England's Aaron Rai, 31, won the PGA Championship at Aronimink with a final round 65, breaking a 107-year drought for Englishmen in the event. The tournament featured a crowded leaderboard with 21 players within four shots of the lead.
Future of rebel tour in jeopardy after Saudi investment withdrawnAustralian golfer laughs off retirement talk: ‘I’ve got a while yet’Cam Smith has laughed off retirement rumours, and said he has been given “every assurance” LIV Golf will continue beyond this year.The future of LIV – and Smith’s all-Australian Ripper GC team – is in jeopardy after Saudi Arabia withdrew funding of the breakaway league. Continue reading...
Australian golf officials are reassuring the public about the future of top golfers like Cam Smith, whose careers are uncertain due to LIV Golf's funding crisis. They express support for players' choices and hope for a unified global golf ecosystem.
With Saudi investment drying up, one of LIV’s highest-profile recruits may be having second thoughts as Australian officials call for the global golf ecosystem to come togetherHe was Australian golf’s shining light, a likeable everyman whose career has found the rough. Now, Cameron Smith “may be rethinking” his decision to stick with LIV Golf, according to the head of the PGA of Australia, after Saudi Arabian investors withdrew funding from the upstart tour.The entire Australian golf sector is wrestling with what a future without LIV – or with a fiscally restrained LIV-lite – might look like, as the South Australia government pushes on with spending $45m for an upgrade to a course still scheduled to host a LIV tournament from 2028. Continue reading...
