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Ticket Registration Now Open for the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club

Registration is now open for spectators interested in purchasing tickets to the 2023 PGA Championship, to be played May 15-21, 2023, at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York.

Those interested in purchasing tickets or learning more about the 2023 PGA Championship should visit www.pgachampionship.com/ticketregistry . The PGA Ticket Registry will remain open through 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday, June 5, 2022.

This will be the fourth PGA Championship contested at Oak Hill, which was designed by Donald Ross in 1925. The 2023 PGA Championship will serve as a coming-out party for the East Course, which was recently restored by Andrew Green to more closely follow Ross’ initial vision. The course features three new holes—Nos. 5, 6 and 15—as well as new greens and bunkers throughout in line with Ross’ initial drawings.

“It’s again time to celebrate Major Championship golf on one of golf’s grandest stages, the revamped East Course at Oak Hill Country Club,” said Barry Deach, Championship Director of the 2023 PGA Championship. “For more than 40 years, Oak Hill, the Greater Rochester community and the knowledgeable golf aficionados of Western New York have served as warm and hospitable hosts for memorable PGA Championships. Our early projections for 2023 are very encouraging and the anticipation is mounting, so we want to outline the details of this new process.”

In response to growing popularity and interest, 2023 PGA Championship tickets will be sold exclusively through a free, no-obligation, online registration process (PGA Ticket Registry). Those interested in registering are asked to provide their name, email address and zip code. Limit one registration per individual and unique email address.

Those in the PGA Ticket Registry are able to hold their place in line for an opportunity to purchase tickets – first-come, first-served – when they go on sale in June 2022. Although registration does not guarantee access to purchase any or all ticket types, participation in the PGA Ticket Registry will provide individuals with the best opportunity to be there in person.

As purchase windows approach, registrants will receive direct communications on how to access and purchase available tickets from Opening Monday to Championship Sunday. These communications will detail the various ticket types, pricing and programming available. To honor the men and women who serve our country in the Armed Forces, the 2023 PGA Championship is pleased to offer Active Duty, Retirees, Reserve, National Guard, and their accompanying guest (limit one) complimentary daily grounds access to the Championship, regardless of a sell-out. Beginning December 2022, qualifying individuals should visit pgachampionship.com to submit a copy of their Military ID or service verification in exchange for daily admission.

Once again, the 2023 PGA Championship will offer complimentary admission for up to four juniors 17 years of age and younger when accompanied by a ticketed adult. Junior tickets may be picked up onsite at the Admissions Office at the Championship main entrance on the day of admission and will be available regardless of a sellout.

Volunteer registration for the 2023 PGA Championship will open later this spring in advance of ticket sales. Volunteer positions are extremely limited and will be filled very quickly. To receive more information and be notified when Volunteer registration begins, go to pgachampionship.com/2023/volunteers .

Oak Hill has been the site of many PGA Championship memories. Jack Nicklaus won the penultimate major of his legendary career by seven shots at Oak Hill in the 1980 PGA Championship. Nursing a one-shot lead at the 2003 PGA Championship, Shaun Micheel struck one of the greatest clinching shots in golf history when his 174-yard 7-iron on the 72nd hole left him with a two-inch, tap-in birdie. Most recently, Jason Dufner’s second-round 63 during the 2013 PGA Championship set the East Course record and the stage for the first major championship of his career.

Oak Hill was also the site of the 31st Ryder Cup in 1995, which Europe captured with a stunning final-day comeback, 14½ to 13½.

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PGA Championship 2023: Dates, tee times, how to watch and more

The second major of the year kicks off this week with the 105th PGA Championship in Western New York.

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The 105th PGA Championship will occur at Oak Hill Country Club's East Course in Rochester, New York.

This will mark the year's second major championship as Jon Rahm won the Masters Tournament in April.

The first round begins Thursday, May 18, with the final round concluding on Sunday, May 21.

Oak Hill, which will host its seventh major this week, is the only course to host a PGA Championship, U.S. Open, Senior PGA Championship, Senior U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, and Ryder Cup.

How To Watch

Thursday, may 19 - first round.

7 a.m. - 1 p.m. - ESPN+ (Streaming)

1 p.m. - 7 p.m. - ESPN

Friday, May 20 - Second Round

Saturday, may 21 - third round.

8 a.m. - 10 a.m. - ESPN+ (Streaming)

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. - ESPN

1 p.m. - 7 p.m. - CBS

Sunday, May 22 - Final Round

Featured Tee Times

Thursday, may 18 - first round.

* - Teeing off Hole 10

7:33 a.m. - Tom Hoge, Ryan Fox, K.H. Lee

7:38 a.m.* - Harold Varner III, Scott Stallings, Nicolai Hojgaard

7:44 a.m. - Sam Stevens, Adam Svensson, Beau Hossler

7:49 a.m.* - Steve Holmes, Adrian Otaegui, Davis Riley

7:55 a.m. - Zach Johnson, Kurt Kitayama, Sahith Theegala

8:00 a.m.* Scottie Scheffler, Brooks Koepka, Gary Woodland

8:06 a.m. - Corey Conners, Ockie Strydom, Joaquin Niemann

8:11 a.m.* - Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa

8:17 a.m. - Kevin Kisner, Jimmy Walker, Padraig Harrington

8:22 a.m.* - Shane Lowry, Jordan Spieth, Viktor Hovland

8:28 a.m. - Alex Noren, J.T. Poston, Mackenzie Hughes

8:33 a.m.* - Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Smith, Jon Rahm

12:47 p.m.* - Webb Simpson, Y.E. Yang, Danny Willett

12:58 p.m.* - Sepp Straka, Harris English, Robert Macintyre

1:03 p.m. - Patrick Reed, Rasmus Hojgaard, Nick Taylor

1:09 p.m.* - Thomas Pieters, Keith Mitchell, Pablo Larrazabal

1:14 p.m. - Christian Bezuidenhout, John Somers, Chez Reavie

1:20 p.m.* - Lucas Herbert, Brian Harman, Callum Shinkwin

1:25 p.m. - Tommy Fleetwood, Cameron Young, Hideki Matsuyama

1:31 p.m.* - Tom Kim, Sam Burns, Abraham Ancer

1:36 p.m. - Adam Scott, Max Homa, Tony Finau

1:42 p.m.* - Sungjae Im, Chris Kirk, Seamus Power

1:47 p.m. - Xander Schauffele, Tyrell Hatton, Dustin Johnson

1:53 p.m.* - Si Woo Kim, Stephen Jaeger, Anirban Lahiri

1:58 p.m. - Patrick Cantlay, Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson

2:04 p.m.* - Victor Perez, Aaron Wise, Jordan Smith

2:09 p.m. - Alex Smalley, Russell Henley, Mito Pereira

2:15 p.m.* - Chris Sanger, J.J. Spaun, David Micheluzzi

2:20 p.m. - Adam Hadwin, Matt Kuchar, Talor Goodch

2:26 p.m.* - Thomas Detry, J.J. Killeen, Matt Wallace

2:31 p.m. - Justin Rose, Billy Horschel, Francesco Molinari

Friday, May 19 - Second Round

7:33 a.m. - Sepp Straka, Harris English, Robert Macintyre

7:38 a.m.* - Patrick Reed, Rasmus Hojgaard, Nick Taylor

7:44 a.m. - Thomas Pieters, Keith Mitchell, Pablo Larrazabal

7:49 a.m.* - Christian Bezuidenhout, Jon Somers, Chaz Reavie

7:55 a.m. - Lucas Herbert, Brian Harman, Callum Shinkwin

8:00 a.m.* - Tommy Fleetwood, Cameron Young, Hideki Matsuyama

8:06 a.m. - Tom Kim, Sam Burns, Abraham Ancer

8:11 a.m.* - Adam Scott - Adam Scott, Max Homa, Tony Finau

8:17 a.m. - Sungjae Im, Chris Kirk, Seamus Power

8:22 a.m.* - Xander Schauffele, Tyrell Hatton, Dustin Johnson

8:28 a.m. - Si Woo Kim, Stephan Jaeger, Anirban Lahiri

8:33 a.m.* - Patrick Cantlay, Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson

8:39 a.m. - Victor Perez, Aaron Wise, Jordan Smith

8:44 a.m.* - Alex Smalley, Russell Henley, Mito Pereira

8:50 a.m. - Chris Sanger, J.J. Spaun, David Micheluzzi

8:55 a.m.* - Adam Hadwin, Matt Kuchar, Talor Gooch

9:01 a.m. - Thomas Detry, J.J. Killeen, Matt Wallace

9:06 a.m.* - Justin Rose, Billy Horschel, Francesco Molinari

12:58 p.m.* - Tom Hoge, Ryan Fox, K.H. Lee

1:03 p.m. - Harold Varner III, Scott Stallings, Nicolai Hojgaard

1:09 p.m.* - Paul Casey, Adam Svensson, Beau Hossler

1:14 p.m. - Steve Holmes, Adrian Otaegui, Davis Riley

1:20 p.m.* - Zach Johnson, Kurt Kitayama, Sahith Theegala

1:25 p.m. - Scottie Scheffler, Brooks Koepka, Gary Woodland

1:31 p.m.* - Corey Conners, Ockie Strydom, Joaquin Niemann

1:36 p.m. - Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa

1:42 p.m* - Kevin Kisner, Jimmy Walker, Padraig Harrington

1:47 p.m. - Shane Lowry, Jordan Spieth, Viktor Hovland

1:53 p.m.* - Alex Noren, J.T. Poston, Mackenzie Hughes

1:58 p.m. - Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Smith, Jon Rahm

2:04 p.m.* - Lee Hodges, Callum Tarren, David Lingmerth

2:09 p.m. - Luke Donald, Adrian Meronk, Yannik Paul

2:20 p.m. - Kenny Pigman, Davis Thompson, Maverick McNealy

2:31 p.m. - Keegan Bradley, Jason Day, Bryson DeChambeau

There is no shortage of storylines entering this PGA Championship. Can Jon Rahm, the hottest player on tour, capture his second major of the year and move on step closer to a career Grand Slam? To that end, can Jordan Spieth complete the Grand Slam, having won the Masters and U.S. Open in 2015, and then the Open Championship in 2017.

The LIV Tour golfers will certainly be looking to make a statement and take hold of the Wanamaker Trophy. There are even some youngsters making their PGA Championship debut that can make some noise.

Oak Hill is the perfect venue for what should be a thrilling weekend of golf. So sit back and enjoy!

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At last month’s Tour Championship, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said the priority to reach a deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has “been enhanced” by months of negotiations, and on Tuesday in New York City those talks will intensify, according to various reports.

First reported by ESPN.com , officials from the Tour are scheduled to meet with members of the PIF on Tuesday in New York to continue negotiations toward a possible deal that would reunite the professional game and make the PIF a minority shareholder in PGA Tour Enterprises, the for-profit entity created this year.

According to the flight-tracking account @radaratlas2 on X, planes owned by Tiger Woods, the Saudi oil and natural gas company Aramco, and the Tour arrived in the New York area Monday.

The two sides, along with the DP World Tour, have been attempting to negotiate a deal since a framework agreement was announced in June 2023, and despite a Dec. 31 deadline the negotiations are ongoing.

“I would say that the priority – it’s been enhanced. It’s stronger,” Monahan said at East Lake. “That’s a direct result of dialogue and conversation and really starting to talk about the future, future product vision and where we can take our sport. I think when you get into productive conversations, that enhances the likelihood of positive outcomes, and that enhances the spirit of those very conversations.”

The timing of the meeting, Sept. 11, has drawn criticism from the 9/11 Justice group.

“Tomorrow, we commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, yet here we are today, in New York City, down the street from Ground Zero, and the PGA Tour and Tiger Woods are negotiating with them,” the group’s president Brett Eagleson said in a statement. “As has been confirmed in the last few weeks by CBS reporting, the Saudi Arabian government played a role in the horrific attacks of 9/11. It is disgusting, unacceptable, and incredibly painful that the Tour and Woods would do this – especially now.”

In June, the Tour confirmed the transaction subcommittee (which includes Woods, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott), Monahan, PGA Tour Enterprises chairman Joe Gorder, and John Henry, the manager of Strategic Sports Group (which invested an initial $1.5 billion into PGA Tour Enterprises), “engaged in direct negotiations” with PIF. Joe Ogilvie, a former Tour winner and liaison director on the Enterprises board, also attended the June meeting and, according to various sources, he is in New York City this week.

“I haven’t been on a transaction committee call since June maybe, the Memorial,” McIlroy said at last month’s FedEx St. Jude Championship. (Mcilroy also is playing the Irish Open this week at Royal County Down.) “The players aren’t expected to hop on those Monday, Wednesday, Friday calls. I actually haven’t been on one. It’s been wonderful. It’s been great.”

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The Alliance of LIV Golf and the PGA Tour: Here’s What to Know

The details of the partnership are far from complete, according to a document outlining the framework of the deal.

By Kevin Draper

The PGA Tour, the world’s pre-eminent professional golf league, and LIV Golf, a Saudi-funded upstart whose emergence over the past year and a half has cleaved the sport in two, have agreed to join forces.

The pact is complicated and incomplete: A document submitted to Congress and obtained by The New York Times includes only a handful of binding commitments . But numerous golfers hate it, and for the moment they are directing their wrath at the architects of the deal. Let’s start from the beginning.

What are the PGA Tour and LIV Golf?

The PGA Tour holds tournaments nearly every weekend, mostly in the United States but also in other countries in North America, Europe and Asia, with prize pools worth millions of dollars. The tour has been the home to practically every male golfer you can name: Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer and so on.

It has relationships with, but is separate from, the organizations that stage men’s golf’s four majors: the Masters Tournament, the P.G.A. Championship, the U.S. Open and the British Open. (The L.P.G.A., which runs the women’s tour, is separate.)

LIV Golf began in late 2021 with the former PGA Tour player Greg Norman as its commissioner and billions of dollars in backing from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which is known as the Public Investment Fund. LIV lured several PGA Tour players, including the major champions Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka, with massive purses and guaranteed payouts that far surpassed what they could earn on the established circuit.

LIV promised a sharp break from golf’s fusty traditionalism, starting with its name, which, when pronounced, rhymes with “give” but is actually the Roman numeral for 54, the number of holes played in each tournament. LIV had music blaring at its events, looser dress codes and team competitions — and tournaments that lasted three days instead of four. Further, and of particular appeal to potential players, while the PGA Tour tournaments cut golfers with the worst scores after two rounds, LIV did not cut anyone.

What was the relationship between the leagues before the deal?

Acrimonious, to put it lightly. Players who joined LIV were forced to resign from the PGA Tour — and its European equivalent, the DP World Tour — under the threat of suspension and fines. LIV sued the PGA Tour, and the PGA Tour countersued, litigation that is technically continuing (though the deal is supposed to resolve it).

PGA Tour supporters and other critics of LIV said the venture was simply an attempt by the Saudi government to distract attention from its human rights record, while LIV supporters said the PGA Tour was a monopoly that used inappropriate strong-arm tactics to protect its position in big-time sports.

And yet now they are combining?

It seems so. The PGA Tour and LIV announced on June 6 the creation of a new entity that would combine their assets, as well as those of the DP World Tour, and radically change golf’s governance.

The PGA Tour would remain a nonprofit organization and would retain full control over how its tournaments are played. But all of the PGA Tour’s commercial business and rights — such as the extremely lucrative rights to televise its tournaments — would be owned by a new, yet unnamed, for-profit entity that is currently called “NewCo.” NewCo will also own LIV as well as the commercial and business rights of the DP World Tour.

The board of directors for the new for-profit entity would be led by Yasir al-Rumayyan, who is the governor of the Public Investment Fund and also oversees LIV. Three other members of the board’s executive committee would be current members of the PGA Tour’s board, and the tour would appoint the majority of the board and hold a majority voting interest, effectively controlling it.

What have they agreed on?

Not much, it turns out. The PGA Tour’s tentative deal with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund includes only a handful of binding commitments, such as a nondisparagement agreement and a pledge to dismiss acrimonious litigation. (The sides have already moved to end their legal fights .) What it does not include is a clear path of what lies ahead for the tours: Many of the most consequential details about the future of men’s professional golf have not been resolved, and were left to be negotiated by the end of the year.

Most crucially, the tour and the wealth fund must still come to terms on the values of the assets that each will contribute to their planned partnership. Bankers and lawyers have spent recent weeks beginning the valuation process, but a five-page framework agreement obtained by The New York Times includes no substantive details of projected figures or even the size of an anticipated cash investment from the wealth fund.

And one issue the two parties had agreed on has been removed. The framework agreement included a nonsolicitation clause, which said the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would not “enter into any contract, agreement or understanding with” any “players who are members of the other’s tour or organization.” But the two sides, facing pressure from the Justice Department, decided to abandon that clause .

When does this take effect?

First, the idea also has to be approved by the PGA Tour’s policy board, what it calls its board of directors, which includes some people who were left out of the secret negotiations for this deal in the spring.

The policy board is made up of five independent directors, including Ed Herlihy and Jimmy Dunne, who helped negotiate the deal. The board also includes five players: Patrick Cantlay, Charley Hoffman, Peter Malnati, Rory McIlroy and Webb Simpson.

Jay Monahan, the commissioner of the PGA Tour, said on June 6 that there was only a “framework agreement” and not a “definitive agreement,” with many details still to be decided. The definitive agreement needs a vote before it can go forward.

And for the rest of 2023, all the tours will remain separate, and all their tournaments will continue as scheduled.

And after that?

Who knows? This is how Monahan answered questions about what golf might look like in the future on the day the alliance was revealed.

Will LIV continue to exist as a separate golf league? “I don’t want to make any statements or make any predictions.”

Will LIV golfers go back to the PGA Tour and DP World Tour? “We will work cooperatively to establish a fair and objective process for any players who desire to reapply for membership with the PGA Tour or the DP World Tour,” Monahan wrote in a letter to players.

Will PGA Tour players, many of whom spurned LIV and its huge paydays, receive compensation? Will LIV players somehow be forced to give up the money they were guaranteed? “I think those are all the serious conversations that we’re going to have,” Monahan told reporters.

How do players feel about all of this?

Broadly, LIV players seem to think they have gained a major victory, and they are probably right. They got their cake (huge paydays) and can eat it (a pathway to returning to the PGA Tour), too.

Mickelson, the first major player to leave for LIV, tweeted that it was an “awesome day today.” Koepka took a jab at Brandel Chamblee, a former professional golfer and current television commentator, who has been vocally anti-LIV.

Many PGA Tour players were less jubilant. They were blindsided by the news, learning of the agreement when the public did, and they did not seem to understand why the tour waged a legal war against LIV and a war of morality against Saudi money, only to invite the wolf into the henhouse.

On the day the news broke, Monahan met with a group of players in Toronto at the Canadian Open, which was set to start in two days, and afterward told reporters it was “intense, certainly heated.”

Johnson Wagner, a PGA Tour player, said on the Golf Channel that some players at the meeting called for Monahan’s resignation.

“There were many moments where certain players were calling for new leadership of the PGA Tour, and even got a couple standing ovations,” he said. “I think the most powerful moment was when a player quoted Commissioner Monahan from the 3M Open in Minnesota last year when he said, ‘As long as I’m commissioner of the PGA Tour, no player that took LIV money will ever play the PGA Tour again.’”

Wagner estimated that 90 percent of the players in the meeting were against the merger.

McIlroy, perhaps the most influential PGA Tour player not named Tiger Woods, said he was reluctantly in favor of the agreement. McIlroy said he had “come to terms” with Saudi money in golf. “Honestly, I’ve just resigned myself to the fact that this is, you know, this is what’s going to happen,” he said.

I see a photo of former President Trump up there. Is he involved in this?

Yes, though not directly. The Trump Organization owns golf courses around the world, and Donald J. Trump has for years sought to host major tournaments on its properties. Those efforts suffered a setback after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, as the golf establishment distanced itself from the former president. Most significantly, the P.G.A. of America pulled the 2022 P.G.A. Championship from the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.

But Trump had cultivated unusually close ties to Saudi Arabia while president, and Saudi-backed LIV had no problem embracing him. Last year, two LIV events were held at Trump courses, and this year it will be three.

Trump’s son Eric said that the agreement between LIV and the PGA Tour was a “wonderful thing for the game of golf” and that he expected tournaments to continue to be held at Trump-owned courses. He declined to comment on whether the Trump family played any role in bringing the two parties together.

If the PGA Tour was so against LIV and Saudi money, what changed?

“Listen, circumstances change, and they’ve been changing a lot over the last couple years,” Monahan said.

Get it? No?

“What changed? I looked at where we were at that point in time, and it was the right point in time to have a conversation,” Monahan said.

Between the lines, Monahan made it sound like the agreement came down to money and competition, as it often does. To compete with LIV, the PGA Tour has enhanced purses, supported the DP World Tour financially and pursued extremely expensive litigation. “We’ve had to invest back in our business through our reserves,” Monahan said.

He also said the ability to “take the competitor off of the board” while retaining control was significant.

Can anybody else stop the deal from going through?

The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission or the European Commission could certainly try.

For about a year, the Justice Department has been investigating the tight-knit relationship between the PGA Tour and other powerful entities in golf. Among its questions is whether the organizations have exerted improper influence over the Official World Golf Rankings, which determine players’ eligibility for certain events and can be an important factor in their success and income.

As part of their deal, LIV and the PGA Tour agreed to drop their dueling lawsuits, but doing so would not necessarily change the Justice Department’s inquiry. If there were any illegal conduct by the PGA Tour, a merger would not prevent the PGA Tour from being punished for it.

“The announcement of a merger doesn’t forgive past sins,” said Bill Baer, who led the Justice Department’s antitrust division during the Obama administration.

The federal government, through the Justice Department and the F.T.C., also reviews more than 1,000 mergers for approval each year, and the European Commission reviews them for the European Union. Without a definitive agreement, it is not clear whether this might be the type of combination regulators could block or whether they would try to do so.

Saudi Arabia seems to have grand sports ambitions. Will it always remain a junior partner to the PGA Tour in golf?

As always, Saudi Arabia has the perfect vehicle to gain more control: money.

The Public Investment Fund will invest “billions,” according to its governor, al-Rumayyan, into the new for-profit entity. It will also hold “the exclusive right to further invest in the new entity, including a right of first refusal on any capital that may be invested in the new entity, including into the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and DP World Tour,” according to the release announcing the agreement.

If the Public Investment Fund invests more money, it will surely demand more board seats and greater voting rights, further tilting control of men’s professional golf toward the kingdom.

Kevin Draper is an investigative reporter on the Sports desk, where he has written about workplace harassment and discrimination, sexual misconduct, doping, league investigations and high-profile court cases. More about Kevin Draper

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Where is the 2023 U.S. Open Golf Championship? Course info, dates, TV schedule

The u.s. open will be the first major played since the pga tour and liv golf merger was announced, by logan reardon • published june 8, 2023 • updated on june 15, 2023 at 10:47 am.

It’s time for golf’s third major of 2023.

The talk of the sport has been the PGA-LIV merger , which was announced earlier this week . But now it’s time to actually play the game.

Just a few weeks after a thrilling PGA Championship ended with Brooks Koepka winning the Wanamaker Trophy, 156 of the world’s best golfers will hit the course for the 123rd U.S. Open.

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The 2023 U.S. Open could be full of surprises, as the tournament heads to an exciting course in a location not known for hosting major championships.

Here’s all the info you need to know for the tournament:

Where is the 2023 U.S. Open Golf Championship?

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The 2023 U.S. Open will be held in Los Angeles at the North Course of Los Angeles Country Club.

The par-70 course has never hosted a major championship. It will be the first mens’ major held in the Los Angeles area since the 1995 PGA Championship.

Last year, the U.S. Open took place at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass.

When is the 2023 U.S. Open Golf Championship?

The U.S. Open will be played from Thursday, June 15 through Sunday, June 18.

As always, there will be four rounds in the tournament with one per day. After the first two rounds, the top 60 players (including ties) will advance to the weekend while the remaining players will be cut.

Who is in the 2023 U.S. Open field?

As aforementioned, 156 players will be competing in the U.S. Open. Tiger Woods will miss the tournament after undergoing ankle surgery following his withdrawal from the Masters in April.

Defending winner Matt Fitzpatrick, Masters champion Jon Rahm and PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka are among the notable names competing in California.

How do I watch the 2023 U.S. Open Golf Championship?

Coverage of the 2023 U.S. Open will be on NBC, USA Network and Peacock . Here’s the full schedule:

Round 1 (Thursday, June 15)

9:40 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET, Peacock

1 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET, USA

8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, NBC and Peacock

Round 2 (Friday, June 16)

Round 3 (Saturday, June 17)

1 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, NBC and Peacock

Round 4 (Sunday, June 18)

12 p.m. to 1 p.m. ET, Peacock

1 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET, NBC and Peacock

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What are the 2023 u.s. open betting odds.

Entering the tournament, 2023 Masters champion Jon Rahm and 2022 Masters champion Scottie Scheffler are the favorites.

Here are some odds to win the U.S. Open as of June 8, according to our partner, PointsBet :

• Scottie Scheffler, +750
• Jon Rahm, +900
• Brooks Koepka, +1000
• Rory McIlroy, +1300
• Viktor Hovland, +1500
• Patrick Cantlay, +1600
• Xander Schauffele, +2000
• Collin Morikowa, +2000
• Jordan Spieth, +2000
• Cameron Smith, +2200
• Max Homa, +2500
• Jason Day, +2800
• Matthew Fitzpatrick, +3000
• Dustin Johnson, +3000
• Tony Finau, +3000

Editor's note: All odds are provided by our partner, PointsBet . PointsBet is our Official Sports Betting Partner and we may receive compensation if you place a bet on PointsBet for the first time after clicking our links.

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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan says there is no deadline for the tour to reach a deal with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, but that negotiations continue. (1:27)

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PGA Tour officials, including 15-time major champion Tiger Woods , are meeting with representatives from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in New York on Tuesday, sources confirmed to ESPN.

The sides are attempting to come to terms on a deal that would inject more than $1 billion from the PIF into PGA Tour Enterprises, the new for-profit entity launched by the tour and Strategic Sports Group.

The meetings are scheduled to last multiple days, sources told ESPN.

PGA Tour Enterprises chairman Joe Gorder and Fenway Sports Group owner John W. Henry are part of a transactional subcommittee that is negotiating with the Saudis, along with Woods and golfer Adam Scott .

The X flight tracking account radaratlas2 noted Tuesday that jets owned by Woods, the Saudi oil and natural gas company Aramco and the PGA Tour arrived in the New York area Monday.

The meetings between the PGA Tour and the PIF were criticized by the 9/11 Justice group Tuesday. The group of 9/11 survivors, first responders and family members of those killed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have accused the Saudi Arabian government of supporting the terrorists.

"Tomorrow, we commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, yet here we are today, in New York City, down the street from Ground Zero, and the PGA Tour and Tiger Woods are negotiating with them," 9/11 Justice president Brett Eagleson said in a statement. "As has been confirmed in the last few weeks by CBS reporting, the Saudi Arabian government played a role in the horrific attacks of 9/11. It is disgusting, unacceptable, and incredibly painful that the Tour and Woods would do this -- especially now."

At last month's Tour Championship in Atlanta, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said talks with the PIF have been "enhanced" and are "stronger" than they'd been in the past, hinting that a deal could be reached to bring the fractured sport back together.

The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and PIF, which has financed the rival LIV Golf League the past three years, signed a framework agreement on June 6, 2023, to form an alliance.

The deadline for that agreement expired Dec. 31, but the sides have continued to hammer out the details of a potential deal.

"I would say that the priority, it's been enhanced," Monahan said on Aug. 28. "It's stronger. That's a direct result of dialogue and conversation and really starting to talk about the future, future product vision and where we can take our sport.

"I think when you get into productive conversations, that enhances the likelihood of positive outcomes and that enhances the spirit of those very conversations. I think that's where things stand."

PGA Tour, Tiger Woods meeting with LIV Golf, Saudi PIF officials in New York, per report

Tiger Woods has joined PGA Tour officials in New York, where tour leadership is meeting with Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) representatives. The PGA Tour and its new investors from the Strategic Sports Group (SSG) hope to strike a deal that sees the PIF join SSG as another billion-dollar investor. The sides also hope to unite professional golf once again.

The PIF, of course, bankrolls LIV Golf , which is conducting its individual championship this week in Chicago. The PGA Tour, meanwhile, begins its FedEx Cup Fall series in Napa, California, on Thursday.

Mark Schlabach of ESPN first reported the news of the meeting.

The two sides—together with the DP World Tour—signed an initial framework agreement on Jun. 6, 2023, which settled all lawsuits between the parties and set a deadline of Dec. 31, 2023, to strike a formal deal. But that deadline has come and gone.

Two weeks ago, at the Tour Championship in Atlanta, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said that officials on both sides have not agreed to a deadline. He added that we “don’t want to restrict ourselves that way.”

Yet, Monahan, without providing any detail or insight into the progress of these negotiations, did mention that the priority of reaching an agreement has been “enhanced.”

“That’s a direct result of dialogue and conversation and starting to talk about the future, future product vision, and where we can take our sport,” Monahan said in Atlanta on Aug. 28, 2024.

“I think when you get into productive conversations, that enhances the likelihood of positive outcomes, and that enhances the spirit of those very conversations. I think that’s where things stand.”

Those conversations are continuing this week in New York, signaling strokes of progress.

Ironically, Monahan and PIF Governor Yasir al-Rumayyan unveiled the framework agreement live on CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street,’ shocking the sporting world from CNBC’s studios in Lower Manhattan.

Officials involved with this deal also met in New York in early June 2024 during the second round of the Memorial Tournament —Rory McIlroy had to tune in via Zoom. McIlroy is not present this week, however. He is at Royal County Down for the Irish Open , but it is unclear if he phoned in remotely again.

Woods, meanwhile, is joined in New York this week by Adam Scott, another member of the transactional subcommittee, per Schlabach’s report. PGA Tour Enterprises chairman Joe Gorder, who is also the Executive Chairman of Valero, and Fenway Sports Group owner John W. Henry are also involved in these discussions.

Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be sure to check out @_PlayingThrough for more golf coverage. You can follow him on Twitter @jack_milko as well.

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Report: PGA Tour Officials, Without Tiger Woods, Meet With Saudi PIF in New York

John schwarb | sep 10, 2024.

Officials from the PGA Tour are meeting with representatives from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in New York this week as talks continue around unifying the pro game.

ESPN reported that the meetings, beginning Tuesday, are scheduled to last multiple days. (Note: An earlier version of this story cited ESPN’s report that Tiger Woods would attend the meeting. Sports Illustrated later learned that Woods would not attend in person, per a source.)

The PIF is the funding source of LIV Golf, which is finishing its third season this month with tournaments outside Chicago and Dallas. The PIF is reportedly willing to invest $1 billion into PGA Tour Enterprises, the for-profit entity formed after the Tour received a multi-billion-dollar investment from Strategic Sports Group. 

There is a PGA Tour Policy Board “transaction subcommittee” specifically tasked with negotiating a deal with the PIF, which includes Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott. Also on that subcommittee are John Henry of Strategic Sports Group and Joe Gorder of Valero Energy, who is also part of the Tour's Policy Board. 

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is also part of the group. Last month in a press conference prior to the start of the season-ending Tour Championship, Monahan said both sides were “at the table” but that negotiations would take time and there was no deadline for a deal . 

“What we hear from fans and what we're hearing from players, ultimately we're both in a position to bring the best players in the world back together. I think that's a good and aspirational goal,” Monahan said in Atlanta. 

The PGA Tour, PIF and DP World Tour signed a “framework agreement” on June 6, 2023, with a deadline of Dec. 31 of that year to complete a deal. That date passed without one. 

Stars from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf will play against each other in December in a made-for-TV match, with Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler taking on Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau in Las Vegas. McIlroy confirmed details of the event to Golfweek, leading to speculation that the event was created by the players and not necessarily their respective leagues.

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Officials from the PGA Tour and those from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund are meeting Tuesday in New York, according to an ESPN report . The two parties are allegedly working on finalizing terms of a deal that would inject more than $1 billion from the PIF into PGA Tour Enterprises, the newly created for-profit entity launched earlier this year.

The meetings are scheduled to last multiple days, according to ESPN.

PGA Tour Enterprises chairman Joe Gorder and Fenway Sports Group owner John W. Henry are two people negotiating with the Saudis.

The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and PIF, which has financed the LIV Golf League the past three years, signed a framework agreement on June 6, 2023, to form an alliance. The deadline expired Dec. 31 last year, but both sides have continued to work toward a potential deal, even if talk has seemed slowed in recent months.

Photos on social media surfaced Tuesday from the account radaratlas2, which regularly tracks flights, showing jets from the PGA Tour, Saudis and Tiger Woods all converging in the New York area on Monday. The ESPN story suggested that Woods was part of the discussions, but Golfweek has learned that Woods was in town for a charity event.

🚨Tiger Woods's airplane #N517TW , Saudi Aramco's #N650XA , and PGA's Tour Air #N795HG all flew to the NYC area yesterday 9/9/24. Tiger's and Aramco's are both at Newark #KEWR and PGA's landed at Morristown #KMMU pic.twitter.com/rQyW7IBMaT — radaratlas2 (@radaratlas2) September 10, 2024

Last month at the Tour Championship, Monahan offered little insight into ongoing negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Saudis .

“As it relates to any details of the conversations that we’re having with the Public Investment Fund, I’m not going to disclose details. I’m not going to get into specifics.”

“I’m not going to negotiate details in public or disclose details or specifics. All I can say is that conversations continue, and they’re productive.”

“When you get into productive conversations, that enhances the likelihood of positive outcomes, and that enhances the spirit of those very conversations. I think that’s where things stand.”

(Editor’s note: This story was updated to include Tiger Woods’ reason for traveling to New York.)

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Those top 70 players will also be fully exempt for the following year’s PGA TOUR season.

The BMW Championship, which will be played at Olympia Fields Country Club (North Course) outside Chicago, will feature only 50 players (from 70), and the season-ending TOUR Championship at East Lake in Atlanta will have a 30-man field, as per tradition.

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The wraparound season – beginning at the Fortinet Championship in September and ending at the TOUR Championship in August – began with the 2013-14 campaign. After a decade-long run it will end with The RSM Classic, Nov. 17-20, the last of a nine-week slate of tournaments that will take players from coast to coast and even overseas.

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The PGA TOUR will return to a calendar-year schedule in 2024.

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And that’s not all. The top 10 finishers on DP World Tour will get PGA TOUR cards, a product of the strategic alliance between the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour. And the top 30 in the season-long Korn Ferry Tour points race, not just the top 25, will be awarded PGA TOUR cards.

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The Korn Ferry Tour Finals will no longer be a competition between the top 75 players on the Korn Ferry Tour and Nos. 126-200 in the PGA TOUR’s FedExCup. Instead, the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, the last four events of the season, will feature increased money and points.

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“The additional TOUR cards available and reimagined Korn Ferry Tour Finals will more properly reward players for season-long success,” Baldwin said.

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