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Jun 29, 2022
PGA Tour and DP World Tour strengthen alliance to combat LIV
Beginning in 2023, the top 10 players in the DP World Tour's rankings, in addition to those already exempt, will receive PGA Tour cards for the following season.
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Jun 27, 2022
Wimbledon marks end of era free from bans and boycotts in sports
'We will continue to see increased use of sports for cultural change, for value change, for policy change. It's only going to happen more and more.”
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Jun 23, 2022
Rory McIlroy calls Brooks Koepka and other LIV tour golfers 'duplicitous'
Rory McIlroy didn't hold back on Wednesday when discussing PGA Tour players who have elected to join the LIV Golf Invitational Series.
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Jun 11, 2022
Greg Norman proud to see LIV Golf tee off
Former world No. 1 Greg Norman spoke of his pride at bringing "free agency" to golf as his fledgling LIV Invitational Series got underway just north of London on Thursday.
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Jun 4, 2022
U.S. Women's Open offering record purse that's still not equal to men's prize money
The USGA nearly doubled the purse for the U.S. Women's Open in one fell swoop by adding a new sponsor.
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Jun 1, 2022
Dustin Johnson headlines inaugural LIV Golf event
World No. 13 Johnson, a two-time major champion, is the highest-ranked player in a field that currently includes 26 of the top 150 golfers in the world.
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May 14, 2022
PGA Tour's stance toward LIV Golf reveals uncharacteristic rancor in sport
Several times, Rory McIlroy, a four-time major winner who is ranked seventh in the world, has declared the breakaway LIV Golf tour 'dead in the water.”
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May 3, 2022
Greg Norman: Phil Mickelson's comments impacted Saudi-backed tour
Norman said that nearly one third of the top 50 players in the world were committed to playing in the new tour, which has restructured its schedule from 14 events to a potential eight.
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Feb 27, 2022
Phil Mickelson out as host of PGA Tour event as fallout continues
The six-time major winner, who hosted the American Express tournament since 2020, will not return to that role next year and his foundation will no longer serve as its charitable arm.
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Feb 24, 2022
Brooks Koepka says threat of Super Golf League isn't going away
'Somebody will sell out and go to it,' Koepka said.
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Feb 23, 2022
Phil Mickelson issues apology over Saudi comments
The six-time major champion admitted he was using interest from the Super Golf League as leverage to get PGA tour players more money via enhanced media rights.
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Feb 21, 2022
Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau join others in spurning Saudi-backed Super Golf League
Former world No. 1 Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau became the latest high-profile players to commit to the PGA Tour on Sunday, as the American-based circuit faces the threat of a rival Saudi-funded breakaway league.
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Feb 16, 2022
Collin Morikawa turns down Saudi-backed league to stick with PGA Tour
The Super Golf League has been actively recruiting from the two main tours, trying to lure away the world's top stars with offers ranging up to a reported $150 million to jump tours.
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Jan 18, 2022
Hideki Matsuyama returns to top 10 in world rankings
The reigning Masters champion has been as high as No. 2 in the world, but hasn't finished a year higher than No. 18 since 2017.
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Nov 16, 2021
Ryo Ishikawa suspended for one month after violating quarantine
The 30-year-old also had his resignation as vice chairman and board member accepted after the story of him breaching the 14-day quarantine period was first reported in early November.
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Nov 9, 2021
Ryo Ishikawa leaves key roles after caught violating quarantine
Ishikawa was photographed entering the golf lodge after a round on a course in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 27, only days after he returned home from California.
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Oct 26, 2021
Collin Morikawa rises to career-high No. 2 in world rankings
After finishing seventh during last weekend's Zozo Championship, the 24-year-old now has 8.4710 average points, moving him past Ryder Cup teammate Dustin Johnson.
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Jun 7, 2021
Filipino Japanese teen Yuka Saso wins U.S. Women's Open
Saso topped Japan's Nasa Hataoka in a playoff after the pair finished the final round tied for the lead at 4-under.
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Apr 26, 2021
Japan's golf courses enjoy boost amid pandemic
Visitors to Chugoku's 109 courses topped 370,000 in March, an eight-year high for that month
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Apr 17, 2021
In Hideki Matsuyama, Japan gets its long-sought Masters champion
His victory was the first ever for a Japanese man in a major golf championship, and with it Matsuyama claimed his place in the pantheon of Japanese sports heroes.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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