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Norman On Nicklaus: “One hundred percent truth? Jack’s a hypocrite."

The Washington Post’s Kent Babb profiled Greg Norman on the eve of LIV Golf’s first event and shared several eye-opening anecdotes. Including how he’s “cut off his longtime mentor” according to Babb’s description.

“One hundred percent truth? Jack’s a hypocrite,” he says. “When he came out with those comments, I’m thinking: Jack must have a short memory.” He says Nicklaus attended a LIV presentation and later wrote in an email that the new tour had his blessing.

“Quote-unquote, he said: ‘This is good for our game. If it’s good for the game of golf, it’s good by me,’ ” Norman says. “So, you want the facts? You’ve got the facts. Know what you said before you open your mouth.”

A spokesman for Nicklaus, who’s being sued by his own company partly because of his negotiations with the Saudis, declined to make him available for an interview but sent a statement reiterating Nicklaus’s “unwavering support” for the PGA Tour and wishing Norman well.

I think their mutual friend, hero and favorite President Donald Trump should bring these two back together! The Palm Beach Peace Accords! Jared can package it so everyone profits.

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Minjee Lee Sets The U.S. Women's Open Scoring Record

The golf holes on the best links in Scotland and England have several different ways of playing them, and because they do not present just one and only one way to everybody, the interest in the game increases with the diversity of its problems.  DONALD ROSS

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LIV Golf's London Fire Sale: Free Tickets For Anyone Who Wants Them!

Putting greens constructed with relation to the length and topography of the hole are the making of a real golf course. DONALD ROSS

/ Geoff Shackelford

England’s Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter are the top stars returning to home turf for LIV Golf’s first event in London this week. To celebrate, they gave out a coupon code offering free passes to the first 100 fans using the codes POULTER25 or WESTWOOD25.

Days later the offer still works in Westwood’s case, while 24 hours in the freebies are still there using Poulter’s name. Note in the example above, I asked for the max of 8 and

Some just tried for fun, put in JOHNSON25, and also got a free pass. Or up to 8 if they want.

One player + 25 who did not work? MICKELSON.




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LIV's Cutting Edge Talking Points: We're Here To Grow The Game

Putting greens constructed with relation to the length and topography of the hole are the making of a real golf course. DONALD ROSS

/ Geoff Shackelford

One can only close the eyes to picture the jubilation that must have come over the LIV Golf executive team as they landed on the real mission of their scheme to get-rich off the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. Hoping to find their Think Different vision for the league and appeal to the young people who have not been wowed by modern game messaging, they brainstormed and landed on? Grow the game!

I’ve written about this virus before and its ability to keep going even as the game has grown substantially the last few years. But it’s such an elusive strain. So much so that LIV’s high-paid executives aren’t dialed in enough to know it’s a laughing stock amongst those in the coveted demo they are so hungry to sportwash on The YouTube.

You’d think a young, hip leader like Greg Norman would have known this.

Nice job by The Fried Egg to obtain and share these profound talking points which, unfortunately, were put in writing. Generally a medium not conducive to reaching the world’s leading golf professionals.




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Kevin Na Address His Lone Fan: I Must Resign From The PGA Tour

Like so many golfers, I became an “armchair architect” at an early age, constantly visualizing ways to improve my home course, Scioto, in Columbus, along with, as my wings spread, many of the others I played…more and more, I began to ask myself whether it was possible to create something more interesting and inviting. JACK NICKLAUS

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"Skyline Seats for a 100 foot high golf viewing experience like never before"

Like so many golfers, I became an “armchair architect” at an early age, constantly visualizing ways to improve my home course, Scioto, in Columbus, along with, as my wings spread, many of the others I played…more and more, I began to ask myself whether it was possible to create something more interesting and inviting. JACK NICKLAUS

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"[LIV Golf is] something that doesn't represent the grind."

Like so many golfers, I became an “armchair architect” at an early age, constantly visualizing ways to improve my home course, Scioto, in Columbus, along with, as my wings spread, many of the others I played…more and more, I began to ask myself whether it was possible to create something more interesting and inviting. JACK NICKLAUS

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Colonial 2022: Another Rough Ratings Week On The PGA Tour

The Ross genius was primarily his gift for constructing greens and green complexes. He elevated his greens anywhere from a few feet to a dozen yards above his fairways and surrounded them with sand and grass bunkers that allowed ample entrances on long holes but permitted little or no margin for error on short holes. BEN CRENSHAW

/ Geoff Shackelford

The 2022 Charles Schwab Challenge featured World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler as the third round leader and Jordan Spieth in contention, but that was not nearly enough to help CBS’s ratings.

Eventually won by Sam Burns in a playoff over Scheffler, the final round telecast drew a 1.46/2.43 million average audience, down 2021’s 1.79/3.11 million for Jason Kokrak’s win over Jordan Spieth. All numbers courtesy of ShowBuzzDaily’s weekly sports report on a busy weekend for viewers.

Saturday’s CBS broadcast from Colonial and all Golf Channel telecasts showed declines. The LPGA’s match play event at Shadow Creek was also down across the board and did not draw a top 150 rating for Sunday’s final match.

The NCAA Women’s Championship earlier in the week on Golf Channel also failed to rate.




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Darren Clarke Turns Down Lucrative LIV Broadcasting Due To Threat Of Champions Tour Sanctions

The Ross genius was primarily his gift for constructing greens and green complexes. He elevated his greens anywhere from a few feet to a dozen yards above his fairways and surrounded them with sand and grass bunkers that allowed ample entrances on long holes but permitted little or no margin for error on short holes. BEN CRENSHAW

/ Geoff Shackelford

Alex Miceli reports that former Open Champion Darren Clarke was offered a three-year deal to be lead analyst for LIV Golf’s broadcasts but chose to protect his playing career.

Miller Brady, the president of the PGA Tour Champions, delivered the bad news to Clarke in a phone call on Tuesday, stating that Clarke’s involvement in the broadcast would be a breach of regulations and would be subject to disciplinary actions.

“I really enjoy my time on the Champions tour and didn’t want to jeopardize it,” Clarke said in a call with SI.com/Morning Read from the Principal Charity Classic in Des Moines. 

Clarke would not disclose the amount of the offer but was clear that the offer was considerable.

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Report: Dustin Johnson Got £100 Million Because Phil Hasn't Committed Yet

The Ross genius was primarily his gift for constructing greens and green complexes. He elevated his greens anywhere from a few feet to a dozen yards above his fairways and surrounded them with sand and grass bunkers that allowed ample entrances on long holes but permitted little or no margin for error on short holes. BEN CRENSHAW

/ Geoff Shackelford

So imagine if James Corrigan and Tom Morgan are correctly reporting that Greg Norman lured Dustin Johnson away from the PGA Tour after Phil Mickelson refused to fully commit what Phil is worth now?

After all, Johnson’s not exactly P.T. Barnum in the sales department so Mickelson must be worth double to make the LIV Golf thing go, right? A spot awaits Mickelson for next week’s event and now it seems this has been less about wishing to remain reclusive and more about Phil wanting to get the best deal.

Meanwhile, Johnson and Graeme McDowell were dropped by RBC, sponsor’s of next week’s Canadian Open they were probably contractually obligated to play.

McDowell told Steve Carroll it was a business decision for him and he managed to avoid invoking a “grow the game,” which was nice.


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Texas Captures Its Fourth NCAA Title With Win Over Arizona State

I am fully aware that more and more golfers have come to intensely dislike the stretching of seemingly all modern courses to seven thousand and more yards, not only because they can’t handle length, but because of the higher construction and maintenance costs involved…the developer mindset that has evolved from the massive overuse of perhaps the single emptiest phrase in the entire history of golf, namely, “Championship Course.” JACK NICKLAUS

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Quadrilateral: Major(s) News & Notes, June 2, 2022

I am fully aware that more and more golfers have come to intensely dislike the stretching of seemingly all modern courses to seven thousand and more yards, not only because they can’t handle length, but because of the higher construction and maintenance costs involved…the developer mindset that has evolved from the massive overuse of perhaps the single emptiest phrase in the entire history of golf, namely, “Championship Course.” JACK NICKLAUS

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LIV Lands DJ For First Event Filled Out Mostly By Once-Greats, A Lot Of South Africans And Mostly People You've Never Heard Of

The LIV field lives! It took a while but the June 9-12 event finally has a field, almost.

There’s so much to shake your head at and so much to laugh at who will play for gobs of undeserved money next week in London.

Dustin Johnson is the headliner for now and despite being a well-know RBC team member obligated to play the Canadian Open—one would think—he will likely lose his partnership based on this RBC statement obtained by Adam Stanley:

Johnson’s participation is silly on so many levels. Besides the lack of loyalty to the PGA Tour and a sponsor like RBC that puts him in ads despite being a less than eloquent pitchman, the 2020 Masters champion has been back and forth on his desire to grab the Saudi cash. In February he was out, but by May’s PGA he was looking forward to seeing how the event played out.

He’s all about the money.

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The Match Is Back With Only Superstar QB's And A Producer Who Did Time

I am fully aware that more and more golfers have come to intensely dislike the stretching of seemingly all modern courses to seven thousand and more yards, not only because they can’t handle length, but because of the higher construction and maintenance costs involved…the developer mindset that has evolved from the massive overuse of perhaps the single emptiest phrase in the entire history of golf, namely, “Championship Course.” JACK NICKLAUS

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Nicklaus On Saudi Meeting: “I did it out of courtesy to them because we're doing a golf course for them."

A course that continually offers problems - one with fight in it, if you please - is the one that keeps the player keen for the game. DONALD ROSS

/ Geoff Shackelford

Jack Nicklaus offered a perfectly reasonable counter to Howard Milstein’s claim. Now we’ll have to see what the response is from the Nicklaus Companies head suing the company namesake.

From Bob Harig’s story at Morning Read:

“They obviously called me,’’ Nicklaus said. “And we’ve had a contract on a golf course in Saudi Arabia for over a couple of years. Essentially the same group.

“So when they called Jackie — my son Jackie organized the meeting, and they came into the Bear's Club (in Florida). We met a couple of guys. John Rees and Paul Stringer from the Nicklaus companies were there because we were doing the golf course, and they proposed this thing to me.

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Only Steph Curry Understands How He Wants His Clubs Regripped

A course that continually offers problems - one with fight in it, if you please - is the one that keeps the player keen for the game. DONALD ROSS

/ Geoff Shackelford

Non-golfers might find it a bit odd to see Steph Curry picking his clubs at the local PGA Superstore when the NBA Finals begin Thursday.

Presuming this was a regripping, any golfer can understand how that’s a task not to be trusted to an assistant.

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Looming Questions Halfway Through 2022's Major Season

A course that continually offers problems - one with fight in it, if you please - is the one that keeps the player keen for the game. DONALD ROSS

/ Geoff Shackelford

Deprived of another day wondering who might be turning up at the LIV’s first London event in a week, I sat typed out some looming questions for the second half of 2022. Holy cow there’s a lot to be resolved in the coming weeks and months.

Jack, Howard, Nelly, Tiger, Phil, Brooks, Bryson, Brookline, Congressional, St Andrews, Portmarnock, Muirfield, Winged Foot, Riviera, Distance and plenty more on the rest-of-'22 radar now at the Quadrilateral.


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Freshman Wins NCAA Individual Title, NCAA Elite Eight Set

Adam Woodward reports on a wild finish to the men’s individual title chase that ended in a four-man playoff won by Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent. The true freshman joins a small group to have won the title in their first year, including Ben Crenshaw and Phil Mickelson.

The final eight teams are set, with Tuesday featuring 36-holes of matches concluding with Wednesday’s final. It was a remarkable show by top ranked teams backing up their season-long efforts to reach the elite eight. Woodward previews the bracket and morning matches.

The teams and TV Times:


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Pine Needles: All 18 From Above

Is it not high time that Authority placed a definite limit upon the golfer's insatiable greed for distance? Does not history teach that an art is ever ruled by a small intelligent minority? Why, then, pay attention to the ever-unthinking majority? Let them have their damn ball; but if they wish to enter the lists of the academy of the Amateur and Open Championships then they must use implements that will compel them to reflect in their play the best traditions of the sport that have been inherited from the past. And such limitations would be in line with the practice that prevails when it comes to contests of skill in other sports.
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"Rebirth at Riv: 2012 NCAAs, an oral history"

Is it not high time that Authority placed a definite limit upon the golfer's insatiable greed for distance? Does not history teach that an art is ever ruled by a small intelligent minority? Why, then, pay attention to the ever-unthinking majority? Let them have their damn ball; but if they wish to enter the lists of the academy of the Amateur and Open Championships then they must use implements that will compel them to reflect in their play the best traditions of the sport that have been inherited from the past. And such limitations would be in line with the practice that prevails when it comes to contests of skill in other sports.
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