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Russ Cochran will make his first PGA Tour start in over a decade at this week’s Zurich Classic in New Orleans. The 65-year-old Cochran, who hasn’t played on Tour since tying for 41st at the 2013 Sony Open, is slated to team up with Eric Cole in the team event at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, just outside of New Orleans. Cochran is the father of Cole’s caddie, Reed Cochran. A one-time Tour winner, Cochran plays sparingly even on the PGA Tour Champions these days. This year, he’s logged just three senior starts with a best finish of T-48 at the...

In Gaza tonight a failed attempt to rescue hostages with two Israeli soldiers wounded... Politico reports that the Biden Administration has given Israel until the end of the year to wrap up... At the UN Security Council the US vetoing a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza... The European Union reaching a provisional agreement for rules to regulate artificial intelligence... Militias affiliated with Iran striking US military bases in Syria and Iraq... In France a court deciding to put the leading 2027 Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on trial... In Texas Attorney General Kern Paxton reacting to...

The press conference began like many LIV Golf press conferences, with a moderator issuing an introduction. But this wasn’t any LIV presser — this was a Zoom call. Just a bunch of faces and names in little neat boxes. About one minute in, one of those boxes flipped from a blank screen to show the face of Jon Rahm, the No. 3 player in the world, wearing a black LIV Golf letterman jacke

The Senate Homeland Security Committee has launched an investigation into the surprise merger between the PGA Tour and its Saudi rival LIV Golf. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman on Monday requesting all records relating to the agreement, including communications between the two organizations. LIV has until June 26 to respond to the records request. Democrats in Congress have for years scrutinized Saudi Arabia for its human rights abuses, in particular its role in the civil war in Yemen. The kingdom has sought to rehabilitate its...

Golfers who stayed loyal to the US PGA Tour, but not those who jumped to LIV Golf, will receive equity shares in a new for-profit entity, ESPN reported on Friday (Jun 9). Jimmy Dunne, a member of the PGA Tour policy board who helped broker the shocking deal between his group and the Saudi backers of LIV Golf, told ESPN that would be a way to reward players who stayed loyal to the PGA.Dunne, an investment banker and president of Seminole Golf Club in Florida, said PGA Tour members will get equity under a yet-to-be-determined formula in the new company...

President Joe Biden said he'd be playing golf in the PGA in response to a question about the controversial merger between the association and the Saudi-backed LIV league. The president made a small swinging motion when asked about the surprise deal and said: 'I'm planning on playing in the PGA.' Biden, who enjoys golf and played with his brother on Sunday at Joint Base Andrews, addressed the controversy on Tuesday during a meeting with his Cabinet. In a shock move on Tuesday, the PGA ceased its war with rival LIV Golf and decided to merge with the Saudi-backed entity -...

One truth we learned long ago about the people who run the exclusionary pursuits of professional and amateur golf is that they do not accept change unless they feel forced to. Whether it was staging tournaments at places that practiced racial discrimination, or playing the Masters at a world-famous club that didn’t allow female members, golf only surrendered in the way former Augusta National chairman Hootie Johnson once swore his men’s-only retreat never would — at the point of a bayonet. So the PGA Tour capitulated Tuesday because it felt it had no choice, at least as it relates to...

Former President Donald Trump correctly predicted the merger between the PGA Tour and rival LIV Golf last year. Tuesday morning, breaking news struck the golf world: The PGA Tour will merge with LIV Golf, a tour backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF). But apparently, the stunning news did not surprise Trump. The former president predicted the merger on Truth Social in July 2022. “All of those golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing...

The PGA Tour, European Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday to merge and form a commercial entity to unify golf.Additionally, the three organizations said in a joint news release that they will work cooperatively to allow a process for any LIV Golf players to reapply for PGA Tour and DP World Tour membership following the 2023 season."After two years of disruption and distraction, this is a historic day for the game we all know and love," PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a joint news release.

KEY POINTS The PGA Tour agreed to merge with rival LIV Golf, which is backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, an entity controlled by the Saudi crown prince. The proposed merger comes after the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have been embroiled in lawsuits regarding antitrust claims. The deal would end all pending litigation.

July 13, 2012; Lake Orion, MI, USA; Lance Ten Broeck (USA) tees off on the 10th hole during the second round of the U.S. Senior Open at Indianwood Golf and Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY SportsLance Ten Broeck, one of the more colorful characters on the PGA Tour who became famous for playing and caddying in the same event, died Sunday at St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach. He was 67.The cause of death was organ failure, his son, Jonathan, said Monday. Ten Broeck, a Singer Island resident, had been dealing with health issues for two years.Nicknamed...

Ten years ago Angel Cabrera was battling for his second Masters title in a sudden death playoff. This year, he has swapped the Green Jacket for prison scrubs. **SNIP** However, his last win came at the 2014 Greenbrier Classic and his performances steadily declined. But his fall from grace really took a plummet in 2021, when his former girlfriend Cecilia Torres Mana made accusations of assault, intimidation and causing injuries against Cabrera. Cabrera denied the accusations but two women, his former wife, Silva Rivadero, and former partner Micaela Escudero, also filed charges, according to reports. 'I couldn't go to the...

Not only was LIV Golf’s first-ever TV broadcast a ratings disaster, it was blown out of the water by the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic — which featured arguably its worst field of golfers of the year. According to viewership numbers obtained by Sports Business Journal’s Josh Carpenter, LIV Golf Mayakoba — the controversial, Saudi-backed golf tour’s first event of the season — attracted 286,000 viewers on Saturday and 291,000 on Sunday during its maiden broadcasts on The CW. The PGA Tour, in broadcasts on NBC and the Golf Channel, outdrew LIV on each day — even the Thursday afternoon broadcast...

The 2023 LIV Golf season debuted this week, as LIV Mexico is the first event in a 14-event schedule. While several new players have defected from the PGA Tour join LIV's ranks, including Mito Pereira, Danny Lee, Thomas Pieters and Brendan Steele, LIV is sticking with one familiar formula from last year: the total prize money.

LIV Golf and the CW Network reached a multiyear agreement to bring the Saudi-backed PGA Tour rival to American broadcast television, the parties announced Thursday morning, following reports earlier this week that the parties were nearing an agreement.

In June, the PGA Tour suspended golfers who joined the LIV Golf series, but the latter are allowed to play in the three U.S. majors outside of the PGA Championship — the U.S. Open, the Open Championship and the Masters — because those tournaments are not governed by the PGA Tour and have their own organizational and operating bodies. “Our focus is to honor the tradition of bringing together a preeminent field of golfers this coming April,” Fred Ridley, Chairperson of Augusta National Golf Club, said in a statement. “Therefore, as invitations are sent this week, we will invite those...

Yep, no way The LIV tour is going to be more exciting than the PGA. Who wants to watch LIV Hall of famers and multiple major winners compete when you can watch this tournament with current leader John Huh (1 career win in 2012) fight off Sungjae Im (2 career wins) and Brian Stuard (1 career win). Who knows, maybe we will be on the edge of our seats seeing if Austin Smotherman can fight his way to his 2nd career top ten. With this kind of competition maybe Rickie Fowler can get a top 100 finish.

The PGA Tour-LIV Golf drama has entered its newest phase: litigation. Eleven players, including Phil Mickelson, filed an antitrust suit against the PGA Tour on Wednesday, alleging the Tour acted unlawfully by suspending LIV Golf players. The plaintiffs seek to have their suspensions overturned and playing privileges reinstated, with a smaller group hoping for a temporary restraining order so they can participate in the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

Sports broadcaster Bob Costas said Thursday on CNN’s “New Day” that former President Donald Trump does not care about American democracy because he is hosting an event for the Saudi-backed LIV golf tour at his Bedminster Golf Club.Anchor Brianna Keilar said, “Former President Trump is going to tee off with two other former PGA golfers who also joined this LIV league. Trump has been criticized by families and survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attack for hosting the tournament and for working with the man that U.S. intelligence says is responsible for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In an interview,...

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the PGA Tour's handling of its players and whether it has engaged in anticompetitive behavior during its ongoing battle with the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a new circuit being financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. The inquiry, according to player agents who have been contacted by DOJ officials, is focused on the PGA Tour's actions regarding the Official World Golf Ranking, warnings it has issued to players who were contemplating joining LIV Golf and suspensions that have been levied against players who left by PGA...