Australian golf’s worst-kept secret has all but been confirmed with News Corp publishing a photo of Lucas Herbert wearing Ripper GC colours alongside team captain Cameron Smith in Mexico this week.
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…
Yasir Al-Rumayyan, head of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the de facto head of LIV Golf, has been accused of “having carried out the instructions” of Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with “malicious intent” according to a lawsuit filed in Canada.
Between Jon Rahm’s jump, McIlroy walking back some of his criticisms and Mickelson not playing the “I was right all along” card, it sure does feel like we’re inching closer and closer to everybody singing Kumbaya together, hand in hand.
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.
Of the six DP World Tour events contested so far in 2023-2024 – billed the “Opening Swing” by the tour – five were won by LIV golfers who don’t have status on the DP World Tour but were participants in the tournament via sponsors’ exemptions.
It’s unclear where these instructions are coming from, but it has been reported that previous LIV contracts include restrictions about interviews needing to be pre-approved.