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LIV GOLF

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Oct 11, 2022
Hideki Matsuyama shuns LIV, commits to PGA on eve of Zozo defense
The PGA Tour has banned LIV golfers from competing in their events and world No. 19 Matsuyama said he had no intention of joining the rebel circuit.
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Oct 11, 2022
Dustin Johnson pockets $18 million as inaugural LIV Series champion
The American, 38, shot a five-under-par 67 on Sunday to finish on nine-under par, leaving him with an insurmountable 42-point lead over Branden Grace of South Africa.
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Oct 5, 2022
Luke Donald says Ryder Cup can 'unify' golf despite LIV split
The Europe team captain, who took the position after his predecessor Henrik Stenson was sacked for joining LIV, said the event will help put the bitterness between dueling tours to one side.
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Sep 30, 2022
PGA countersues Saudi-backed LIV Golf in antitrust battle
The PGA Tour was responding to an antitrust complaint filed almost two months ago by 11 golfers calling it an 'entrenched monopolist.”
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Sep 28, 2022
Phil Mickelson, three others drop out of LIV lawsuit against PGA Tour
The players' decision to drop out of the lawsuit comes about a month after the PGA Tour made sweeping changes including increased purses and an earnings assurance program.
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Sep 18, 2022
Phil Mickelson: LIV series is 'here to stay'
The breakaway circuit launched in June and counts 12 major champions among its players.
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Sep 17, 2022
LIV Golf defections deliver blow to Presidents Cup
The International squad will field eight rookies against an American lineup with 12 of the world's 26 top-ranked players.
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Sep 15, 2022
LIV Golf's Greg Norman has 'no interest' in talking to PGA Tour
The launch of LIV this year plunged golf into crisis, with the rebel circuit sparking a bitter split that threatens to tear the sport apart.
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Sep 7, 2022
Billy Horschel calls LIV players at BMW PGA event ‘hypocritical’
Horschel, an outspoken critic of the Saudi-backed LIV circuit, was peeved that some LIV players who had never previously played in Europe were on hand at Wentworth Club outside London.
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Sep 1, 2022
No. 2 Cameron Smith bemoans lack of ranking points for LIV golfers
'It's really a shame we're not getting world ranking points out here,' Smith said. 'To the fans of major championship golf, it may be a little bit unfair on them.
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Aug 31, 2022
British Open champion Cameron Smith joins LIV with five others
Cameron Smith is the highest-ranked player to flee the PGA Tour for LIV, and the world No. 2 was reportedly richly rewarded for his decision.
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Aug 25, 2022
PGA Tour fires back at LIV Golf with sweeping changes to schedule and prize pool
The PGA Tour is overhauling its schedule and boosting its prize pool in response to a players meeting last week in Delaware and pressure from the upstart LIV Golf Series.
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Aug 18, 2022
PGA players rally around Tiger Woods in fight against LIV Golf
'He is the hero that we've all looked up to,' Rory McIlroy said. 'His voice carries further than anyone else's in the game of golf.'
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Aug 17, 2022
Tiger Woods and Rickie Fowler huddle with PGA players over LIV schism
Woods was expected to 'rally support around the PGA Tour' among the top players in the world who haven't already defected to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series.
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Aug 10, 2022
LIV Golf trio denied chance to play in PGA playoffs
All three were among those suspended by the PGA Tour after they teed off in their first event of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series in June.
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Aug 4, 2022
Phil Mickelson among group of LIV golfers suing PGA Tour
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of California, challenges the indefinite suspensions imposed by PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan.
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Aug 2, 2022
PGA Tour offers record $415 million in 2022-23 season
The tour, which in recent months has been challenged by the rebel LIV Golf Series, has tightened its playoffs and boosted prize money at eight of its events.
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Jul 31, 2022
Donald Trump-hosted LIV event a mixed bag of big money and few fans
The former president's 520-acre property failed to attract the thousands of fans on Saturday that would typically swarm the fairways, merchandise tents and food venues of a PGA Tour event.
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Jul 30, 2022
Henrik Stenson says money was factor in decision to join LIV Golf
Stenson was stripped of the Ryder Cup captaincy after joining the LIV Golf series.
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Jul 26, 2022
Sergio Garcia to 'hold off' on plan to resign from DP World Tour
The 42-year-old Spaniard said he was probably going to leave his home European circuit, only to have a change of heart as he looks ahead to qualification for the Ryder Cup.
'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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