{"id":817924,"date":"2026-07-23T03:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T03:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817924\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T03:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T03:36:14","slug":"agd-live-cleeks-gc-captain-martin-kaymer-says-its-highly-unlikely-next-months-team-championship-will-go-ahead-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817924\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2022 AGD LIVE \u2022: Cleeks GC captain Martin Kaymer says it&#8217;s &#8216;highly unlikely&#8217; next month&#8217;s Team Championship will go ahead \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(PHOTO: Stuart Franklin)<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 23 \u2013\u00a011am: The hits just seem to keep coming for LIV Golf.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/asian-tour-partners-with-pga-tour-dp-world-tour-leaves-behind-liv-golf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the circuit lost a partner in the Asian Tour<\/a>, which announced it was aligning with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour. Part of the portfolio that LIV Golf executives have been shopping to future investors is a schedule that includes Asian Tour events. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/liv-golf-event-cancelled-martin-kaymer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today\u2019s Golfer in the UK published a story<\/a>\u00a0in which two-time major winner Martin Kaymer, captain of the Cleeks GC, said it was \u201chighly unlikely\u201d that LIV\u2019s team championship, scheduled for next month at The Cardinal course in Michigan, will be played. The story said that the infrastructure at the course has yet to be built on the course. <\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, Kaymer said that the Indianapolis event, set for a week before the Michigan stop, is most likely to happen. LIV\u2019s UK tournament outside London begins Thursday. \u2013\u00a0Ryan Herrington<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 23 \u2013\u00a010am: With a week off in Europe before heading into this week\u2019s Women\u2019s Scottish Open, followed by the Women\u2019s British Open, World No.1 Nelly Korda enjoyed a nostalgic homecoming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her parents are Czech natives, and the family got to spend time in her father Petr\u2019s hometown of Prague. \u201cLots of calories and food, but a lot of walking, too, so it kind of balanced out,\u201d Korda said on Wednesday at Dundonald Links in Scotland. There were milestones, too, with Korda saying she drove on the \u201cother side\u201d of the road for the first time. \u201cParking, not very good. But everything else was great.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/120455-attachment.jpg\" alt=\"A little adversity and a new putter have Nelly Korda looking a lot like the dominant player she was to start 2024\" class=\"wp-image-120456\"  \/>A little adversity and a new putter have Nelly Korda looking a lot like the dominant player she was to start 2024<\/p>\n<p>She also conquered every American\u2019s fear on the British roadway: roundabouts. \u201cYeah, a lot of roundabouts here,\u201d she said. \u201cRoundabout, roundabout, roundabout.\u201d Coming off her first missed cut of the season at the Evian, Korda will hope for a strong prep this week as she heads into trying to win a third major this season in the Women\u2019s British at Royal Lytham &amp; St Annes. <br \/>\u2013\u00a0Tod Leonard<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 23 \u2013 9am: Ryan Fox\u2019s Open Championship victory excited a lot of people, most specifically the equipment company he endorses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Srixon got a big boost in enthusiasm for its ZXi RKT driver lineup after Fox captured the Open using a version of the ZXi RKT LS model,\u00a0the ZXi RKT LS+. The lineup also includes the ZXi RKT and ZXi RKT Max models, and first appeared on the USGA conforming list last month, although the company has not released any details on the technology or when the drivers will make their appearance at retail. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Fox\u2019s use of one of the Srixon Z-Star balls has led the company to issue a one-day sale in the US of two dozen Z-Star balls for $US62. The price point, of course, refers to Fox\u2019s third-round 62, which tied the lowest round recorded in a men\u2019s major championship. It\u2019s also a 44-percent discount on the current retail price of $US55 a dozen. Fox used a special version of the Z-Star XV, the Z-Star XV Arrow. The deal only is available online at the company\u2019s website through the end of the day.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mike Stachura<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2026\/7\/SrixonZXiRKTDrivers.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.966.644.suffix\/1784736846472.jpeg\" alt=\"\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2026\/7\/SrixonZXiRKTDrivers.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 23 \u2013 8am: Charlie Woods had a right to be upset at this photographer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old son of 15-time major champ Tiger Woods was knocked out of the US Junior Amateur in a 14-for-2 playoff \u00a0=on Wednesday morning and he wasn\u2019t helped by an ill-timed click of the camera. Have a look and listen as Woods attempted to chip his third shot from the rough on the par-5 first hole at Saucon Valley\u2019s Grace Course:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8Charlie Woods playoff hole at 2026 U.S. Junior Championship at Saucon Valley C.C. phone camera clicks in backswing and misses cut \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1T709uo94y\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1T709uo94y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trevor Keaton (@Trevor_Keaton) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Trevor_Keaton\/status\/2079899624823742692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After hitting the shot, Woods dropped his club, spun around, and said, \u201cReally dude?\u201d According to the poster it was someone taking a photo with a mobile phone. Regardless, Woods\u2019 shot wound up only reaching the fringe, where he three-putted to end his tournament. The top 64 players after two rounds of stroke play advanced to the match-play portion of the event. \u2013\u00a0Alex Myers<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(PHOTO: Stuart Franklin) Thursday, July 23 \u2013\u00a011am: The hits just seem to keep coming for LIV Golf.\u00a0 On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,121137,755,14239,118460,85,62080],"class_list":["post-817924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleeks","tag-golf","tag-liv-golf","tag-martin-kaymer","tag-sports","tag-team-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817924","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=817924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}