Sports
Ready or not, sports gets another golf tour today with a news conference at Sherwood Country Club to announce a new golf venture that has generated great controversy before its birth.
Nov. 17, 1994
The PGA Tour says members who are playing in the LIV Saudi-funded league in London are no longer eligible to play tour events.
June 9, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly into the PGA Tour’s merger with LIV Golf, which is financed by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund.
June 15, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division is reportedly interested in the dispute between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series.
July 11, 2022
A federal judge in California has ruled three golfers who joined Saudi-backed LIV Golf will not be able to compete in the PGA Tour’s postseason.
Aug. 9, 2022
Majors: Proposed circuit would be for former winners, 37-55 years old, who are rarely in the hunt on the regular tour.
Feb. 27, 2002
The PGA Tour makes its boldest response yet to LIV Golf, announcing a plan that includes the best players committing to a 20-tournament schedule.
Aug. 24, 2022
The PGA Tour has essentially let Saudi Arabia, known for human rights violations, buy professional golf competition, columnist Bill Plaschke writes.
June 6, 2023
Fox Television is not the bad guy in the World Golf Tour’s conflict with the PGA Tour, said David Evans, the network’s president and chief executive officer.
Dec. 1, 1994
For the 24.3 million Americans who struggle just to steady their backswings, golf is a fiendishly difficult game--”a good walk spoiled,” Mark Twain called it--wrapped in a mantle of immaculate fairways and gracious traditions.
Oct. 22, 1995