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Associated Press Jul 12, 2023, 01:14 PM ET GULLANE, Scotland — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan returns to work next week, and some top players believe he has to regain their trust after leaving members in the dark over an about-face deal with the Saudi Arabia wealth fund behind LIV Golf. “I’d say he has
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ESPN News Services Jul 12, 2023, 06:32 AM ET The Open is increasing its purse to $16.5 million, with the winner next week at Royal Liverpool getting $3 million. The total prize fund was $14 million a year ago. Cameron Smith, who won at St. Andrews, earned $2.5 million. The second- and third-place finishers at
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Jul 11, 2023, 05:19 PM ET After consecutive weeks appearing near the top of the leaderboard, Peter Kuest has been rewarded with special temporary membership to the PGA Tour after earning enough “non-member” FedEx Cup points to pass the threshold. Kuest, 25, was a standout golfer at BYU but had nowhere to play when he
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Jul 11, 2023, 10:08 AM ET PGA Tour officials pushed to oust Greg Norman as the CEO and commissioner of the LIV Golf League during its negotiations with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which proposed that Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy own LIV teams, according to documents released by
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According to documents released by a Senate investigative subcommittee during Tuesday’s hearing on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund, an Augusta National membership for Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of the PIF, was among the potential proposals. In addition, another proposal featured Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy being given
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Jul 10, 2023, 09:55 PM ET Before 2023, Ruoning Yin, Lilia Vu and Allisen Corpuz had a combined zero LPGA victories to their name. Now, they rank fourth, fifth and sixth in the world, respectively, after splitting the first three majors of the women’s golf season. Corpuz rocketed from No. 29 to No. 6 in
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In prepared remarks for Tuesday’s Congressional hearing on the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Senator Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) will assert the new alliance shows how a “brutal, repressive regime can buy influence–indeed even take over–a cherished American institution simply to cleanse its public image.” A copy of the
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Jul 10, 2023, 10:16 AM ET The LIV Golf League’s season-ending team championship will be played at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami for the second straight year. LIV Golf League officials announced Monday that the $50 million team championship will be played Oct. 20-22 at Trump National Doral, which is owned by former
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For a figure like Young Tom Morris, there’s always a threat that time will leave him a little colorless—nothing more than a name you vaguely recognize, but with all but the most prominent details (“he won some Open Championships, right?”) washed out with history. He didn’t live into his 80s like his father, Old Tom…in
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Associated Press Jul 9, 2023, 08:33 PM ET Former AT&T chairman Randall Stephenson resigned from the PGA Tour’s policy board over concerns about the tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The PGA Tour confirmed the resignation in a memo to its members, referring to Stephenson’s “exemplary service”
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Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJul 9, 2023, 09:04 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — In the same week that Honolulu native Michelle Wie West bid goodbye to the women’s game, another Honolulu product, Allisen Corpuz, stepped up at Pebble Beach to win the U.S. Women’s Open — the first ever played at the legendary course — for
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Randall Stephenson, a former AT&T executive and an influential voice in professional golf, resigned from his position on the PGA Tour’s policy board over the weekend, citing “serious concerns” with the tour’s proposed deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Stephenson’s resignation, which was first reported by the Washington Post, has been confirmed by Golf
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Jul 9, 2023, 03:35 PM ET Playing in his final event before defending his Open Championship later this month, Cameron Smith survived a closing bogey on Sunday to win the LIV Golf event at Centurion Club in London. The Australian shot 3-under 68 to finish at 15 under, one stroke ahead of American Patrick Reed
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Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 07:04 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Brendon Todd scrambled for par on the par-4 18th to take a 1one-stroke lead Saturday in the John Deere Classic, holing a 12-foot putt after drawing an awkward stance near a fairway bunker. Todd had a 5-under 66 in breezy conditions to reach 16-under
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Associated Press Jul 8, 2023, 10:02 PM ET PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Neither the wind at Pebble Beach nor the stage of a U.S. Women’s Open could stop Nasa Hataoka, who delivered the best round in the toughest conditions Saturday for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead. Hataoka not only posted the low score
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Associated Press Jul 7, 2023, 09:24 PM ET SILVIS, Ill. — Cameron Young shot a 7-under 64 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead halfway through the John Deere Classic and put himself into position to erase an unwelcome distinction from his PGA Tour resume. Young was at 13-under 129 at TPC Deere Run, with
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