{"id":372268,"date":"2025-12-26T04:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T04:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:21:13","slug":"liv-golf-issues-still-reign-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372268\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf issues still reign supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"

As our Adam Schupak aptly argued earlier on Golfweek, the PGA Tour was chock-full of exciting moments<\/a> in 2025, with Rory McIlroy’s victory at Augusta the most indelible.<\/p>\n

But what were the stories you read? Each year, we finish off the calendar with a deep dive into the numbers, a look at the posts that got the most clicks.<\/p>\n

So without further ado, here’s a look at the five stories you came to us for in 2025.<\/p>\n

1. Adam Scott confirms what has been widely reported about PGA Tour, LIV Golf unification<\/p>\n

Adam Scott confirmed what has widely been reported: there\u2019s little movement in efforts to reunify men\u2019s professional golf.<\/p>\n

As a member of the PGA Tour\u2019s policy board, Scott has had a front row seat in the negotiations between the Tour and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund, the financial backer of LIV Golf. Scott participated in the talks earlier this year, which were orchestrated by U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House.<\/p>\n

Here’s the rest of the story.<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Former LIV Golf winner rips league, says new goal is chasing PGA Tour card<\/p>\n

Eugenio Chacarra, the former world No. 2 amateur who turned pro to join LIV Golf out of Oklahoma State, won in his fifth start at LIV Golf Bangkok in 2022. But heading into 2025, he found himself in the middle of a career shift. A member of Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs GC, Chacarra wasn’t re-signed ahead of 2025, and he chose to try to find a pathway to the PGA Tour in 2025 instead of playing for LIV Golf.<\/p>\n

Chacarra detailed LIV Golf’s unfulfilled promises and a 24-year-old’s chase for a lifelong goal after stepping out and trying to be a part of something different to begin his career.<\/p>\n

Here’s more on what Chacarra said.<\/a><\/p>\n

3. PGA Tour will return to popular Texas city, other changes coming to schedule<\/p>\n

Austin, Texas, was reinserted into the PGA Tour schedule, albeit in a less desirable spot in the schedule. The WGC-Dell Match Play was played two weeks before the Masters in 2023, and with a massive purse and no cut, it boasted one of the season’s best fields.<\/p>\n

A new tournament was dropped into the FedEx Cup Fall, meaning many of the Tour’s best players likely won’t be in attendance.<\/p>\n

Here’s more on the story.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lucas Glover tears into Caves Valley Golf Club: ‘I feel sorry for the members’<\/p>\n

Lucas Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open winner who isn\u2019t afraid to share his thoughts, wasn\u2019t a big fan of host Caves Valley Golf Club of the BMW Championship. The six-time PGA Tour winner said, \u201cI feel sorry for the members that have to play that now, because it\u2019s virtually unplayable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caves Valley outside Baltimore was designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 1991. It is ranked by Golfweek\u2019s Best as the No. 6 private club in Maryland. The PGA Tour played the layout in the 2021 BMW Championship as part of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and Patrick Cantlay and Bryson DeChambeau tied at 27 under par with Cantlay going on to win the playoff. Soft conditions that week favored low scoring.<\/p>\n

Here’s more of what Glover said.<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Collin Morikawa splits with longtime caddie, hires Joe Greiner to carry bag<\/p>\n

Collin Morikawa had a new caddie when he teed it up at the Truist Championship in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Morikawa hired veteran caddie Joe Greiner and parted ways with J.J. Jakovac, his only caddie since turning pro in 2019 at the RBC Canadian Open.<\/p>\n

Here’s what our Adam Schupak wrote about the story<\/a> (which was only the beginning).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As our Adam Schupak aptly argued earlier on Golfweek, the PGA Tour was chock-full of exciting moments in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4891,256,64,129216,63,201293,6933,21101,201294,13885,2490,6008,5709,755,6007,3389,21104,23171,24495,201295,39408,314,331,324,44,323,335,39497,1747,39404,756,23170,23179,85,635,155,6019,245,16494,3281],"class_list":{"0":"post-372268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-4891","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-augusta","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-bryson","14":"tag-bryson-dechambeau","15":"tag-competitions","16":"tag-dechambeau","17":"tag-donald","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-enabled","20":"tag-ga","21":"tag-golf","22":"tag-highlights","23":"tag-international","24":"tag-international-sports-competitions","25":"tag-listicle","26":"tag-masters","27":"tag-masters-tournament-2025","28":"tag-mcilroy","29":"tag-modular","30":"tag-modular-story","31":"tag-neutral","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-overall","34":"tag-overall-neutral","35":"tag-pga","36":"tag-pga-tour","37":"tag-rory","38":"tag-rory-mcilroy","39":"tag-smg","40":"tag-smg-listicle","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-sports-news","43":"tag-story","44":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","45":"tag-tour","46":"tag-tournament","47":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}