Eamon Lynch
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Golf Channel host, Golfweek columnist.
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Lynch: Brian Rolapp’s last job prioritized NFL fans. Let’s hope he doesn’t 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/
9 days ago
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Lynch: Caitlin Clark, Kai Trump were opportunities for the LPGA, but they aren’t the answer
A professional sports organization isn’t entitled to a free pass from scrutiny or criticism because it’s a women’s league.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/lpga/2025/11/14/lpga-caitlin-clark-kai-trump-opportunities-but-not-answer/87276420007/
27 days ago
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Lynch: Forget 54 or 72! The only hole that really matters is LIV’s 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/
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
Fascinating read 👇
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Lynch: Brian Rolapp’s PGA Tour vision could clash with investors, and the Saudis are waiting
It’s not difficult to decipher what the whiz kids of Greater Fenway want — 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/
about 2 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/
2 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/
2 months ago
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Lynch: Luke Donald will keep the Ryder Cup. He should keep the captain’s job, too
The fist-pumping and flag-waving didn’t work. Nor did the foul-mouthed heckling of players and their families by Bethpage’s 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/
2 months ago
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Lynch: The Ryder Cup got stuck with the one thing it didn’t need — 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.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/ryder-cup/2025/09/26/lynch-ryder-cup-stuck-donald-trump/86371522007/
3 months ago
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Lynch: Europe’s 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/
3 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 Norman’s recent chest-puffing social post announcing the end of his tenure.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/liv/2025/09/19/eamon-lynch-greg-norman-beats-liv-golf-to-exit/86246706007/
3 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.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/09/06/eamon-lynch-pga-tour-fedex-fall-quiet-season-how-does-it-make-noise/86019645007/
3 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.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/08/29/eamon-lynch-pga-tour-about-to-be-legally-forced-to-prioritize-fans-over-players/85894630007/
3 months ago
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Lynch: New CEO Brian Rolapp just ended the PGA Tour as we know it, even if he didn’t 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/
4 months ago
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Lynch: Rory McIlroy skipping a playoff event is the canary in Brian Rolapp’s 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/
4 months ago
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“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.” Gore Vidal was the most engaging man I ever knew. He died 13 years ago today.
4 months ago
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Lynch: The PGA Tour’s 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 Rolapp’s 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/
5 months ago
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A day wandering the countryside where I grew up. Dublin tomorrow, then home.
5 months ago
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reposted by
Eamon Lynch
John huggan
5 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 👇
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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.
https://golfweek-eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/british-open/2025/07/19/lynch-normalizing-abnormal-both-sides-gate-british-open/85292462007/
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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/
5 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 hadn’t visited Northern Ireland in 68 years.
https://golfweek-eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/british-open/2025/07/17/lynch-embattled-northern-ireland-patience-acceptance-key-2025-open/85259476007/?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLmPJpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp25X0Xlk9uh4Thag8UNa24UoMXShrt6jN8kfI4P28XDGJMrjwSXgssZR6Xgv_aem_cY-q-pUJnUYDtydakz3DLw
5 months ago
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Lynch: New LIV boss Scott O’Neil sounds a lot like Greg Norman. That's not a compliment
Like his predecessor, O’Neil is energetically trying to manufacture a reality that doesn’t 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/
5 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 Reed’s defamation lawsuit against a number of golf media — including Golfweek — 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/
5 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
5 months ago
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When three golf writers take over a TV show….
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5 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/
6 months ago
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Lynch: PGA Tour’s 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/
6 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/
6 months ago
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Lynch: Phil Mickelson says a muted farewell to a mixed U.S. Open legacy
Friday’s 74 — which included two double-bogeys to miss the cut by a single shot — 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/
6 months ago
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Last of the preview shows from Oakmont. Balls airborne tomorrow.
6 months ago
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Lynch: Make the U.S. Open great again — 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.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/us-open/2025/06/10/lynch-usga-should-tighten-the-thumbscrews-at-oakmont/84136354007/
6 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 Arabia’s Public Investment Fund,
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/05/31/lynch-pga-tour-liv-golf-framework-anniversary-irrelevant/83963551007/
6 months ago
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PGA Tour can dictate what reunification looks like and it doesn’t have to include everyone
The most unshakable assumption about the division in men’s pro golf is that responsibility for resolving it falls to those who didn’t create it.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/05/25/eamon-lynch-pga-tour-can-dictate-what-reunification-looks-like/83852852007/
7 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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7 months ago
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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.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/pga/2025/05/16/lynch-pga-of-america-union-of-professionals-needs-to-ditch-amateurism/83677525007/
7 months ago
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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 doesn’t need more in the way he needed one 31 days ago.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/pga/2025/05/14/lynch-rory-mcilroy-heads-to-pga-championship/83630098007/
7 months ago
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Wrapping a couple of fun days on Live From the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
7 months ago
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Lynch: Donald Trump takes the PGA Tour’s 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.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/05/13/eamon-lynch-donald-trump-takes-pga-tour-terms-saudi-arabia/83595796007/
7 months ago
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Lynch: Donald Trump is trying to bully his way to an Open at Turnberry, but he’ll 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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7 months ago
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Lynch: Shocking! LIV consultant encourages Saudis to keep shoveling cash in the furnace
It’s 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/
8 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/
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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 it’s sorely needed at the elite level of men’s golf.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/masters/2025/04/12/masters-2025-nick-dunlap-showed-guts/83064304007/
8 months ago
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The Saudi golf boss showed at the Masters. Most of his players haven't.
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Lynch: The Saudi golf boss showed up at the Masters. Most of his players haven’t
Since most patrons lingering by the clubhouse are accustomed to vast wealth and untrammeled power, Al-Rumayyan passed largely unnoticed.
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8 months ago
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Lynch: Thankfully, some things won’t change at Augusta National, not on Fred Ridley’s watch
The closest thing to a theme that emerged in Ridley’s comments was a defense of norms, a timely issue given the tumult beyond the gates.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/masters/2025/04/09/augusta-national-chairman-fred-ridley-masters-in-order/83015744007/
8 months ago
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Lynch: Other majors could imitate what makes the Masters so good — but they won’t
The key reason why the Masters is golf’s best-run event has become nakedly apparent during this current moment in the men’s professional game.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/masters/2025/04/08/lynch-why-is-the-masters-the-best-golf-event/82983024007/
8 months ago
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A wonderful dinner in Boston with one of my favorite people and writers, Jennifer Haigh. Her new novel, Rabbit Moon, has been chosen as April’s book of the month by Barnes & Noble. 👏
9 months ago
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Lynch: Expect an overload of big lies as LIV lands at Trump Miami
Fee-taking barnacles will be keen to mount an elaborate charade and show that progress is real and that the cash spigot must remain on.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/03/27/big-lies-liv-golf-at-trump-miami-eamon-lynch/82695889007/
9 months ago
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Lynch: If the PGA Tour wants reunification, it should do one thing — wait
In the PGA Tour’s boardroom, folks who know they own the winning product — far from flawless, but indisputably stronger.
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/03/22/pga-tour-pif-liv-golf-reunification-just-wait/82614566007/
9 months ago
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