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Report: Familiar PGA Tour venue defects to LIV Golf
One of the great European Tour venues has been lost, and now the PGA Tour is feeling the same.
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Once venue for the seasonal finale, Valderrama has since had an off-on relationship with the European and DP World Tours, but was welcomed back in 2017. The short but extremely tricky track has since seen victories for Sergio Garcia (twice), Christiaan Bezuidenhout, John Catlin, Matt Fitzpatrick and, this year, Adrian Otaegui.
Otaegui’s victory in October was shrouded in media attention.
Not only did the 29-year-old win the event by recording the lowest score in the eight-year history of the event, he did so by equalling the biggest winning margin. That wasn’t enough, though, as Otaegui was the first ex-LIV player to win on a mainstream tour.
Because of his history, the DP World Tour almost blanked his overnight lead, refusing to tweet any of his rather impressive play in retaliation, it appeared, to the over-turning of his injunction set before the Scottish Open.
Valders had enough, and once approached by Greg Norman’s organization in September, seems to have made its mind up, the venue no longer appearing on the DP World Tour schedule.
Now the PGA Tour is set to lose one of its more recently loved tracks.
As reported by Adam Schupak at Golfweek, after 16 years, the Mexican track, El Camaleon Golf Club, is ready to join the LIV Golf series, with reports suggesting it will hold the first LIV golf event of 2023.
Designed by Norman, the organization already has links with the two best-known Mexican players in Abraham Ancer and Carlos Ortiz, and seems a logical inclusion to the new 14-event roster.
Originally an alternate event, the Mayakoba Golf Classic was elevated in status in 2013, and has since been won by the likes of current LIV players Pat Perez and Graeme McDowell, whilst current world number 12, Viktor Hovland, back-to-back winner in 2020 and 2021, is the only multiple winner of a PGA Tour event held at El Camaleon.
Whilst the PGA Tour announced several enhancements to the 2023 schedule, they did not include Mayakoba on the list, making it a prime target for the rebel tour.
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Bryson’s current situation with Cobra revealed as he uses TaylorMade driver at Saudi International
At this week’s Saudi International, Bryson DeChambeau surprised golf fans by putting TaylorMade’s Stealth Plus 2 driver in the bag. Bryson has been a long time staffer at Cobra Golf and it was a shock to see the 28-year-old with a driver from a different OEM to begin his season.
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Per Dan Rapaport of Barstool Sports, a Cobra rep has confirmed that Bryson is simply out of contract with the brand, but that the two parties are currently in discussion about this year and the future.
Regarding Bryson gaming the TaylorMade Stealth this week in Saudi Arabia…a Cobra rep confirms that Bryson DeChambeau is not currently on staff with Cobra as his contract was up at the end of 2022.
“We are in discussions about 2023 and the future.”
— Dan Rapaport (@Daniel_Rapaport) February 3, 2023
In our forums, our members have been discussing the changeup from DeChambeau, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
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‘Sums up my life in the golf industry’ – Paige Spiranac on polarizing Phil Mickelson tweet
After a long break from Twitter, Phil Mickelson was extremely active on Twitter yesterday. His resurgence resulted in the golf world reacting for most of the day.
Paige Spiranac used one of Phil’s tweets to “sum up” what it was like to be a female in the golf industry.
Sums up my life in the golf industry lol pic.twitter.com/5bVIYUqxEW
— Paige Spiranac (@PaigeSpiranac) February 3, 2023
The tweet seemed to be a joke, and to be clear the tweet Phil shared wasn’t directed towards Spiranac, yet some Lefty detractors weighed in calling the tweet “misogynistic.”
The full context of the tweet is here:
Here’s the context pic.twitter.com/urNM5XfdTE
— Tyler Mathieu (@TylerMathieu15) February 3, 2023
We can be sure that as long as Mickelson is this active on Twitter, the app will be buzzing with golf personalities and their reactions.
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‘The hypocrisy is astounding’ – Phil Mickelson takes aim at RBC for missing logo at Saudi International
This morning, Cameron Young played the first round of this week’s Saudi International at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club.
As noticed by Twitter user “EPatGolf”, the 25-year-old PGA Tour player was missing the RBC logo that is typically on his sleeve.
https://t.co/8rD4cuBwiX pic.twitter.com/QK6X5VuL0F
— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) February 2, 2023
Patterson speculated that the reason for the missing logo was RBC’s reluctance to be associated with golf being played in Saudi Arabia.
Never a stranger to controversy, Phil Mickelson weighed in on the topic, accusing RBC of hypocrisy.
RBC was part of the team that brought Aramco public and they made many $ millions on the deal. The hypocrisy is astounding ?
— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) February 2, 2023
Mickelson has been extremely active on Twitter lately and replied to a Danny Woodhead tweet just a short while ago about a potential LIV vs PGA Tour match with Tiger Woods and Phil as captains, even managing a little dig at his long-time foe.
It sounds great,but we would dominate them so soundly and it would be over so quick that tv would have to fill an hour of dead time. That’s why it’s not happening at this time ????
— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) February 2, 2023
Tell him he can use a cart
— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) February 2, 2023
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Grey Jay M.
Nov 29, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Do you fools ever get tired of using words like “defect” to report news? It’s just constant language used to try and stir up a controversy. You’re all like the kids in grade school going “did you hear what xyz said about you?”