Golf

8/21/2025 |  Scheffler, golf's best embrace revamped Tour Championship, $40M purse (United Press International (UPI)) Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Unlike last year, Scottie Scheffler won't start the Tour Championship well under par. But the world No. 1 is still heavily favored in the revamped tournament.

8/21/2025 |  Tiger Woods unintentionally molded Scottie Scheffler into the best golfer in the world (Yardbarker) Scottie Scheffler is the most dominant golfer we've seen since Tiger Woods in his prime, but he wasn't always at this level. 
It took Scheffler 73 starts before he finally won his first PGA Tour event at the 2022 WM Phoenix Open. Since then, he's rattled off 21 worldwide wins, and he has Woods to thank. 

8/21/2025 |  ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ Becomes Netflix’s Most-Watched U.S. Movie Debut (Front Office Sports) Netflix is making more streaming history, again demonstrating the power of its strategy based around sports and big events.
Measurement agency Nielsen said that Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix generated 2.9 billion viewing minutes during its premiere weekend, from July 25–27. That figure represents the largest single-week viewing total in the history of Nielsen’s Streaming Top 10 rankings. While Netflix has released some of its own first-party data around the movie, including 46.7 million views in those first three days of release, the third-party affirmation from Nielsen further attests just how much of a hit the movie has been. 

8/20/2025 |  Scottie Scheffler doesn’t like comparisons to Tiger Woods. But Tiger inspired him (Associated Press (AP)) ATLANTA (AP) — Scottie Scheffler shies away from comparisons to Tiger Woods even as the numbers are starting to make that inevitable.
Scheffler has been No. 1 in the world longer than anyone since Woods. He is the first player since Woods to have five-plus wins in back-to-back years. He comes into the Tour Championship on a streak of 13 tournaments in the top 10.

8/19/2025 |  How to win the FedEx Cup has never been more clear. The significance has never been more confusing (Associated Press (AP)) ATLANTA (AP) — How to win the FedEx Cup has never been more clear.
Scottie Scheffler leads a 30-man field at the Tour Championship. They play 72 holes at East Lake and whoever has the lowest score gets $10 million in official prize money, an official victory and world ranking points.
Except for the big boost in prize money, it’s no different from how the Tour Championship was before words like “points” and “playoffs” entered the golf vernacular.