The release of the final official world ranking for men’s golf for 2022 revealed some hard evidence about the impact joining the LIV Golf Series has had on some of the world’s top players in terms of their place in the global game. Only seven golfers currently playing on the Saudi-backed tour are now inside the top 50 in the world. Cameron Smith, who only joined LIV Golf in August, and some of the other latecomers, are yet to feel […]
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Talor Gooch will take a one-shot lead into the third and final round of the LIV Golf Invitational Boston after the 30-year-old American shot a second round 65 at The International to take his total to 12-under-par. Gooch, who has been one of the most consistent performers in the series, with top-10 finishes in the previous three events he has competed in – as well as two team wins – sits one shot ahead of LIV Golf debutant Joaquin Niemann, […]
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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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Charl Schwartzel and his Stinger GC teammate Hennie du Plessis own the top two spots on the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational London leaderboard after Thursday’s first round at Centurion Club. Schwartzel shot a 5-under 65 on the par-70 course, blistering Centurion’s back nine in 6-under 30 to take the first-round lead. Du Plessis posted three birdies in a four-hole stretch early in his round to shoot 4-under 66 and is alone in second. Not only did the two South Africans […]
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The PGA Tour has suspended all of its members who are playing in this week’s LIV Golf Invitational in England. The PGA Tour released a statement just 30 minutes after play had begun at Centurion Club in Hertfordshire, where 48 players are competing in the first of eight planned LIV Golf Invitational events for 2022. In the statement, which was issued to all members of the tour, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said: “In accordance with the PGA Tour’s tournament […]
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