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PGA Tour suspends current and future LIV players; LIV Golf responds

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As promised, the PGA Tour has responded the the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series event taking place outside of London this week.

The memo was sent to the players on Thursday, with the main takeaway being all players who participate in LIV Golf will be suspended indefinitely. The players participating are also no longer to participate in the Presidents Cup.

“These players have made their choice for their own financial-based reasons,” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan wrote in the memo. “But they can’t demand the same PGA TOUR membership benefits, considerations, opportunities and platform as you. That expectation disrespects you, our fans and our partners. You have made a different choice, which is to abide by the Tournament Regulations you agreed to when you accomplished the dream of earning a PGA TOUR card and — more importantly — to compete as part of the preeminent organization in the world of professional golf.”

Monahan also stated that any future players who tee it up for LIV with face the same punishment.

The PGA Tour has suspended 17 current and former members:

Sergio Garcia*
Talor Gooch
Branden Grace*
Dustin Johnson*
Matt Jones
Martin Kaymer*
Graeme McDowell*
Phil Mickelson
Kevin Na*
Andy Ogletree
Louis Oosthuizen*
Turk Pettit*
Ian Poulter
Charl Schwartzel*
Hudson Swafford
Peter Uihlein
Lee Westwood*
* Informed the PGA Tour that they had resigned their membership

Shortly after the PGA TOUR sent the memo, LIV Golf released a statement of their own.

“It’s troubling that the Tour, an organization dedicated to creating opportunities for golfers to play the game, is the entity blocking golfers from playing,” LIV Golf said. “This certainly is not the last word on this topic. The era of free agency is beginning as we are proud to have a full field of players joining us in London, and beyond.”

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  2. Hooded 4-iron

    Jun 13, 2022 at 2:22 pm

    To the former PGA TOUR players joining the LIV (Lacking Integrity & Values) Tour: Good riddance.

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  3. Richard Grime

    Jun 11, 2022 at 3:21 am

    Well I must admit to being conflicted about the whole thing really. On the one side golfers are independent contractors, not employees and can therefore play wherever they wish. So in particular the players coming to the end of their careers, can you blame them for a nice retirement package. Maybe though for the competitive players that are still enjoying a fine living and good sponsorship deals, why would you? For the top players they have a very nice life on the PGA tour and it is hard to ignore the sport washing that the Saudi’s are doing, not just golf though but boxing too.,

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  4. GenoK

    Jun 10, 2022 at 10:46 am

    It just doesn’t get any more pompous than THIS. Suspending 17 players, TEN of which have RESIGNED?? I love that “politics” in SPORTS have become the major stories in the press. More so…all of the “old guys” in different sports chiming in. WHO CARES what they think. Being 73, I have some perspective on major changes in sport, though most haven’t come with this much idiocy. Another pro football league comes to mind. NBA/CHINA partnership and IT IS. How about the major changes in golf EQUIPMENT, pricing the majority of us out of being able to benefit from most of it.

    I’m guessing these players in LIV, care more about THEIR careers and discussed the decision WITH THEIR FAMILIES and chose to change tack. After what Phil has been through~~THEY DID IT ANYWAY. I wonder how much crap DJ has taken…

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  5. Big Guy

    Jun 10, 2022 at 12:17 am

    And just like that, the PGA Tour learns it isn’t the only game in town…

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  6. Jeremy

    Jun 9, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    Justin Rose. Rickie Fowler. Brooks Koepka, Terrell Hatton, Luke Donald, Harold Varner, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Charlie Hoffman, Martin Laird, Matt Kuchar. I could go on and on of those that may jump. Once the injunction goes down against the PGA, there will be many more. How about those “seniors” on the champions tour, like VJ?

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  7. Mike

    Jun 9, 2022 at 5:31 pm

    Golfers have been underpaid with little or no guaranteed money vs other sports (baseball, football, basketball). PGA should have seen this coming and tried to do something besides the lame pension. The PGA of America is a good organization.

    The PGA Tour is very flawed.

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  8. ray banfield

    Jun 9, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    America the land of the free. unless Monahan decides otherwise

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    • Chris Mackinaw

      Jun 9, 2022 at 3:24 pm

      Yea go support the saudis and act like your a patriot when doing so. Do you support terrorism also?

      Did you tour in the Middle East? Or do you just like you act like a patriot behind your keyboard? Poser clown.

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      • Brandon

        Jun 9, 2022 at 7:31 pm

        I did a tour in Kandahar in 2012 and I have no problem with theses guys cashing in while they can. An opportunity to provide for generations of your family doesn’t come along every day. Don’t think the US government doesn’t have people killed when it suits them. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. And nobody has any problems with the hundreds of millions of dollars Tiger and Rory have in the bank, largely provided by the fingers of Chinese kids working in actual sweat shops. Where did you serve?

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        • Rich

          Jun 9, 2022 at 9:53 pm

          The bankers and weaponsmakers thank you for the entertainment and windfall profits.

          Serving is for suckers and those who can’t create value.

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      • Mackinaw's Daddy

        Jun 25, 2022 at 2:55 pm

        Hey dumba**, the DP World Tour, in conjunction with the PGA Tour, has played for ages in places like South Africa, Dubai, and even Russia. Where were you when they were playing these places with shady histories? No one gave a heck until they got on their high-horses about guys chasing their futures. As a 15 year pro, I have zero issues with anyone doing what’s best for themselves and their families. There are no guarantees in golf, unlike other sports, so people need to mind their own business and quit whining about things they have no control over. What is it with people in this world trying to control others’ freedoms and abilities? Is it fear of the PGA Tour losing its monopoly? Why do you care? Get a life.

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  9. James

    Jun 9, 2022 at 12:12 pm

    Wh***ing for Bonesaw petrodollars.

    Good riddance.

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Tour Rundown: Bend, but don’t break

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I’m going to gush in this intro paragraph, to get the emo stuff done early. I’ve not pulled harder for a professional to win, than Cameron Young. I coach golf in New York state, and each spring, my best golfers head to a state championship in Poughkeepsie. I first saw Cameron there as a 9th grade student. I saw him three more times after that. I reconnecected with Coach Haas from Wake Forest, an old interview subject from my days on the Old Gold and Black, the Wake newspaper. He was there to watch Cameron. After four years at Wake Forest, Young won on the Korn Ferry Tour, made it to the big tour, almost won two majors, almost won five other events, and finally got the chalice about 25 minutes from the Wake campus. Congratulations, Cameron. You truly are a glass of the finest. #MotherSoDear

OK, let’s move on to the Tour Rundown. The major championship season closed this week in Wales, with the Women’s Open championship. The PGA Tour bounced through Greensboror, N.C., while the PGA Tour Americas hit TO (aka, Toronto) for a long-winded event. The Korn Ferry lads made a stop in Utah, one of just two events for that tour in August. The many-events, golf season is winding down, as we ease from summer toward fall in the northern hemisphere. Let’s bask in the glory of an August sunrise, and run down a quartet of events from the first weekend of the eighth month.

LET/LPGA @ Women’s Open: Miyu bends, but she doesn’t break

Royal Porthcawl was not a known commodity in the major tournament community. The Welsh links had served as host to men’s senior opens, men’s amateurs, and Curtis and Walker Cups in prior years, but never an Open championship for the women or the men. The last-kept secret in UK golf was revealed once again to the world this week, as the best female golfers took to the sandy stage.

Mao Saigo, Grace Kim, Maja Stark, and Minjee Lee hoped to add a second major title to previous wins this season, but only Lee was able to finish inside the top ten. The 2025 playing of the Women’s Open gave us a new-faces gallery from day one. The Kordas and Thitikulls were nowhere to be found, and it was the Mayashitas, Katsus, and Lim Kims that secured the Cymru spotlight. The first round lead was held at 67 by two golfers. One of them battled to the end, while the other posted 81 on day two, and missed the cut. Sitting one shot behind was Miyu Yamashita.

On day two, Yamashita posted the round of the tournament. Her 65 moved her to the front of the aisle, in just her fourth turn around a women’s Open championship. With the pre-event favorites drifting off pace, followers narrowed into two camps: those on the side of an underdog, and others hoping for a weekend charge from back in the pack. In the end, we had a bit of both.

On Saturday, Yamashita bent with 74 on Saturday, offering rays of hope to her pursuing pack. England’s Charley Hull made a run on Sunday closing within one shot before tailing off to a T2 finish with Minami Katsu. Katsu posted the other 65 of the week, on Saturday, but could not overtake her countrywoman, Yamashita. wunderkind Lottie Woad needed one round in the 60s to find her pace, but could only must close-to’s, ending on 284 and a tie with Minjee for eighth.

On Sunday, Yamashita put away the thoughts of Saturday’s struggles, with three-under 33 on the outward half. She closed in plus-one 37, but still won by two, for a first Major and LPGA title.

PGA Tour @ Wyndham: Young gathers first title near home

Cameron Young grew up along the Hudson river, above metro New York, but he also calls Winston-Salem home. He spent four years as a student and athlete at Wake Forest University, then embarked on tour. This week in Greensboro, after a bit of a break, Young opened with 63-62, and revved the engine of Is this the week once more. Runner-up finishes at the Open, the PGA, and a handful of PGA Tour events had followers wonder when the day would come.

On Saturday, Young continued his torrid pace with 65, giving him a five-shot advantage over his closest pursuer. Sunday saw the Scarborough native open with bogey, then reel off five consecutive birdies to remind folks that his time had, at last, arrived. Pars to the 16th, before two harmless bogeys coming home, made Young the 1000th winner of an official PGA Tour event (dating back to before there was a PGA Tour) throughout history. What’s next? I have a suspicion, but I’m not letting on. Mac Meissner closed with 66 to finish solo 2nd, while Mark Hubbard and Alex Noren tied for third.

Korn Ferry Tour @ Utah Championship: Are you Suri it’s Julian?

Who knows exactly when the flower will bloom? Julian Suri played a solid careet at Duke University, then paid his dues on the world’s minor tours for three years. He won twice on two tours in Europe, in 2017. Since then, the grind has continued for the journeyman from New York city. At age 34, Suri broke through in Beehive state, outlasting another grinder (Spencer Levin) and four others, by two shots.

Taylor Montgomery began the week with 62, then posted 64, then 68, and finally, 70. That final round was his undoing. He finished in that second-place tie, two back of the leader. Trace Crowe, Barend Botha, and Kensei Hirata made up the last of the almost quintet. As for Suri, his Sunday play was sublime. His nines were 32 and 31, with his only radar blip a bogey at ten. He closed in style with one final birdie, to double his winning margin. Hogan bloomed late…might Suri?

PGA Tour Americas @ Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos – CBM Aggregates

Some tournament names run longer than others. This week in Toronto, at the Heathlands course at TPC Toronto, we might have seen the longest tournament title in recorded history. The OVOPBVCCBMA was a splendid affair. It saw three rounds of 62 on Thursday, but of those early risers, only Drew Goodman would stick around until the end. 64 was the low tally on day two, and two of those legionnaires managed to finish inside the top three at week’s end. Saturday brought a 63 from Patrick Newcomb, and he would follow with 64 on Sunday, to finish solo fourth.

Who, then, ended up winning the acronym of the year? It turns out that Carson Bacha had the right stuff in TeeOhhh. Bacha and Jay Card III posted 63 and 64, respectively, on day four, to tie for medalist honors at 23-under 261. Nathan Franks was one shot adrift, despite also closing with 63. If you didn’t go low on Sunday, it was about the check, not the championship.

Bacha and JC3 returned to the 18th hole twice in overtime. Card nearly chipped in from the thick stuff for birdie, while Bacha peeked and shoved a ten-feet attempt at the win. On the second go-round, Card was long with his approach, into the native grasses once more. He was unable to escape, and a routine par from the fairway was enough to earn the former Auburn golfers a first KFT title.

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Kurt Kitayama just won his 2nd PGA Tour event at the 3M Open. Kurt is a Bridgestone staffer but with just the ball and bag. Here are the rest of the clubs he used to secure a win at the 2025 3M Open.

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