McIlroy was also on target for much of the day. He recorded three straight birdies on the back nine, but three-putted from two feet on 14 and made the costly error on 18.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Susie Maxwell Berning, Hall of Fame Golfer, Is Dead at 83

    She often took time away from the tour for her family. But she tallied 11 championships, including three in the U.S. Women’s Open.Susie Maxwell Berning, a trailblazing three-time champion of the United States Women’s Open golf tournament who was known for her tenacity on the fairway and her grace off it, died on Wednesday at her home in Indio, in Southern California. She was 83.Her daughter Cindy Molchany confirmed the death. She said her mother had had lung cancer for two years.Emerging from Oklahoma City in the 1960s, when women’s professional golf was still a developing sport (she later estimated that there were only about 70 golfers on the tour at the time), she built a glittering career. She shone brightest when the stakes were highest. Four of her 11 wins on the L.P.G.A. tour were in major tournaments, including the Western Open in 1965.The other three were U.S. Open wins in 1968, 1972 and 1973. Berning was one of just six women to win three or more, along with Betsy Rawls, Babe Zaharias, Hollis Stacy, Annika Sorenstam and Mickey Wright — all members of the World Golf Hall of Fame. In 2021, Berning finally joined them in the Hall, which honors both male and female stars of the sport. She was inducted in the same class as Tiger Woods.Berning spoke at her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. She was inducted in the same class as Tiger Woods.Sam Greenwood/Getty ImagesFull recognition of her accomplishments came slowly in large part because her career was abbreviated, as she consistently prioritized family.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    At the Brooklyn Open, All Golfers Are Welcome

    The sun was just starting to rise over the marinas and box stores of South Brooklyn on Monday as Sam Maurer, a bartender at Lucky Jack’s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, wriggled his foot into a golf shoe.“I’d be going to bed right now on a normal Monday morning,” said Mr. Maurer, 25, who typically works till 4 a.m. He had just arrived at the Marine Park Golf Course, a city-owned facility built in 1963 atop a former landfill, to play in the Brooklyn Open.The tournament, by turns sporting competition and block party, has become a rite of early fall for a wide swath of urban golfers. An unofficial event — it’s not sanctioned by any ruling body of golf — the Brooklyn Open welcomes anyone who pays its $175 entry fee. Players of all ages compete in different divisions depending on their skill level. Befitting a borough of immigrants and dreamers, their backgrounds are as varied as their golf swings.Mr. Maurer, who grew up in Fairfax County, Va., took up the sport as a boy. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., he moved to Brooklyn two years ago to get his start in the hospitality business. Since then, he has played Marine Park about 50 times, although this was his first Open.Among the players were, from left, Luke Watson, a professional caddie; Rich Lee, a just-retired banker; and Vijay Sammy, the owner of an accounting firm.“New York City public golf is some of my favorite golf I’ve ever played, just for the people you meet,” Mr. Maurer said. “In Virginia, even at the public courses, it’s a pretty stuffy game still, and it’s not very inclusive. But in New York that couldn’t be further from the truth.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More