Lucas Herbert, the 28-year-old from Bendigo, will join his countrymen Cam Smith, Marc Leishman and Matt Jones on the LIV team Ripper GC when the third season begins in Mayakoba, Mexico, on Friday.
With an announcement imminent that the tour has agreed to a reported $3 billion investment deal with Strategic Sports Group – with PIF still also in the picture – McIlroy said the men’s professional game that became bifurcated by LIV Golf’s inception in 2022 must reassemble.
The Englishman joins Jon Rahm among notable signings by the Saudi-backed tour heading into its third year of existence with this week’s LIV Golf Mayakoba tournament in Mexico.
It has been reported by James Corrigan at the Telegraph that Tyrrell Hatton has joined LIV Golf at the very last minute with the start of the 2024 season just days away.
It was seen as an… unusual… trade, but at least for the first instance in LIV’s short timeline there was spice to its teams component. Brooks Koepka, the captain of the Smash GC team, contacted RangeGoats GC captain Bubba Watson to start trade discussions. He wanted Talor Gooch – who had won three LIV events Read more…
Jon Rahm’s departure to LIV Golf moved Hughes inside the cutoff for this week’s 2024 PGA Tour season-opener, proving that while meritocracy may reign in golf, bureaucracy isn’t far behind. And now that Hughes is here, he has plenty to say.
Tiger Woods and LIV Golf were Google’s most searched-for golf subjects in the US in 2023, according to data provided by the search engine. At least with 15-time major winner Woods, that comes as no surprise. But break the search interest down by month and there are some eyebrow raisers—Sam Ryder, Sam Bennett and even NBA legend Steph Curry.
Despite the ways in which professional golf has benefited from a series of booms, starting with Tiger Woods and continuing through the pandemic bump, it would be a mistake to think it’s on such solid ground that the events of the past two years haven’t taken a hidden toll on the people who are supposed to keep watching.
Aberg said on a Eurosport podcast that he is “super confident” in his decision to play on the PGA Tour rather than the LIV Golf League that is run by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.