Fans can now attend the highly anticipated tournament dressed in League or team supporter gear with LIV Golf merchandise now available for purchase online – a first for fans in Australia and New Zealand.
Australia’s two Cams led the way on the PGA Tour and LIV Golf in a mixed bag for the Down Under gang. Cam Davis led the way during a disappointing campaign for the Australians at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill while Cam Smith lost in a playoff at LIV Golf Hong Kong.
It took six rounds back from a 12-year competitive hiatus, but Anthony Kim finally showed some glimpses of what made him a popular, young American star early in his career.
Of the many damages caused by the ongoing rift in the men’s professional game, the biggest victim might be the campaign of the Players Championship and the PGA Tour’s long-held desire to have its flagship event be considered the fifth major championship.
Rory McIlroy has softened his stance on LIV Golf in recent months, but that doesn’t mean the PGA Tour star has any plans of ever joining the Saudi-backed golf league.
With LIV abandoning its designs for OWGR inclusion and the PGA Tour appearing no closer to an agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia that would reunite all of the game’s top players, it appears that the OWGR system will continue to come under scrutiny. Even among tour players who benefit from the current situation.
[PHOTO: Francois Nel] Apparently, Anthony Kim’s ragged first round in LIV Golf Jeddah was an indication of more rough play to come. For the second straight day, the 38-year-old coming off a 12-year absence from the professional game shot a six-over-par 76 and sits last among those heading into the final round in Saudi Arabia. Read more…
As LIV Golf gears up for its Saudi Arabia stop and the return to pro golf of Anthony Kim, a cool story has emerged out of the New Zealand Open in Queenstown.
LIV Golf is involved in an eight-figure legal dispute over allegations it copied its format from the Premier Golf League, according to a report from the Times.
Anthony Kim’s comeback doesn’t officially start until Friday’s first round of the LIV Golf Jeddah event, but he hit his first shot with the cameras rolling on Thursday. And, well, it didn’t go as well as he’d like.
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