LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman and PGA Tour loyalist Rory McIlroy exchange more barbs than well-wishes these days. But when it’s all said and done, whose career would you rather have?
On Tuesday, it was revealed that last week, the entire roster of LIV golfers wrote a letter addressed to Peter Dawson, chairman of the OWGR board, calling for him to immediately award OWGR points to LIV events as well as award points retroactively for the five tournaments that have been played since the series began in June.
Few members of the PGA Tour have been more outspoken in opposition to the upstart LIV Golf series than the man who is serving as US captain in the 14th Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow Club this week.
While playing on the PGA Tour, Cameron Smith earned $US3.6 million for his victory at the Players Championship in March, $2.5 million for winning the Open Championship in July and $1.476 million for his triumph at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in January.
The Journal documented in detail Monahan’s use of a tour-owned private jet for both business and personal travel, as well as citing the commissioner’s 2020 compensation of $US14.2 million.
LIV Golf’s fifth event of its inaugural series heads to Chicago this week to Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois, a par 72 measuring 7,408 yards. Cameron Smith headlines the field in his second event after leaving the PGA Tour, while Dustin Johnson is coming off a win in his last LIV start.
As ever, Reed was stout in his defence of the Saudi-backed circuit that has done so much to upset professional golf’s equilibrium and insistent that his trips across the Atlantic continue to be filled with nothing but fun and laughter.
The Spaniard played in the first LIV event at the Centurion Club in early June because he wanted to see what the fuss was all about, then decided not to play any more LIV events.
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