Phil Mickelson wants to keep his PGA Tour membership – he made that clear in a carefully worded statement released Tuesday – but Dustin Johnson is grabbing his bag of cash and speeding away from Ponte Vedra Beach.
The opening press conference at the first edition of the LIV Golf Invitational Series was going along smoothly enough when Dustin Johnson detonated his bomb.
Na, 38, who is among 13 PGA Tour members listed in the field for next week’s inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event in London, announced on social media Saturday that he has quit the tour on which he has competed for 19 years.
Players competing in this week’s Memorial Tournament who have committed to next week’s LIV Golf Invitational Series in London don’t want to be seen as anything other than professional golfers pursuing a new business opportunity.
The 47th edition of the Memorial, which offers a $US12 million purse, begins tomorrow with a field of 120 players, including seven of the top 10 in the world.
If Jon Rahm had his way, the Tour Championship wouldn’t be the only tournament on this year’s PGA Tour schedule in which a player begins with a multiple-stroke advantage.