Golf

How the PGA Tour and Liv Golf Merger Could Collapse

How the PGA Tour and Liv Golf Merger Could Collapse

Golf’s big deal — a planned partnership between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — is not how big deals are ordinarily done.There were almost no outside bankers or lawyers involved in negotiations that led to a five-page framework agreement, and only so much input from the …

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Rory McIlroy Just Misses a Hollywood Ending at the U.S. Open

Rory McIlroy Just Misses a Hollywood Ending at the U.S. Open

It might have been fitting if someone from Holywood won this year’s U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. But Rory McIlroy, born in the Northern Ireland town of Holywood, is not having that kind of year.On Sunday, McIlroy was chasing his first major championship title in nine years, a …

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Wyndham Clark Captures the U.S. Open

Wyndham Clark Captures the U.S. Open

Two Tuesdays ago, as the golf world erupted into chaos and fury, Wyndham Clark did not rush to write a shock-and-awe Twitter post. He did not fume in a meeting with the PGA Tour commissioner about the surprise pact with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. He did not moralize or …

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