The best rants are the ones that hit close to home. As great as Sara Walsh is as a TV host, she’s not a good enough actor to be making this one up. This golf condemnation comes from the heart and it shows as she goes on a diatribe with enough vitriol and disgust to make Twitter look tame.
We gathered the brightest young sadists among our staff to dream up potential punishments for LIV’s repatriated ex-pats. When the gavel rang and the court adjourned, these were the sentences.
It’s been an incredible year for Min Woo Lee, who earned a special temporary PGA Tour membership last month, and has really enjoyed the support of American crowds. But the 24-year-old Aussie is back on the DP World Tour this week, and he finally caught a bad break. Fortunately, it came playing mini golf.
Two weeks ago, at the US Open, an agreement to end the fallout between two players, Rory McIlroy and LIV Golf’s Sergio Garcia, was established via a simple text message and a good old handshake.
Each spring the Alister MacKenzie Society sponsors the Ray Haddock Lido Prize, a competition for amateur architects to submit drawings of a theoretical golf hole that embodies the design principles of Alister MacKenzie.
The PGA Tour’s policy board issued a statement Tuesday night following a players meeting in Detroit regarding the proposed deal between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, signalling a “new phase” of negotiations have begun while signalling the deal may ultimately not come to fruition.
Scottie Scheffler won’t be upset with his Travelers showing over the first 36 holes … except for one embarrassing gaffe that resulted in a clip that may last for a while.
Watch this useful chipping tip from Phil Mickelson, who hilariously urged golf fans to “put personal feelings aside” in reference to LIV Golf tensions.
Wyndham Clark, still waiting to hit his wedge shot from the fairway, then asked Thomas to mark his ball to avoid the possibility it could impede his own approach once it hit the green.
For the LPGA to compete on these stellar courses provides a unique opportunity to showcase the women’s game. Casual golf fans may be more apt to tune into the coverage to see how the women will fare on courses they’ve seen the men play previously. The curiosity factor is bound to attract more viewers.
The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has invited PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan to testify at a public hearing on July 11.
It’s fair to wonder how Adam Scott is feeling following the surprise announcement that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf’s backer, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, are planning to form a new entity together.
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