In contrast to the on-going, protracted and inevitably fractious legal discord between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour, the parallel dispute between the Saudi-backed circuit and the DP World Tour is expected to play out to a relatively timely conclusion early next month.
Any interview with Padraig Harrington is a bit like playing the Old Course at St. Andrews. Width is hardly ever an issue, the subject free to roam, think for himself and come up with his own imaginative solutions to any problems or obstacles.
Stenson, along with 11 other players who have teed-up at least once on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour (a list that includes Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Patrick Reed, Bernd Wiesberger and Adrian Otaegui), appear on the entry list for the upcoming Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
The Englishman represented Europe in the 1993 matches at The Belfry and was a five-time winner on the European Tour over the course of a 40-year professional career.
Over the nearly half-century that it went by the European Tour rather than the DP World Tour it has become, the Old World circuit’s relationship with the Ryder Cup has undergone a dramatic about-face.
One of seven players in the 50-strong field with a chance to finish top of the DP World Tour rankings, Fitzpatrick has already opened up a sizeable lead over his two main challengers, Rory McIlroy and Ryan Fox.
And so it goes on. Only 24 hours after Greg Norman informed the world that “every PGA Tour player should be thanking LIV, including Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy,” McIlroy responded in kind.
Perhaps predictably, certainly unluckily and surely understandably, any first mention of David Drysdale tends to include the fact that the Scot has never finished first in any of the 574 tournaments he has played so far on the DP World Tour.
With one more circuit of Amata Spring Country Club to play, Australia’s Harrison Crowe on 13 under par has a two-shot lead, the pack piled up behind the 21-year-old from New South Wales not quite as heavily populated as it was on Days 1 and 2.
In a wide-ranging interview, Martin Slumbers has spoken about whether Cameron Smith and other LIV golfers will be able to play in next year’s Open at Royal Liverpool.
In the year that has passed since Connor McKinney made his debut in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, a lot has happened to the 20-year-old Australian (who was born in Scotland).
A couple of things set Lukas Michel apart from the other 119 competitors in this week’s Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, starting with the fact he’s already played the Masters – a prize for the event’s champion.
Through the joint efforts of golf’s two most famous clubs and the Asia Pacific Golf Federation, the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship has done an impressive job spreading the golf word throughout this vast region.
Australian Golf Digest
