A winner of 20 professional events worldwide, including two on the PGA Tour and seven on LIV Golf, Niemann will be looking to complete the Australian majors double after claiming the Australian Open in 2023.
Former champion Joaquin Niemann heads a list of four internationally acclaimed players who have been confirmed as starters in the men’s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne Golf Club from December 4-7.
Golf equipment giant Ping has thrown its weight behind LIV Golf’s all-Latin American squad, Torque GC, in a landmark team sponsorship deal that kicks off this week at LIV Golf Mexico City.
Golf can be a cruel and complex game, particularly at the elite level. Sergio Garcia, after 26 years as a pro, was reminded horribly when he came within three feet of securing a place in the Open Championship at the Asian Tour’s International Series Macau in China.
There was no complaining, no bitterness. Carlos Ortiz stood over a pitch shot on the final hole of LIV Golf Houston confident he would win, and certain he would be asked later about the fact he will not be playing in this week’s US Open at Pinehurst.
Some on LIV Golf accepted what can only be estimated as generational wealth. Their omission from the OWGR is not a punishment, but the price of that payday.
For every LIV golfer who has called for a direct pathway from the league into the four men’s major championships, there seems to be an equal number willing to travel to the corners of the globe in search of major-championship golf.
Keeping an unusually low media profile during the opening events of his divisive LIV Golf Invitational Series, Greg Norman is finally ready to do the talking. In a wide-ranging interview with Australian Golf Digest, The Shark explains how golf found itself in conflict, what it all means for countries like Australia, and why his second attempt at globalising the pro circuit will end differently to the first.
For decades, Latin American athletes have been making a mark in Major League Baseball, and in more recent years the NBA. They are starting to more in golf, too. And it hasn’t been an accident.