Golf

Forecast for the Masters: Water, Water Everywhere

Forecast for the Masters: Water, Water Everywhere

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Augusta National Golf Club was warm and sticky on Thursday. It might be the best run of acceptable weather at the Masters Tournament for a while.Friday is looking gloomy enough that tournament officials moved tee times 30 minutes earlier. And Saturday’s forecast calls for up to two …

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European Tour May Punish LIV Golfers, Arbitrators Rule

European Tour May Punish LIV Golfers, Arbitrators Rule

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Golf’s European tour may punish players who defected to the rival Saudi-financed LIV Golf series, an arbitration panel in London ruled in a decision released on Thursday, the first day of the Masters Tournament.With litigation in the United States possibly years from a conclusion, the panel’s decision …

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A New Twist for the Tradition-Bound Masters: The LIV Golf Era

A New Twist for the Tradition-Bound Masters: The LIV Golf Era

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The mystery started in earnest last spring and lasted until autumn’s twilight. But Phil Mickelson — among the most famous frontmen for LIV Golf, the league bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — insists that he believed he would be allowed to play the 2023 Masters …

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