The golf impresario Jimmy Dunne, the ultimate elite-golf clubby insider with the disarmingly candid demeanour of an old-school New York City cab driver, will be joining the PGA Tour policy board in the new year as an independent director.
Phil Mickelson recently said he “never did an interview with Alan Shipnuck” in November 2021, which golf writer Shipnuck released in February this year, creating enormous controversy for the left-handed golf great.
To say they wasted no time would be an understatement: Ryder Cup Europe executives removed Henrik Stenson as their captain for next year’s event even before he was announced as a new LIV Golf recruit.
In a bizarre marriage of legalese and semantics, Nicklaus is being sued by the Nicklaus Companies in a court, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, that has a grand name but is just a district court with elected judges.
In the annals of golfing weirdness, here’s a double whammy for the ages: the PGA Championship will be played this week not where it was originally scheduled to be played and without its 51-year-old defending champion in the field.