After a roller coaster few months, Cameron Smith can almost see the finish line of a wild 2022. An extended break in his native Australia is longingly in sight.
It’s not a new development in the world of mini tour golf: Mini-tour collects entry fees. Mini-tour fails to pay players. Mini-tour comes up with excuses for why it isn’t paying players.
LIV Golf desperately wants its events to be able to offer Official World Golf Ranking points for members who are seeing their place on the OWGR drop precipitously.
LIV officials believe the partnership with the MENA Tour, which already has OWGR accreditation, will allow LIV events to begin receiving points immediately, starting with this week’s LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok.
Of the 11 players that initially were part of the lawsuit filed in August, only three remain: Australia’s Matt Jones, Peter Uihlein and Bryson DeChambeau.
The move comes after Stenson was stripped of his Ryder Cup captaincy this summer when he broke his word regarding his involvement with the Saudi-backed circuit.
Despite LIV’s ties to former US President Donald Trump, Norman’s meeting with the Republican Study Committee‚ the largest conservative caucus in the House, was met with criticism.
A fight for pro golf’s future is being waged in courtrooms, in the media and even on the golf course. Could the day come when the two parties agree to co-exist?
An idea that has been bandied about by several notable members of the golf cognoscenti, among them longtime television broadcaster Gary McCord, is a call for a third men’s team matchplay event. This one would feature PGA Tour players against LIV Golf series players.
Australian Golf Digest
