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Richard T. Lee moves in front at LIV Golf Indianapolis
While LIV Golf Indianapolis will double as the team championship for 2026, the player atop the individual leaderboard is an unaffiliated wild card.,Richard T. Lee of Canada moved in front after 36 holes thanks to his second-round, 4-under-par 66 on Friday at The Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield, I...

Dustin Johnson’s major streak to end after WD from The Open final qualifying
Dustin Johnson will not attempt to qualify for the Open Championship next month at Royal Birkdale, ending a couple of impressive major streaks.,Johnson will be absent from a major for the first time since the 2017 Masters, ending a string of 38 straight major starts. He was one of the top players in...

Bryson DeChambeau remains optimistic on future of LIV Golf
Bryson DeChambeau admitted that several LIV golfers were caught off guard after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund announced its financial commitment will end at the conclusion of the 2026 season.,"We were surprised that they pulled out as quickly as they did," DeChambeau said on Tuesday, two day...

Dustin Johnson on LIV's future: 'Your guess is as good as mine'
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. -- Dustin Johnson is content to compete in the PGA Championship this weekend -- and that's about as far as he's willing to look ahead.,When asked where he will be in 2027 in the wake of the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund's announcement that it will no longer back LIV Golf be...

Dustin Johnson, Max Homa make PGA Championship field; no Tiger, Phil
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will not play the PGA Championship, the second straight major in 2026 that two of the greatest golfers of all time won't be present.,The PGA of America released its field list Tuesday for the major championship slated for May 14-17 at Aronimink Golf Club outside Philad...

Dustin Johnson confirms Thomas Detry joining 4Aces
New LIV Golf signing Thomas Detry of Belgium is joining Dustin Johnson's 4Aces GC.,The captain revealed the roster move on Tuesday at a preseason press conference.,"Thomas Detry is going to be on the team this year, another Belgian, so excited about that. I think he's a really good player," Johnson ...

LIV Golf moving to 72-hole format in 2026
LIV Golf is abandoning its three-round, 54-hole format in 2026, with all events becoming traditional 72-hole tournaments.,The league announced the shift Tuesday.,"As we enter our fourth season as a League, the move to 72 holes marks a pivotal new chapter for LIV Golf that strengthens our League, cha...

Report: Dustin Johnson agrees to new deal with LIV Golf
Dustin Johnson is among the early signings for LIV Golf who have reportedly agreed to second contracts with the Saudi-backed league.,Johnson originally signed with LIV Golf in June 2022 for a contract that is believed to be in excess of $100 million. While terms of his new agreement aren't known, he...

Dustin Johnson chasing retro performance at Oakmont
Nine Junes ago, Dustin Johnson captured his first major when he solved Oakmont Golf Club better than anyone else to claim the 2016 U.S. Open.,As the Open returns to Oakmont for the first time since Johnson's triumph, the 40-year-old squints at the rugged layout in western Pennsylvania and sees a mon...

LIV's Dustin Johnson invited to PGA Championship
LIV Golf member Dustin Johnson will participate in next week's PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlote, N.C., according to the list of participants that was revealed Tuesday.,Johnson is a two-time major winner, coming out on top in the 2016 U.S. Open and the 2020 Masters Tournament. His Ma...

Patrick Reed up by two at LIV Golf Miami
Despite a double bogey on his closing hole, Patrick Reed shot a 5-under-par 67 and grabbed the first-round lead at LIV Golf Miami on Friday at Trump National Doral.,Reed began his round on the 10th hole and put seven birdies on his card, reaching 7 under with a tap-in at the par-5 eighth. But at the...

Cam Smith, Ripper GC win LIV Golf Team Championship
Cameron Smith and Ripper GC won a LIV Golf team title for their native Australia, not to mention boatloads of cash for themselves.,The all-Australian team of Smith, Lucas Herbert, Matt Jones and Marc Leishman edged 4Aces GC and won the LIV Golf Team Championship on Sunday outside Dallas, bringing a ...

There aren’t enough wealthy team owners on Earth to save the PGA Tour
The PGA Tour and LIV Golf are engaging in an arms race for the future of golf, with the former getting a $3 billion injection of cash from the Strategic Sports Group this week, while the latter is content luring defectors with massive contracts. The endgame for the PGA Tour? Try to keep golf as clos...

Blood-money sellout claims pending LIV-PGA merger is for the 'good of fans'
Bryson DeChambeau, one of the PGA defectors who took the Saudi blood money to join LIV, thinks the impending merger of the two organizations is what golf fans are clamoring for....
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Jon Rahm takes LIV handout [Updated]
Update Dec. 7: Rahm has officially joined the Saudi Tour. ESPN, citing sources, said the deal is believed to be three-plus years, and reportedly worth more than $300 million....

Dustin Johnson needs to stop whining and reap what he's sown
You reap what you sow. And Dustin Johnson has no one to blame but himself for not making the United States Ryder Cup team. Once he sold out to Saudi-backed LIV Golf last year for a reported $125 million, his margin for error to make golf’s premier team event became razor-thin. And it shouldn’t be a ...

NewCo is a perfect nondescript moniker for the PGA Tour-LIV partnership
If you were looking for evidence of the PGA Tour’s reluctance to partner with the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, just take a gander at the new name of the proposed new company. May I present to you: NewCo. It’s as if one, if not all sides, said “Let’s get this over” before hashing out the deta...

Michael Block killed golf
It’s not a coincidence that the day after Michael Block failed to qualify for the US Open, the PGA Tour panic merged with its alleged arch-nemesis LIV. There was a star vacuum left once Greg Norman and obscene sums of money convinced a lot of big names to defect to the LIV Tour. I don’t have to go t...

PGA and LIV merging, proving there's nothing Saudi Arabia can't buy
In a bigger shocker than Ben Curtis winning the 2003 British Open, the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf will merge to form one yet-to-be-named entity, according to CNBC. The deal between the sides is expected to be announced Tuesday and would end all litigation between the parties. The PGA a...

Top Masters storylines for people who don’t give a fuck about the Masters
Much like politics and elections, we can’t really change them because they still cater to old white people, who also happen to have all the money, we can’t really ignore golf either, no matter how much of an anachronism it might be. That’s why they employ Steph Curry to try and make it into a hip ga...