Sports Business Update

After a 5 day rain-delayed marathon, Australian Cameron Smith captured top prize, and what a prize in Ponte Vedra.  Hear more in this report on VOA and Sports Business Update.

The pride and joy of the PGA TOUR is this week as The Players Championship features a deep field and a staggering prize purse and $3.6 Million Dollar winner's check.   George McNeilly reports

As George McNeilly reports on VOA, Scottie Scheffler wins for the second time in his last three starts on the PGA TOUR and with the win earns over $2 Million in prize money, moves to first place in the Fed Ex Cup and  5th in golf's world rankings

The Florida Swing rolled rolls on as we hear in these reports from George McNeilly

It's seen as one of the most significant regular season events on the PGA TOUR, and Bay Hill has hosted the world's best players since 1979.   George McNeilly reports on two rising stars among a very strong field this week.

Over the last week, we traveled to Palm Beach Gardens where Sepp Straka won his first PGA TOUR event, and where Zach Johnson was named by the PGA of America as the next Ryder Cup Captain for Team USA. 

This morning, the Valspar Championship held its media day preview featuring defending champion Sam Burns who was in Tampa before heading here to Orlando for the Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by Mastercard - an event that is now without its defending champion Bryson DeChambeau as the Florida Swing rolls on.   

George McNeilly w/ Brooks Koepka and Daniel Berger from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida with a preview of this week's Honda Classic as aired on VOA Networks.

Sports Business Update recently spent some time with 17 time LPGA TOUR winner Lydia Ko to discuss her unique relationship with the Lululemon brand of active wear and apparel.  

The golfing industry converged on Orlando and the Orange County Convention Center last week with some notable absences due to the pandemic.  Still, many brands arrived to showcase their products and services to an eager audience of PGA members, buyers and working media.   Correspondent George McNeilly provides this report which aired on VOA Networks, the largest U.S. International Broadcast Platform.

Host George McNeilly with Bridgestone Golf CEO Dan Murphy whose company chose to return when others big brands did not as the world continues to contend with the pandemic.