Two executives running the PGA Tour while commissioner Jay Monahan recovers from a medical situation have revealed they anticipate 53-year-old’s return.
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.
This isn’t a groundbreaking statement, but no golfer is more polarising than Phil Mickelson. Just two years ago, after winning the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah, Lefty was up there among the most beloved athletes on earth and since then … well, let’s just say he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Mickelson’s LIV Golf saga Read more…
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.
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.
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.
Money. Money. Money. To the consternation of many in golf, talk about guaranteed contracts and who’s winning and who’s losing at the bank has dominated the landscape for more than a year now because of the arrival of the LIV Golf League.
In the aftermath of this week’s stunning news that the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund were joining forces to create a new company that will run professional golf, some of the biggest questions were about how players who remained loyal to the PGA Tour might possibly be compensated, and how those who defected to LIV Golf would be punished.
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