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Tour pro absolutely roasts Cameron Tringale to make LIV Golf point

One of the most outspoken detractors of LIV Golf has again slated the Saudi-backed tour.
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Eddie Pepperell, who has been active in many arguments against players that jumped from the DP World Tour as well as PGA Tour, was quick to respond to a tweet that claimed, “The future growth [of LIV] is unlimited. This is undeniable!!”
The two-time DPWT winner found that comment just too much of a tee-up, responding with a tweet that ended up:
“Well, if you spend in a year a significant chunk of what another institution has (probably) spent in nearly a century, it shouldn’t be surprising you’d get players like Cameron Tringale in return. It almost definitely isn’t the future.”
Whilst LIV has spent unprecedented amounts tempting the likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith in its first year, it hasn’t quite lived up to the promise of recruiting six or seven top-10/top-20 players for the new roster that started last week, at Mayakoba.
Following Charles Howell III victory in Mexico last week, @LIVTracking posted a photo of a smiling Patrick Reed (finished 38th of 48 players) below the comments, “LIV has a better format, faster pace of play and a superior broadcasting.”
#LIVGolf – Established 2022 #PGATour – Established 1929
With ONLY 9 tournaments played, #LIVGolf already has secured bigger stars and greater venues. LIV has a better format, faster pace of play and a superior broadcasting. The future growth is unlimited.
This is undeniable?? pic.twitter.com/GRSTU4m793
— LIV Golf Insider (@LIVTracking) March 13, 2023
Comments were mixed, with one twitter account unimpressed with some of the signings:
No offense to either guy but Steele and Pieters are not big stars. I watched about 10 mins of the LIV broadcast and I'd say it was about 8 mins of Feherety, Foltz, and Heng talking about nothing to do with golf or anything about the tournament. Put 70 guys on the course 4 pace.
— Mike Forsythe (@MikeForsythe11) March 13, 2023
There were those that agreed with the post, one comment seeming to be very happy with what was on offer for 14 weeks of the year:
“Have spent four days with LIV Golf at Mayakoba. Compared to what I’ve seen in the past (PGA), LIV has doubled the amount of people coming through the gates. Will be going to Arizona this week. I expect to see a great golf tournament and a ton of fun for the spectators.”
Either way, Pepperell remains unmoved.
Last year he berated former tour colleagues Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter for not playing at Valderrama, now ironically a course on the LIV schedule for ’23, whilst he re-iterated the point recently.
Commenting on rumors of the ‘death’ of the DPWT, Pepperell said:
“If this happens and we look back and conclude that LIV Golf put the knife into the back of the European Tour, how are Westwood and Poulter and Sergio [García] and these guys going to feel about themselves, knowing they have been complicit?”
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‘Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight’ – LPGA pro offers candid take following rough AIG Women’s Open finish

An opening round of 77 left LPGA pro Jenny Shin with a mountain to climb at last week’s AIG Women’s Open.
However, fighting back with rounds of 69 and 67, Shin found herself six shots off the lead and just outside the top 10 heading into Sunday as she went in search of her first major victory.
Shin, who won the US Girls’ Junior at just 13, couldn’t back those rounds up on Sunday, though, and after playing her opening nine holes of the final round in level par, she then bogeyed three holes coming home to slip down the leaderboard and eventually finish T23.
Taking to X following the final round, Shin offered a frustrated and honest take on how she was feeling, posting: “Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish.”
Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish
— Jenny Shin (@JennyShin_LPGA) August 3, 2025
Shin has made 11 cuts in 13 starts on the LPGA Tour this season, but has been plagued by frustrating Sunday finishes throughout the year. Shin ranks 102nd on tour this year out of 155 for Round 4 scoring in 2025.
Miyu Yamashita won the 2025 AIG Women’s Open with a composed final round of 70 to win her first major of her career by two strokes.
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How a late golf ball change helped Cameron Young win for first time on PGA Tour

Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour.
Young dominated all weekend at TPC Sedgefield, running away from the pack to win by six strokes and put himself in contention for a Ryder Cup pick in September.
Ahead of the event, the 28-year-old switched to a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.
Interestingly, Young played a practice round accompanied by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, at TPC Schedule early last week with both his usual Pro V1 Left Dot ball and the new Pro V1x prototype.
Per Titleist, by the second hole Young was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x prototype.
“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course. Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”
According to Titleist, the main validation came on Tuesday on the seventh hole of his practice round. The par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament called for a 5-iron from Young, or so he thought. Believing there was “no way” he could get a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot, Young struck a 5-iron with the Pro V1x prototype and was stunned to see the ball land right by the hole.
“He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn’t believe that he got that club there.”
Following nine holes on Tuesday and a further nine on Wednesday, Young asked the Titleist team to put the ProV1x balls in his locker. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Rickie Fowler makes equipment change to ‘something that’s a little easier on the body’

Rickie Fowler fired an opening round of one-under par on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, as the Californian looks to make a FedEx Cup playoff push.
Fowler is currently 61st in the standings, so will need a strong couple of weeks to extend his season until the BMW Championship, where only the top 50 in the standings will tee it up.
Heading into the final stretch of the season, Fowler has made an equipment switch of note, changing into new iron shafts, as well as making a switch to his driver shaft.
The 36-year-old revealed this week that he has switched from his usual KBS Tour C-Taper 125-gram steel shafts to the graphite Aerotech SteelFiber 125cw shafts in his Cobra King Tour irons, a change he first put into play at last month’s Travelers Championship.
Speaking on the change to reporters this week, Fowler made note that the graphite shafts offer “something that’s a little easier on the body.”
“I mean, went to the week of Travelers, so been in for, I guess that’s a little over a month now. Something that’s a little easier on the body and seemed to get very similar numbers to where I was at. Yeah, it’s gone well so far.”
Fowler has also made a driver shaft change, switching out his Mitsubishi Diamana WB 73 TX for a UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 6 TX driver shaft in his Cobra DS-Adapt X, which he first implemented a couple of weeks ago at the John Deere Classic.
However, according to Fowler himself, the testing and potential changes are not done yet.
“Probably do some more testing in some different weight configurations with them once I get some time. Yeah, I feel like we’re always trying to search, one, to get better but are there ways to make things easier, whether that’s physically, mentally, whatever it may be. So yeah, I thought they were good enough to obviously put into play and looking forward to doing some more testing.”
Fowler gets his second round at TPC Sedgefield underway at 7.23 a.m ET on Friday.