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With most of their players based in the USA, Luke Donald could learn from Paul McGinley’s successful strategy of knitting a group of individuals into a team

Alliance with PGA and DP World Tours sparked talk of an end for the startup but this elite golf element carries momentum

Golfers reluctant to return to PGA Tour competition with LIV expansion on the cards

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Spanish star reveals US Open was catalyst for mending relationship between the Ryder Cup team-mates

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan will act as chief executive of a new entity formed following the shock merger

‘Some emotions are stirred up and you can’t help but feel left in the dark’

Architect of divisive Saudi merger has faced calls to stand down from his position

Democrat senator Richard Blumenthal decries Saudi Arabia’s ‘deeply disturbing human rights record at home and abroad’

‘We cannot compete with a foreign government with unlimited money,’ Monahan said

Didn’t they hate each other? What changed? And what happens next?

‘Golf gets bashed a lot in the media but the four Irish golfers approached did not go’

Other Irish businesses have links to a state with a much-maligned human rights record

The PGA Tour and DP World Tour announced a shock merger with LIV Golf on Tuesday

Even Rory Mcllroy acknowledged the cold, hard logic

Saudi-backed series and PGA Tour announced shock deal having initially caused rift between golfers

In the sobering truce that is the LIV-PGA deal, it’s clear that money talks the loudest and the Saudis have the most

The Northern Irish golfer has mixed emotions over deal and felt like ‘sacrificial lamb’ for defending the tour

Everything you need to know about the shock announcement unifying the rival tours

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan faced calls to resign at a 75-minute players’ meeting which he described as ‘intense and certainly heated’

Darragh Ó Sé fancies Dublin for the championship; Ireland’s Leon Dwyer hopeful of making Olympics mark

Three-times major winner admitted merger of controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf with PGA and DP tours ‘unfortunately ... proves sports washing works’

The PGA Tour released a statement on Tuesday confirming the news

PGA Tour and the DP World Tour had played out the perceived roles of the good guys but money ultimately talks

'Away from the glamour of golf courses and TV cameras there’s mounting repression in Saudi Arabia'

Ireland’s buoyant corporation tax returns give the State the luxury to invest for the future

McIlroy says he understands merit of Koepka’s place for US team but has ‘different feelings’ about European side

Life has apparently turned sour for the LIV golfer with swipes at Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy and a Ryder Cup snub

Plus: what to do when a player kicks his ball in a pile of leaves

What did the fine folk of west Clare do to deserve the worst people in sport landing on their doorstep?

Eric Trump says Trump Organisation had spoken ‘indirectly’ to controversial breakaway tour about possibility of holding tournament at former US president’s west of Ireland course

Lefty began the final round 10 shots behind Koepka but fired the low score of the day, a seven-under-par 65

It remains to be seen if the likes of Ian Poulter will appeal against the verdict or give up their membership

Players’ LIV differences outside the door during Champions dinner

This year’s field of 89 players at Augusta is the smallest since 2019

Everything you need to know about Augusta National and the first major of the year

LIV players can now be sanctioned for playing in conflicting events without permission

By inviting LIV golfers, tournament organisers have arranged a rare meeting of the world’s top players - and raised the prospect of an extraordinary finale