Australian golf star Cameron Smith has shut down retirement talk with a laugh, declaring: “I’ve got a while yet,” while insisting he’s been given “every assurance” LIV Golf isn’t going anywhere.
It’s no surprise that the PGA Tour’s recent deal with the Strategic Sports Group (SSG) could serve as a calculated hedge against a continued spending war with LIV Golf and the Saudi Public Investment Fund.
The framework agreement between the PGA Tour, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and DP World Tour only broadly outlines how the former rival entities intend to coexist, with LIV Golf’s future still undetermined.
Mike Whan knows as much as you do about the PGA Tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Which is to say, not much at all.
In response to last week’s announcement that the PGA Tour will attempt to partner with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV Golf’s Martin Kaymer told the Telegraph that golf’s “hypocrites” should go play in Japan.
Dunne is a member at some of the most exclusive golf clubs in the world, allowing him to rub elbows with some of the biggest power players in the sport.
The judge did rule in LIV’s favour that the tour must narrow its scope of subpoenas, writing the subpoenas “suffer from overbreadth both in scope and number of requests.”
A request has been filed by PGA Tour attorneys seeking a new trial date in its battle with LIV Golf, along with an extension to the document discovery process.
The request was filed in the Federal District Court in San Jose, California, where LIV Golf initially filed its antitrust lawsuit against the tour last August.
LIV’s tournaments do not have history nor identity to build upon. There is no precedent for this team concept in professional golf. It’s a not-small mountain to climb. LIV hopes to spend its way to the top.
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.
Australian Golf Digest sources have also confirmed an announcement of a new golf league – separate to the 10 new Asian Tour events – is imminent, and that Norman will be confirmed as its inaugural Commissioner