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The 2024 Masters should be as rife with storylines as azaleas. Tiger Woods has been prowling around Augusta National Golf Club. Rory McIlroy gets his 10th crack at the career Grand Slam. LIV Golf League stars, including defending champion Jon Rahm, will test their might against PGA Tour regulars, most notably World No. 1 Scottie […]

Jon Rahm wants the Saudi-backed LIV Golf to adhere to the 72-hole format that he used to play back when he was still affiliated with the PGA Tour. The reigning Masters Tournament champion recently opened up about that particular wish, which, if granted, would see LIV Golf parting ways with its current 54-hole scheme. Jon […]

While Rory McIlroy and the PGA Tour are at TPC San Antonio for the Valero Texas Open the week before heading to Augusta National, LIV Golf League members are at Trump National Doral in Miami for its pre-Masters tune-up. The presence of LIV’s first 2024 event in the United States days before the tours re-converge […]

Throughout 2024, ClutchPoints contributors will banter on hot topics in golf. This is the second hole of The DisCourse. Michael: David, thanks for joining. I’m still thinking about your All-Star weekend proposal. We’re a week out from The Masters, so I thought we’d focus on Scottie Scheffler (apologies to the Valero Texas Open). Or rather, […]

The 2024 Masters Tournament is set to begin on April 11, and Brooks Koepka is feeling confident heading into the tournament. “I always felt like I was going to win (The Masters),” Koepka said recently, via Dan Rapaport of Barstool Sports. “Statistically, it’s your best chance to win a major.” Koepka, 33, is one of […]

A little over a week before their re-emergence to mainstream domestic audiences at The Masters, a slew of major champions now playing on the LIV Golf League — including Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, and Brooks Koepka — echoed sentiments recently shared by Rory McIlroy on the need for unification with the PGA Tour. […]

In a revealing conversation with Golf Magazine, per Reuters, Rory McIlroy, one of golf’s most prominent figures, has once again shared his perspective on the ongoing split between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf League, describing the division as “unsustainable” and detrimental to the sport’s long-term interests. As a four-time major champion, […]

PGA Tour and LIV Golf stars will convene at Augusta National in one week. After Stephan Jaeger clinched a spot with his upset over Scottie Scheffler at the Houston Open — coinciding with an auspicious Tiger Woods scouting trip — the field for the 2024 Masters appears set. The incomplete field was posted on The […]

Tiger Woods reportedly hosted a meeting in the Bahamas on Monday that featured PGA Tour player directors — including Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay — and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, who runs Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which finances and operates the LIV Golf League. The meeting in Albany was described to Sports Illustrated as a […]

The past few weeks have been quite hectic for Jon Rahm. He is just coming off an eighth-place finish at LIV Golf Hong Kong after going under 10. Now, he has to prepare for the battle set in Augusta National. More than that, he will also have to get his menu selections ready for the […]

Jon Rahm is probably the second-best golfer in the world. Yet, because he now plays in the LIV Golf League, he’ll have to wait until The Masters to compete against the PGA Tour’s best. Right now, that means World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, whose title defense at an electric Players Championship had Rahm lamenting the […]

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said a “constructive” meeting took place on Monday between the bigwigs of global golf — including Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of LIV Golf’s backer, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and Tiger Woods. Over the weekend, as the PGA Tour reveled in a glorious Players Championship, reports surfaced — later confirmed […]

Tiger Woods is meeting with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which funds the LIV Golf League, on Monday in the Bahamas to discuss the future of the PGA Tour. The bigwigs will meet over a round of golf in Albany, according to reports. Representatives from PIF, the Strategic Sports […]

PGA Tour player directors — Tiger Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Adam Scott, Peter Malnati and Webb Simpson — have reportedly been “strongly encouraged” to meet with representatives of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which backs the LIV Golf League, including PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan. Rory McIlroy and Cantlay confirmed the meeting at the […]

Jay Monahan was asked to resign as PGA Tour commissioner in December, according to a report from No Laying Up’s Kevin Van Valkenburg. Here’s what Van Valkenburg wrote: “When Sky Sports reporter Jamie Weir asked Monahan directly if any of the player directors on the policy board had asked him to resign at any point […]

Speaking nearby PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, ahead of the 50th edition of its signature event — the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass — World No. 2 Rory McIlroy called for a true acceleration in negotiations with LIV Golf League as fan interest appears to be waning. “The more we go down […]

Scottie Scheffler sees an obvious culprit in the division in professional golf. Speaking ahead of The Players Championship — where he’ll vie to defend his title — the World No. 1 identified defectors to the LIV Golf League when asked how PGA Tour loyalists feel about increased fan disillusionment. “When you’re talking about a fan […]

Ahead of the 50th Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan addressed the media for the first time since August, as talks with LIV Golf’s backer, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), appear stalled and the sport’s star power remains segregated. With varying degrees of vagueness, Monahan addressed a bevy of pressing topics […]

The recent LIV Golf event in Hong Kong unfolded as a compelling narrative that encompassed redemption, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of excellence, offering a captivating glimpse into the evolving landscape of professional golf. This tournament brought together a dynamic mix of seasoned veterans and emerging talents, each with their own storyline, but three narratives […]

The LIV Golf tour has an event coming up in Hong Kong on Friday followed by an event in Miami, Florida next month which has ambassadors including PGA legend Phil Mickelson talking. Mickelson joined HyFlyers teammates Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale and Andy Ogletree for a press conference shared by the LIV Golf YouTube channel on […]

As long as the PGA Tour and LIV Golf continue to operate as separate entities, fans are going to analyze any soundbite that might indicate a change of heart or loyalty. Imaginations have run wild after Rory McIlroy eased up on the critical comments he made about the Saudi-backed league, leading to some speculation that […]

Gone are the days when the PGA Tour was the sole and premier golf league in the world. LIV Golf has been able to get top players in Cam Smith, Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm, Lucas Herbert, and Adrian Meronk among others. While massive stars like Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy have chosen to stay in […]

After a heated battle by LIV Golf to be recognized by the Official World Golf Ranking, the upstart golf league withdrew its bid to garner points in the rankings for its players. LIV players will now have a harder time getting into PGA Tour tournaments, as well as the four majors, though some will be […]

LIV Golf is done pursuing the World Golf Ranking accreditation of its players. In a letter to the players, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman explained why the Saudi-backed organization is no longer applying for recognition from the Official World Golf Ranking or OWGR. “It is now clear that the best way forward for LIV as […]

Throughout the remainder of 2024, ClutchPoints’ contributors will use this space to banter on hot topics in the game of golf. In the wake of Austin Eckroat’s first career win at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, Michael Corvo and David Rooney discussed the trend of longshot winners to start the PGA Tour season. […]

Joaquin Niemann, winner of two of the first three LIV Golf events of 2024, has received a special invitation to compete in the PGA Championship, he revealed to golfwrx.com. The Chilean earned a special invitation to The Masters two weeks ago. The major — operated by the PGA of America, not the PGA Tour — […]

If you weren’t streaming the CW app in the wee hours, you may have missed LIV Golf Jeddah at Royal Greens Golf Club — the third event of the league’s third season. Former PGA Tour sensation Anthony Kim made his return after a 12-year hiatus, Joaquin Niemann cemented himself as a Masters contender, while Bryson […]

Anthony Kim is in last place in the 54-player field at LIV Golf Jeddah after shooting a six-over-par 76 in his first professional golf round since his last PGA Tour appearance in 2012. Of course, rustiness and nerves are to be expected. Kim began his round on Friday — at the Royal Greens Golf & […]

If all goes according to plan, the 2024 LIV Golf season — the third campaign for the league funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) — will pick up steam beginning this Friday, in Jeddah. The third event of the year will be highlighted by Anthony Kim’s startling return to professional golf. LIV Golf […]

LIV Golf — the league funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) — is reportedly embroiled in a secretive lawsuit levied by a group behind the Premier Golf League, which claims its proposed format for a competitor to the PGA Tour was copied. The PGL, backed by British financiers, supposedly planned on creating a […]

PGA Tour pro Rory McIlroy was all smiles when he was asked about his ex-agent Chubby Chandler’s comments that McIlroy could make the move to LIV Golf: I saw this quote earlier today and was waiting on the video because I was sure it was just a joke. It’s definitely lighthearted but feels like.. less […]

Rory McIlroy took the high road when asked on multiple occasions — ahead of the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches at PGA National — about the comments from Talor Gooch, in which the former PGA Tour member claims a victory at The Masters in 2024 for McIlroy would come with an “asterisk” because of […]

Onetime PGA Tour phenom Anthony Kim officially announced his stunning return to professional golf — this weekend at LIV Golf Jeddah — after a reclusive 12-year hiatus. Kim will compete as a season-long Wild Card player for the 2024 season. Kim’s partnership with LIV, rumored for months, was reported by Golf Channel last weekend. On […]

Nine-time PGA Tour winner Patrick Reed, now playing over at LIV Golf, saw his appeal to reverse a dismissal of his $750 million defamation lawsuit against various members of golf media denied on Wednesday, according to Front Office Sports. Back in September, a U.S. District Court threw out defamation cases filed against 18 entities in […]

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman confirmed what has been long speculated: the Saudi-backed golf league wants Japanese superstar Hideki Matsuyama. Matsuyama, currently ranked No. 20 in the Official World Golf Ranking, became the first Asian-born player to win The Masters in 2021. He holds nine PGA Tour victories, including at the 2024 Genesis Invitational at […]

The ongoing feud between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour has lost its juice in recent months as the two sides try to complete an unprecedented merger. Greg Norman and Rory McIlroy – two of the biggest advocates for their respective sides – have slowed their public clashing as another season of golf ramps up. […]

On Sunday, instead of contending in the final round of the PGA Tour’s Mexico Open — as he did in 2023 — Jon Rahm talked with ESPN’s Marty Smith about his decision to join LIV Golf — and how Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy handled the news. In 2022, Rahm, arguably the best player in […]

Former PGA Tour phenom Anthony Kim will make his long-hoped-for return to professional golf at LIV Golf Jeddah in Saudi Arabia next week. The news of Kim’s return was first reported by Golf Channel. Soon after he burst onto the scene, Kim became arguably golf’s most exciting emerging star since Tiger Woods. He won three […]

LIV Golf has accomplished several of the goals it set for itself upon forming two and a half years ago, doling out insane sums of money to secure some of the biggest names in the sport and seeing Brooks Koepka successfully represent the alternative league with a PGA Championship victory. But it is still not […]