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Fox, the 29th seed, beat 37th seed Harris English 2 up to move to 1-0, with two birdies and an eagle enough to see off English. Fox never trailed in the match, ...

Matt Kuchar, at 44 the oldest player in the field, outlasted Viktor Hovland and won his 35th match, one short of the career tournament record held by Tiger Woods. Rickie Fowler took him down on the 17th hole, the first time Rahm has lost in the opening round. “It’s sort of everything, getting used to where to go to eat, getting to know some guys, getting used to the style of golf course. I capitalised on a couple of mistakes, one on 12 from Harris and another one on four. It’s a bit different than what I grew up with in New Zealand and to what we play in Europe at times. It was nice to get a win.”

The inaugural Galleri Classic at Rancho Mirage on the PGA Tour Champions aims to fill the void left with the LPGA's Chevron Championship moving to Texas ...

That change was announced late in 2021 and the ball immediately got rolling on a possible Champions Tour event in the valley. Even the fan in Sheehan got a glint in her eye knowing that Fred Couples would be there. There was a gathering at the course that day to promote the new PGA Tour Champions’ Galleri Classic in late March. That scene alone says a lot about the transition that’s taking place in the Coachella Valley this week. So imagine this: the six-time LPGA Tour major winner and 1996 champion at Mission Hills trailing the great male players of her era, punching their scores into a little computer. — World Golf Hall of Famer Patty Sheehan was hanging around the clubhouse at her home course, Mission Hills Country Club, a couple of weeks ago when a group of reporters stopped by to say hello.

PGA TOUR Champions heads to Coachella Valley for inaugural The Galleri Classic.

It’s a risk-reward hole, and with the length of many of these guys I expect to see a lot go for it. The LPGA played it from there, and a lot of them didn’t go for it in two. He’s also looking forward to how the final hole might play differently for the Champions Tour pros. He designed it with Jack Nicklaus and it’s the home of Jack’s tournament, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday. It has water down the entire left side, all the way to the green. For the Champions Tour, it will be 2 1/4 inches.

Twelve months ago, there was no PGA Tour Champions event in the Coachella Valley, something that had been true in the desert since the 1990s.

They are used to a tournament that has been here for 51 years, and there are new people here, and just exactly what does that mean for the golf fan who doesn’t know who a Champions Tour player is or what that looks like or how great that they are or have the interaction with the amateurs and the fans and with others.” “Once they get to the event, then they are pumped to come back,” she said. Like the LPGA that played on the Dinah Shore course for the last five decades, DeLancy believes the PGA Tour Champions is an experience that will immediately grab fans’ interest once it is seen in person. It’s reliant on the pro-ams and the parties and entertainment and the hospitably, and that’s fine, too.” The Dinah Shore Tournament Course had been the home of the LPGA in the desert for 51 years, but comparing the Chevron Challenge and the Galleri Classic on the same golf course is something DeLancy didn’t want to happen. “And we have partnered with Coachella Valley cancer beneficiaries to get involved in the community,” DeLancy said. The desert’s lack of a corporate base means that big companies aren’t footing the bill for as many of the $18,000-per-foursome pro-am groups on Wednesday or Thursday. DeLancy admits the schedule has produced a wait-and-see attitude for some potential sponsors, partners and pro-am players. “I am not trying to make us look different or compare us to other events that have been on this course," said DeLancy, whose background includes running a PGA Tour Champions event in Seattle. “Before we have even gotten to this event, we can see the amazing field of 78 players that will be playing, which is the very important piece of the tournament. Going from no event to having an event ready to tee off has proven to be a busy and at times surprising year for the tour and tournament director Michelle DeLancy. Twelve months ago, there was no PGA Tour Champions event in the Coachella Valley, something that had been true in the desert since the 1990s.

The newest event on the Champions Tour is set to be played this week at the iconic Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club.

Bernhard Langer – World Golf Hall of Famer; 1985 and 1993 Masters champion; 45-time PGA TOUR Champions winner He had a career-best performance last week at the Hoag Classic in Newport Beach, finishing T-4. Fred Couples – World Golf Hall of Famer; 1992 Masters champion; 14-time PGA TOUR Champions winner

A walk through of some of the toughest holes that make Mission Hills Country Club unique ahead of the inaugural Galleri Classic.

Lawyers representing LIV Golf alleged in a court filing that London-based PGA Tour exec worked to thwart television deals.

Pascal, the managing director of PGA Tour International UK and senior VP of international media, is scheduled to be deposed on Monday in London, although the PGA Tour has sought a remote deposition. Pascal is a foundational witness whose testimony will inform later discovery in important ways.” “Based on [PGA] Tour documents and other sources, LIV believes Mr.

Held in PGA TOUR Superstore's homebase of Atlanta, 48 teens will develop new leadership skills by learning about the powerful impact sports has on community ...

"We have built a strong partnership with the First Tee and will continue to work together to empower young people with leadership skills built on values such as resilience, integrity and self-confidence that will help them succeed throughout the course of their life.” For more than a decade, PGA TOUR Superstore and the Arthur M. “We are proud to provide national opportunities like the new Leadership Academy to help them build on that foundation and take their life and leadership skills to the next level as they think about their future and plans after high school. PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla – First Tee, a youth development organization that uses golf to teach life skills and positive values, is expanding its roster of impactful national participant opportunities to include a new Leadership Academy in partnership with PGA TOUR Superstore. Participants will also experience the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta University Center and the Bobby Jones Golf Club. Atlanta has burst on to the world stage as the civil rights capital, the technology hub of the south, a destination for marquee sporting events, elite colleges and universities, and so much more.

Golf fans in the Coachella Valley and across the country are familiar with the Dinah Shore Tournament Course as the home course of an LPGA major ...

"I've talked to a lot of pros and lot of caddies, some of them played late in the afternoon after the rain (Tuesday) and this (Wednesday) on the range," Conlan said. Golfers who do go for the green in two will need to be careful, since the hill sloping away from the back of the green does not have long rough, meaning balls can easily roll into the lake. Other distance differences will come on the par-5s of the course, where the PGA Tour Champions players will be able to hit driver likely farther than most LPGA players. "We will be ready to go for the weekend." So the rough will be lower, perhaps no more than two inches, in part because of the Galleri Classic is a regular tour event and in part because the colder, wetter desert winter has made it tougher to grow thick and long grass. Those changes will be evident from the first tee of the course Friday.

PGA TOUR Champions heads to Coachella Valley for inaugural The Galleri Classic.

It’s a risk-reward hole, and with the length of many of these guys I expect to see a lot go for it. The LPGA played it from there, and a lot of them didn’t go for it in two. He’s also looking forward to how the final hole might play differently for the Champions Tour pros. He designed it with Jack Nicklaus and it’s the home of Jack’s tournament, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday. It has water down the entire left side, all the way to the green. For the Champions Tour, it will be 2 1/4 inches.

Attorneys for LIV Golf claim a network signed a contract with the Saudi-backed circuit only to back out once the PGA Tour intervened, according to the ...

However, it is unlikely the media partner in question is FOX, as the tour has no relationship with the entity in question. FOX founder and media tycoon Rubert Murdoch has a personal relationship with LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman; the two attempted to create a “World Golf Tour'' in the mid-1990s, with Murdoch’s FOX Sports securing the TV rights. LIV Golf claims that because of the interference it had to sign "with a secondary network, with LIV being its first sporting event." In January 2022, LIV Golf hired former FOX Sports President David Hill to help with production, and FOX News had a heavy presence at LIV Golf’s third event held at former President Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., property. The network being referred to is the CW Network, LIV's only U.S. “Time and again, after the live meeting or phone call, the broadcaster did an about face and informed LIV the negotiations (in one case, a signed contract) could not proceed.

New court filings find that LIV Golf is claiming that a PGA Tour executive used "illegale means" to squash any potential TV deals.

[Front Office Sports](https://frontofficesports.com/liv-golf-alleges-pga-tour-exec-used-illegal-means-to-kill-tv-deals/), the court documents alleging that the PGA Tour interfered with LIV Golf acquiring a TV deal were filed in federal court late Wednesday night. Pascal is a foundational witness whose testimony will inform later discovery in important ways.” “Based on [PGA] Tour documents and other sources, LIV believes Mr.

LIV Golf argues that the PGA Tour has tried to block it from success. In a court document, the PGA Tour is blamed for LIV Golf's TV partner options.

Pascal used illegal means to dissuade numerous broadcasters in international markets from signing broadcast contracts with LIV and even from reporting about LIV events in their news content.” In arguing they need to depose Pascal sooner rather than later, LIV attorneys depicted him as sabotaging their potential TV deals. The filing mainly details a scheduling disagreement over where and when LIV can depose Thierry Pascal, the London-based senior vice president of international media for the PGA Tour International. A joint statement by PGA Tour and LIV Golf attorneys, filed in a California federal court on Wednesday, illustrated how LIV contends the PGA Tour is trying to undermine its future—with LIV attorneys d The two sides asked U.S. [PGA Tour](https://www.sportico.com/t/pga-tour/) and [LIV Golf](https://www.sportico.com/t/liv-golf/) attorneys, filed in a California federal court on Wednesday, illustrated how LIV contends the PGA Tour is trying to undermine its future—with LIV attorneys describing LIV’s broadcast partner, the CW Network, as a mere “secondary network” that lacks experience in sports broadcasting.

Documents submitted Wednesday include a LIV Golf accusation that the PGA Tour intervened in its dealings with potential broadcast networks.

[signed a multi-year revenue-sharing TV deal](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2023/01/19/liv-golf-news-tv-broadcast-deal-the-cw-network/) with LIV in January. "Based on (PGA Tour) documents and other sources, LIV believes Mr. Pascal is a foundational witness whose testimony will inform later discovery in important ways." [Golfweek](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/) was first to [report LIV was nearing a deal](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/09/27/liv-golf-fox-sports-buy-time-to-air-tournaments/) with Fox Sports last September. More from the filing: "Time and again, after the live meeting or phone call, the broadcaster did an about-face and informed LIV the negotiations (in one case, a signed contract) could not proceed. [PGA Tour](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/category/professional/pga-tour/) executive has led to some new allegations in the ongoing legal battle between the Tour and [LIV Golf](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/category/liv-golf/).

LIV Golf argued that the breakaway circuit was unable to sign a domestic broadcast rights deal in the United States in 2022.

LIV also claimed that after meeting with Pascal “time and again … More telling than Van Keulen’s ruling is where LIV’s attorneys appear to be heading in the discovery process. The dispute centered on when Thierry Pascal, the senior vice president international media for PGA Tour International, would submit to be deposed by LIV Golf attorneys.

A PGA Tour Inc. executive unlawfully pushed broadcasters to turn their backs on potential LIV Golf streaming deals, the Saudi-backed upstart alleged in its ...