Before LIV Golf kicked off the season in the Mayakoba Resort-area of Mexico this week, several teams rendezvoused in the home cities of their captains.
During his eight-year pro career, Talor Gooch has slowly and tenaciously developed into a world-class player. Soft-spoken, polite, blue-eyed, he should be a poster boy for the sport. Instead, he has become the unwitting face of the most tumultuous period in golf history.
It’s like riding around in a luxury lounge in the sky. There’s a full bar. Tables with piles of food. Plenty of room to mingle. Even the ceilings look amazing!
As with many other issues surrounding this upstart tour, the details around all the money are shadowy. In an effort to get more granular, the Fire Pit Collective spoke with four managers/agents who represent LIV golfers; they were granted anonymity to facilitate candour.
Multiple sources, some of whom spent years working at Pumpkin Ridge, described the local conversation around the first LIV event in the US as tense, divisive and the last thing the Portland area needed.
Koepka and DeChambeau were guests for Pat Perez and Michael Collins’ SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio show, Out of Bounds, on Tuesday night to discuss slow play
With this week’s event the last chance for players to make their way into the playoffs (and in many cases, earn their cards for next season), here are 12 notable names on the FedEx Cup Playoffs bubble.