News about Branden Grace

Matthew Jordan had played these links hundreds of times before but never like this. Walked to the first tee more often than he remembered, but never like this. Never to this degree, never to this degree, and never to get the Open Championship underway. The 27-year-old made the first tee shot in front of a grandstand packed with family, acquaintances, and friends of a course where he has been a student since he was seven and holds the course record (62). He shot a two-under-par 69 to earn a spot on the leaderboard in four and a half hours over the next four and a half hours.

Harold Varner III won his first LIV tournament after a short birdie putt at the 18th hole, prevailing at LIV Golf D.C. on Sunday in Sterling, Virginia. Varner's final-round 68 at Trump National Golf Club in Washington, D.C., sent him to 12 under for the week, putting him one shot behind Branden Grace of South Africa. After a 71, Mito Pereira of Chile, the country's leader, settled for third at ten under on Sunday. Varner, 32, won his first tournament since the Saudi International in February 2022.

The CW - LIV's American television distribution partner - changed from final round action to regularly scheduled programming in the midst of the final LIV Golf tournament until this week's PGA Championship. Although Dustin Johnson, Branden Grace, and Cameron Smith all battled outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in Sunday's final round, the tournament's various television broadcasters had all been suspended. Inducing viewers to click over to the station's website or app to view the remainder of the game, with Johnson emerging the champion in a three-way playoff.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: With ominous timing, two of LIV's rebel alliance's marquee names have resurfaced to peak form this week in the US's second major tournament of the season. If the challenges of Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson, and Patrick Reed sparked some unease among the traditionalists at The Masters last month, there will be similar trepidations over Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith's appearance at Tulsa over the weekend. Johnson's second LIV title, as well as Branden Grace, suggests that they have gained energy at the right time.

Dustin Johnson birdied the first playoff hole to defeat Cameron Smith of Australia and Branden Grace of South Africa and win the inaugural LIV Tulsa title in Broken Arrow, Okla. Johnson had to birdie No. 18 to make sure he was a part of the playoffs. His putt from the fringe of the 18th green at Cedar Ridge Country Club rolled straight in, and the award was his first victory after Smith failed a birdie putt from a distance. Johnson will carry his momentum from his second appearance in LIV to the PGA Championship in Rochester, N.Y., this week. Brooks Koepka won the tournament for the second time the week before a major, and the LIV went on to finish second at the Masters.

The DP World Tour has triumphed in the legal fight against 12 LIV players who participated in LIV Golf tournaments without permission, which was a'serious breach' of the Tour's code of conduct. In an attempt to clarify the former's playing status on the latter, a three-strong arbitration panel heard five days of testimony from lawyers representing a group of LIV players and those representing the DP World Tour in February. The situation arose when players requested that 'conflict event' be released in order to play the inaugural LIV Golf tournament outside London last June.

The LIV Golf defectors who hadn't turned in their tour cards were denied entry into the PGA Tour, and those that didn't intend to play on the PGA Tour were banned. The PGA Tour's new season is set to begin in two weeks' time on September 15, but Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau's likes will not be allowed to tee it up. Players who hadn't resigned when leaving LIV, such as Mickelson, DeChambeau, and Pat Perez, were told that their memberships had been suspended for the 2022-23 season.