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Greg Norman, the longtime PGA legend serving as CEO for LIV, the Saudi-backed rival golf league to the PGA, was informed by the R&A that he was not welcome to the Open Champions dinner.

After weeks of hemorrhaging top players to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league, the PGA Tour has now offered up an eight-event series.

Four-time major champion pro golfer Brooks Koepka is the latest big name in golf to jump from the PGA Tour to the new LIV golf league.

Hall of Fame golfer Greg Norman said on Saturday that he was “disappointed” in the PGA Tour for suspending golfers for joining the Saudi-backed Liv Golf Invitational Series.

The PGA has released a statement reporting a settlement with the Trump organization after a cancelled tournament at Trump’s golf course.

Former PGA Tour reporter Teryn Gregson, who is roughly three months pregnant, claims that the Tour fired her after denying her request for a religious exemption for the mandatory coronavirus vaccine.

The Professional Golfers’ Association has decided to strip Trump National Golf Course at Bedminster of its 2022 PGA Championship.

Major Championship golf commences today at the 102nd PGA Championship at Harding Park In San Francisco, California. Harding Park is an historic golf course named after our 29th President Warren G. Harding.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Five-time PGA Tour winner Nick Watney tested positive Friday for the coronavirus, the first player with a confirmed infection since golf resumed its schedule last week.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jim Nantz will be alone in the broadcast booth when the PGA Tour resumes its schedule Thursday. That’s not the only voice CBS Sports wants to hear at Colonial.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will soon allow outdoor pro sports events to have spectators, but the numbers will be strictly limited, under a new order Thursday from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Rory McIlroy says he wouldn’t play golf again with President Donald Trump and doubts he would even be invited after questioning his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The PGA Tour reiterated its social distancing and testing policy ahead of the resumption of the pro golf season starting in June.

First the Masters, now the PGA Championship.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The PGA Tour decided Thursday night to scrap the rest of The Players Championship and shut down its other tournaments for the next three weeks.

Former golf commentator Hank Haney has filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour after he was fired following a remark that some called racist.

Patrick Reed’s caddie will no longer be carrying the bag for his golfer at the Presidents Cup, after he got in an altercation with a fan on Saturday.

SHANGHAI (AP) — The streak ended with little fanfare, and that was just fine with Phil Mickelson.

BEIJING (AP) — The PGA Tour Series-China is canceling its tournament in Hong Kong next month because of civil unrest and safety concerns.

ATLANTA (AP) — Six people were injured Saturday when lightning struck a 60-foot pine at the Tour Championship where they were taking cover from rain and showered them with debris, Atlanta police said.

ATLANTA (AP) — PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan didn’t think twice when President Donald Trump invited him to play golf last Saturday.

New York (AFP) – The PGA Tour is reviewing its pace-of-play policy after an outburst of criticism of Bryson DeChambeau during the Northern Trust tournament.

It’s not a secret that a big day for Tiger Woods, normally leads to a big day for the broadcast networks. However, given that it’s been five years since Woods’ last PGA win, it would be fair for one to assume that a victory would lead to even greater ratings.

Although Kyle Stanley won the Quicken Loans golf tournament last week, for many there eyes were focused on last year’s champion Billy Hurley III.

“I feel good, not great,” Tiger Woods told chief executive of the R&A, Peter Dawson. “I don’t think I’ll ever feel great again because it’s been three back surgeries and four knee operations.”

What could the PGA Tour’s 23-year-old two-time major winner and proverbial “future of golf” possibly be talking about last week at the Hero World Challenge when he said “it is really exciting for us and for golf … He can truly help get the numbers back up in golf,” about a 4o-year-old # 898th ranked player in the World teeing it up after a fifteen-month layoff?

Jack Nicklaus, arguably the best golfer in the history of the game, offered a fuzzy argument that golfers can speed up play and courses can avoid closing their doors if only we modify the size of the golf ball.

Two-time US Open winner Andy North was left bewildered by the PGA tour’s decision leave Trump’s Doral resort course near Miami, Florida, for Mexico City next year.

“They move the World Golf Championships from Miami to Mexico City,” Donald Trump commented. “They moved the PGA Tour, moved the World Golf Championships from Miami, where they’re furious to Mexico City. If I become your president, this stuff is all going to stop,” Trump added. He went on to criticize the U.S. economy for being taken advantage of by Mexico.

According to a recent survey of over 50 PGA Tour players, seventy percent of them believe that Tiger Woods will never win another major championship.

Troubled Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel threw a water bottle at a heckler in an incident that didn’t lead to any arrests or charges at the AT&T Byron Nelson golf tournament.

On Monday gaming company Electronic Arts Inc. announced the replacement of Tiger Woods on the cover of their PGA Tour game with Rory McIlroy.

With the PGA tour raking in big bucks from advertising, part of which comes from tour caddies wearing corporate logos on their bibs, 80 professional caddies joined in a $50 million lawsuit charging that they deserve some of the spoils for their role as unpaid roaming billboards.