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American golfer Tiger Woods, who hasn't played in a PGA Tour event in over a year, was awarded the Player Impact Program Award today. The Program is a system put in place in 2021 to reward players for their social and fan engagement regardless of how they perform on the course.

A 15-time Grand Slam tournament winner, Woods received an eight-million-dollar bonus for the prize with the top 10 players getting payments from the $40 million fund

Photo Credit:AP

American golfer Tiger Woods, who hasn't played in a PGA Tour event in over a year, was awarded the Player Impact Program Award today. The Program is a system put in place in 2021 to reward players for their social and fan engagement regardless of how they perform on the course.

A 15-time Grand Slam tournament winner, Woods received an eight-million-dollar bonus for the prize with the top 10 players getting payments from the $40 million fund

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has resolved a dispute with the PGA of America over the golf association's decision earlier this year to pull a major professional tournament from a Trump-owned golf course, the PGA of America said.

In a press release, the PGA said it had reached a confidential settlement with the Trump Organization that resolves legal claims stemming from its decision in the wake of the storming of the U.S. Capitol to shun Trump's golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Twenty-five years ago professional tournament golf took its first steps in China and, despite a few stumbles, paved the way to establishing the sport in a country where it was once banned as a "bourgeois pursuit for millionaires".

An unlikely alliance between the China Golf Association and a Swedish carmaker with an eye on an emerging market resulted in a tentative toe being dipped into oriental waters in April 1995 for the first Volvo China Open.

China's first professional golfer, Zhang Lianwei, who had given up his amateur status just a few months before, finished third behind Paraguay's Raul Fretes in a field that contained 1988 US Masters champion Sandy Lyle.

PGA of America chief executive Seth Waugh said Tuesday that organizers are considering multiple scenarios for the US PGA Championship now scheduled for 6-9 August in San Francisco.

Waugh, in an interview on SiriusXM radio, said the first option would be to play the tournament as currently scheduled at Harding Park.

A second option would be to hold the first major championship of the year there but without spectators and a potential third option would be to move it to another location should play in California prove impossible.

The tournament has already been postponed from May as the coronavirus pandemic up-ended the golfing calendar along with the rest of the sports world.