Boy, did LIV Golf have a tough end to the work week. Some sizeable names—Ian Poulter and Tyrrell Hatton among them—said on Friday that they weren’t buying into the potential 2.0 version, and that news came as tomorrow’s player commitment deadline looms. Mind you, only four golfers have publicly committed to the future in a league that featured 52 team members and five wildcards in 2026.
While we wait to hear a decision—and it could certainly be pushed back yet again—the latest financial numbers we got from court documents, and as reported by our Joel Beall, are staggering, to say the least.
Scott O’Neil, who replaced Greg Norman as LIV’s CEO at the beginning of 2025, received a $6.375 million retention bonus in June, less than three months before the league's bankruptcy filing. Before that, O'Neil got a bonus of about $2.7 million in February. From September 2025, to August 2026, he was paid more than $13.6 millio, according to the records. So approximate total: $24 million.
That’s quite the take for an outfit leaning heavily against the ropes. As Joel notes, O’Neil kept cashing in at a time when vendors weren’t getting paid (there are numerous lawsuits ongoing) and big amounts are still owned to players. In Jon Rahm’s case, he walked away from the $7.47 million LIV owned him to regain the rights to his name, image and likeness.
However this ends up, the only people I feel for are the unpaid vendors, the unseen employees who worked diligently, even in a lost cause, and maybe the avid fans—though I’ve never understood what LIV’s appeal was.
No pity for the league, Saudis, Greg Norman, Scott O’Neil … and certainly not the players, most of whom scooped up the Monopoly money from golf’s gutter and just ran themselves right out of sight.
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Bob Vokey’s original M Grind is back, and there are only 1,000 of them. The master craftsman has spent nearly three decades building a wedge lineup so extensive it needs a fitting chart. Ask him which grind got it going, and he’ll point to the M.
When Vokey started on tour, most players used full-sole wedges, and grind requests were basic: some heel relief, a trimmed trailing edge or less bounce in the toe. He combined all three into one crescent-shaped sole, and after it hit the PGA Tour in the late 1990s, other players lined up for copies. Vokey credits the M as the root of several current grinds, including the D and T.
The signature 60M ($399) recreates that original profile and sole with SM11 tech, a slate blue finish, Project X wedge shaft and Golf Pride BCT Cord grip bearing Vokey’s initials. Each wedge also comes with a bag tag signifying that it is one of 1,000 made to Vokey's demanding specifications.
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The PGA Tour is facing some tough decisions over the next 24 hours because of the weather at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. With winds already gusting up to 30 mph in Saturday’s third round, the forecast gets far worse for Sunday, going from scattered showers in the morning to thunderstorms and a 100-percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Further troubling is the prediction of wind gusts up to 47 mph, which could force the stoppage of play, even if lightning doesn’t.
The tour sent a notice to the players on Friday night and said that play could be extended into Monday. Unfortunately, the forecast isn’t great for that day either, with an 80-percent chance of rain.
How concerned is the tour about the weather? Golf Channel’s Gabby Herzig reported on Saturday that, in anticipation of the high winds, the green speeds on the Port Royal course have been slowed down to 9.5 on the Stimpmeter. That's a lot when the standard tour speed is 12. She also said the tournament is removing all high-profile signage that could be blown over.
This has to be a nervy time for the players—many of whom are battling for their cards for 2027. From Bermuda, they’ll head to Puerto Vallarta for the VidantaWorld Mexico Open. That’s a 2,600-mile flight, though they’ll likely be on charters, since a commercial filght takes almost 14 hours with layovers.
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Andrea Lee called it the “most quiet hole-in-one I’ve ever hit.” In the second round of the LPGA’s BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea. The Stanford alum hit a 9-iron from 122 yards on the eight hole. The ball took a small hop and bounced into the cup for an ace. And in the video, we could hear exactly one person clapping for it. “No one even screamed on the green,” said Lee, who traded rather subdued high-fives with the caddies and playing partners.
The prize deserved a bigger celebration, because Lee won a BMW Mini Countryman car. "It feels awesome,” Lee said. "It honestly came when I least expected it. I wasn't even looking at the car. I just wanted to hit a good shot, and somehow it went in.”
Funnily enough, the last time Lee made an ace, in the LPGA Shanghai pro-am, she got a toy car. "I was like, I don't want this. I want the real thing," she said. "So I got the real thing today."
After an opening 78, the ace helped Lee shoot 66 in the second round. She followed that with a 70 on Saturday and sits T-45. Korean Haeran Ryu—the winner of two majors this season—takes a four-shot lead into the final round.
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