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Oct 20, 2022
Rory McIlroy dismisses Phil Mickelson's view PGA Tour is 'trending downward'
Rory McIlroy said he did not agree with Phil Mickelson's assertion that the PGA Tour is "trending downwards" and added that golfers who joined the Saudi-backed breakaway LIV Golf Series have thrust the sport into a state of flux.
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Oct 19, 2022
Jon Rahm: ‘Bad blood’ in Ryder Cup team rooms won’t work
The Spaniard said it's 'important' for Team Europe to have a welcoming stance toward its potential players to keep team chemistry in balance as divisions emerge over the LIV Golf Series.
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Oct 17, 2022
Brooks Koepka cashes in during playoff to earn big payday in final individual event of LIV Golf season
Koepka secured the biggest payday of his career with a $4 million playoff win over close friend Peter Uihlein on the Saudi-funded LIV Golf breakaway tour on Sunday.
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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.
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Japan and the U.S. begin tariff talks on good terms, but without breakthroughs
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolts Nagano
A map showing the location of an earthquake that hit Nagano Prefecture on Friday evening, with the numbers indicating the seismic intensity on the shindo scale to 7.
Parts of Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines to be suspended over weekend
Sections of the outer loop of Tokyo's Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line will be shut down all day Saturday, and from the start of service through around noon on Sunday.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.
Privacy and transparency clash in debate over bill on artificial insemination
Sachiko Ishizuka, who was born via artificial insemination by donor (AID), tells her story to lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 9.
Why Ishiba became the first prime minister to hold talks with Rengo in 16 years
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Japanese Trade Union Confederation chief Tomoko Yoshino in a meeting Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.

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