Congratulatory messages have flooded in for Cameron Smith from sports stars across the world. The Golden Bear, Jack Nicklaus said Smith’s win – the first by an Australian at The Open in nearly three decades – was fun to watch, and that there’s no better place for someone to win their first major than at …
Greg Norman is undoubtedly being paid an obscene amount of money as the figurehead of LIV Golf, but the biggest motivation for the 67-year-old in his ongoing battle with the established tours may be a three-decades old snub. The two-time major champion insists he doesn’t hold grudges, but the rejection of his 1994 proposal for …
The dispute between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series now has the attention of the US Department of Justice, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the PGA Tour said it was confident it would prevail. “This was not unexpected,” the tour said in a statement. The Journal said players’ agents have …
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Italian rider Daniel Oss has withdrawn from the Tour de France with a broken neck after crashing into a fan on stage five. Footage posted to Twitter shows the TotalEnergies star colliding into a desperate fan trying to record a video on his phone as riders zipped past at high speed. The fan was sent …
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Australian rider Simon Clarke won a crash-marred fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday while Wout van Aert clung onto the leader’s yellow jersey despite coming off his bike. The big winner though was Slovenian rider Tadej Pogačar, who kick-started his bid to win a third straight Tour with a sensational ride over …
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Four months ago, Brooks Koepka suggested any players who defected from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf were sellouts. This week, he will tee up on the rebel tour’s first American event in Oregon, having clearly changed his mind. In February, he said: “They’ll get their guys. Somebody will sell out and go to it.” …
Brooks Koepka, one of the first players to denounce a rival league for only 48 players, is the latest PGA Tour player to sign on with the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Series following rumors the four-time major champion would depart. A person briefed on Koepka’s decision told the AP he still would be able to compete …
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan described the Saudi-funded league that has signed up Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau as a “series of exhibition matches” that spends billions of dollars on players without getting a return on its investment. Monahan also said players paid an exorbitant amount of money would “have to be living …
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A course record out of nowhere, an equally unlikely maiden DP World Tour title, a start in the 122nd US Open and a giant leap towards the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai made Sunday one of the red-letter variety for Kalle Samooja . The 34-year-old Finn roared from seven strokes back to Porsche …
Phil Mickelson, a chief recruiter for a Saudi-funded league rival to the PGA Tour, is ending his four-month hiatus by adding his name to the 48-man field for the LIV Golf Invitational that starts this week outside London. Mickelson will be joining Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia and three other former major champions in a 54-hole …