MEMPHIS — For most of Tuesday, the emails from the PGA Tour communications team said the same thing: Cameron Smith, No. 2 golfer in the world, would be speaking to the assembled media at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at 5:15 pm CT ahead of the first leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The events …
Perhaps you’ve seen the comparison: Tiger Woods has made roughly $121 million in on-course earnings on the PGA Tour, and LIV Golf reportedly offered him somewhere between $700 million and $800 million to join the Saudi-backed upstart league. It’s not exactly apples-to-apples, for you wouldn’t compare the $230 million deal Kyler Murray just signed with …
A lawyer for LIV Golf during Tuesday’s temporary restraining order hearing in US District Court in San Jose made a statement that called into question the matter of prize money on the Saudi-backed circuit. In June, Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee reported that the prize money presumably awarded at LIV Golf events was taken out …
A judge in US District Court denied a motion Tuesday afternoon to three LIV Golf members seeking to participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, giving the PGA Tour the first victory in the legal battle between the tour and the Saudi-backed circuit. As part of the lawsuit filed by Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau and nine …
Tuesday was the hearing date for the lawsuit filed against the PGA Tour by 10 members of the LIV Golf Series (the number of players was originally 11, but Carlos Ortiz dropped out). LIV players have been suspended by the PGA Tour, and because of this, are unable to participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs …
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MEMPHIS — Leave it to the father of a cancer survivor to put the melodrama consuming professional golf into perspective. You remember Dakota Cunningham, right? He was the Olive Branch kid who had Jim Nantz eating out of the palm of his hand on the CBS broadcast when the PGA Tour came to Memphis two …
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A few weeks back, at LIV Golf’s Trump Bedminster exhibition, former PGA Tour pro Bryson DeChambeau sat down with political firebrand Tucker Carlson to discuss the state of the current LIV Golf-PGA Tour impasse. In that interview, DeChambeau, perhaps a little hangry ahead of a late lunch, likened the complex, potentially precedent-setting legal situation to …
It’s the end of an era on the CBS broadcast. After 16 years wearing the headset for the network, Sir Nick Faldo said goodbye from the booth during the final round of the 2022 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday. The six-time major champion, who has a deep history …
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If evidence is required of just how fraught emotions have become in the battle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf—or, more accurately, between Tour players and LIV’s patsy plaintiffs—then consider the example of Davis Love III. Throughout his almost 40-year career, Love has been the epitome of a genteel professional golfer, unfailingly polite towards …
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Eighty-seven. That’s how many golfers survived the 36-hole cut at this week’s Wyndham Championship, the regular-season finale. It’s the most players to make the cut on the PGA Tour since the cut rule changed to low 65 and ties to start the 2019-20 season, breaking the previous high mark of 84 at the AT&T Byron …
