PHIL MICKELSON

The outcry that marked the start of the Saudi Arabia-funded LIV Golf series’ first American stop quieted a bit on Friday, putting the focus on the play at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.

LIV Golf’s first U.S. event was set to begin Thursday, with a group of survivors and families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terror attacks planning to gather at a nearby park to speak out against the Saudi Arabia-funded tour.

The PGA Tour has been sued in Palm Beach County for anti-trust violations because it doesn't allow LIV Golf participants to play in PGA events.

Four months after suggesting those who defected to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series were sellouts, Brooks Koepka explained Tuesday that he simply changed his mind.

Brooks Koepka is all about being bold and blunt.

Brooks Koepka likes to boast about his honesty. Koepka once accused Patrick Reed of cheating by “building sand castles” in a waste area in the Bahamas. “I’m always going to speak my mind and tell you what I think, and I think everybody in this room knows that,” he said at a PGA Championship preview day in 2020.

Xander Schauffele won the Travelers Championship with a three-stroke swing on the final hole Sunday, hitting to 3 feet for birdie after rookie Sahith Theegala took two shots to get out of a bunker and made a double bogey in the group ahead.

Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf is getting a chilly reception in Oregon, its first stop in the United States.

Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf is getting a chilly reception in Oregon, its first stop in the United States. This coming week, the series, which is paying enormous signing fees for players like Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, descends on Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in tiny North Plains, nestled in the rolling hills west of Portland. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is speaking out against the tournament, and some members of the pricy club also are uncomfortable with the situation.

Xander Schauffele shot a 3-under 67 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over good friend and playing partner Patrick Cantlay into the final round of the Travelers Championship.

Players who have joined the new Saudi Arabia-funded league will still be allowed to compete at the British Open next month.

The U.S. Open began with Phil Mickelson speaking without saying hardly anything.

Billy Foster grabbed the flag on the 18th green, pulled it toward his face and gave it a kiss.

Masters champion Scottie Scheffler tied for second at the U.S. Open, a stroke behind winner Matt Fitzpatrick.

The storm clouds never arrived at the U.S. Open.

Phil Mickelson’s tee shot on No. 3 in the second round of the U.S. Open landed in the rough to the right.

For one day at least, the U.S. Open was wide open.

Phil Mickelson's chances at the U.S. Open all but evaporated on the sixth green, where he four-putted for an ugly double bogey.

All it took was about two cringeworthy minutes and four putts from 12 feet to bring the golf world back to this: No matter where he plays, or how much money he makes, Phil Mickelson can sometimes remind us — of us. The player who built his brand as golf's everyman — only to risk it all with his move to a Saudi-backed startup that led to his suspension from the PGA Tour — looked like a weekend duffer in putting himself out of U.S. Open contention Thursday on the par-3 sixth. Mickelson hit his tee shot on the 196-yard par-3 to 12 feet, then waited while Louis Oosthuizen almost chipped in from the rough and Shane Lowry, putting on almost Mickelson's exact line, just missed to the right.

Adam Hadwin wasn’t officially in the U.S. Open until eight days ago.

Adam Hadwin of Canada is the leader after one round of the U.S. Open.

The U.S. Open this week is the first time that 14 golfers will have to face the American public since defecting to a Saudi-backed upstart tour.

The U.S. Open starts Thursday and not a moment too soon for those interested in golf.

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Here's a look back at key anniversaries from the U.S. Open.

Rory McIlroy says he was wrong about his prediction in February that the Saudi-backed rival golf league was “dead in the water.”.

Phil Mickelson is giving a thumbs-up at the U.S. Open, just like always.

Phil Mickelson lumbered his way down the first fairway and flashed a thumbs-up almost by habit, even if he wasn't responding to an occasional encouraging word from behind the ropes or in the grandstands. This is his 31st appearance, and any degree of normalcy — for Mickelson and so many other big names in golf — is hard to find. Brooks Koepka had heard enough.

Defending U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm says one of his biggest concerns about the schism in golf is how it might impact the Ryder Cup.

Attorney for Britney Spears, Matthew Rosengart, pledges support for "vigorous" prosecution of Jason Alexander - charged with felony over uninvited appearance at star's recent wedding to Sam Asghari. (June 14)

Bryson DeChambeau says it's a business decision to play for the LIV Golf series.

Phil Mickelson never had such a conservative strategy for the U.S. Open.

Phil Mickelson isn't giving up on playing on the PGA Tour again, even if he is currently not welcome there. “I'm very appreciative of the many memories, opportunities, experiences, friendships and relationships the PGA Tour has provided and those are going to last a lifetime,” Mickelson said. Mickelson led a defection by 17 PGA Tour members to the LIV Golf series, a move the tour countered by suspending those who decided to keep their memberships.

Sunday ahead of the U.S. Open is typically quiet, and such was the case at The Country Club.

Luke Gannon is playing in his first U.S. Open and had one of those moments that made him realize this was a stage unlike any other the Kansan has played. Phil Mickelson was carrying only a wedge and a putter and waved him through. The Sunday before U.S. Open week is rarely more peaceful with only a few dozen players getting a look at the course, some caddies arriving ahead of their players to walk the course and check the yardages.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is blasting the Saudi-based LIV Golf league as a series of exhibitions that spends billions to recruit players without getting a return on the investment.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan described the Saudi-funded league that has signed up Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau as a “series of exhibition matches” that spends billions of dollars on players without getting a return on its investment. Monahan also said players paid an exorbitant amount of money would “have to be living under a rock” to not know they would be criticized for the source of the money. LIV Golf is backed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.

Phil Mickelson and other pro golfers participating in the Saudi-funded golf league reacted Thursday to the PGA Tour's suspension.

Former U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau has become the latest big name to sign on with the Saudi-funded breakaway LIV Golf series.

Organizers say that their tour is taking a fresh approach to the game and giving lucrative new opportunities to its players. But It’s unclear how much fans will care about the politics once the series lands in Illinois.

For Rickie Fowler, who's still cashing significant checks, would joining LIV Golf be worth the backlash

The Saudi-funded golf breakaway has started outside London, attempting to bring a sense of faux regal pageantry to the rebellion splitting the sport.

"These players have made their choice for their own financial-based reasons," PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan wrote.

The PGA Tour has suspended 17 golfers, including Phil Mickelson, who are competing in the Saudi-backed LIV golf event near London.

Commissioner Jay Monahan says even if players resigned their membership, they are not eligible as nonmembers to get sponsor exemptions to tournaments.

As a splashy new series begins, the PGA Tour says 17 golfers playing in it "are suspended or otherwise no longer eligible to participate in PGA TOUR tournament play."

The PGA Tour says members who are playing in the Saudi-funded league in London are no longer eligible to play tour events.

Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other PGA Tour members who teed off in the Saudi-funded golf league Thursday are no longer eligible for PGA Tour events under penalties Commissioner Jay Monahan shared soon after the first tee shot was struck. The ban includes participation in the Presidents Cup, which would involve the South African trio of Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Branden Grace. The USGA already has said eligible players can still compete in the U.S. Open next week.

Graeme McDowell addresses the new LIV tour and his involvement, in the face of criticisms. (June 8)

Phil Mickelson has returned to golf after four months out of public view and is facing severe scrutiny because of where he’s playing and who is paying him.

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed are the latest players to join the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational series.

Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week.

Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson are welcome to play the U.S. Open next week under a USGA decision announced Tuesday that puts the open nature of the championship over a player's decision to play in a Saudi-funded rival league. Mickelson and Johnson are among a dozen players in the LIV Golf Invitational this week who are exempt for the U.S. Open on June 16-19 at The Country Club outside Boston. Among other U.S. Open players who signed up for the new league are Sergio Garcia, Louis Oosthuizen and Kevin Na.

Mickelson and 14 other PGA Tour members who joined could face suspensions for violating tour regulations.

Phil Mickelson is ending his 4-month hiatus from competitive golf and is joining the Saudi-funded rival league.

Phil Mickelson, a chief recruiter for a Saudi-funded rival league to the PGA Tour, is ending his four-month hiatus by adding his name to the 48-man field for the LIV Golf Invitational that starts Friday outside London. Mickelson will be joining Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia and three other former major champions in a 54-hole tournament at Centurion Golf Club with $25 million in prize money and $4 million going to the individual winner. “I am ready to come back to play the game I love but after 32 years this new path is a fresh start, one that is exciting for me at this stage of my career,” Mickelson said in a statement posted on social media.

The first Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational has Dustin Johnson and 12 other PGA Tour members as part of its 48-man field next week outside London.

Dustin Johnson is joining the Saudi-funded golf league.

Henrik Stenson has checked out the Italian course staging next year’s Ryder Cup for the first time since being appointed captain of the European team.

Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler is tied for the lead after the second round at Colonial with Scott Stallings and Beau Hossler.

The results of Georgia's primary election showed Brian Kemp beating Trump-backed David Perdue.

Justin Thomas is the kind of major champion Southern Hills usually produces.

Mito Pereira had a one-shot lead in the PGA Championship when he sent his tee shot into the water on the par-4 18th hole at Southern Hills.

Justin Thomas is a PGA champion again when he least expected it.

Tiger Woods withdrew from the PGA Championship after scoring a career worst 79 on Saturday.

For the first time in more than two months, Masters champion and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler had to sign for a round over par.

Dave Stockton won the 1970 PGA Championship at Southern Hills and his nostalgic return this week included the champions dinner for swapping stories of the great shots, the terrible ones and memories of career-making victories. Nobody misses the Masters champions dinner, Stockton noted. The other former PGA champions who were there: Collin Morikawa, Rory McIlroy, Jason Dufner, Keegan Bradley, Martin Kaymer, Padraig Harrington, Shaun Micheel, Rich Beem, Mark Brooks and Jeff Sluman.

Jordan Spieth is going for the final leg of the career Grand Slam at the PGA Championship.

History is not on Jordan Spieth’s side as he arrives at Southern Hills for the PGA Championship this week.

Tiger Woods says he cares about majors and legacies.

Rory McIlroy was 25 years old when he hoisted the Wanamaker Trophy over his head and looked primed for a run at the PGA record books.

A new biography of Phil MIckelson shows every facet of one of the most fascinating figures in golf, including his fantasy football talents.

Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is among the golf courses with a history of hosting the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship.

Mickelson's gambling debts reached in excess of $40 million over a four-year period, according to biographer Alan Shipnuck

The decision means he will be extending his hiatus from golf following his incendiary comments he made about a Saudi-funded rival league he supports.

Phil Mickelson is out of the PGA Championship.

Phil Mickelson withdrew Friday from the PGA Championship, electing to extend his hiatus from golf following his incendiary comments about a Saudi-funded rival league he supports and the PGA Tour he accused of greed. Mickelson made history in the PGA last year when he won at Kiawah Island at age 50, making him the oldest champion in 161 years of the majors. Mickelson met the deadline to sign up for the PGA Championship on April 25, though his manager said Lefty was unsure about playing but wanted to keep his options open.

Another major championship, another dose of anticipation.

The PGA Tour is denying releases to golfers who want to play in the first Saudi-funded tournament next month in England.

Federal auditors investigating Phil Mickelson's role in an insider trading scheme found his gambling losses totaled more than $40 million from 2010 to 2014, according to an excerpt from Alan Shipnuck's forthcoming biography. Mickelson is the defending champion. Mickelson has been out of public view since the final round of the Saudi International on Feb. 6.

News of his absence comes after the golfer publicly apologized for controversial comments he made about Saudi Arabia and a new Saudi-backed golf league.

The last thing Augusta National officials want is Mickelson to drive down Magnolia Lane knowing the circus that was coming with him after recent comments.

The club confirmed Mickelson notified Augusta National he will not by playing in the Masters April 7-10.

The club confirmed Mickelson notified Augusta National he will not by playing in the Masters April 7-10.

Andy Nesbitt examines if Phil Mickelson’s golf career is over after his egregious comments about an upstart Saudi golf league led to him losing his major sponsors.

The six-time major winner said he "used words I sincerely regret" in an interview about a Saudi-financed golf league in which he brushed aside human rights violations by the Saudi regime.

Phil Mickelson said the Saudis behind a proposed breakaway rival league were "scary mother (expletive)s to get involved with."

The golfer says he has been under pressure and stress for the last 10 years and says he needs time away.

Phil Mickelson apologized Tuesday for comments about the Saudis and a proposed super league, which he claims were off the record and not meant to be shared publicly. Mickelson also said in a statement he has felt pressure and stress affecting him at a deeper level over the last 10 years and he needs time away. Also, KPMG became the first of Mickelson's corporate sponsors to announce an end to their partnership, a decision the company said was mutual.

Ice dancer and WNY native Kaitlin Hawayek making Olympic debut this weekend

Mackenzie Salmon and Andy Nesbitt discuss the biggest storylines for Bengals heading into Super Bowl LVI.

The fifth installment of The Match, a made-for-TV golf game, will exploit the rivalry between two of the PGA Tour's young stars.

Athletes with Special Olympics Washington got the chance to skate around the Kraken Community Iceplex on Sunday.

Phil Mickelson stood on the 18th green at Phoenix Country Club, a wide smile across his face as he held yet another PGA Tour Champions trophy. Next to him was 64-year-old Bernhard Langer, grinning just as broadly as he hoisted the Charles Schwab Cup trophy at an age when most players are playing from the front tee boxes, not fighting for championships. Mickelson birdied three of the final holes Sunday to win the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship, and Langer held on to win his sixth PGA Tour Champions season points title.

As if there wasn’t enough suspense and second-guessing of the Ryder Cup captains in past years, a nod to the COVID-19 pandemic could make things more topsy-turvy than usual this time around. The last time the envelope was actually opened was at the Belfry in 1993, when Scotsman Sam Torrance had to withdraw because of a foot injury and his match against Lanny Wadkins — whose name was in the U.S. envelope — was ruled a tie. Under the current agreement, Stricker would be able to replace a single player with anyone he chooses — from non-playing assistant captain Phil Mickelson to a player who flies in at the last moment.

Phil Mickelson is a known prankster in the world of golf, and once tricked his caddie Jim "Bones" Mackay ahead of one of the biggest tournaments of the year.

Phil Mickelson spoke of having some self-doubt in the two years leading up to his PGA Championship victory. Xander Schauffele might have contributed to that, particularly during some money games a year ago in San Diego. Golf resumed, and Schauffele missed a playoff at Colonial by one shot in the first event back.

Golfer Phil Mickelson, 50, became the oldest player to win a major championship after he captured the 103rd PGA Championship

The scene on the 18th hole at the PGA Championship was chaotic, energetic, emotional but also maybe a little too close for comfort.

The oldest player to win a golf major, Mickelson, 50, also wants to join forces again with the 43-year-old Buccaneers quarterback.