With the LIV Golf offseason underway, we’ve begun to see players sign contract extensions with their current teams. At first glance, it appears that many teams will look a bit different next year while a few will stay the same.

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One team that appears to be changing is Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs GC. Carlos Ortiz, who finished 15th in the LIV Golf standings, has declined his contract extension this week, which means he will be joining another team this offseason.

It’s been widely speculated that Ortiz will join Joaquin Niemann’s Torque GC, who is moving on from David Puig. It’s highly likely that Puig will join fellow Spaniards Sergio Garcia and Eugenio Chacarra on Fireballs GC. Both Puig and Chacarra are rising stars who were top-10 players in the WAGR before joining LIV. Both have since won on the Asian Tour and Chacarra has also won LIV Golf Bangkok.

The LIV Golf landscape will continue to change this offseason with players like Matthew Wolff expected to be traded as well as the additions of Asian Tour International Series Order of Merit winner Andy Ogletree as well as three qualifiers still to be promoted after the December 8th-10th qualifying event at Abu Dhabi Golf Club.

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According to golf coach Pete Cowen, Brooks Koepka still blames him for not winning the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.

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In an interview with Essentially Sports, Cowen reflected upon winning that 2019 U.S. Open with his client Gary Woodland, as his former (and now current) pupil, Brooks Koepka was in search of his third consecutive U.S. Open victory.

“Brooks always says to me, you cost me [my third US Open title].”

The British coach shared that to this day, Koepka still says to him “I would have won three tournaments in a row. That would have been unique.”

“So, he blames me for helping Gary.”

Koepka finished second in the tournament to Woodland, which is quite the effort for a player seeking three consecutive wins at the toughest test in golf.

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Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, has dropped her lawsuit against the 15-time major champion. She also dropped her appeal to the NDA she had signed when beginning her relationship with Woods.

Back in May, Florida judge Elizabeth Metzger heard Herman’s case to have the non-disclosure agreement nullified and determined that there was no evidence of any sexual harassment or abuse and therefore states that the non-disclosure agreement must be honored.

The judge gave an 11-page ruling and said the implication of sexual misconduct was “vague and threadbare”.

“Herman has had the opportunity to provide factual specificity for any claim relating to sexual assault or sexual harassment, however, she has not done so,” wrote Metzger.

The ruling is consistent with what Woods’ lawyers have been declaring. They’ve previously stated that the “case does not even attempt to assert a cause of action rising to the level of sexual harassment under any federal, tribal, or state law”.

Herman responded by filing the appeal that was dropped this week.

Fox News shared Herman’s statement to the court which read that she “was never a victim of sexual harassment or sexual abuse at the hands of Tiger Woods or any of his agents, and it is her position that she never asserted a claim for such.”

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