LIV Golf

Aside from British Open champion Cameron Smith, golfers strongly linked to LIV Golf include Hideki Matsuyama, Adam Scott and Bubba Watson.

LIV Golf currently includes 21 of the top 100 golfers in the world, including nine of the top 42. "I've always respected and honored the first movers." Johnson (16) and Abraham Ancer (20) are the lone LIV golfers in the top 20. LIV's next event is July 28 at Bedminster, N.J. Charl Schwartzel and Branden Grace, both living in Jupiter, won the first two LIV events. Fowler has not won on the PGA Tour in nearly 3 1/2 years. LIV is definitely interesting and intriguing and it's worth looking at. Smith reportedly will sign a $90 million contract to join LIV. Phil Mickelson is LIV's highest contracted golfer at a reported $200 million. A triumph for you and for Australia as the first Australian to win in 29 years. He jumped to No. 2 in this week's world rankings. "Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi! A spectacular final round mate. Matsuyama (2021), Watson (2014, 2012) and Scott (2013) are former Masters champions. He shot 64 Sunday to edge Cameron Young by one stroke.

CONSIDERING THE FIELD: The TIMES' Broadbent in a separate piece reports · RYDER CUP IMPLICATIONS: In London, John Westerby writes the Ryder Cup was "supposed to ...

Cannizzaro: "LIV is here and, for the good of the sport, compromises must be made on both sides so there can be some sort of coexistence" ( N.Y. POST, 7/19). In D.C., Chuck Culpepper writes for now at least, there is a "two-part ritual for men’s golf majors: Watch the golf tournament, then wonder about the golf future." The 3M and Tournament Dir Hollis Cavner have "always done good work bringing a quality tournament to Minnesota," and this year's field "again features plenty of interesting names," including Hideki Matsuyama and Tony Finau( Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 7/19). In St. Paul, Jace Frederick writes just because a tournament "doesn't feature a bevy of players sitting atop the Official World Golf Rankings doesn’t mean it will not feature good golfers." Some of the "hottest players on Tour will indeed be in the Twin Cities this week" ( St. Paul PIONEER PRESS, 7/19). Watch a "guy win and maybe even dazzle," as did Smith at the Open Championship. Then, "wonder if he’s going to LIV Golf" ( WASHINGTON POST, 7/19). Trump wrote in a post on his own social media network Truth Social, "All of those golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes." TRUMP WEIGHS IN...: Former President Donald Trump has "urged golfers to 'take the money' and sign with the Saudi-backed LIV series." A capable replacement would be "duly installed," but the "damage would have been done to the status of the Ryder Cup." Stenson has a meeting today with the DP World Tour, but his defection would be the "biggest blow yet for the established tours" ( LONDON TIMES, 7/19). In London, Oliver Brown writes the Ryder Cup is "one of the game’s most cherished institutions," the one event for which "superstars set aside the pursuit of money out of loyalty to their tours." New names are "due to be announced" by LIV Golf today, and if Open Championship winner Cameron Smith is one of them, it will be "both the tipping point and game changer" in the battle between LIV and the PGA Tourand DP World Tour, according to Rick Broadbent of the LONDON TIMES. Smith, No. 2 in the world, would be the "killer blow for the traditional tours as the trickle becomes a tide." Smith is 28, "in his prime," the Open champion and a "breath of fresh air." RYDER CUP IMPLICATIONS: In London, John Westerby writes the Ryder Cup was "supposed to be the ultimate drawcard for the traditional tours." But if being named Europe’s captain is "not enough to keep Henrik Stensonon board for the next contest," to be held in Rome next year, those assumptions about the Ryder Cup can "no longer really apply." The days of "dismissing it as a sideshow, a circus or Twenty20-lite have gone."

Golfers who choose not to join LIV Golf “will pay a big price,” according to Trump, who is closely linked to the Saudi-funded PGA Tour competitor.

Members of the advocacy group 9/11 Justice called on Trump to cancel the upcoming LIV Golf tournament in a letter Sunday. “It is incomprehensible to us that a former president of the United States would cast our loved ones aside for personal financial gain,” the group, consisting of family members of people who died in the 2001 attacks, wrote in the letter. Trump wrote in the post: "All of those golfers that remain 'loyal' to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big 'thank you' from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year. Just days after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last January over the then-president’s false election fraud claims, the PGA of America announced it would move the 2022 PGA Championship away from Trump’s New Jersey club.

LIV Golf, a brand new rival to the PGA Tour, receives money from a Saudi-backed sovereign wealth fund and is paying high-profile golfers exorbitant sums to play ...

Trump has never let ethics get in the way of a good business deal. The Tour likes to pretend it's a democracy, but it's really a dictatorship. (While the Saudi government has not been directly linked to the 9/11 attacks, 15 of the 19 men who hijacked planes that day were Saudi nationals. That's the trifecta in Trump's world -- ethical concerns be damned. So far, it has recruited a handful of big names, most notably Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson. Golf legend Greg Norman has been leading the LIV efforts. but added: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.

Television commentator David Feherty is pictured in 2008. The next time you hear David Feherty's voice it will be on a LIV Golf broadcast. Eoin Clarke/Golffile.

As it becomes increasingly obvious that some guys will forsake all other career-related factors in favor of money, Feherty’s political conscience and moral compass make his departure from NBC a shocker. His incomparable wit has all but vanished, the humorous references no longer a part of his on-air repertoire. McIlroy was the overwhelming crowd favorite, urged on by roars once reserved for Tiger Woods. The vocal reverberations testified not only to the princely prodigy’s having gone eight years without claiming another major, but the front-line leadership role McIlroy has assumed in denouncing LIV Golf and expressing unconditional loyalty to a tour that has made him very, very rich and only slightly less famous. His countryman was given the 2012 Outstanding Civilian Service Award for years of tireless contributions to those who served in the U.S. Army. Feherty would be the last guy you’d expect to bolt from a cushy job at a major network for a similar position with LIV Golf, which fends off a comprehensive lack of credibility with alarming sums of money from perhaps the most reviled country on earth. “To shoot 64 and win an Open Championship at St. Andrews is a hell of a showing, and hats off to Cam.” Gracious, indeed, but it was the vociferous support of the Old Course throng all weekend that had to make this defeat exceptionally difficult to reconcile. Both men love America. McIlroy established his preference for the PGA Tour even before he won the first of his four major titles, all by the age of 25.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has urged players to "take the money" and join the LIV Golf Invitational Series, suggesting that those who remain loyal ...

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