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Grayson Murray apparently "walks off the course" with three holes remaining as he withdraws from PGA Tour event.

Decides he’s had enough fun for the week and walks off the course. Decides he’s had enough fun for the week and walks off the course. Hate seeing Barbasol lose a crowd favorite so early in the tournament.— Michael Wolf (@bamabearcat) July 7, 2022

For months all we've heard from the golf monopoly down in Ponte Vedra was how this "blood money" from Saudi Arabia was going to ruin the game - ignoring the ...

“I think at this point, if people are wanting to spend that much money into golf, that’s wonderful. And I think that’s the thing I’ve tried to advocate for the last few months. I understand people’s reservations with everything, but at the same time, if these people are serious about investing billions of dollars into golf, I think ultimately that’s a good thing.

The smile on Mac McLendon's face was almost as big as the trophy he was holding. Next to him on the 18th green stood partner Hubert Green, ...

He turned 50 on August 10, 1995, but never attempted to play PGA TOUR Champions. His final TOUR appearances came in 1981, fittingly, at the Pensacola Open and then a week later at the Walt Disney World National Team Championship, paired with Leonard Thompson. Fresh out of LSU, where he led the Tigers to three consecutive Southeastern Conference titles and was a first-team All-American his senior year, McLendon had immediate success after turning pro, winning in his first start, at the unofficial Magnolia Classic, a Second Tour tournament held in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, played opposite the Colonial National Invitation, in 1968. What won McLendon that title in Orlando were the 111 putts he took for the entire week. His son, Lance, preceded him in death. The win also earned him a spot in the Tournament of Champions a month later in Carlsbad, California, where he tied for fourth. He finished that season, his best, 22nd on the money list with $107,299 in earnings. McLendon had a little different perspective as he was emerging from the depths of a four-year slump that left the former LSU golfer struggling to make cuts and even considering a career change, putting his accounting degree to use. The one-shot win by McLendon and Green over the uncle-nephew team of Sam and J.C. Snead and the pairing of Ed Sneed and Bert Yancey in the best-ball event at Walt Disney World allowed McLendon to stay in his chosen career and simply use an adding machine and ledger to count the $50,000 the two players split evenly. Green passed in 2018. Next to him on the 18th green stood partner Hubert Green, holding an identical trophy but a smile not quite as wide. I can’t tell you how much this means to me.” “I can’t tell you how much it means to me.

The No. 2 player on the planet hopes for some level of unity.

But it has to be done the right way, and I think if they were to invest, having it be invested inside the existing structures. "But at the same time, if these people are serious about investing billions of dollars into golf, I think ultimately that's a good thing. A lot of these guys are my friends, and they're still going to be my friends regardless of the decisions they make." If I was in their position, I'd seriously have to think about doing the same thing. I understand people's reservations with everything, but at the same time, if these people are serious about investing billions of dollars into golf, I think ultimately that's a good thing. "I think that needs to happen," he said. "All the narrative is that it isn't good; it's splitting the game instead of everyone coming together. "I've reached out to him by phone," said Norman during a Fox News appearance. With disruption comes change and forced change, and I think this has just sort of forced the [PGA] Tour's hand a little bit. "There's so much chat about where the money is coming from and Saudi [Arabia] and everything else. They also created a smaller FedEx Cup Playoffs and developed more consequences for not making it into the top 70 by the end of the regular season. In hindsight, I think there were probably steps that were missed that wouldn't have made it as messy.

Rory McIlroy has called on the PGA Tour and DP World Tour to engage with LIV Golf in a bid to end the division in the game.

"Everyone has to pivot and change and try to be better and hopefully get to that stage but... all the narrative isn't good. "I wish it hadn't got that messy...

Rory McIlroy called on golf's leading tours to at least have a conversation with officials from the rival league.

McIlroy said he has a “difference of opinion” with those who have chosen to defect from the PGA Tour, but he doesn’t have any lingering resentment toward those players, many of whom are longtime friends. That’s the tricky part and that’s where the resentment is coming from. “At the end of the day, I said it will sort itself out, and everyone has to pivot and change and try to adapt and be better, and hopefully we get to that stage. And I think that’s the thing I’ve tried to advocate for the last few months – I think at this point, if people are wanting to spend that much money into golf, that’s wonderful; I just wish that we could have spent that much money within the structure that has existed for many decades in golf instead of being a big disruptor. McIlroy even seemed to echo comments made recently by DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley, who said he would be willing to engage with LIV officials if they worked inside the current ecosystem instead of launching a rival tour. More players are expected to bolt for LIV following next week’s Open Championship, as well as following the conclusion of the FedExCup playoffs in late August.

Could LIV Golf officials meet with those from the PGA Tour and DP World Tour and discuss golf's growing split? Not all parties think it's likely.

“When someone attempts to buy the sport, dismantle the institutions that are intrinsically invested in its growth, and focus only on a personal priority, that partnership evaporates,” Monahan said of the symbiotic relationships in golf’s ecosystem. There is this disruption that is happening and with disruption comes change and forced change, and I think this has just forced the tours' hands a little bit. They're coming from all over the world,” Jack Nicklaus said at the Memorial Tournament this year in regard to LIV Golf. “If it grows the game and benefits some people and spreads the game, fine.” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has taken the moral high ground, stating i n a press conference at the Travelers Championship last month that the Saudi-backed group is “an irrational threat; one not concerned with the return on investment or true growth of the game.” And I hope we get a chance to do that.” “Because the idea that you could fully go play anywhere and not have to join a tour, I don't think that's what (McIlroy) means whatsoever.”

The Irishman has been one of the most outspoken critics of the controversial Saudi-backed breakaway circuit.

It's splitting the game instead of everyone coming together.” “There's so much chat about where the money is coming from, Saudi and everything else. “That needs to happen,” McIlroy told BBC Sport when asked whether peace talks should take place.

The PGA Tour and commissioner Jay Monahan have had no bigger ally than McIlroy. But earlier this week, he hinted that hard-line stands might need to come ...

While things are different than when McIlroy professed LIV Golf to be “dead in the water” in February, he still believes that something good can come out of what has been a highly acrimonious affair. "I understand people's reservations with [the Saudi money] but at the same time, if these people are serious about investing billions of dollars into golf, I think ultimately that's a good thing, but it has to be done the right way,” McIlroy said. LIV Golf officials revealed last week that they were speeding up the timetable for launching their 14-event league to 2023.

“It makes us prove our worth,” Austin Gaugert told me a couple years ago, when he was caddying regularly for Alex Noren. Eighteen holes into looping at the ...

Did Joel rush through his chip in the immediate aftermath of scorecard-gate, sending his ball skidding past the hole and off the green? Joel’s par putt from off the green snuck onto the putting surface and his bogey try burned the edge. A pulled short iron into the hay on 11, a slightly blocked approach on 12, a shot that was so good it went long on 13 and slightly heavy contact on 14 that needed to fly one more yard. No. Would a veteran caddie have asked him to reset and take his time? He grabbed the card from me and rattled off every Korhonen score in about 30 seconds, all from memory. Was it Joel’s? I hadn’t said more than a word or two to Korhonen all round long, let alone tracked his chips and putts. Same for the third player in the group, Mikko Korhonen. “I feel like he could be anywhere from one under to five over,” I said. Worst-case scenario, it would kick to the left of the green and leave a long two-putt for birdie. We agreed a 2-iron on the ground would roll and skirt onto the green. I couldn’t stifle a laugh to Joel as we walked up the 18th fairway. To open one’s mouth or keep it shut — that is the caddie question. A few minutes later, Dahmen hit his drive on the par-5 3rd a yard off the fairway.