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Jordan Spieth at the PGA Championship: One Major Away from Immortality

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Six golfers in history have won all four major championships. Gene Sarazen. Ben Hogan. Gary Player. Jack Nicklaus. Tiger Woods. Rory McIlroy. Jordan Spieth has won three of them — and this week at Aronimink Golf Club, he gets his chance to join that list.

Jordan Spieth Chasing Grand Slam

“If I can win one more tournament in my life, it would obviously be this one,” Spieth said ahead of the 108th PGA Championship. The man knows what is at stake. So does everyone else. (PGA Tour)

A Game Trending in the Right Direction

Spieth arrives at Aronimink feeling good about where his game is. He led the field in strokes gained off the tee at last week’s Truist Championship — and at a Donald Ross course where precision from the tee is everything, that is exactly the statistic you want heading into a major week. The greens are undulating, the 180 bunkers demand respect, and the par-threes separate the contenders from the field. Spieth, at his best, is built for all of it.

108th PGA Championship Trophy

“My game has been getting better and better. It’s plenty good to have a chance to win,” he said at his Aronimink press conference. He has had stretches this season where he has led the tour in multiple statistical categories. The pieces are there. Aronimink is the week to put them together. (PGA Championship)

The Course Sets Up Well

Aronimink rewards the things Spieth does best. Past winners at this venue have been defined by elite putting — touch, trajectory, and reading greens under pressure. That is Spieth’s signature. A player who can drive it straight and hole putts when it matters has always had a chance here. Right now, Spieth is doing both. (Golf Digest)

Aronimink 108th PGA Championship

Gary Player — the only man to have won a major at Aronimink, claiming the 1962 PGA Championship on these very fairways — believes Spieth has everything he needs. “Jordan has the talent to return to world number one,” Player said. “He simply needs to reconnect with his fundamentals.” High praise from a nine-time major champion who knows this course better than anyone alive. (Golf Magic)

The Moment, the Narrative, the List

Rory McIlroy completed his own career Grand Slam at Augusta just last month — and Spieth has spoken openly about the inspiration it provided. “The easiest way to do that is to not try to, in a weird way. Just go out and get ready for the first hole, get a good game plan in and attack it the way it needs to be attacked,” he said. That kind of clarity — knowing exactly what you want and exactly how not to chase it — is the mark of a player who has been in big moments before. (Sky Sports)

He has won the Masters. He has won the US Open. He has won The Open Championship. The PGA Championship is the only one left. The narrative is written. The stage is set. Aronimink opens Thursday.

If the golf is pulling you towards a screen this week, we understand entirely. And when you are ready to swap the sofa for a fairway, Tee Times will have your Algarve golf holiday waiting — courses, transfers, and deals included.

From Vila Nova de Gaia to the DP World Tour

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Daniel Rodrigues Shines at the Turkish Airlines Open

Daniel Rodrigues Shines at the Turkish Airlines Open

Sunday’s final round at the Turkish Airlines Open in Belek was not supposed to go like this for Daniel Rodrigues. He is 23 years old. He is playing his first full season on the DP World Tour. Six months ago, he was grinding through all three stages of Qualifying School — a six-round marathon at INFINITUM in Spain — just to earn his card. And yet there he was, standing on the 18th green at National Golf Club, finishing tied second on eight under par, two shots behind winner Mikael Lindberg.

Not bad for a debut season.

The boy from Gaia

Rodrigues is from Vila Nova de Gaia — the historic city that faces Porto across the Douro River — and his story is a good one. The former number one amateur in Portugal, he won the Portuguese Amateur title and was national Under-18 and Under-16 champion before crossing the Atlantic to study and play golf at Texas A&M University. He turned professional last summer. He made it through Q-School at the first attempt. And then, in just his second season of professional golf, he nearly won a DP World Tour event on a rain-soaked Sunday afternoon in Turkey.

Drama on moving day

The week was not without its drama. Rodrigues shared the lead heading into the final round, having carded a composed third-round 68 — birdying four of his first six holes — before a two-hour lightning stoppage threatened to break his rhythm. It did not. He and Lindberg went into Sunday tied at the top, the air still damp and the occasion very real.

Turkish Airlines Open at National Golf Club Belek Turkey

When Lindberg held firm

Lindberg, to his credit, was magnificent. The 33-year-old Swede closed with a 69 to take his maiden DP World Tour title, earning himself a debut major appearance at the PGA Championship at Aronimink later this month in the process. But Rodrigues — sharing second with Italy’s Guido Migliozzi — will have taken enormous confidence from the week. These are the results that define careers.

A Portuguese double act

It was, quietly, a fine weekend for Portuguese golf in general. Ricardo Melo Gouveia tied for seventh on six under — a steady, experienced performance from the man who has flown the flag for Portuguese golf on the DP World Tour almost single-handedly in recent years. Now, for the first time in a long time, he has company worth having.

Ricardo Melo Gouveia tied for seventh

Portugal, is producing leaderboard golfers again, which is only fitting for a country that also produces some of the finest golf courses in Europe.

Time to book your piece of Portugal

The Algarve, where Rodrigues cut his teeth as an amateur, remains one of the great destinations for any golfer who takes the game seriously. The courses are exceptional. The conditions are kind. And if watching a young man from Porto nearly win on the DP World Tour has stirred something in you — well, there is really only one thing to do about it.

Browse our Algarve golf holidays and start planning your own Portuguese story.

The Fitzpatrick Brothers Win the Zurich Classic

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— and Golf Has Its Feel-Good Story of the Year

Some victories are about the numbers. Birdies made, strokes gained, FedExCup points banked. And then there are victories that are about something else entirely.

The 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans was that something else.

Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick with trophy after winning the 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana

On Sunday at TPC Louisiana, Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick — Sheffield brothers, golfing siblings, and now PGA Tour champions — held their nerve through one of the most dramatic back nines of the season to win the Tour’s only team event by a single stroke. Their combined total of 31-under 257 set a new tournament record. The manner in which they got there will not be forgotten in a hurry.

A four-shot lead, and then a wobble

Matt Fitzpatrick arrived in New Orleans in the form of his life. His 2025–26 season had already featured a DP World Tour Championship title in November, a runner-up at The Players Championship, and a Valspar Championship victory in March. His win at the RBC Heritage the week prior — a playoff victory over world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler — had taken his season earnings to nearly $8.3 million across four events.

He was, in short, the hottest player on the planet. And he brought his younger brother along for the ride.

Alex Fitzpatrick, a DP World Tour regular, had already broken through for his maiden professional victory at the Hero Indian Open in March. The pair entered Sunday’s alternate-shot finale with a four-shot lead, after a tournament-record 15-under 57 in Saturday’s best-ball round.

Then the back nine happened.

A double bogey at the par-4 12th. A bogey at 14. The four-shot cushion evaporated. The teams of Alex Smalley and Hayden Springer, and Kristoffer Reitan and Kris Ventura, were watching from the clubhouse at 30-under. The Fitzpatricks needed something from somewhere.

When it mattered most

It came, as it so often has this season, from the older brother.

Matt’s approach on the par-5 18th found a greenside bunker. From 35 yards out, he splashed to inside a foot, leaving Alex with a tap-in birdie to seal the win.

“I couldn’t feel my hands. I couldn’t feel my legs. I couldn’t feel anything,” said Alex, crouching over the ball before rolling in the putt. “It’s a pretty life-changing thing.”

He wasn’t wrong. The victory earned Alex a two-year Tour exemption through 2028, along with entries into the next four Signature Events, the 2026 PGA Championship, and the 2027 Players Championship.

History made, records broken

The Fitzpatricks became the first brothers ever to win on the PGA Tour, with Matt also becoming the first Englishman to win three or more times in a single year on Tour. The win moved him to the top of the FedExCup standings — a remarkable position for a player who spent much of the last two seasons finding his feet.

“To win a team event on the PGA Tour with my brother — I don’t know if it gets better than that,” said Matt, the US Open champion of 2022. “That’s how special it feels.”

Their parents were there on the 18th green to see it. The full family portrait. The kind of moment golf was invented to produce.

What it means for the season ahead

The tour moves on to Miami this week, where the Cadillac Championship tees off at the iconic Blue Monster course at Trump National Doral — a $20 million Signature Event and the first return to that storied venue in a decade. Matt Fitzpatrick is in the field, naturally. Alex, fresh off a two-year Tour card, will be alongside him.

The Fitzpatrick era has well and truly arrived.