LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed loses appeal in $750m defamation suit Sport Business LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed has lost an appeal in a $750m defamation suit relating to comments made about his move to the Saudi Arabia-backed league. The 34-year-old former Masters champion had initially said that comments – made by the Golf Channel, commentator Brandel Chamblee and others – after Reed chose to ditch the PGA Tour [...]
New golf deal sees DeChambeau and Rahm on free-to-air in the UK Sport The likes of Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm will be part of golf’s return to free-to-air broadcasting in the UK this weekend. It comes as the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf League confirmed the 2025 season will be broadcast on ITVX in the United Kingdom. The league has previously been broadcast on YouTube in the UK [...]
Clear and simple calendars like NFL, not tennis, should be applauded in sport Sport Business The NFL, unlike tennis, should be applauded for its clear and simple sport calendar that sees athletes thrive, writes Ed Warner. Naomi Osaka, Gael Monfils, Jack Draper. Each retired from the Australian Open mid-match. No substitutes bench in tennis, so the ultimate anticlimax for spectators. Injuries are an occupational hazard, but across sport the sheer [...]
McIlroy U-turns on PGA Tour board move over ‘old wounds’ May 8, 2024 Rory McIlroy has backtracked on plans to return to the PGA Tour policy board, saying the process had reopened “old wounds”. The four-time major winner had looked set to replace Webb Simpson on the board in an effort to help get a potential deal across the line between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour [...]
LIV Golf champion Gooch set for US PGA after invite to major May 7, 2024 The reigning LIV Golf League individual champion Talor Gooch has received an invite to the US PGA Championship at Valhalla in an interesting move for golf. Gooch has received an invitation from the PGA of America, who have invited the American based exclusively on his LIV Golf results. He was not invited to the Masters [...]
LIV Adelaide result boosts idea of backing team over individual tour April 28, 2024 It was Australian glory Down Under in Adelaide when home heroes Ripper GC held their nerve against an all-South African Stinger GC in the first ever LIV Golf team playoff to take home a tidy bonus. Ripper GC – made up of Australians Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert – and Stinger [...]
LIV Golf Adelaide a point of difference for Saudi Arabia league April 25, 2024 When the LIV Golf roster tee off for the first event in the league since the Masters at Augusta earlier this month it is likely to feel like another marquee match event on the 2024 calendar. Because Adelaide, South Australia, is the closest the Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league has to its own major. The inaugural [...]