Ancer held on when he hit an approach to four feet on the first playoff hole to capture his first LIV Golf victory, making him the 14th different player to win in the league’s three-year existence.
Rory McIlroy has softened his stance on LIV Golf in recent months, but that doesn’t mean the PGA Tour star has any plans of ever joining the Saudi-backed golf league.
With LIV abandoning its designs for OWGR inclusion and the PGA Tour appearing no closer to an agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia that would reunite all of the game’s top players, it appears that the OWGR system will continue to come under scrutiny. Even among tour players who benefit from the current situation.
Between this and Talor Gooch’s recent comments about the Masters deserving an asterisk, you could start a winery with all the sour grapes being squeezed by LIV golfers as the majors approach.
Paul Azinger is no longer paid to give his opinions on the PGA Tour, but that didn’t stop the former broadcaster and player from offering a pretty gloomy take on the current state of professional golf.
LIV Golf’s 2023 individual champion Talor Gooch is disappointed he is without a Masters invitation while former world No.1 Lee Westwood says golf’s majors will lose credibility if they continue to use an “obsolete” Official World Golf Ranking when issuing invitations.
A week after branding the official world golf ranking “laughable”, LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman has revealed the Top 20-ranked superstar he’s trying to lure across to the Saudi-backed league.
Citing multiple sources, Golf Channel reported on Saturday that 38-year-old Kim, who hasn’t played pro golf since 2012, will start in next week’s LIV Golf’s event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.