PGA Tour senior member Matt Gogel has been suspended for six months for placing multiple bets in recent years, the league announced on Wednesday.
Gogel, who plays on the Champions PGA Tour, has placed multiple bets on PGA Tour events in 2024 and 2025. It is unclear which tournaments he sought out or the bets were, but the Tour said he was not involved in any events in which he participated. Betting on any PGA Tour event or any other golf competition is a clear violation In the integrity of the development of the price.
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Gogel has already been suspended from Tour-sanctioned events for six months, and will be eligible to return in late February.
“In 2024 and 2025, I unknowingly violated PGA Tour policy by placing small sports bets on golf,” Gogel said in a statement. “I want to be clear that these bets were not placed on regular PGA Tour events, PGA Tour Champions events or tournaments that I participated in. I would never knowingly violate the integrity of the game of golf.
“I made an honest mistake, and I’m looking forward to playing on the PGA Tour Champions 27.”
Gogel has won once in his PGA Tour career, winning the 2002 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. This year it comes after he finished T12 at the US Open, which easily marked his best finish in a major championship.
The 50-year-old has been a regular on the PGA Champions Tour in recent years, though he has yet to win a tournament on the senior circuit. He did not miss a cut this past season and finished in second at the ISP HANDA Senior Open in July.