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2025 Masters: Ranking LIV Golf's dozen players at Augusta
The dozen LIV Golf players in the 2025 Masters field represents the fewest yet for the breakaway league -- down from 18 in 2023 and 13 last year.,LIV players can punch their tickets to Augusta National in four ways: by being a previous Masters champion, by having won any major within the past five y...
LIV Golf's record ratings still dwarfed by PGA Tour event
LIV Golf's first event in the United States of 2025 brought record viewership for the league, with 484,000 people tuning in to watch Marc Leishman's triumph in Miami on Sunday.,Unfortunately for the breakaway league, that was still less than a third of the amount of people who opted to watch a stand...
Bryson DeChambeau still learning about Augusta in his 9th Masters
Bryson DeChambeau first played in The Masters as an amateur in 2016, and if there's one thing he's learned about playing at Augusta, it's that there's always something to learn playing at Augusta.,"I haven't learned enough, obviously," joked DeChambeau, who tied for sixth in last year's event. "I ca...
Brooks Koepka wishes LIV Golf were 'little bit further along'
Brooks Koepka admitted Wednesday that he isn't entirely thrilled with where LIV Golf stands as the upstart circuit continues its fourth year of existence.,"I think we all hoped it would have been a little bit further along, and that's no secret," Koepka said ahead of the LIV Golf Miami tournament at...
Jon Rahm 'feeling good,' ready to tame Blue Monster
Jon Rahm tackles the Blue Monster this week as he prepares to chase a second green jacket.,The Spaniard spoke to reporters Wednesday ahead of the LIV Golf Miami tournament at Trump National Doral, which earned its colorful nickname for its demanding 7,701-yard length and plentiful water hazards.,"Ob...
Phil Mickelson: TGL 'could really be good for the game'
Despite a history of acrimony between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, one of the original defectors to the rival league made supportive comments at the conclusion of the inaugural TGL season on Tuesday night.,Phil Mickelson, who left the PGA Tour in June 2022 for upstart LIV Golf, responded to a post on ...
Scottie Scheffler calls out LIV for creating golf's divide
Scottie Scheffler has not been shy about pointing the finger at LIV Golf when assessing the fractured state of professional golf.,Speaking on a pre-Masters conference call on Wednesday, Scheffler ventured from missing the competition of the golfers who departed for LIV to an all-out blame session.,"...
Brooks Koepka addresses team's struggles, PGA Tour rumors
This week's LIV Golf Singapore event presents a tough challenge for defending champ Brooks Koepka and his struggling Smash GC teammates.,Koepka addressed the difficulty of the 7,406-yard layout at Sentosa Golf Club on Wednesday while also responding to rumors of a potential return to the PGA Tour.,"...
Jay Monahan discusses 'ebbs and flows' of PGA-LIV talks, pace of play
Commissioner Jay Monahan insisted on Tuesday that progress is being made in the PGA Tour's communications with the upstart LIV circuit. It just comes with "ebbs and flows," he said.,Monahan also was quick to praise President Trump for his involvement as a facilitator in the negotiations. Trump has h...
Fred Couples: Brooks Koepka 'wants to come back' to PGA Tour
Fred Couples said LIV Golf's Brooks Koepka is anxious to return to the PGA Tour.,"I talk to Brooks Koepka all the time," Couples said Monday on Seattle's KJR 93.3 FM. "I love Brooks Koepka, and I'm not going to say anything extra except I talk to him all the time.,"... He wants to come back. I will ...
Tiger Woods, Jay Monahan meet with Donald Trump over LIV merger
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, Tiger Woods and Adam Scott met with President Donald Trump and Saudi businessman Yasir Al-Rumayyan on Thursday at the White House to discuss a merger with LIV Golf.,Woods confirmed an initial meeting took place last week that he was unable to attend, adding in publ...
Reports: PGA, White House officials meet to discuss LIV merger
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, Tiger Woods and Adam Scott met with White House officials on Thursday to discuss merger talks with LIV Golf, according to published reports.,Golfweek reported Thursday that President Donald Trump was expected to attend, but the White House and PGA Tour did not conf...
Report: PGA, LIV leaders to meet with President Trump on Thursday
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and leaders of LIV Golf are in Washington, D.C., to meet with President Donald Trump, Golfweek reported Thursday. ,The Thursday meeting was first reported by Radar Atlas, a site tracking private jet and airplane travel, which confirmed aircraft connected to the Tour...
As PGA-LIV deal nears, Adam Scott understands ‘negative’ feelings
More than 18 months since the two rival sides shocked the sports world by announcing a "framework" merger agreement, the PGA Tour and LIV Golf are still hammering out the finer details.,Adam Scott is in a critical role in those negotiations as both the chairman of the tour's Player Advisory Council ...
Report: PIF’s LIV Golf investment nearing $5B as losses mount
The Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund is nearing $5 billion in total investment in LIV Golf, according to financial documents reviewed by the Money in Sport newsletter on Thursday.,Saudi Arabia has invested in global sports, most notably men's golf but also soccer, tennis and auto racing, with cri...
LIV CEO excited by 'likely' PIF investment in PGA Tour Enterprises
Scott O'Neil, newly on the job as LIV Golf's chief executive officer, is taking an optimistic view on his circuit's future.,The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, LIV's financial backer, is "likely to make an investment in PGA Tour Enterprises," O'Neil said Wednesday.,PGA Tour Enterprises is th...
Poland's Adrian Meronk shines to win season-opening LIV Golf Riyadh
Poland's Adrian Meronk shot a 1-under-par 71 under the lights in the final round Saturday and went wire-to-wire for a two-shot victory at the season-opening LIV Golf Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.,It was the first career LIV victory for Meronk, who finished at 17-under 201 over the three-day event, and his...
Adrian Meronk still on top at LIV Golf Riyadh
Adrian Meronk of Poland remains two shots ahead of Colombia's Sebastian Munoz to stay atop the leaderboard after both carded rounds of 6-under 66 on the second day of LIV Golf Riyadh on Friday in Saudi Arabia.,Munoz kept pace with Meronk, who fired a 62 in the first round and sits at 16-under par he...
Adrian Meronk fires 62 to take lead at LIV opener in Riyadh
Adrian Meronk of Poland rolled in 10 birdies, including each of his final two holes, to grab the first-round lead at LIV Golf Riyadh on Thursday in Saudi Arabia.,The member of Cleeks GC cruised around Riyadh Golf Club for a bogey-free, 10-under-par 62, giving him a two-stroke edge over Colombia's Se...
The short of it: LIV makes wardrobe rule change
When the fourth season of LIV Golf teed off on Thursday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, there was a notable change to the league's normally laid-back look.,The players weren't wearing shorts, despite the heat of the desert.,Player-turned-broadcaster Pat Perez revealed on the league's podcast, "Fairway to H...