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At a Soaked P.G.A. Championship, Backward Ball Caps and the Umbrella Dance

PITTSFORD, N.Y.For a while during the third round of the P.G.A. Championship on Saturday, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose, Adam Scott and three or four other golfers were roaming the august grounds of the Oak Hill Country Club with their caps on backward.It makes me feel cool, Rose said.

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Brooks Koepka Surges to the Lead at P.G.A. Championship

PITTSFORD, N.Y.Four years ago, less than a week before he won his second consecutive P.G.A. Championship, Brooks Koepka allowed the world inside his swaggering mind.One hundred fifty-six in the field, so you figure at least 80 of them I'm just going to beat, he said at Bethpage in 2019.You figure about half of them won't play well from there, so you're down to about maybe 35, he added.

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Scheffler, Hovland and Conners Share the Lead at P.G.A. Championship

PITTSFORD, N.Y.Justin Rose, the golfer you remember but maybe have not thought all that much about lately in major tournaments, had hit two fairways all day.He had birdied as often as he had bogeyed.And when he walked off the course on Friday, his tournament score at one under par, he was positioned to contend at the P.G.A. Championship this weekend.

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Bryson DeChambeau Rediscovers His Groove at the P.G.A. Championship

PITTSFORD, N.Y.Bryson DeChambeau walked onto his final green in the first round of the 2023 P.G.A. Championship on Thursday and the modest gallery awaiting him remained hushed.DeChambeau was leading the event and on his way to a sterling 18-hole score, his best at an American major championship in three years.

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Ferocious Oak Hill Daunts P.G.A. Championship Field, With More to Come

PITTSFORD, N.Y.Scottie Scheffler had, at least in the moment, a share of the P.G.A. Championship lead when he offered a foreboding prediction Thursday afternoon: Oak Hill Country Club, already playing to the point of menace in the first round, would only become more terrorizing.The winds are expected to bluster.

Washington Post

LIV vs. PGA battle provides roster wrinkle for EA's upcoming golf game

When the popular EA Sports golf franchise returns this spring, it will immediately find itself wrestling with a new conundrum that was nowhere on the horizon when the series, formerly and familiarly known as the Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise, went dormant in 2015: What to do with PGA golfers leaving for the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tour?

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LIV Golfers, Paid Upfront, Giggle Their Way Around Trump Bedminster

Henrik Stenson won the third event on the LIV Golf tour, where nine-figure signing bonuses for top players guaranteed a carefree vibe.

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New England Patriots

Tom Brady takes funny shot at TNT crew after 'The Match' shank

In case you're one of those fans who can't get enough Tom Brady from watching him attempt to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a championship, TNT is here to quench your thirst by getting you an up-close look at the New England Patriots legend on the golf course.

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PGA Tour Accuses LIV Golf of Interfering With Its Contracts

The PGA Tour filed a counterclaim against the breakaway, Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, which has accused the tour of antitrust violations.

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Cameron Smith, Winner of This Year's British Open, Joins LIV Golf

Smith's defection had been expected, but Rory McIlroy tried to stave it off back in July.Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.

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PGA Stars Seek 'Some Sort of Unity' With LIV After Meeting With Tiger Woods

Adding to the drama, the LIV golfer Patrick Reed filed a defamation lawsuit against Golf Channel and the commentator Brandel Chamblee, seeking $750 million in damages.

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Why Do LIV Golfers Struggle to Explain Why They Left the PGA Tour?

The latest golfers to join the Saudi-backed series were vague and defensive in the face of hard questions about guaranteed money and human-rights issues.

Chicago Tribune

Cameron Belt: LIV, the PGA Tour's challenger, is reinvigorating a sport and its fans

If you follow sports as closely as I do, you know about the challenge being mounted to the PGA Tour's professional golf monopoly by LIV Golf, headed by Hall of Famer Greg Norman.

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'I hate being hated': LIV Golf's new recruits face a harsh reality

"Who likes to be hated? It's terrible."

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Rail Strife Shadows Plans for Record British Open Crowd

About 290,000 fans are expected at St. Andrews for this year's tournament.Whether they will be able to get there by train is a different matter.

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Boston Red Sox

Justin Thomas Shares Comical Story On Introduction To Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry

BROOKLINE - Justin Thomas might have a leg up on the competition this week as the PGA Tour professional already is well-versed when it comes to Boston sports fans.

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Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed Set to Join Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Tour

As recently as last week, DeChambeau denied being enticed by the massive payouts and appearance fees being offered to the world's top golfers by the rival league.

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SF real estate

Pro Golfer Bryson DeChambeau Is Selling His Dallas Mansion for $3.2M

Bryson DeChambeau has listed his lavish home in Dallas for $3.2 million

The mansion in Melshire Estates offers luxury features like a pool, HD golf simulator, and updated kitchen [ more ]

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Few Birdies, but One Double Bogey, on the Shortest-Ever U.S. Open Hole

At 81 yards, the par-3 15th hole at Los Angeles Country Club on Saturday was the shortest hole in the history of the U.S. Open.Only a golfer can fully grasp the mental torment that such a bite-size challenge poses, but here is one way to understand the situation: No one likes a hole where it's easier to throw the ball onto the green than it is to hit it there with a golf club.

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PGA Tour and LIV Golf Seek to Drop Litigation Against Each Other

The PGA Tour, LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund asked a federal judge in California on Friday to dismiss the litigation that catapulted golf's economic and power structure into the American court system.The request to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning that it cannot be refiled, came less than two weeks after the tour and the wealth fund, which bankrolled LIV, announced a tentative agreement to form a partnership.

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