News about Charl Schwartzel

The great and the good of golf gathered for a last supper on Tuesday night at the Masters Champions Dinner, one of the final traditions before the action finally begins at Augusta. Defending champion Jon Rahm hosted the night and the Spaniard selected an Iberian theme for his dinner guests. The 29-year-old started with a mix of tapas and pintxos including spicy Basque chorizo and even 'Mama Rahm's Classic Lentil Stew' - and dish made to his grandmother's recipe by chef Jose Andres, who helped Rahm design the menu.

Jon Rahm will host tonight's traditional Champions Dinner before The Masters, with the 2023 winner's menu leaning on his Spanish roots and even his grandmother's home cooking. The Spaniard, now a LIV Golf player, triumphed by four shots at Augusta last year to win the green jacket and earn the honor of picking the 2024 pre-tournament dinner. There will be a distinctively Iberian theme this year, with the 29-year-old's menu starting with a mix of tapas and pintxos including spicy Basque chorizo and even 'Mama Rahm's Classic Lentil Stew'.

Jon Rahm has revealed the menu for his Champions Dinner ahead of The Masters, with the 2023 champion leaning on his Spanish roots and grandmother's home cooking. Rahm won the green jacket by four shots at Augusta last year and was given the honor of choosing the 2024 pre-tournament dinner. This year, there will be a prominently Iberian theme, with the 29-year-old's menu debuting with a mix of tapas and pintxos, including spicy Basque chorizo and even 'Mama Rahm's Classic Lentil Stew'.

On Thursday, the Masters and Open Championship's chief denied the suggestion that automatic major exemptions for LIV golfers would be created. The Masters has traditionally welcomed top 50 players, as well as current champions, PGA Tour winners, and top finishers from other majors. Although we do not anticipate making any changes in 2024, Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley said, 'We do continue to investigate them and we will continue to do so.'

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.

After months of rumors, LIV golf players will be allowed to compete in this year's Masters, with Augusta chiefs refusing to enforce a ban. Despite the fact that the PGA Tour has barred LIV players from participating in their tournaments, the Augusta National Golf Club announced in December that they will be able to tee off at the tournament. Since a number of high-level professionals elected to make the switch to the new series in 2022, there is still a stalemate between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

On Tuesday night, Scottie Scheffler hosted a Masters dinner as the great, the good, and the unpopular gathered gathered ahead of the first Major of the golf calendar. The LIV rebels in the room for World No. 1 Scheffler's Texas-themed Champions Dinner were Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Phil Mickelson, Charl Schwartzel, Bubba Watson, and Sergio Garcia. The Saudi-backed LIV tour is particularly unpopular among those on the PGA, but celebrities from both sides are mingling for the Majors, but no one sees them rubbing shoulders in close quarters like in Augusta.

After a one-stroke lead in the LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah on Friday in Saudi Arabia, Brooks Koepka posted a bogey-free, 8-under 62 to take a two-stroke lead. At Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, Koepka, who last won a golf tournament in February 2021, piled up eight birdies to lead South Africa's Charl Schwartzel (64) by two points. Since he has been dealing with multiple injuries, the four-time major champion's form had slowed. With two other missed cuts, he placed no better than 55th at a major this year.

The last Presidents Cup was so close that the International Team left with a renewed sense of optimism, but it seems a long way away now, especially in the shadow cast over North Carolina this week. LIV Golf has been dominating the headlines in the buildup to the showdown at Quail Hollow, just like it has every tournament this year, and, honestly, how could it not? The Presidents Cup is the first major team competition in the men's game since the insurgent series made its way into the scene in June. However, the Presidents Cup gives a bit more energy than LIV's team's, which is limited to two scores from a team of four to count towards the final result. After all, it's match play - whatever comes.

Cameron Smith putts together to round off his round of 4-under 68 and allow him to overtake Dustin Johnson on the third and final day of the LIV Golf Invitational-Chicago. Saturday at Rich Harvest Farms was such a struggle that he shot over par for the first time in the 14 rounds he had participated in the Saudi-funded tournament, as straightforward as Johnson made it look in the first round. Johnson was fortunate that Smith's deficit was limited to just two shots. On the par-4 17th, he came up a few yards short of the green and had to make an 8-foot par putt, but Smith took the lead for the first time with his 7-foot birdie putt.

Phil Mickelson (left) wasted no time adhering to the new LIV Golf version on day two of the tournament in Boston, wearing shorts. With Greg Norman, the breakaway league's CEO, a contest with shorts will continue to shake up the game, beginning from Saturday. LIV is Norman's first golf tour or league to encourage men to wear something other than traditional golf pants. Previously, LIV players were allowed to wear shorts in practice rounds and pro-am tournaments. Cameron Smith (top right) dropped off the pace with Talor Gooch (bottom right) as the leader.

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.