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The American PGA Tour and European DP World Tour have issued suspensions and fines respectively in a bid to halt the breakaway but players Carlos Ortiz and ...

Torque GC’s Jinichiro Kozuma takes a share of the lead with a three on 13. It’s been a consistent round for the Torque GC captain who is three under thru eight with no drop shots. It’s been a quietly consistent round for the big name America who is playing in his first LIV Golf event this week. The full field of 48 players has been confirmed and the format will continue to be a 54-hole shotgun start played across three days with Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in Portland hosting this week’s event. Meanwhile Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas, amongst others, have spoken publicly in favour of golf’s two main tours yet the field in Portland is set to be significantly stronger than at LIV Golf’s inaugural event in England last month. Golf’s newest and most controversial tour, the LIV Golf Series, hosts its second event in Portland, Oregon this week with the action kicking off tonight.

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LIV Golf's first event on American soil was set to begin Thursday amid protests from 9/11 families, a US senator and a consortium of local mayors.

In addition to signing bonuses, the 48-man field will compete for a $20m purse, with an additional $5m prize fund for a team competition. And we want the ability to educate the golfers on what we know about the Saudi role on 9/11.” We’re trying to grow the game.” US senator Ron Wyden called the event “sportswashing” to distract from human rights abuses. Eagleson, now 36, is among those criticizing the LIV tournament and its connection to a regime that has flouted human rights. “We want the golfers to know who they’re getting in bed with, who they’re doing business with,” Eagleson said.

Mexico's Carlos Ortiz carded a 5-under 67 to take a 1-shot lead after the opening round of the LIV event at Pumpkin Ridge. Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez and ...

For golfers, part of LIV Golf's allure is the money. This marks the second LIV event. Those who play in Oregon will also be suspended unless they resign their tour memberships. But critics call the tour an attempt at "sportswashing'' to detract from Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses, including the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. On Thursday, his 67 included seven birdies, including four on the front nine. Other notable scores from Day 1 action included even-par 72s from Matthew Wolff, Patrick Reed and Bryson DeChambeau in their tour debuts.

The first US event in the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series teed off in Oregon on Thursday amid continued protests and threats of legal action that would further ...

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BOLTON, Mass. — With thousands of people expected to visit Bolton and The International Golf complex Labor Day Weekend for the Saudi-based LIV Golf ...

I see no reason we cannot approve the application to have the event they’re asking for on Labor Day weekend.” What you’ve done as far as the event itself, I see no reason why we can’t approve.” There will also be an “area for those who wish to exercise their first amendment rights during the event,” Cardoza said. “It appears the International and Escalante (the parent company of The International) is following the laws and has met with all the boards and committees. The event has garnered criticism since it is sponsored by Saudi Arabia and human rights protestors could be expected. That governed the hearing and approval process.

The Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series arrived in Oregon for its first tournament on US soil Thursday and faced protests from 9/11 survivors and ...

Sixteen players have threatened the DP World Tour with legal action unless their sanctions for competing in the first LIV Golf event are rescinded.

Players have sent an open letter, imploring the DP World Tour to reconsider penalties for joining LIV Golf Series. "We agree, and we are concerned that the actions of the Tour against us, LIV Golf and golf in general will have adverse consequences on the DP World Tour, a tour and an organisation that, despite our recent interactions, we care deeply for. In an open letter published by The Telegraph, the players "implore" the DP World Tour to reconsider the penalties and claim the strengthened partnership between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour leaves the latter playing "second fiddle" to the US-based circuit.

The letter was signed by 16 of this week's LIV Golf Invitational competitors in Portland, who likely will be punished for playing the event.

That the DP World Tour top performers will now earn PGA Tour cards serves only to solidify the DP World Tour as second fiddle to the PGA Tour and depletes the DP World Tour’s top rising talent even further. “In addition, PGA Tour players have been encouraged to play the Scottish Open through a stipend to cover travel costs, but the same benefit is not afforded to DP World Tour members?! “The intention of this letter is not to further divide us, but to respond to Tour statements and to pose questions that the Tour should answer and we should discuss in detail.

As LIV Golf launched its first United States event Thursday, one American star took to social media to distance himself from the Saudi-backed league.

Zalatoris rose to No. 12 in the Official World Golf Ranking following his silver medal at Brookline and has finished T-6 or better in six of his last eight starts. I cannot wait for the rest of the PGA Tour season and the Race to Dubai. See everyone in Scotland the next two weeks.” I love where the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour and their associated tours are headed.

Sixteen players - including Ryder Cups stars Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood - have threatened the DP World Tour with legal action unless their sanctions for ...

LIV Golf is hosting its second event this week at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in Portland, Oregon, where players are competing for a huge £20m prize pot. Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson are reported to have been paid up to £200m for joining. Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter are among 16 golfers who have threatened legal action against the DP World Tour unless their sanctions for competing in the first LIV Golf event are rescinded 'We agree, and we are concerned that the actions of the Tour against us, LIV Golf and golf in general will have adverse consequences on the DP World Tour, a tour and an organisation that, despite our recent interactions, we care deeply for. In an open letter published by the Telegraph, the 16 players 'implore' the DP World Tour - the rebranded European Tour - to reconsider the penalties, which they say are 'likely unlawful'. Sixteen players - including Ryder Cups stars Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood - have threatened the DP World Tour with legal action unless their sanctions for competing in the first LIV Golf event are rescinded today.

Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter are lobbying for reinstatement into the pre-Open Championship event.

"The intention of this letter is not to further divide us, but to respond to Tour statements and to pose questions that the Tour should answer and we should discuss in detail. It read: "In Mr. Pelley's latest communication, he uses the statement that every action in life comes with a consequence. As LIV Golf's second event in Portland gets underway, the ripple effects of its very existence will be felt around the globe.

The American PGA Tour and European DP World Tour have issued suspensions and fines respectively in a bid to halt the breakaway but players Carlos Ortiz and ...

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The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series is already looking to expand in 2023 with 14 events and a new name.

What is known is the number of international sites will expand. The plan for 2023 is to open the season in March with 48 contracted players. The number of events will be capped at 14.

The 14-event LIV Golf League will debut in 2023, with the same 48 players in each tournament.

The hope, it would seem, is for word to spread to other players who would fill out the 48-man fields. The idea is for the 12 teams to develop their own identity. LIV also plans to have 48 players contracted to play all 14 events next year, with permanent team captains that can recruit their own teams and make trades—a stark contrast from this inaugural season, which has and will continue to feature a rotating cast of players with more expected to sign with the Saudi-backed venture.

Let's go to Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club outside Portland, Ore., for the latest on the upstart LIV Golf series. Charl Schwartzel, lugging around the $4 million ...

What matters to the golf viewer is the test provided and the tournament that follows. That matters to the players and their investment advisers, regardless of how dirty the money might be. But as they begin a round that determines who wins $4 million for coming in first and who takes $120,000 for placing last, the leaders tee off from the first hole at the same time those in seventh through ninth tee off from the second. I want to play against the best in the world in a format that’s been going on for hundreds of years. Players who win a PGA Tour event in the year since the last Masters gain entry. But start with that fact, and go back to what Jon Rahm — the Spaniard ranked second in the world who has pledged his loyalty to the PGA Tour — said before the U.S. Open. It rang true at the time. LIV Golf can’t be expected to have history in a month’s time. Each of these players has signed up to take money from a murderous regime, and that colors the entire entity. The leaders play the course as it’s meant to be played: The starting hole means something; the finishing hole means something else. But as a product that raises the hairs on the backs of necks? It’s important to constantly keep in mind the source of LIV’s extensive — indeed, almost endless — wealth and funding: the Saudi Arabian government. Let’s go to Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club outside Portland, Ore., for the latest on the upstart LIV Golf series.

DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley has hit back at the 16 players who have threatened the Tour with legal action unless their sanctions for ...

Why now be critical of those trying to do the same?" "Many of them at the time understood and accepted that. "One of those is an unprecedented 10 cards on offer to the PGA Tour, cards that many of the players named in this letter desperately wanted to attain in the early stages of their careers. "I wish many of them had been as keen to play on our Tour then as they seem to be now, based on the fact they have either resigned their membership of the PGA Tour or, if they are still in membership, have been suspended indefinitely. Another one, only four. "There has been a leak to the media of a letter we received on behalf of a number of LIV Golf players which contains so many inaccuracies that it cannot remain unchallenged," Pelley said in a statement.