Former PGA Tour players who have switched to LIV Golf have been informed that they are ineligible to have their tour memberships renewed for the 2022-23 season, which is set to begin in two weeks. Although a number of LIV golfers, including Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed, have already resigned from the tour, there are 22 players, including Phil Mickelson and Bryon DeChambeau, who did not formally or voluntarily give up their PGA Tour memberships. Those players received letters stating, […]
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Open champion Cameron Smith has become LIV Golf’s highest-ranked recruit, after the 29-year Australian, winner of the Claret Jug at St Andrews last month, was officially confirmed as having joined the Saudi-backed series following weeks of speculation. Smith will be among six players to make their debut in the series at the LIV Golf Invitational Boston, which is being held at The International in Massachusetts, USA from September 2-4. Smith, who is currently ranked world no.2, while be joined by Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, […]
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The PGA Tour has announced some further major changes to its tournament schedule and its prize money and payment structure as part of its on-going bid to prevent more of the game’s top players deserting the tour to join the LIV Golf Series. Speaking on the eve of the Tour Championship at East Lake, where the winner will pick up an $18m pay out, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan listed four key changes to the 2023 schedule and beyond that […]
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Three players from the LIV Golf Series have lost a legal battle against the PGA Tour to compete in the FedEx Cup Play-offs. LIV Golf players Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones have all been banned from playing in this week’s FedEx St Jude Championship on the PGA Tour after a US District Court judge rejected an attempt by the players to get a temporary restraining order lifted in order for them to play in the opening leg of […]
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LIV Golf has announced the field for its third event of the season, the LIV Golf Invitational Bedminster, which is being held at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, USA from July 29-31. The field includes the debut of Paul Casey, the current world no.32 and winner of 21 tour events in a 22-year career on tour. Casey, 44, has played in five Ryder Cups and was ranked as high as No.3 in the world back in 2009, shortly after […]
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