WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The Pebble Beach Pro-Am will become a "signature" event on the 2024 US PGA Tour schedule released on Monday even as a merger framework agreement with LIV Golf remains unresolved. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan. (AFP) The PGA Tour unveiled a lineup of 36 tournaments in a...
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 US Open champion, fired a rare 58 in the final round to win the LIV Golf Greenbrier title on Sunday, Aug. 6. Bryson DeChambeau of the United States celebrates his birdie putt on the 18th hole with a record 58 to win the LIV Golf Invitational -...
MIAMI (AFP) -- Tiger Woods is joining the PGA Tour's newly expanded policy board, the tour announced on Tuesday, August 1, in a move aimed at cooling player tensions over secrecy surrounding merger talks with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf. *Tiger Woods. (AFP)* The 15-time major champion, a longtime...
HOYLAKE (AFP) -- British Open champion Cameron Smith believes the future is bright for golf despite the uncertainty over how a proposed merger between the PGA Tour and Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) will play out. *Cameron Smith. (AFP)* Smith was one of the biggest names to join the PIF-backed...
LONDON (AFP) -- Rory McIlroy has said he would retire before joining the breakaway LIV Golf tour after it emerged he had been offered a franchise in the Saudi-backed project. *Rory McIlroy. (AFP)* A US Senate sub-committee met on Tuesday, July 11, to investigate a proposed merger between the PGA...
MIAMI (AFP) -- The PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund have dropped a provision from their framework agreement that barred LIV Golf and the Tour from recruiting each other's players, the PGA Tour confirmed on Thursday, July 13. The move comes after the US Department of Justice raised...
WASHINGTON (AFP) --Â Randall Stephenson, a former AT&T chief executive, reportedly has resigned his PGA Tour Policy Board position over "serious concerns" about the tour's controversial deal with LIV Golf's Saudi backers. *PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan. (AFP)* The Washington Post reported on...
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, sidelined nearly a month by an unspecified medical issue, will return to work on July 17, the tour announced on Friday, July 7. *PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan. (AFP)* Monahan's return will come six days after he misses a hearing by US...
MIAMI (AFP) -- Tiger Woods says he never saw purported prepared comments for him to deliver last year at a players meeting, documents involved in a federal lawsuit. *Tiger Woods. (AFP)* Golf Digest and Golf Channel reported on Monday, July 3, that the comments aimed at Woods were part of 357 pages...
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- US PGA Tour officials Jimmy Dunne and Ron Price will speak before a US Senate hearing into the PGA merger deal with Saudi backers of LIV Golf, lawmakers said on Monday, July 3. *PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan. (AFP)* US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chairman...
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The "framework" agreement that united the PGA Tour and LIV Golf's Saudi backers was submitted to US lawmakers on Monday, June 26, night ahead of a Congressional hearing, according to multiple reports. The deal, obtained by Golf Channel and the Washington Post, outlines a...
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- United States lawmakers on Wednesday, June 21, invited the chiefs of the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund to testify at a hearing looking into their shock deal that has rocked the golf world. *US Senator Richard Blumenthal. (AFP)* Richard Blumenthal,...
