Eamon Lynch
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Golf Channel host, Golfweek columnist.
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Lynch: Patrick Reedâs LIV exit made both sides happy, but no player matters
Just like his flip in â22, Reedâs flop in â26 will inspire sighs of relief among all parties.
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2 days ago
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Lynch: Brian Rolapp scored an early win with Brooks Koepkaâs return. His tougher battles are coming next
In the months ahead, PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp must be able to point fans toward whatâs additive, otherwise theyâll focus on what is being deleted.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2026/01/25/eamon-lynch-brian-rolapp-early-win-brooks-koepka-return-pga-tour/88352965007/
7 days ago
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Lynch: Clock is stuck on amateur hour at PGA of America. Can it move forward?
The Ryder Cup fiasco in September was a tipping point when it came to the boardâs impatience with Rea and his messaging missteps.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2026/01/08/pga-ceo-derek-sprague-out-president-don-rea-told-stay-in-lane/88088772007/
24 days ago
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Lynch: As Golfweek celebrates its 50th, the only constant is change
1975 was the year of Golfweekâs debut, when tournaments were hosted by celebrities whose naming privileges have long been erased by whiz kid CMOs.
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about 1 month ago
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An amusing wrap on the year: being cited by Frank Bruni in the New York Times on his best sentences of 2025. đ
about 1 month ago
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Lynch: The PGA Tour needs a plan for when a LIV star comes knocking. The path back isnât complicated.
While LIV continues to list, the moment nears when someone aboard starts looking for a life raft.
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about 1 month ago
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Lynch: Brian Rolappâs last job prioritized NFL fans. Letâs hope he doesnât think his new gig does too
A delicate balance needs to be struck between current priorities and longer-term opportunities that boost the overall health of the sport.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/12/01/brian-rolapp-nfl-job-prioritized-fans-pga-tour-gig-shouldnt/87558338007/
2 months ago
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Lynch: Caitlin Clark, Kai Trump were opportunities for the LPGA, but they arenât the answer
A professional sports organization isnât entitled to a free pass from scrutiny or criticism because itâs a womenâs league.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/lpga/2025/11/14/lpga-caitlin-clark-kai-trump-opportunities-but-not-answer/87276420007/
3 months ago
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Lynch: Forget 54 or 72! The only hole that really matters is LIVâs financial black hole
This move illustrates how furiously the league is bobbing and weaving for relevance that it can breezily jettison the format from which its numerical brand derived.
https://golfweek-eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/liv/2025/11/05/lynch-liv-golf-financial-black-hole/87103455007/
3 months ago
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4 months ago
Fascinating read đ
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Lynch: Brian Rolappâs PGA Tour vision could clash with investors, and the Saudis are waiting
Itâs not difficult to decipher what the whiz kids of Greater Fenway want â a return on their money, even though not a dime has yet been spent.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/10/17/pga-tour-ceo-brian-rolapps-vision-might-clash-with-investors/86755042007/
4 months ago
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Lynch: Bless his heart! Greg Norman demands thanks for $5 billion bonfire of his vanity
Former LIV boss credits himself for breaking down golf's walls, but the question remains: What has this mission accomplished?
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/liv/2025/10/06/eamon-lynch-greg-norman-demands-thanks-5-billion-bonfire-of-his-vanity/86556499007/
4 months ago
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Lynch: The Ryder Cup needs a new vision in the U.S., and new owners
The finger-pointing at the U.S. team should wait. More urgent criticism should be squarely directed at the PGA of America for its shoddy mishandling of the event.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/ryder-cup/2025/09/30/eamon-lynch-ryder-cup-needs-new-vision-u-s-new-owners/86434260007/
4 months ago
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Lynch: Luke Donald will keep the Ryder Cup. He should keep the captainâs job, too
The fist-pumping and flag-waving didnât work. Nor did the foul-mouthed heckling of players and their families by Bethpageâs signature cadre of bellicose imbeciles.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/ryder-cup/2025/09/28/luke-donald-keep-ryder-cup-captain-team-europe/86403300007/
4 months ago
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Lynch: The Ryder Cup got stuck with the one thing it didnât need â Donald Trump
Trump arrived at Bethpage wearing golf shoes, perhaps expecting that his success in winning golf tournaments might see him asked to suit up.
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4 months ago
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Lynch: Europeâs chatter about pay-for-play at Ryder Cup only pays off if the U.S. falters
In the lengthy run-up to the 45th Ryder Cup matches in New York, the Europeans have been artfully keeping the cash grab storyline alive.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/ryder-cup/2025/09/24/europe-ryder-cup-pay-for-play-u-s-falters/86333945007/
4 months ago
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Lynch: Greg Norman beats LIV Golf to the exit, blustering to the bitter end
Even overworked LIV Golf folks must have been momentarily confused by Greg Normanâs recent chest-puffing social post announcing the end of his tenure.
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5 months ago
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Lynch: As the PGA Tour kicks off its quiet season, it has to figure out how to make noise now
The PGA Tour product after Labor Day and before the Super Bowl highlights the need for both a domestic rebrand and a global rethink.
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5 months ago
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Lynch: Lawyer up! The PGA Tour is about to be legally forced to prioritize fans over players
PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp recently sent two messages, one to the tour's employees and another to the locker room.
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5 months ago
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Lynch: New CEO Brian Rolapp just ended the PGA Tour as we know it, even if he didnât say it out loud
Rolapp has said that every successful sports league requires three things, and that the PGA Tour currently only has one of them
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/08/20/ceo-brian-rolapp-signals-major-changes-pga-tour/85747442007/
6 months ago
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Lynch: Rory McIlroy skipping a playoff event is the canary in Brian Rolappâs coal mine
Any of the top stars can now prioritize rest during the playoffs at no cost to their FedEx Cup campaign.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/08/07/lynch-rory-skipping-playoff-event-canary-brian-rolapp-coal-mine/85568304007/
6 months ago
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âThe four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.â Gore Vidal was the most engaging man I ever knew. He died 13 years ago today.
6 months ago
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Lynch: The PGA Tourâs new boss started work today. So what headache does he tackle first?
Other than booking a lesson package at the TPC Sawgrass Performance Center, what does Rolappâs priority list look like?
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/07/28/lynch-pga-tour-brian-rolapp-starts-new-job-where-should-he-start/85414044007/
6 months ago
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A day wandering the countryside where I grew up. Dublin tomorrow, then home.
6 months ago
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John huggan
7 months ago
So much well-informed truth here from a man who grew up in Northern Ireland and so has a real understanding of often stark realities đ
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Lynch: Normalizing the abnormal is happening on both sides of the gate at the Open
Even the Open is becoming a platform for normalizing the deplorable.
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Lynch: Bryson DeChambeau heats up at the Open, but his long, dark winter starts in July
Public personalities need platforms, and whether he leaves Sunday with the Claret Jug or not, winter kicks in for DeChambeau on July 20.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/liv/2025/07/18/lynch-dechambeau-heats-up-at-open-dark-winter-starts-july/85275645007/
7 months ago
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Lynch: Like in once-embattled Northern Ireland, acceptance will be pivotal at 2025 Open
When the Open returned to Royal Portrush in 2019, a great deal of ink was spent explaining why it hadnât visited Northern Ireland in 68 years.
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7 months ago
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Lynch: New LIV boss Scott OâNeil sounds a lot like Greg Norman. That's not a compliment
Like his predecessor, OâNeil is energetically trying to manufacture a reality that doesnât exist and suggest a momentum that isn't there.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/liv/2025/07/14/lynch-new-liv-boss-scott-oneil-sounds-greg-norman/85191304007/
7 months ago
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Must remember to cancel that check for eleventy billion dollars.
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Patrick Reed's appeal of dismissed $750M lawsuit against media has also been dismissed
The dismissal of Patrick Reedâs defamation lawsuit against a number of golf media â including Golfweek â has been upheld in the U.S. Court of Appeals.
https://golfweek-eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/liv/2025/07/10/patrick-reed-appeal-750m-lawsuit-dismissed/84530587007/
7 months ago
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Evening walk.
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One of my favorite places, as seen from United 23 on final approach to Dublin this morning: Portmarnock Golf Club
7 months ago
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When three golf writers take over a TV showâŠ.
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7 months ago
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Lynch: Dusting off, reinventing a long-forgotten event could boost both PGA Tour and LPGA
The World Cup is technically owned by the long-dormant International Golf Association, but the PGA Tour has perpetual license to operate the event.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/06/28/lynch-dusting-off-old-event-could-boost-pga-tour-lpga/84400643007/
7 months ago
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Lynch: PGA Tourâs new boss has fresh opportunities, but the same old problems need answers
Rolapp represents a departure from his predecessors at the top of the Ponte Vedra pyramid.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/06/21/lynch-pga-tour-ceo-brian-rolapp-has-new-opportunities-but-old-issues/84299168007/
8 months ago
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Lynch: Rory McIlroy vs. the media is one battle in a bigger war, and no one is winning
This standoff is practical in one sense (reporters want answers to inform their work) and philosophical in another.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/us-open/2025/06/14/rory-mcilroy-vs-media-battle-in-a-bigger-war-no-one-is-winning/84211939007/
8 months ago
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Lynch: Phil Mickelson says a muted farewell to a mixed U.S. Open legacy
Fridayâs 74 â which included two double-bogeys to miss the cut by a single shot â was his 120th round in his 34th U.S. Open, and potentially his last.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/us-open/2025/06/14/lynch-phil-mickelson-says-muted-farewell-mixed-u-s-open-legacy/84199947007/
8 months ago
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Last of the preview shows from Oakmont. Balls airborne tomorrow.
8 months ago
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Lynch: Make the U.S. Open great again â tighten the thumbscrews like the old days
For most of its history with its signature championship, the USGA presented an examination so thorough as to be excruciating.
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8 months ago
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Lynch: Prepare for posturing on anniversary of Framework Agreement that already achieved its goal
Friday marks two years since the announcement of the Framework Agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabiaâs Public Investment Fund,
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8 months ago
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PGA Tour can dictate what reunification looks like and it doesnât have to include everyone
The most unshakable assumption about the division in menâs pro golf is that responsibility for resolving it falls to those who didnât create it.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/05/25/eamon-lynch-pga-tour-can-dictate-what-reunification-looks-like/83852852007/
8 months ago
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Some ambitious young private equity chap will spot unnecessary triplication covering Ben Griffin at Colonial.
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Lynch: The PGA of America is a union of professionals, but needs to ditch the amateurism
The PGA Championship is run by a union. And as is typical with unions, the focus is insular and parochial.
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Lynch: Rory McIlroy needed another major, now he just wants one. It's a huge difference
He wants more majors, of course. But he doesnât need more in the way he needed one 31 days ago.
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9 months ago
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Wrapping a couple of fun days on Live From the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
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Lynch: Donald Trump takes the PGA Tourâs terms to Saudi Arabia. What will he return with?
For the first time in his life, just a few weeks shy of his 79th birthday, Donald Trump is going to the front line.
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9 months ago
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Lynch: Donald Trump is trying to bully his way to an Open at Turnberry, but heâll be a loser
There was a time when major championship venues were selected largely on the merits of the golf courses.
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Lynch: Shocking! LIV consultant encourages Saudis to keep shoveling cash in the furnace
Itâs almost impossible to find anyone optimistic a PGA Tour-PIF deal will be consummated, but cold cash has a way of thawing even the deepest chill.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/liv/2025/04/26/lynch-liv-golf-consultant-encourages-saudis-keep-shoveling-cash/83295803007/
9 months ago
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Lynch: After almost 4,000 days, Rory McIlroy's Grand Slam dream is deferred no longer
Rory McIlroy's dream of completing a grand slam had hiccups but the 2025 Masters changed everything.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/masters/2025/04/13/lynch-rory-mcilroy-dream-is-deferred-no-longer/83075880007/
10 months ago
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Lynch: The gutsiest player at this Masters actually left town on Friday night
He provided a sobering beacon of professionalism at a time when itâs sorely needed at the elite level of menâs golf.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/masters/2025/04/12/masters-2025-nick-dunlap-showed-guts/83064304007/
10 months ago
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