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Some LIV Golf League pros are reportedly unhappy after Greg Norman and their chief operating officer held a players only meeting in Tucson.

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LIV Golf's Anirban Lahiri has enjoyed a surprise leap in the world rankings, but for Marc Leishman, Paul Casey and Louis Oosthuizen, the news is not as ...

That is in stark contrast to the position of World No.26 he held when he joined LIV Golf last July. Now a freelance staff writer for Golf Monthly, he is dedicated to covering the game's most newsworthy stories. However, more of its players are likely to slip further down the rankings than move up them as that fight continues. Still, the most recent of those tournaments came in February’s Saudi International, so it’s a surprise that he has jumped two places in this week's rankings to World No.97. Instead, the Australian fell six places to World No.101. However, helped by two appearances on the Asian Tour and one on the Professional Golf Tour of India, which offer OWGR points, he’s clambered back above that threshold in recent months.

The 2023 LIV Golf League's second-ever event, LIV Golf Tucson, came to an end on Sunday with Danny Lee lifting the trophy.

They settled for the $1.5 million prize that comes with the runners-up position. - T24: Cameron Smith - $163,000 - T24: Brooks Koepka - $163,000 [Charles Howell III](https://www.sportskeeda.com/golf/news-charles-howell-iii-wins-leads-crushers-gc-victory-liv-golf-mayakoba), who won the [LIV Golf League](https://www.sportskeeda.com/go/liv-golf)’s inaugural event in Mayakoba last week, finished fifth. This was the 32-year-old golfer’s biggest paycheck yet, almost a quarter of his $15.9 million career earnings on the PGA Tour. Lee, who made his second LIV Golf League start at the event, beat the likes of Louis Oosthuizen, Brendan Steele, and Carlos Ortiz in a three-hole, four-man playoff to take the win.

'It was a big fella': Aussie misses $6m LIV payday after run-in with rattlesnake.

I’ve seen my fair share of snakes, though, in Australia.” Despite the disappointment of missing the big payday, Leishman, who has dropped to 95 in the world and won’t get to play the Masters next month, said he was buzzing at the prospect of returning home for the inaugural LIV event in Adelaide, also in April. He was pretty healthy,” he said.

Cam Smith and Jediah Morgan were tossing around a rugby ball. Harold Varner III approached a random kid and tickled him without ever breaking stride. Pat Perez ...

“I would be in favor of giving more of the purse to the teams, absolutely. At the players meeting at the Ritz, LIV leadership introduced the notion of spreading out the $5 million team purse to the top five finishers, an idea that had been hashed out during a captains-only meeting last month at LIV Mayakoba. Lee (photo at top of story) is a previous winner on the PGA and DP World Tours, to say nothing of the U.S. From a pure business point of view, it would have made more sense from the very beginning to put all of the purse toward the teams [as LIV does now with its season-ending $50 million extravaganza]. (Al-Rumayyan is also chairman of Saudi Aramco, which reported a $161 billion profit in 2022.) Norman is the frontman, but al-Rumayyan, who is often referred to internally at LIV as “The Investor,” is calling the shots. Because of the accelerated timeline on launching the team component, LIV gave each franchise a line of credit to help cover expenses this year, which, in addition to travel costs, includes paying social-media staffers, team managers, branding experts and financial advisers. To get things off the ground in 2022, LIV covered all of the travel expenses for the players and (most of) their entourages, but now those costs have been offloaded to each team. And now there is talk that [LIV leadership] wants to put more of the total purse toward the team component. On Friday in Tucson, the music came courtesy of a DJ with minimal star power. Its executives refer to 2023 as Year 1, and the original plan was to hold 10 tournaments this season and introduce the fully baked-out team component in 2024 as part of a slate of 14 events. LIV could just add $10 million to each purse for the team component and everyone would be happy, right? The lobby was also alive with khaki-clad agents, with their telltale leather-encased notebooks, and a phalanx of hot blondes, including Paulina Gretzky spilling out of a micro mini-dress.

The controversial Saudi-backed tour held its second event of the year in Tucson, Arizona last weekend. LIV drew only a 0.14 rating across 33 markets in the ...

While the PGA is being accused of violating antitrust laws by banning LIV players from its tour, golf's preeminent circuit countersued its Saudi-backed rivals, accusing the outfit of interfering with its deals. LIV Golf is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia's sovereign-wealth fund, which has committed at least $2 billion to the circuit. Phil Mickelson was paid a reported $200 million to defect to LIV Golf. 'It was a chance to be a lead analyst. I felt a bit constrained toward the end [at NBC] and at the end of my CBS tenure as well. Maybe have that edginess, but to push the irreverent envelope a little bit. The tour is also involved in a legal battle with the PGA Tour for interfering with its contracts with players. And more than anything else, to be me,' he added. The controversial Saudi-backed tour held its second event of the year in Tucson, LIV Golf struck a multi-year deal with the CW Network in January after failing to come to terms with ESPN, Fox Sports or any other major sports broadcaster. - The controversial Saudi-backed tour held its second event of the year in Tucson - After drawing a 0.2 in the key demo for the opener, ratings fell to a dismal 0.14

If Sergio pees in the bushes and no one was there to see it, did he actually pee in the bushes?

[RELATED: LIV Golf’s attempt to trademark logo blocked by Miami nightclub, you can’t make this stuff up](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/liv-golf-attempt-to-trademark-logo-blocked-by-miami-nightclub) Finally, that despite the billions of dollars in its offshore bank accounts, LIV Golf remains a complete and total circus. It’s been a tough start to LIV Golf season two.

New Zealand's Danny Lee won the second LIV Golf event of 2023 with the world No.267 winning a four-way play-off to claim a first individual prize of ...

Despite the apparent flop of the first event in Mexico LIV Golf chiefs “LIV has diversified its consumption model, tailoring our distribution to the way viewers consume their content – and these numbers reflect the new ways that sports are watched." Golf reporter Kevin Van Valkenburg tweeted: "LIV Golf ratings for the Tucson event. However, with the high profile LIV Golf stars failing to match their price-tags television ratings were again down. However, at the season opener in Mayakoba the series ranked 0.2 in the television ratings, which was less than “World’s Funniest Animals” - another CW show. There was a dramatic finish to decide the second-round winner with Danny Lee triumphing from a four-way play-off to scoop the £3.27million ($4m) first prize.