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Another major champion, Brooks Koepka , is defecting from the PGA Tour to the new LIV Golf Invitational Series. Also, sources confirmed to ESPN, that Abraham Ancer , the 20th-ranked player in the world, will be leaving the PGA Tour and joining LIV Golf.

Koepka, who last week at the U.S. Open complained that the conversation about who was staying and who was going cast a "black cloud" over the year's third major championship, joins other big names and major winners -- Phil Mickelson , Dustin Johnson , Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed , among others -- to bolt.

They might not be the last high-profile golfers to join the breakaway circuit being fronted by two-time Open Championship winner Greg Norman and financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. The first United States-based event will take place in Portland, Oregon, beginning June 30.

At the RBC Canadian Open two weeks ago, PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas called the defections a "bummer." "I don't know if annoyed or tired is the right word," Thomas said. "It's just one of those things. I've thought a lot about it and it's like, people are entitled to choose as they wish. I don't dislike DJ now. I don't think he's a bad dude. I'm not going to treat him any differently. It's like he's entitled to choose as he wishes.

"And I think that the day and age that we live in now, it's just so negative that you see it in everything. Sport, politics, whatever it is, it's like if you disagree with someone you just feel that you're entitled to hate them and talk bad about them and just bash their decision, when everybody's entitled to their own opinion, you know what I mean?"

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan had warned players that they would face stiff penalties for competing in the rival circuit. And, in fact, the tour suspended the players who played in the first LIV event in London.

While stars such as Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay have said they'll remain loyal to the PGA Tour, they admit they're interested to see what goes down over the next several weeks.

"I'm as curious as you are to see how the tournaments will go and what the presentation will be like, if it will be similar to golf tournaments that we're used to seeing on TV, or if it will be something totally different, and only time will tell," Cantlay said last week. "I'm interested to see what that product will be compared to what the product is right now that we are all used to."

Where do the PGA Tour and LIV Golf go from here? Here are a few questions that must still be answered:

Here are the players who have officially signed up so far, with Koepka, DeChambeau and Reed also reportedly on the way for the next one:

Phil Mickelson Dustin Johnson Shaun Norris Oliver Bekker Kevin Yuan Justin Harding Ratchanon Chantananuwat Chase Koepka Wade Ormsby Matt Jones Ryosuke Kinoshita Blake Windred Martin Kaymer Pablo Larrazabal JC Ritchie Ian Snyman Kevin Na Sadom Kaewkanjana Hideto Tanihara Viraj Madappa Sihwan Kim Scott Vincent Jinichiro Kozuma Itthipat Buranatanyarat Peter Uihlein Richard Bland Phachara Khongwatmai Travis Smyth Ian Poulter Lee Westwood Sam Horsfield Laurie Canter Louis Oosthuizen Hennie Du Plessis Charl Schwartzel Branden Grace Sergio Garcia James Piot David Puig Jediah Morgan Graeme McDowell Bernd Wiesberger Turk Pettit Oliver Fisher Talor Gooch Hudson Swafford Adrian Otaegui Andy Ogletree

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Where: London When: June 9-11

Where: Portland, Oregon When: June 30-July 2

Where: Bedminster, New Jersey When: July 29-31

Where: Boston Sept. 2-4

Where: Chicago Sept. 16-18

Where: Bangkok When: Oct. 7-9

Where: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia When: Oct. 14-16

Where: Miami When: Oct. 27-30

When will the PGA Tour players face discipline?

The PGA Tour responded by suspending the 17 current or former members who defied Monahan by competing in London without releases. In a memo sent to players, Monahan didn't specify how long the suspensions would last or if players could be reinstated. The players are ineligible for tour events and the Presidents Cup, which is scheduled Sept. 19-25 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"These players have made their choice for their own financial-based reasons," Monahan wrote in the memo. "But they can't demand the same PGA TOUR membership benefits, considerations, opportunities and platform as you. That expectation disrespects you, our fans and our partners. You have made a different choice, which is to abide by the Tournament Regulations you agreed to when you accomplished the dream of earning a PGA TOUR card and -- more importantly -- to compete as part of the preeminent organization in the world of professional golf."

The memo said players who compete in LIV events are ineligible to participate on the PGA Tour or any other tours it sanctions, including the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Champions, PGA Tour Canada and PGA Tour Latinoamerica. The 10 players who resigned their memberships, which includes Johnson, Lee Westwood and Oosthuizen, also can't compete in tour events on sponsor's exemptions.

Monahan wrote that any PGA Tour players who compete in future LIV events would face the same punishment.

"I am certain our fans and partners -- who are surely tired of all this talk of money, money and more money -- will continue to be entertained and compelled by the world-class competition you display each and every week, where there are true consequences for every shot you take and your rightful place in history whenever you reach that elusive winner's circle," Monahan wrote.

"You are the PGA TOUR, and this moment is about what we stand for: the PGA TOUR membership as a whole. It's about lifting up those who choose to not only benefit from the TOUR, but who also play an integral role in building it. I know you are with us, and vice versa. Our partners are with us, too. The fact that your former TOUR colleagues can't say the same should be telling."

Will players who compete on the LIV Golf circuit be eligible for majors?

The governing bodies that stage the four majors -- Augusta National Golf Club (Masters), USGA (U.S. Open), PGA of America (PGA Championship) and the R&A (The Open) -- have supported the PGA Tour and DP Tour (formerly the European Tour) in the past, but they don't seem ready to ban players who are competing in the LIV Golf circuit, at least not yet.

The USGA permitted players who are playing with LIV Golf and those who have committed to going forward to compete in last week's U.S. Open at The Country Club.

"Regarding players who may choose to play in London, we simply asked ourselves this question -- should a player who had earned his way into the 2022 U.S. Open, via our published field criteria, be pulled out of the field as a result of his decision to play in another event? And we ultimately decided that they should not," the USGA said.

The USGA said its decision should not be interpreted as favoring a new tour or a player's decision.

"Rather, it is simply a response to whether or not the USGA views playing in an alternative event, without the consent of their home tour, an offense that should disqualify them for the U.S. Open," the statement said.

At the Masters in April, Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said the club supported the current ecosystem of golf. That being said, Masters champions are so revered by the club, it's difficult to imagine them being prohibited from competing in golf's first major of the year. Mickelson, Garcia, Johnson and Schwartzel have each won a green jacket.

"I would start by saying that our mission is always to act in the best interests of the game in whatever form that may take," Ridley said. "I think that golf's in a good place right now. There's more participation. Purses on the professional tours are the highest they have ever been.

"We have been pretty clear in our belief that the world tours have done a great job in promoting the game over the years. Beyond that, there's so much that we don't know about what might happen or could happen that I just don't think I could say much more beyond that."

Why are PGA Tour players leaving for LIV Golf?

A lot of it has to do with money, but some players, particularly aging ones such as Garcia, McDowell, Poulter and Schwartzel, might be enticed by making as much (or more) money in fewer events on the LIV circuit.

Jones, from Australia, is a two-time winner on the PGA Tour. He has a runner-up finish and solo third this season. He finished tied for 26th at the Masters last year. He's a pretty good player, but not in the upper echelon of the PGA Tour. He has earned more than $17.3 million during his tour career.

Jones said playing in just seven regular-season events and a team championship finale would allow him to spend more time with his three young daughters. He still hopes to at least be eligible for the majors, if not PGA Tour events. He acknowledged receiving a signing bonus from LIV Golf.

"I want to be around as a dad," Jones said. "I mean, I've been out here for 15 years. I've missed a lot of what goes on in my kids' life. I was raised with a mom and dad that were always there for me. They were there at every sporting event, every schooling event, and that's something I'd like to try and do for my kids."

Swafford is another PGA Tour member who plans to play in London. He picked up his third career tour victory at the American Express in January and has earned more than $9.65 million. Swafford has two children.

"I've got two kids now," Swafford said. "Not traveling as much is appealing. There's a lot of things that went into the decision. I still want to play the PGA Tour. I definitely do. I love the tour."

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‘This Is Uncomfortable’: Saudi Arabia Upends Genteel World of Pro Golf

By promising top players multimillion-dollar paydays, the kingdom moved beyond investing in a sport and made a play to control one. Then the PGA Tour struck back.

By Tariq Panja

ST. ALBANS, England — First, the Saudis signed up a handful of the best-known names in golf to headline their new global tour, tempting players like Phil Mickelson and a few other past champions with staggering paychecks. Then they lured even bigger stars , the kind whose talents could make the series a credible rival to pro golf’s existing gold standard, the PGA Tour.

On Thursday, the PGA Tour struck back. In a sudden escalation of an increasingly bitter fight for control of elite professional golf, the tour suspended 17 players who are participating in the first event of the new tour, the LIV Golf International Series, not long after they had hit their first tee shots. In a statement, the PGA Tour’s commissioner declared that the rebel pros — and any other player who joined them — were “no longer eligible to participate” in the events that for decades have been the highest level of pro golf in the world.

The tour’s action, which seemed designed to ward off one of the biggest threats the nearly century-old tour has faced, significantly raised the stakes in a fight that has consumed professional golf in recent months. The feud features star players, Saudi billions and manicured courses — all in the genteel world of elite golf, an unlikely, and perhaps uneasy, forum for a public spat over money.

“These players have made their choice for their own financial-based reasons,” the PGA Tour commissioner, Jay Monahan, wrote. He then warned other players tempted by Saudi offers that they would endure the same punishments, and lamented “all this talk of money, money and more money.”

That money, though, is the point: The LIV Golf Invitational Series represents not just another Gulf investment in a popular sport but a brazen and calculated attempt to supplant the elite level of that sport while casting some of golf’s best players as the prize in a billion-dollar tug of war.

“If Saudi Arabia want to use the game of golf as a way for them to get to where they want to be, and they have the resources to accelerate that experience,” one of the LIV Golf signings, the former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell said this week, “I think we’re proud to help them on that journey.”

Unlike the vanity purchase of a European soccer team or the hosting of a major global sporting event , Saudi Arabia’s foray into golf is no mere branding exercise, not just another example of what critics say is a reputation-cleansing process that some deride as the “ sportswashing ” of its global image.

Instead, Saudi Arabia’s sudden entry into golf is part of a layered approach by the kingdom — not just through investments in sports but also in spheres like business, entertainment and the arts — to alter perceptions of itself, both externally and internally, as just a wealthy, conservative Muslim monarchy.

Those investments have accelerated rapidly since 2015, when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began his ascent to become the de facto ruler and spearheaded a massive overhaul aimed at opening up the kingdom’s economy and culture. He started putting Saudi Arabia’s name in the news in ways not connected to its dismal human rights record, its stalemated military intervention in Yemen or the murder by Saudi agents of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

“It is consistent with the way the Saudis have been using sport over the past five years, to try to project an image of the new Saudi Arabia, to change the narrative away from Khashoggi and Yemen and to talk about Saudi Arabia in a more positive light,” said Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, who studies Gulf politics at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.

But in staging the most lucrative tournament in golf history — this week’s total purse is $25 million , the winner’s share is $4 million, and the last-place finisher is guaranteed $120,000 — Saudi Arabia is also relying on a proven strategy of using its wealth to open doors and to enlist, or in a cynic’s view, buy, some of the world’s best players as its partners.

Some of the touches at its debut on Thursday might have felt kitschy — red phone boxes and a double-decker bus, sentries dressed like British palace guards and a fleet of black cabs to deliver the players to their opening holes — but there was no hiding what was at play: In its huge payouts and significant investment, the series’ Saudi backers have taken direct aim at the structures and organizations that have governed professional golf for nearly a century, and the PGA Tour specifically.

“It’s a shame that it’s going to fracture the game,” the four-time major champion Rory McIlroy said this week , adding, “If the general public are confused about who is playing where and what tournament’s on this week and, ‘Oh, he plays there and he doesn’t get into these events,’ it just becomes so confusing.”

The Saudi plan’s potential for success is far from clear. Despite the high-profile golfers and its big-money backing, the LIV Golf series was not able to secure a media agreement in the United States and will, for now, be broadcast on lesser-watched streaming services in much of the world. Nor was it able to attract major sponsors or tempt broadcast partners like ESPN, CBS, NBC and Amazon, who are in the first year of a nine-year agreement that has them collectively paying hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the PGA Tour.

But its direct appeal to players and its seemingly bottomless financial resources could eventually have repercussions for the 93-year-old PGA Tour, as well as the corporations and broadcasters who have built professional golf into a multibillion-dollar business.

The pros who committed to play in the first LIV Series event tried to frame their decisions as principled ones solely about golf. Yet in accepting Saudi riches in exchange for adding their personal sheen to the project, they have placed themselves at the center of a storm in which fans and human rights groups have questioned their motives; the PGA Tour has barred them from returning; and sponsors and organizations are cutting ties or distancing themselves .

All of it has opened rifts in a sport already grappling with its own longstanding image problems related to opportunity, exclusivity and race, but one that reveres decorum, and professes to be so wedded to values like honor that players are expected to assess penalties on themselves when they violate its rules.

Saudi Arabia is, of course, not the first country to use sports as a platform to burnish its global image. Its wealthy Gulf neighbors, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and most notably Qatar, which will host soccer’s World Cup this year, all have invested heavily in international sports over the past two decades.

But Saudi Arabia’s venture into golf may be the most ambitious effort yet by a Gulf country to undermine the existing structures of a sport. In effect, it is trying to use its wealth to lure players away from the most prominent tournaments and the most well-established circuit in golf, the PGA Tour, by creating what is an entirely new tour. Not that many of the players taking part this week were eager to talk about those motives.

McDowell admitted as much in his meandering answer to a question this week. “We’re just here,” he said, “to focus on the golf.”

It has been a rocky start. Even before its first tee shot was struck, the LIV Series — financed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — had become a lightning rod for controversy. One of its biggest signings, Mickelson, provoked outrage in February when he praised the series as a “ once-in-a-lifetime opportunity ” even as he called Saudi Arabia’s record on human rights “ horrible ” and used an expletive to describe the country’s leaders as “scary.”

The project’s main architect, the former player Greg Norman, made things worse a few weeks later when he dismissed Saudi Arabia’s murder and dismemberment of Khashoggi by saying, “ Look, we’ve all made mistakes .”

Most, but notably not all , of the world’s top players have rejected the new series out of hand: McIlroy, for example, derided the project as a money grab in February, and on Wednesday he made clear he would not take part. “If it’s purely for money,” he said , “it never seems to go the way you want it to.”

Even the rare chances for LIV Series players to defend their decisions to reporters directly this week have often been tense. At a news conference on Wednesday, a group of players were asked if they would take part in a tournament in Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia or apartheid South Africa “ if the money was right .” A day earlier, the Korean American player Kevin Na was caught on a live microphone saying, “This is uncomfortable,” as his news conference ended with a British reporter shouting over the moderator.

Most of the players, though, seem to have concluded that the money is just too good to pass up. The reported $150 million inducement to Dustin Johnson , the highest-ranked player to join the new series so far, would be more than double the total prize money he has earned on tour in his career.

The money, in fact, may be LIV Golf’s biggest lure at the moment: Two more major champions, Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed , were said to be close to accepting similarly large paydays to join the series when it shifts to the United States this summer, though it was unclear if the PGA Tour’s new threat on Thursday might change their minds.

Others, though, have eagerly embraced the project. Mickelson, arguably the most high-profile and perhaps the most controversial figure to join the series, has made no secret of the fact that his interest was tied to his contempt for the PGA Tour, which he accused of “obnoxious greed.”

Chastened by loud criticism of his headline-making remarks about Saudi Arabia earlier this year, and the decisions of several of his sponsors to sever ties with him, Mickelson on Wednesday re-emerged on the public stage but declined to provide details of his relationship with LIV or discuss the PGA.

“I feel that contract agreements should be private,” said Mickelson, who reportedly is receiving $200 million to participate.

After he completed his round on Thursday, Mickelson said he would participate in all eight LIV events this year and all 10 next year. He declined to confirm he had signed up for four years. In 2024, which would be the tour’s third year, LIV plans to host 14 events.

Any hopes that Mickelson, his new colleagues or their new Saudi financiers may have had of the narrative shifting quickly to action on the course, though, are unlikely to be realized anytime soon. In his final pretournament news conference this week, Mickelson felt the need to declare in one more uncomfortable moment in a week full of them that “I don’t condone human rights violations at all.”

Soon afterward, dressed in shorts and a windbreaker, he was off to the first tee, where he and a board member of the Public Investment Fund, Yasir al-Rumayyan, headlined the opening group in the first LIV Series pro-am.

Ben Hubbard and Kevin Draper contributed reporting.

Tariq Panja covers some of the darker corners of the global sports industry. He is also a co-author of “Football’s Secret Trade,” an exposé on soccer’s multibillion-dollar player trading industry. More about Tariq Panja

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“The entire golf ball is compressed, every layer contributes to the performance of the golf ball on every shot,” he said. “If you hit a 6-iron or even a full pitching wedge, you would see around the same amount of deformation or deflection. The core is a primary component to how the golf ball is going to perform. It enables us to manage spin rates through the bag, it changes the feel of the golf ball, but ultimately the core is designed to give us ball speed, particularly driver ball speed. … We set out to make our core much faster than we have before, capitalizing on what we’ve done in the past and building on that. We have a completely new rubber system where it’s a new base polymer that we’re using in combination with a variety of ingredients that give us the targeted compression and material properties that we’re seeking.”

2. The Hex and the Sphere. For more than two decades, Callaway’s golf balls have been instantly recognizable for their non-spherical dimples. Built with interlocking hexagonal and pentagonal shapes and originally labeled as “a tubular lattice network,” the idea behind the aerodynamic pattern was to create “100 percent surface coverage” for a more stable flight. For the first time since 2001, Callaway’s tour balls now will incorporate a series of spherical dimples along with the angular shapes because, well, the mix of curved and straight dimples makes flight even more stable, Loper said.

“By managing each dimple," he said, "it enables us to focus on the ball flight from start to finish, where the ball starts off fast but as it approaches the ground the speed has significantly decreased. … We’ve ended up with model-specific patterns that maximize distance and improve stability over the entire ball flight, which the player will see in a variety of conditions.”

Loper said the research progressed through Callaway’s Topgolf driving range technology, utilizing the company’s nine-camera Toptracer system. “This has helped us validate this performance downrange with over 10,000 shots to capture real world results, to ensure that this pattern is going to deliver the performance that we expect for the best players,” he said.

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This process of aerodynamic surface coverage isn’t cocktail napkin-level doodling of course. It’s not even like a game of Tetris. Instead, Callaway’s team developed in-house computer analysis methods to measure the simulated air flow around the entire golf ball as it is spinning through the air. Through that work, they found a better idea than just hexagonal and pentagonal shapes, Loper said. Now, around 70 spherical shapes join the traditional shapes.

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“It’s not so much about circular vs. hex, in general, but more about strategic use of circular dimple properties vs. hex dimple properties. There are slight differences that can be exploited depending on the pattern,” Loper told Golf Digest. “Callaway’s hexagonal geometry does an excellent job of increasing our packing density (coverage) over the surface of the ball which enables us to decrease the depths and provide decreased drag. We discovered that by replacing the shallowest geometries (hex) with deeper circular dimples we were more effective at generating turbulence in certain conditions that led to improved stability.”

Those dimples line up across a softer urethane cover than past versions that works to produce better feel, better grab and more consistency, Loper said, including a tweak for lower full-shot spin.

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“We had to change the substructure to give us those low spin rates off the driver and irons,” he said. “By using a softer cover, it makes the ball feel softer which the best players have noticed after a few shots. They’ve noticed on the 15-20 yard shot the ball is going to launch lower and bite more than it has before. Even with an iron shot, if you have a better connection with the ball and the club face where there is less slippage, you get more consistent launch conditions. So it does result in a reduction in variation from a launch perspective and from a downrange dispersion perspective.”

3. Triple play. While Callaway has had three balls in its tour-level lineup before, this family is different and not only in name. The Chrome Tour and Chrome Tour X balls are built for faster-swinging, above average-skilled players. Meanwhile, the Chrome Soft, which was once the only ball the company offered, is now going to be the ball that gives most golfers better greenside performance, higher flight and increased total driver distance even if they don’t have tour-level speed and consistency.

Chrome Tour and Chrome Tour X will see the most action among elite players. Chrome Tour X is essentially an upgrade of the Chrome Soft X with more speed through the new core formulation and more greenside spin thanks to a softer urethane cover. The Chrome Tour features the same ball speed boost from the core, with a slightly softer feel than the Chrome Tour X. It produces a more penetrating flight than its Chrome Soft X predecessor, and is modeled off a prototype version that has gotten some traction from tour players recently. “That prototype really highlighted a couple things for us,” Loper said. “Some players do value slightly softer feel around the green, and some players are seeking a ball flight that’s different than what we offered on Chrome Soft X, a slightly more penetrating ball flight that for them was more consistent into the wind.”

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2024 PGA Championship TV schedule, coverage, live stream, channel, where to watch online, golf tee times

How to watch every memorable moment of the 2024 pga championship on tv or streaming live online.

The second major of the 2024 golf season wraps Sunday in Louisville with plenty of big-time players looking to capture the Wanamaker Trophy and $3.3 million winner's prize from the PGA Championship's $18.5 million purse while setting a tone for the remainder of their respective campaigns. This as the beautify of May surrounds Valhalla Golf Club with the PGA Championship concluding its return to town for the first time in a decade.

An unfortunate wrench was thrown into the tournament Friday morning as, in unrelated incidents, a pedestrian was killed outside the Valhalla grounds in a traffic incident and world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was arrested for violating traffic rules . Though Scheffler looked like he was going to hang tough, he played himself out of contention in the third round and opened the door to the rest of the field.

Xander Schauffele remains atop the leaderboard for the third straight day but was unable to fend off challengers as Collin Morikawa met him in pole position at 15 under. Shane Lowry, Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose and Viktor Hovland surged up the leaderboard, while Sahith Theegala remained hot bouncing back from a rough start. Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth are among the other notable names lurking. You can catch each of their rounds by checking out the PGA Championship tee times and pairings for Round 4 .

While attending the PGA Championship can be a ton of fun, simply being able to watch golf on the game's grandest stages is an incredible treat each year. We here at CBS Sports are thrilled to bring you wall-to-wall live leaderboard coverage of the PGA Championship with action streaming live all weekend.

CBS Sports golf anchor Jim Nantz is calling the action for the 34th consecutive year while hosting coverage from the super tower alongside lead analyst Trevor Immelman. Also at Valhalla for CBS Sports are Ian Baker-Finch, Frank Nobilo, Dottie Pepper, Colt Knost and Mark Immelman with Amanda Renner reporting and conducting interviews.

The 106th PGA Championship is the 34rd consecutive (and 41th overall) being broadcast by CBS Sports, which is offering multi-platform coverage throughout the week. In partnership with the PGA of America, CBS Sports is leading overall production efforts deploying 125 cameras and nearly 150 microphones to capture all the sights and sounds. Additional technological enhancements include Fly Cams, Bunker Cameras, state-of-the-art drone coverage, panoramic Falcon 360 cameras, Toptracer and more.

Enough talking about it. Here's how you can watch as much PGA Championship as possible Sunday. Be sure to stick with CBS Sports for live coverage throughout and  download the CBS Sports App  to watch the PGA Championship live on your mobile device this weekend.

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Round 4 -- Sunday, May 19

Round 4 start time:  7:45 a.m. [ Tee times ]

PGA Championship live stream:  8-10 a.m. on ESPN+

• Featured Groups -- 8 a.m.
• Holes 16-18 -- 8 a.m.

Early TV coverage:  10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on ESPN,  fubo  (Try for free)

Prime TV coverage:  1-7 p.m. on CBS, Paramount+

TV simulcast live stream:  1-7 p.m. Desktop and mobile:  Free on  CBSSports.com ,  CBS Sports App Connected devices*:  Available on  Paramount+ ,  CBS Sports App *Paramount+ login required

Clubhouse Report:  8-9 p.m. on CBS Sports Network Round 4 encore:  9 p.m. to 3 a.m. on CBS Sports Network

PGA coverage on CBS Sports Network

• PGA Championship On the Range -- 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Thursday, Friday) Pre-round player interviews, analysis, daily previews
• PGA Championship Clubhouse Report -- 8-9 p.m. (Thursday-Sunday) Post-round highlights, analysis, player interviews
• PGA Championship encore presentations Round 3 -- Sunday -- 6-10 a.m. Round 4 -- Sunday -- 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.

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PGA Championship live: Tiger Woods says there is 'a long way to go still' in PGA Tour/PIF negotiations

Tracking all the news as the pga championship nears its start..

What's the state of a potential working agreement between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf?

That will be a top-of-mind question from a jam-packed media session Tuesday at Valhalla Golf Club, site of this week's 106th PGA Championship.

What, if anything, will Tiger Woods say? And how will LIV Golf, via the voices of Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka, respond?

Stick here for the answers.

Here's a look at Tuesday's interview schedule (all times EDT):

9 a.m.: Justin Thomas

9:30: Max Homa

10:30: Michael Block

11:00: PGA news conference

Noon: Tiger Woods

12:30 p.m.: Jordan Spieth

1:00: Jon Rahm

3:00: Brooks Koepka

3:30: Scottie Scheffler

4:00: Xander Schauffele

Life is good for Scottie Scheffler

It's pretty good being Scottie Scheffler these days. He's won four of the last five tournaments he's played, he's the proud owner of a second green jacket, and he and his wife just welcomed their first child, a boy, into the world. Not a bad little run there.

"Definitely rested going into this week for sure," Scheffler, who's been off the course for three weeks, said Tuesday. "I don't really feel like any rust has accumulated. I was able to practice and play a lot at home. I'm able to do stuff at home to simulate tournament golf, especially on the greens, competing and gambling with my buddies, I don't really want to lose to them, either, so I was able to simulate a little bit of competition at home."

Now, he's preparing to take on bigger game than his buddies can bring: The PGA Championship, a tournament where he tied for second last year. He's the odds-on favorite, and he's coming in well-rested ... at least, from a golf perspective. He's spent the last week or so changing diapers, but he's also attempted to unplug a bit and gain some perspective.

"It was a nice time to reflect a little bit on my career so far and where my life has gone," Scheffler said. "I married my high school sweetheart and I always wanted to play professional golf and now I'm here. I was sitting there with a newborn in my arms and the green jacket in the closet. It was a pretty special time, I think, at home."

He also acknowledged that he's got his eye on an Olympic berth. ("Be a nice little thing to be able to trash talk to my buddies about when they say golfers aren't athletes. I can claim I'm an Olympian.")

Before then, though, he's got three more majors to knock off, starting this week. Scheffler tees off at 2:13 p.m. on Thursday alongside Wyndham Clark and Brian Harman.

Tee times are out. Plan your PGA Championship viewing accordingly.

Tee times are out for the PGA Championship. Here are some of the notables:

Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Keegan Bradley: 8:04 a.m.* Thursday, 1:29 p.m. Friday

Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose: 8:15 a.m.* Thursday, 1:40 p.m. Friday

Cam Smith, Hideki Matsuyama, Viktor Hovland: 8:26 a.m.* Thursday, 1:51 p.m. Friday

Brooks Koepka, Max Homa, Jordan Spieth: 8:37 a.m.* Thursday, 2:02 p.m. Friday

Collin Morikawa, Phil Mickelson, Matthew Fitzpatrick: 1:51 p.m. Thursday, 8:26 a.m.* Friday

Rickie Fowler, Jon Rahm, Cam Young: 2:02 p.m. Thursday, 8:37 a.m.* Friday

Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, Scottie Scheffler: 2:13 p.m. Thursday, 8:48 a.m.* Friday

(All times ET. *-10th tee start.)

Rory McIlroy files for divorce from wife Erica after seven years of marriage

More non-golf news breaking the week of the PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy has filed for divorce from his wife Erica Stoll after seven years of marriage, according to documents filed in Palm Beach County, Florida. The couple have a three-year-old daughter, Poppy.

It's been a turbulent professional week for McIlroy, and now his personal matters are coming to light. He indicated last week that he would not be pursuing a spot on the PGA Tour's Policy Board, but later was invited to help negotiate a deal for the future of men's golf between the Tour and Saudi Arabia 's Public Investment Fund. Shortly afterward, McIlroy put on one of the great performances of his career to win the Wells Fargo Championship on Sunday.

The very next day, McIlroy filed the notice in Palm Beach County. TMZ was the first to report the news.

Later this week, McIlroy will be attempting to win his fifth major at the PGA Championship. The event is being held at the same Valhalla Golf Club where McIlroy won his most recent major, 10 years ago.

Tiger on PGA Tour-LIV negotiations

When asked about where negotiations are between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, Tiger gave a non-answer answer:

"We're working on negotiations with PIF (the Saudi-backed fund behind LIV Golf). It's ongoing. It's fluid, it changes day to day. Has there been progress? Yes ... We're making steps. It may not be giant steps, but we're making steps."

"I'm not going to comment on negotiations, but we're making steps."

Tiger on the state of his game ... and body.

"My body's OK. It is what it is. I wish my game was a little bit sharper."

"I'm always going to feel stiffness and soreness in my back, I just need other body parts to feel better."

Says because he hasn't played much, he relies entirely on practice.

Interviews are back on

... and Tiger Woods is now speaking with media.

PGA Championship play suspended at 9:50 a.m. for weather concerns

The weather horn sounded as Max Homa was offering up his final thoughts on Tuesday morning, clearing all players off the course. With dangerous weather in the area, the PGA Championship made the decision to halt play. With thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of the day, this could be the end of the line for any competition on Tuesday. We'll keep you updated as events warrant.

Max Homa on the state of the men's game: 'Hopefully at some point everybody can find the plot again'

At his Tuesday morning press conference, Max Homa offered up some trenchant commentary on the state of the men's game. Here's his answer in full:

"It's been a bit tricky. I do feel like the internet probably makes it seem worse than it really is. It's a very small community and they're incredibly loud. So I think if you spend a lot of time on the internet, it does feel like professional golf is crumbling.

"It's tough to decipher, because when we're on the grounds of events, it's amazing. Last week at Quail Hollow was awesome. Felt no different at Bay Hill. Felt no different — The Players felt no different. So it's odd, it doesn't feel like it's dying, yet you hear a lot of very valid complaints on the internet.

"So I think it's been, it's very troubling. I don't like where it's going. It's got to be exhausting to be a casual golf fan at this point in time. I don't know why you would want to hear about the business side of this game.

"As a fan of other sports, I do not care about the business side of what the Lakers and Dodgers are doing. So, yeah, it is troubling, however, it's just difficult because we come here and yesterday was slam packed and it was awesome and everyone just seems like in such a good — in such good spirits to just see us playing a somewhat meaningless practice round to their point of view.

"So it's tough to kind of completely figure out. I hope at some point soon we can just get back to entertaining people and playing golf and seeing who shoots the lowest score and not talking about what our Player Advisory Council is going to do and who — the fans of golf should not know who is on the board. Like that just seems like a pretty obvious one. So that would be the goal going forward.

"So I think, you know, in some positive light as a fan of just the game of golf, the benefit is golf is thriving. That's cool. Men's professional golf might be in a weird spot, so hopefully we can continue to get more people to play golf and then once everybody can get this thing figured out hopefully we get those people playing golf to also enjoy watching a little bit of golf. We have a lot going on here, but hopefully at some point everybody can find the plot again."

Justin Thomas on handling pressure: 'You can't just flip the switch'

The 2024 PGA Championship will be a home game for Louisville native Justin Thomas, the first tournament — of any level — that he's played in his home city. But he doesn't believe that will add any more pressure to his game: "The good news is," he smiled on Tuesday morning, "I is have a pretty easy time putting a lot of pressure on myself already, so that shouldn't be too much of an adjustment."

Thomas has been dealing with some substantial pressure lately. He owns two PGA Championship trophies, but wins have been difficult to come by in recent years. He's one of the game's marquee players, and yet he hasn't won a tournament since that 2022 PGA Championship. He struggled in 2023, failing to even qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs, and missed the cut at this year's Masters.

"I finally feel like at least this year I know I've been playing well enough to win," he said. "But I just have to kind of keep trusting what I'm doing and understand I'm working on all the right things and know that it will happen. I just can't force the issue or press because that usually doesn't end well."

He concedes that the effect of pressure on his game is a difficult challenge to overcome. "It's tough. It's a lot harder than improving your wedge game. It's not like I can just go out and set a TrackMan down and work on hitting my numbers," he said. "You can't just want it to get better and it magically gets better ... You can't just flip the switch."

One factor that isn't impacting Thomas' game — the ongoing discussions about the future of the sport between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. "I'm just trying to play as good a golf as I possibly can and try to win golf tournaments. That stuff's very important, but to me it's not as important as winning major championships and winning tournaments," he said. "If I could choose which one, I know which one I would choose, so that's the thing that I think I need to give attention to."

PGA Championship week begins with gray skies, uncertainty

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Good morning from brisk, gray Kentucky, where the PGA Championship is two days away. Today, the conversations will take center stage: Tiger Woods, Brooks Koepka, Scottie Scheffler and many others are slated to speak, as well as the PGA's leaders.

A certain topic of conversation: The news that Jimmy Dunne, one of the architects of the surprise "framework agreement" of last June that ended hostilities between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, has resigned from his PGA Tour post . Dunne cited "no meaningful progress" as a reason for his departure, which comes as frustrating news for anyone wanting to see golf unified again at more events than just the majors. Any chance for unification now likely won't happen until the 2026 season, if it happens at all.

Harry Hillier cards first 59 in PGA TOUR Americas history

New Zealand's Harry Hillier shows off his scorecard after posting the first sub-60 score in PGA TOUR Americas history Friday at the first sub-60 score in PGA TOUR Americas history at the Inter Rapidisimo Golf Championship. (Paulina Gongora/PGA TOUR)

New Zealand native makes 13 birdies in second round of Inter Rapidísimo Golf Championship

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The first sub-60 score in PGA TOUR Americas history belongs to Harry Hillier.

Hillier carded a second-round, 13-under 59 at the Inter Rapidísimo Golf Championship, the final event of the Latin America Swing before the circuit breaks for roughly a month into the North America Swing.

Hillier’s round was nearly flawless. Beginning on No. 10 at Club El Rincón de Cajicá in Bogota, Colombia, he rattled off six straight birdies from the jump. He cooled off, comparatively speaking, with three straight pars to turn in 6-under 30. Then he began his second nine (the front nine) with seven straight birdies before closing with back-to-back pars at the club’s tough eighth and ninth holes to secure a sub-60 round.

Hillier entered this week at No. 20 on the season-long Fortinet Cup standings, comfortably inside the top 60 to earn full status for the North America Swing. There’s another carrot available this weekend, though: The top two on the Fortinet Cup after the Inter Rapidísimo Golf Championship will earn conditional Korn Ferry Tour status at minimum for 2025.

After completing his second-round 59 in Bogota, Hillier led the event by five strokes over James Swash and was projected to move to No. 2 on the Fortinet Cup with a victory.

The top 10 on the season-long Fortinet Cup (comprising the Latin America Swing and North America Swing) will earn 2025 Korn Ferry Tour membership as well. The inaugural PGA TOUR Americas season synthesizes two previous PGA TOUR Pathways circuits, PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, into one cumulative series.

Hillier, 24, played collegiately at the University of Kansas and is a third-year pro. He arrived in Colombia with momentum from a T3 finish at the KIA Open in the most recent PGA TOUR Americas event two weeks ago, which followed a solid T18 at the Diners Club Peru Open. The New Zealand native played on PGA TOUR Latinoamérica last season, finishing No. 31 on the season-long standings with eight made cuts in 12 starts, highlighted by a pair of top-five showings.

Hillier’s brother Charlie, three years older, also plays professional golf. Charlie Hillier currently splits time between the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA TOUR Americas, and he's competing at this week’s AdventHealth Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Safe to say that upon checking his younger brother’s score Friday afternoon, he liked what he saw.

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‘I want to wring his neck:’ Golf Channel analysts irate after Jon Rahm comments

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Aaron Oberholser laid into Jon Rahm on Golf Channel's "Live From."

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Jon Rahm took exception to a reporter’s insinuation. In turn, a panel of Golf Channel analysts took exception to his exception.

At his pre-tournament press conference Tuesday ahead of the PGA Championship , the LIV Golf defector and World No. 4 was asked about Monday’s news that Jimmy Dunne was stepping down from his position on the PGA Tour policy board.

Dunne was the man who helped get the PGA Tour and LIV Golf’s backers, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, to the table to create the June 6 framework agreement, which Rahm has credited as being one of the motivators to his December jump to the rival league. However, progress on finalizing the deal has since slowed .

But when the reporter asked what his reaction was “from the other side,” Rahm wanted to make something clear.

“See you guys keep saying ‘the other side’ but I’m still a PGA Tour member, whether suspended or not,” the 2023 Masters winner said. “I still want to support the PGA Tour. And I think that’s an important distinction to make. I don’t feel like I’m on the other side. I’m just not playing there.”

Rahm was hopeful, even after his jump to LIV Golf, that he would be able to defend his three PGA Tour titles before the Masters. He even said not being able to play those events was the “difficult” part of leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf.

The PGA, like the other three major championships, is not run by the PGA Tour, making the tournaments the only place where LIV and PGA Tour players play against each other.

But on Golf Channel, immediately following Rahm’s press conference’s airing, the panel on “Live From” took issue with Rahm making that “distinction.” Analyst Eamon Lynch used a metaphor to call Rahm a hypocrite.

PGA Tour-PIF dealmaker resigns, citing ‘no meaningful progress’

“It’s not often you hear the arsonists give advice to the firefighters on how to extinguish the blaze and start asking when he can move back into the house,” Lynch said, implying that Rahm and the rest of the LIV golfers were the cause of the current division in the pro game. “If he wanted to support the PGA Tour and present himself as a loyal member as he does, well then don’t be a stooge of the Saudis. Don’t sign up to be a willing leverage point as they attempt to upend or diminish the product that you’re claiming loyalty to.”

Former PGA Tour winner Aaron Oberholser, took it a step further, saying he was so mad at Rahm for his comments he wanted to “wring his neck through the television.”

He recalled that Rahm, before he went to LIV, sought greater influence in the PGA Tour’s decision-making, but now Oberholser is glad he didn’t get it.

“He doesn’t get it,” Oberholser said. “To this day, he doesn’t get it. And this is a guy who wanted a position or wanted to be heard, from what I understand. Either a board position, policy board. He wanted to be heard on this whole thing before he went to LIV. And I feel like he wasn’t as heard as much as he probably should have been.

“And now I’m glad he wasn’t in that position because he doesn’t get it. As a PGA Tour player and as a PGA Tour member — Still, a card-carrying PGA Tour member — and someone who supports the PGA tour, [who is] not happy with what’s going on right now, obviously, but supports the PGA tour. I’m incensed by that, quite honestly.

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“By the level of, to your point, of naivete that you don’t get it. You still don’t get it. You took 500 large, and then you’re going to sit there and tell me, oh, you still feel like a PGA Tour member. I want to support the PGA tour and I want the peak—

“I mean, I want to I want to wring his neck through the television. I’m that mad, right now. I’m that mad. I mean— and every player in that locker room right now, if they watch that — on the PGA Tour — should be absolutely incensed with him.”

The PGA Tour suspended Jon Rahm, who left for LIV Golf, back in December. On Tuesday, Rahm addressed the media at the 2024 PGA Championship, dispelled the idea that he's "on the other side," and claimed he's both still a member and still wants to support the PGA Tour.… pic.twitter.com/YOHQvM7vQt — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 14, 2024

Former LPGA player Paige Mackenzie and host George Savaricas then pointed out the contrast in Rahm’s tone to that of Phil Mickelson and the original players who left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf in 2022, who were very critical of the legacy tour.

Mackenzie then pointed out the hypocrisy in Rahm’s rhetoric.

“You have what Jon Rahm said, which is effectively, if I’m reading between the lines, is ‘I went over there to help them mend the fences somehow,'” she said. “I can’t make that make sense on the move to leave. And somehow that’s going to bring everything together.”

Oberholser chimed in again to point out that Rahm’s move didn’t bring the game back together, it only divided it further.

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Xander Schauffele hits his tee shot on the second hole during the third round of the PGA ... [+] Championship golf tournament at the Valhalla Golf Club, Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Louisville, Ky. Schauffele (-15) is tied with Collin Morikawa into Sunday's final round. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

The final round of the 2024 PGA Championship should produce plenty of drama and a potential playoff. Six players are within 2-shots of the lead, which is tied between 30-year-old Xander Schauffele (-15) and 27-year-old Collin Morikawa (-15) . The odds to win the 109th PGA Championship are provided along with final round matchups.

Shane Lowry shot a major championship record-tying 62 Saturday to move up the leaderboard. The 38-year-old gained 6.4 strokes putting in Saturday's round, a career high. His 11.26 strokes gained putting this week are the most through 3 rounds by anyone in a PGA Tour event in 2024. Lowry is just 2-shots off the lead along with 30-year-old LIV Golfer Bryson DeChambeau, who chipped in for eagle from the fringe on the Par 5 closing hole Saturday. Justin Rose shot 64 Saturday playing alongside Lowry, and the 43-year-old Rose is 3-shots behind the co-leaders.

Schauffele is chasing his first major championship after so many close calls. Morikawa, Lowry, DeChambeau and Rose are all major champions with Morikawa winning the 2020 PGA Championship . A win by DeChambeau Sunday would make him the third player to win the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open and PGA Championship, joining Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.

Sahith Theegala is just 1-shot off the lead chasing his first major title, along with 2023 FedEx Cup champion Viktor Hovland, who is 2-shots back.

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Shane Lowry (left) and Justin Rose congratulate each other on the 18th green following Lowry's major ... [+] championship record-tying 62 in Round 3 of the 2024 PGA Championship at the Par 71 Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville. Rose shot 64. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Final Round Odds To Win 2024 PGA Championship

Leading favorites and contenders golf odds from FanDuel Sportsbook refresh periodically and are subject to change, including on prop bets and live betting.

• +250: Xander Schauffele (-15)
• +260: Collin Morikawa (-15)
• +650: Sahith Theegala (-14)
• +650: Bryson DeChambeau (-13)
• +750: Viktor Hovland (-13)
• +1200: Shane Lowry (-13)
• +4000: Justin Rose (-12)
• +4000: Robert McIntyre (-12)
• +6500: Dean Burmester (-11)
• +8000: Justin Thomas (-10)
• +12000: Tony Finau (-10)
• +17000: Rory McIlroy (-8)
• +22000: Harris English (-10)
• +22000: Thomas Detry (-10)
• +27000: Austin Eckroat (-10)

The top-15 finishers from the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla are automatically qualified to return for the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, which is the regular host course of the Wells Fargo Championship won last week by Rory McIlroy.

Final Round PGA Championship Matchups

To be updated as provided by leading online sportsbooks .

• Bryson DeChambeau (-120) vs. Viktor Hovland (+105)
• Xander Schauffele (-115) vs. Collin Morikawa (-110) - Bet Schauffele
• Justin Thomas (-135) vs. Tony Finau (+115)
• Scottie Scheffler (-140) vs. Rory McIlroy (+110) - Bet McIlroy
• Cam Smith (-135) vs. Jason Day (+105)
• Sahith Theegala (-110) vs. Shane Lowry (-110) - Bet Lowry
• Justin Thomas (-115) vs. Viktor Hovland (-110)
• Jordan Spieth (-120) vs. Hideki Matsuyama (-105)
• Harris English (-125) vs. Justin Rose (+100)
• Shane Lowry (-115) vs. Dean Burmester (-110)

Prop : Hole-in-One in Round 4: +850

Bogey-Free Round 4 Odds

• +450: Scheffler
• +650: Schauffele
• +700: McIlroy
• +900: Morikawa, DeChambeau, Koepka
• +1100: Hovland, Homa, Thomas, Young, Lowry, Smith, Niemann

Player Comments

Golfer’s post Round 3 press conferences and some comments.

Schauffele : When asked about having and protecting lead and bunched leaderboard. “No, you want the lead. Against these guys, you want as many shots as you can possibly take, no matter how nerve-racking it can be.”

Morikawa : “Obviously the course was playing pretty low today. A lot of guys took it low to climb their way up. I assume tomorrow is going to be the same.” Morikawa added, “I'm going to tap in just kind of that mental state I've been in, not only those two (major wins), but in other tournaments I've played well in.”

Lowry : Round 3 and a record 62 was the best putting round of Lowry’s career. He mentioned he changed putters a few tournaments ago at the Zurich Classic. Playing Saturday with Justin Rose, “We both played great, and it was nice to feed off each other the whole day. It was pretty cool for both of us.”

PGA Championship Playoffs

In PGA Championship history, there have been 19 playoffs and most recently in 2022 when Justin Thomas beat Will Zalatoris in a 3-hole aggregate playoff after huge longshot Mito Pereira made a double-bogey at No. 18 and the 72nd hole Sunday to miss the playoff by 1-shot. Thomas shot a 3-under par 67 on Sunday to tie for low round of the day, while Zalatoris shot 71 and Pereira 75.

Heading into Round 3 , Schauffele was -12 under par and tied the lowest 36-hole score to par in PGA Championship history. Now he’s playing in another final group Sunday chasing his first major title. Follow more PGA Tour golf betting news and coverage along with Lead Data Analyst Justin Ray Golf for more notes and numbers to know on the leaders as the players tee-it-up for a most memorable final round at the 2024 PGA Championship.

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