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'Frustrated' board member quits due to PGA-LIV stall

'Frustrated' board member quits due to PGA-LIV stall

Jimmy Dunne, one of the architects behind the PGA Tour's stunning reversal to strike a deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf, has abruptly resigned from the PGA Tour board with a letter that expressed frustration at the lack of progress that no longer included his input. 14 May 2024
Cleary: Australian golf right to play Switzerland in game's civil war

Cleary: Australian golf right to play Switzerland in game's civil war

As critiqued on social media by his excellency, the Great White Shark Greg Norman, the PGA of Australia didn’t use the names ‘LIV Golf’ or ‘Ripper GC’ when congratulating the all-Aussie team that had won back-to-back LIV tournaments in Adelaide and Singapore. 13 May 2024
McIlroy won't join PGA Tour board over 'old wounds'

McIlroy won't join PGA Tour board over 'old wounds'

Rory McIlroy will not replace Webb Simpson on the PGA Tour policy board, believing that the prospect of his return had reopened "old wounds". 9 May 2024
Oosthuizen rejects invite to PGA Championship

Oosthuizen rejects invite to PGA Championship

Louis Oosthuizen has declined a special invitation to the 106th PGA Championship due to an undisclosed personal commitment, leaving the number of LIV Golf players in next week's field at 16. 8 May 2024
Koepka & Ripper GC claim LIV Singapore titles

Koepka & Ripper GC claim LIV Singapore titles

Australia's Cameron Smith has shaken a hip injury and says he's primed for a shot at the PGA Championship. 6 May 2024
CLEARY: How Aussies' LIV win is explained by Rocky IV

CLEARY: How Aussies' LIV win is explained by Rocky IV

As ever, it’s Rocky Balboa who says it best. 6 May 2024
R&A unaware if Norman plans to attend Open

R&A unaware if Norman plans to attend Open

The R&A is not aware if LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman plans to be among a record crowd for this year's Open Championship at Royal Troon. 1 May 2024
Playing From The Tips Ep.61: LIV Singapore, China Open, Byron Nelson & more

Playing From The Tips Ep.61: LIV Singapore, China Open, Byron Nelson & more

This week sees professional golf continue its run in Asia with the DP World Tour (Volvo China Open), LIV Golf (Singapore) and the Asian Tour (GS Caltex Maekyung Open) all teeing up in the region. 30 Apr 2024
Cleary: Merge? Forget it. LIV Golf should take on the PGA Tour

Cleary: Merge? Forget it. LIV Golf should take on the PGA Tour

Greg Norman has this line when asked about the ‘Framework Agreement’ or ‘merger’, or whatever they call the interminable discussion between the Strategic Sports Group, PGA Tour Inc. and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia to decide what ‘golf’ will look like in 2025 and beyond. And it goes, effectively, like this: 29 Apr 2024
Brendan shows nerves of Steele to claim LIV Adelaide

Brendan shows nerves of Steele to claim LIV Adelaide

Some soothing words of wisdom from Phil Mickelson have been instrumental in fellow American Brendan Steele capturing LIV Golf's Adelaide title. 29 Apr 2024
Ripper! Aussie team downs South Africans in raucous LIV Adelaide play-off

Ripper! Aussie team downs South Africans in raucous LIV Adelaide play-off

We’re at The Grange GC for the LIV league's first teams play-off and the crowds line the 18th fairway 20-deep all the way down its 345 metres. The humanity forms an eddy around the green which spills upwards into the stands and the suites called ‘Club 54’. It's the all-Australian Ripper team taking on the all-South African Stingers. There are people in the trees. 28 Apr 2024
Herbert Smokes 7-under 65; Ripper GC within two of LIV title

Herbert Smokes 7-under 65; Ripper GC within two of LIV title

Lucas Herbert finished round one at LIV Adelaide at The Grange as one of nine players in the 54-man field over-par. In round two on Saturday he smoked eight birdies in a 65 that could've been anything, and had the home team Ripper GC just two shots off the lead. 27 Apr 2024
Ripper: Aussies in touch after entertaining day one at LIV Adelaide

Ripper: Aussies in touch after entertaining day one at LIV Adelaide

The big sign at the front gate of The Grange says 'WELCOME' in LIV Golf's recognisable font with aquamarine plumage, and on Friday for day one of the second annual golf-, drink- and music-fest maybe 35,000 fans said don't mind if they do. 26 Apr 2024
Cleary: If nobody cares about LIV Golf, why do so many people care?

Cleary: If nobody cares about LIV Golf, why do so many people care?

The man on talkback radio was adamant: it’s party golf. It’s an exhibition. It isn’t real golf. The punters on Facebook agree: no legacy, no history, no value. And the kicker, uttered without irony, without reading this yarn: nobody cares. 25 Apr 2024
Norman rejects other states, locks in Adelaide

Norman rejects other states, locks in Adelaide

Greg Norman has rejected lucrative offers from other states to declare Adelaide as the sole LIV Golf host in Australia for the foreseeable future. 24 Apr 2024
Turn it up: Greg Norman on Rory McIlroy, LIV Adelaide, and the "best golf event that's ever been to Australia"

Turn it up: Greg Norman on Rory McIlroy, LIV Adelaide, and the "best golf event that's ever been to Australia"

And so to Adelaide for a movie we’ve seen before - call it 'LIV Adelaide II: Return to The Grange' - and we’re straight into a mighty marquee for a Big Cheese Presser, Matt Cleary reports. 24 Apr 2024
Playing From The Tips Ep.60: LIV Adelaide, Zurich Classic & more

Playing From The Tips Ep.60: LIV Adelaide, Zurich Classic & more

With a whirlwind fortnight of majors behind us the travelling professional golf caravan this week heads to all corners of the globe. 23 Apr 2024
Second-place finish for Aussie at Saudi Open

Second-place finish for Aussie at Saudi Open

Australian Wade Ormsby registered his best performance since winning the International Series Thailand in March last year by carding a stunning 64 in the final round of the Saudi Open at Riyadh Golf Club at the weekend. 22 Apr 2024
Cleary: The LIV Golf vs PGA Tour argument is a rabbit hole full of Komodo Dragons

Cleary: The LIV Golf vs PGA Tour argument is a rabbit hole full of Komodo Dragons

LIV Golf’s on this week which means one thing: golf’s version of #CodeWars will heat up again, with punters and pundits shouting opinions into TikTok, or what have you, about whether the PGA Tour or LIV Golf is better, and denigrating the other one to make their point. 22 Apr 2024
Cleary: The Green Coats, The Stories, The Nirvana of Augusta

Cleary: The Green Coats, The Stories, The Nirvana of Augusta

David Gair Inglis was a man who would introduce himself as “DGI – it stands for Damn Good Ideas”. In 1979 he had a damned good one – a golf tournament called ‘The Australian Masters’, a complete and unashamed rip-off of the Masters at Augusta National in the United States. 15 Apr 2024
Huggan: LIV update… or downdate

Huggan: LIV update… or downdate

The proud “father” that is Greg Norman came to watch his 13-strong LIV clan in action at the Masters Tournament. 13 Apr 2024