LIV Golf's original plan called for multiple years of its 'Invitaitonal Series' before switching to a league schedule down the road. That timeline has been accelerated.
Golfer Mel Reid has criticised the LPGA for going silent and then releasing a 'disappointing' statement after Roe vs. Wade overturned by the Supreme Court.
Multiple sources, some of whom spent years working at Pumpkin Ridge, described the local conversation around the first LIV event in the US as tense, divisive and the last thing the Portland area needed.
After months of scrapping for acceptance and validity, this was the heel-turn – the scripted moment when a guy fans already hated says screw it and becomes the villain they always wanted him to be.
For Greg Norman, the Saudi government and LIV Golf, the overnight press conferences were a victory lap of sorts; an opportunity to show off six legitimately big-name golfers they have successfully lured away from the PGA Tour.