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☆ The Players Championship 2024: How to watch Scottie Scheffler’s bid to make history at golf’s ‘fifth major’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

3 Jon Rahm given LIV Golf players are absent from the PGA Tour’s flagship tournament. Yet while no stars from LIV Golf will be represented in Florida, the presence of the Saudi-backed venture has loomed large over the 50th edition of golf’s ‘fifth major.’World No. Speaking ahead of The Players Championship, Monahan had said long-running reconciliation talks with LIV Golf were “going to take time” but “accelerating.”How can I watch The Players Championship? PGA Tour Live – which includes coverage of featured holes and groups – is available exclusively to those with ESPN+. Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesThe absence of any LIV Golf players means three of the world’s top-50 ranked players are missing; Rahm (3), Tyrrell Hatton (16), and Brooks Koepka (31).

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The PGA Tour is getting a $3 billion investment from Strategic Sports Group in a deal that would give players access to more than $1.5 billion as equity owners in the new PGA Tour Enterprises. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was holding a conference call with players about the deal that was finalized Tuesday night. Political Cartoons View All 253 Images“By making PGA Tour members owners of their league, we strengthen the collective investment of our players in the success of the PGA Tour,” Monahan, who will be CEO of PGA Tour Enterprises, said in the formal announcement. While specific details of the equity ownership program were not announced, the initial grants would be based on career accomplishments, recent achievements and PGA Tour status. The European tour was part of the framework agreement on June 6, and it has a strategic alliance with the PGA Tour.

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☆ Tiger Woods says he’ll ‘walk away’ from golf when he no longer believes he can win
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Tiger Woods says he’s only prepared to walk away from playing golf when he no longer believes he can be competitive as he insisted that’s currently not the case. “I love competing, I love playing,” Woods told reporters ahead of his highly-anticipated return to competitive golf. While confirming the operation to fuse his ankle earlier this year was successful, Woods said that his recovery took its toll. “Unfortunately I’ve had experience, I’ve gone through it before and I’m here on the good side now.”Woods has not played competitive golf since April, 2023. The move gave the players a one-seat advantage after the controversial merger in June between the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s health episodes show “no evidence” of being a stroke or seizure disorder, the Capitol physician said in a letter on Tuesday, offering little further explanation for the apparent freeze-ups that have drawn concerns about the 81-year-old's situation. But the episodes have fueled quiet concern among Republican senators and intense speculation in Washington about McConnell’s ability to remain as leader. Nevertheless, many Republican allies have flocked to McConnell’s side, ensuring the famously guarded leader a well of support. McConnell’s health has visibly declined since the concussion in March, after which he took some weeks to recover. Before freezing up last week, McConnell had just given a 20-minute speech with no issues.

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A Capitol physician in a letter on Tuesday said he found “no evidence” that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell experienced a stroke or has a seizure or movement disorder like Parkinson’s disease after the Kentucky Republican appeared to freeze up at an event last week. McConnell’s office has attributed the occurrences to lightheadedness. Political Cartoons View All 1142 ImagesBrian Monahan, the Capitol’s attending physician, cleared McConnell last week to continue on with his schedule after an evaluation. “There is no evidence that you have a seizure disorder or that you experienced a stroke, TIA or movement disorder such as Parkinson’s disease,” Monahan said in the Tuesday letter, which he said came after several evaluations, including a brain MRI, EEG study and neurology assessment that included consultation with several neurologists. Senate Republicans were quick to come to McConnell’s defense after the latest incident.

Persons: Mitch McConnell, Brian Monahan, McConnell, ” Monahan Organizations: Kentucky Republican, Senate Republicans Locations: Kentucky

☆ Jon Rahm: Fan gambling heard by players ‘every single round’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Gambling in the crowds on the PGA Tour? “The environment we put out at a PGA Tour event, we believe, is best in class, so you balance that with the fun. And that’s long been an issue out here, really, since the beginning of the PGA Tour. Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesDennis was joined at the press conference by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, who added that Saturday’s incident was “unfortunate,” but ultimately, uncommon. We have tremendous fans that have tremendous respect for what these players need to do in order to provide and present the tremendous performances they do.”

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CNN —Golf’s power structure took a sharp shift to the players Tuesday when Tiger Woods was named as the sixth player director on the powerful PGA Tour policy board. The move gives the players a one-seat advantage on the board after the controversial merger in June between the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf. Five of the policy board members are independent directors, with professional backgrounds in law and business. “I am honored to represent the players of the PGA TOUR. Many elite PGA golfers accepted highly lucrative offers from LIV Golf, including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia and Bubba Watson.

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☆ PGA Tour commissioner says Tour ‘couldn’t afford to keep battling Saudi Arabia,’ Wall Street Journal reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Jacob Lev | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan told employees in a meeting on Thursday that it couldn’t “conduct a lengthy spending war against Saudi Arabia,” according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. “We cannot compete with a foreign government with unlimited money,” Monahan told employees, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal, Monahan told employees that the Tour had already spent $50 million in legal fees and had dipped into its reserves for $100 million to help pay increased purses in elevated events and other bonuses to players. “To characterize this agreement was made due to litigation costs and other use of reserves is an oversimplification,” a PGA Tour spokesperson told CNN on Saturday. “The PGA TOUR has never been a more valuable property and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) has recognized that value and the opportunity for ROI with their investment in the TOUR.”“Additionally, this transaction will make professional golf more competitive with other professional sports and sports leagues,” the Tour continued.

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☆ Golf’s new Saudi deal presents questionable political, business and sporting realities
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

And the deal is also undeniably a great piece of business, assuming PGA Tour players accept it. And all pending litigation between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour was also mutually ended under the new agreement. He “co-opted the 9/11 community last year in the PGA’s unequivocal agreement that the Saudi LIV project was nothing more than sports washing of Saudi Arabia’s reputation,” the group said in a statement. Unresolved sporting conundrumsThere are as many sporting questions about the PGA Tour/LIV Golf partnership that remain unanswered. Then there is the question of how current PGA Tour members will respond.

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☆ A Stunning Merger Angers Athletes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After the Saudi government created an upstart professional golf tour in 2021 to compete with the PGA — the world’s most prestigious tour, based in the U.S. — top PGA executives set out to destroy the new venture. They banned golfers who signed up with the Saudi tour, known as LIV Golf, from PGA events and put intense pressure on other golfers not to join LIV. PGA executives also complained to members of Congress about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record. “Have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?” Monahan asked on national television. It was all part of a campaign to undermine LIV, even if doing so required damaging the reputations of leading golfers.

Persons: LIV, Jay Monahan, ” Monahan Organizations: PGA, Saudi Locations: Saudi, U.S

☆ The Merger of LIV Golf and the PGA Tour: Here’s What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Kevin Draper | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The PGA Tour and LIV announced Tuesday the creation of a new entity that would combine their assets, as well as those of the DP World Tour, and radically change golf’s governance. The PGA Tour would remain a nonprofit organization and would retain full control over how its tournaments are played. This is how Jay Monahan, the commissioner of the PGA Tour, answered questions Tuesday about what golf might look like in the future. “I don’t want to make any statements or make any predictions.”Will LIV golfers go back to the PGA Tour and DP World Tour? Will PGA Tour players, many of whom spurned LIV and its huge paydays, receive compensation?

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