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Los Angeles (AFP) - LIV Golf's bid to be recognised by the sport's global rankings body has been rejected, the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) organisation confirmed on Tuesday. OWGR said it had turned down LIV's request due to the circuit's 54-hole no-cut format and limited access for players to join the venture. OWGR president Peter Dawson informed LIV chief executive Greg Norman of the decision in an open letter sent on Tuesday. "The Board Committee met recently to again review your OWGR submission in light of your latest responses to the Committee's questions and concerns," Dawson wrot...
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Washington (AFP) - United States lawmakers on Wednesday 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. Richard Blumenthal, chair of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said the panel wanted more details of how the new golfing entity would work, describing it as a "Saudi takeover" of "a cherished American institution." PGA Tour chief executive Jay Monahan, LIV golf chief executive Greg Norman and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan have all been asked to ap...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Under-fire PGA Tour chief Jay Monahan is stepping away from day-to-day operations of the tour as he recovers from an undisclosed medical situation, a statement said Tuesday. Monahan has faced stinging criticism in the wake of the PGA Tour's shock merger with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf last week, with multiple players calling for him to resign. A brief joint statement from Monahan and the PGA Tour policy board on Tuesday said Monahan would step back from his duties for an unspecified period as he recovers. "Jay Monahan informed the PGA TOUR Policy board that he is recupe...
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Miami (AFP) - The PGA Tour and DP World Tour announced on Tuesday that they have merged their commercial operations with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf and ended all litigation, bringing to a close the sport's bitter two-year rift. In a bombshell agreement that caught the golf world by surprise, the US-based PGA Tour said they had signed an agreement that combines its activities with the Saudi financiers' golf-related businesses and those of the DP World Tour to form "a new collectively owned, for-profit entity". LIV Golf was launched in October 2021 and lured top PGA Tour talent with record $25 mi...
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Miami (AFP) - Stunned PGA Tour players said they had been left in the dark about the surprise merger with LIV Golf that shocked the world of golf on Tuesday. Shortly after the unexpected announcement that golf's bitter battle between the established PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed breakaway LIV Golf was over, players took to social media to react. And it was clear that PGA Tour players had no idea that a deal was in the offing while LIV players were delighted at the end of the conflict. "The hell is going on? Very curious how many people knew this deal was happening. About 5-7 people? Player run...
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Bedminster (United States) (AFP) - For Brett Eagleson, this week's Saudi-backed golf event at Trump National is an affront: it's happening just miles from where hijackers murdered his father on 9/11. "It's extremely disrespectful, it's hurtful, it's painful," Eagleson, who was 15 when his dad died in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, told AFP. The 36-year-old heads 9/11 Justice, a group that accuses Saudi Arabia of complicity in the atrocity -- allegations the Saudi government has denied. Ex-president Donald Trump's course in Bedminster, New Jersey, less than 50 miles...
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St Albans (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Former world number one Dustin Johnson said Tuesday he has resigned from the US PGA Tour to play in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational Series, which tees off outside London this week. The decision effectively rules the American two-time major winner out of participating in the Ryder Cup, which pits the United States against Europe every two years. Johnson was speaking at a press conference at Centurion Club ahead of the inaugural event in the series, which starts on Thursday. The world number 15 had said in February he was committed to playing on the PGA ...
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