In a letter to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations asked for records and communications between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
There’s rough off the tee. There’s rough around the greens. There’s rough coming out of your ears and eyes. Is it “Abandon Hope All Ye’ Who Enter Here” levels? Not quite, but it looks like a stern test and that is exactly the point.
So what’s in store for this year at LACC? Tee-times have just been announced, with players competing in threesomes off the first and 10th tees during the first and second rounds this Thursday and Friday.
In a federal lawsuit filed at the end of last week in district court in New Jersey, Cool Brands Supply, a corporation in Argentina that specialises in skateboard lifestyle merchandise, accused LIV Golf and Mickelson of using a “nearly identical logo”.
In response to last week’s announcement that the PGA Tour will attempt to partner with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV Golf’s Martin Kaymer told the Telegraph that golf’s “hypocrites” should go play in Japan.
DP World Tour pro Alex Knappe won a Care by Volvo subscription – a modern lease program that functions a little bit like Netflix for Volvos – with a hole-in-one at the Volvo Scandinavian Mixed overnight.
Fitzpatrick said he expected the questions to come and wondered how he should answer them. Ultimately he came to the conclusion that anything regarding the new entity, the re-integration of LIV players, and other issues about the tour’s future is “not really my job”.
Dunne is a member at some of the most exclusive golf clubs in the world, allowing him to rub elbows with some of the biggest power players in the sport.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said he doesn’t envision LIV Golf events running concurrently in 2024, and there’s belief the PGA Tour’s new deal with Saudi Arabia could fold the Saudi-backed circuit entirely. LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman, it appears, has other plans.
ESPN blabber-in-chief Stephen A. Smith takes a flamethrower to everyone and everything in golf on Wednesday’s edition of ‘First Take.’ Turn your sound well up.
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