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ATLANTA -- PGA Tour Rookie of the Year favorite Cameron Young said Sunday that he is staying with the tour after having discussions with LIV Golf about joining the new circuit.

Young, speaking after Sunday's final round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club, said he was intrigued by LIV Golf's "fresh ideas" but was encouraged that a group of top players are working with PGA Tour officials to make the tour better.

"Frankly, I have decided to stay," Young said. "It's a really difficult situation because it's not anything that anyone really wanted to happen. I think it wasn't meant to be this kind of hostile between the two."

Young, the 17th-ranked player in the Official World Golf Ranking, became the seventh player since 1980 to finish runner-up five times in a season. He was the first player to do it since Vijay Singh in 2003. Young finished second at the Sanderson Farms Championship, Genesis Invitational, Wells Fargo Championship, The Open and the Rocket Market Mortgage Classic.

Young, 25, had 11 top-25s in 24 starts and finished the regular season ninth in the FedEx Cup standings. He is the first PGA Tour rookie to earn $5 million or more in a season. Going into the Tour Championship, Young had earned more than $6.5 million.

On Monday, LIV Golf is expected to announce the addition of at least six PGA Tour members, including world No. 2 golfer Cameron Smith , who defeated Young by 1 stroke in the 150th Open at St. Andrews. Chile's Joaquin Niemann , Australia's Marc Leishman , the United States' Harold Varner III , India's Anirban Lahiri and American Cameron Tringale are also expected to defect and compete in LIV Golf's next event in Boston.

Chile's Mito Pereira is also expected to join LIV Golf at some point in the future, sources told ESPN.

Young attended last week's PGA Tour players' meeting at the BMW Championship in Wilmington, Delaware, that was led by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy . Young said he sat next to McIlroy and was "there to listen and not speak."

On Wednesday, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced that the tour's top players had committed to play in 20 events, starting in the 2022-23 season. The schedule also will have 13 elevated events with average purses of $20 million.

"We don't know who's going to go after this week or next year," Young said. "I think there's a really nice core group of guys that are just going to stay, and a lot of them are highly ranked players in the world. I don't think the competition on the PGA Tour is going to go downhill significantly."

Cameron Young not joining LIV Golf, says he has ‘decided to stay’ on PGA Tour

Cameron Young has decided to stay on the PGA Tour . After Sunday’s final round of the Tour Championship, Young was asked if it would be difficult to pull the trigger and say no to joining LIV Golf.

“I mean, frankly, I have decided to stay,” Young said.  “So, I don’t know, it’s a really difficult situation, because it’s not really anything anyone wanted to happen. I think it wasn’t meant to be this hostile between the two.”

Asked Cameron Young after today’s round: “If or when you have to give a hard ‘no’ to LIV, will it be difficult to pull the trigger and say no.” Young’s response: pic.twitter.com/XW5mmL2Zh7 — Brendan Quinn (@BFQuinn) August 28, 2022

Speculation increased Friday about Young joining LIV Golf after No Laying Up pointed out his name was one of several that were part of a promo code for tickets for the event next week in Boston. Shortly after, the codes were disabled.

Young added that the recently announced changes for the 2023 PGA Tour season swayed him to stay.

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“Frankly, throughout the whole process with (LIV Golf), I was very interested. I think they have a bunch of good ideas and are doing some cool stuff,” Young said. “With some of the changes coming (to the PGA Tour), that’s kind of what really helped me decide to kind of stay and pursue those goals that I have for myself like making a Presidents Cup team and a Ryder Cup team and winning a major, when all of that is just uncertain if you go. It’s a tough place for me because, you know, I’m very young and there are a lot of factors.”

Young finished second five times on Tour in 2022. He came in second at the Open Championship and tied for third at the PGA Championship.

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Cameron Young says he is staying with PGA Tour after discussions with LIV Golf

ATLANTA -- PGA Tour Rookie of the Year favorite Cameron Young said Sunday that he is staying with the tour after having discussions with LIV Golf about joining the new circuit.

Young, speaking after Sunday's final round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club, said he was intrigued by LIV Golf's "fresh ideas" but was encouraged that a group of top players are working with PGA Tour officials to make the tour better.

"Frankly, I have decided to stay," Young said. "It's a really difficult situation because it's not anything that anyone really wanted to happen. I think it wasn't meant to be this kind of hostile between the two."

Young, the 17th-ranked player in the Official World Golf Ranking, became the seventh player since 1980 to finish runner-up five times in a season. He was the first player to do it since Vijay Singh in 2003. Young finished second at the Sanderson Farms Championship, Genesis Invitational, Wells Fargo Championship, The Open and the Rocket Market Mortgage Classic.

Young, 25, had 11 top-25s in 24 starts and finished the regular season ninth in the FedEx Cup standings. He is the first PGA Tour rookie to earn $5 million or more in a season. Going into the Tour Championship, Young had earned more than $6.5 million.

On Monday, LIV Golf is expected to announce the addition of at least six PGA Tour members, including world No. 2 golfer Cameron Smith , who defeated Young by 1 stroke in the 150th Open at St. Andrews. Chile's Joaquin Niemann , Australia's Marc Leishman , the United States' Harold Varner III , India's Anirban Lahiri and American Cameron Tringale are also expected to defect and compete in LIV Golf's next event in Boston.

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Chile's Mito Pereira is also expected to join LIV Golf at some point in the future, sources told ESPN.

Young attended last week's PGA Tour players' meeting at the BMW Championship in Wilmington, Delaware, that was led by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy . Young said he sat next to McIlroy and was "there to listen and not speak."

On Tuesday, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced that the tour's top players had committed to play in 20 events, starting in the 2022-23 season. The schedule also will have 13 elevated events with average purses of $20 million.

"We don't know who's going to go after this week or next year," Young said. "I think there's a really nice core group of guys that are just going to stay, and a lot of them are highly ranked players in the world. I don't think the competition on the PGA Tour is going to go downhill significantly."

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Golf: Cameron Young says he's sticking with PGA Tour over LIV

(REUTERS) - Cameron Young, the favourite to win PGA Tour Rookie of the Year, confirmed to reporters on Sunday (Aug 28) in Atlanta that he will not defect to the LIV Golf Invitational Series.

"Frankly, I have decided to stay," Young said, after shooting a final-round 69 at the Tour Championship and finishing in 19th place at 10 under.

"So I don't know, it's a really difficult situation, because it's not really anything anyone wanted to happen. I think it wasn't meant to be this hostile between the two."

Young, 25, rose to No. 17 in the Official World Golf Ranking entering this week, thanks to a season that featured seven top-three finishes - though not yet a victory.

That included his solo second finish at The British Open in July.

Young called LIV "the elephant in the room for everyone" in the world of golf.

The Saudi-funded series is set to announce a new collection of signings ahead of their next tournament in Boston from Sept 2 to 4 .

Young also didn't downplay his curiosity about LIV.

"Frankly, throughout the whole process with them, I was very interested," he said.

"I think they have a bunch of good ideas and are doing some cool stuff.

With some of the changes coming (to the PGA Tour), that's kind of what really helped me decide to kind of stay and pursue those goals that I have for myself, like making a Presidents Cup team and a Ryder Cup team and winning a Major, when all of that is just uncertain if you go."

Young was included among 22 of the PGA Tour's golfers who met with Tiger Woods last week in Wilmington, Delaware, to discuss the tour's future and what the top players could do to strengthen it.

They came away with an agreement to play the top 17 tournaments - the four Majors, The Players Championship and 12 so-called "elevated" PGA Tour events - each year so fans know when to expect to see the best players in the game compete.

British Open champion Cameron Smith of Australia, the world No. 2, is widely reported to be joining LIV this week with the PGA Tour season complete.

Cameron Tringale confirmed he will be heading to LIV. Aussie Marc Leishman, Joaquin Niemann of Chile and Anirban Lahiri of India are expected to play in next week's LIV event outside Boston while Chilean Mito Pereira is also expected to make the move but will not play in the Boston event, per reports.

"We don't know who's going to go after this week or next year," Young said.

"I think there's a really nice core group of guys that are just going to stay, and a lot of them are highly ranked players in the world. I don't think the competition on the PGA Tour is going to go downhill significantly."

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It’s a LIV Golf party in the Kingdom this week, and a few PGA Tour players have been invited.

After the opening 18 holes of the 2023 PIF Saudi International at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City, Abraham Ancer finds himself at the top of the leaderboard at 7 under, one shot clear of LIV’s latest reported player , Sebastian Munoz.

Cameron Young – one of the few PGA Tour players granted a release to play in the Asian Tour event sponsored by the Public Investment Fund, the same financial backer for LIV Golf  – is T-3 at 5 under alongside LIV’s Sergio Garcia and Louis Oosthuizen. Other PGA Tour players in the field include Lucas Herbert (T-18) and Cameron Champ (T-30).

Of the 37 players under par after the first day of play, 24 play for LIV Golf.

The Saudi International was created in 2019 by the regime’s Public Investment Fund and offered lucrative appearance fees to attract PGA Tour stars like Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau, who all later jumped to LIV.

The tournament was originally a DP World Tour stop, but the European circuit is also now being sued by LIV, which invested more than $200 million in the Asian Tour last year.

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He began brilliantly and his ending wasn’t too shabby, either. Leading from start-to-finish after opening with a seven-under-par 63, Abraham Ancer claimed the title and a check for $1 million at the Asian Tour’s PIF Saudi International. Closing with a 68 in which he dropped only one shot, the 31-year-old Mexican’s 19-under 261 total was two strokes better than runner-up Cameron Young in what felt like a one-on-one showdown between the LIV Golf regular and the reigning PGA Tour rookie of the year. Australia’s Lucas Herbert was third, four shots behind the champion and one ahead of Thailand’s Sadom Kaewkanjana.

Only once and only briefly during the final round over the 7,010-yard Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City was Ancer caught. Four birdies over the opening seven holes from Young—one of three PGA Tour members to request and receive a conflicting-event release to compete in the event—had the pair level. But Ancer’s 2 at the short par-3 eighth, where Young made bogey, opened a two-shot advantage that was never again completely closed. Without having to make another birdie over the closing 10 holes, the University of Oklahoma graduate who jumped to the LIV from the PGA Tour last summer comfortably maintained his edge over Young, who will fly back to the U.S. to play in next week's WM Phoenix Open, one of the PGA Tour's new "designated" events.

“That was a lot of fun and the first time I’ve been able to win wire-to-wire,” said Ancer, whose four professional victories have come on four different tours (Web.com, PGA Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia and now, the Asian Tour). “I played good every single day. I kept telling myself I was in 20th place and didn’t really look at the leader board much. I felt pretty much in control of my game.”

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All of which was in contrast to Ancer’s one previous start in 2023. A week earlier he had missed the cut in the DP World Tour’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic

“I know from previous years that the first event after the break is usually not very solid,” Ancer said. “Especially in the first round, I am always rusty. I actually played well in the second round and only missed the weekend by a shot. So I came here feeling like my game was in a good spot. You need a short memory as a golfer. And this week was, I believe, the most I have ever felt in control of the golf ball. I made only two bogeys all week. So this has to be one of the best ball-striking tournaments I’ve had for sure.

“I never like to feel comfortable to the point where I feel like I can just par in,” he continued, despite doing just that over the closing nine holes. “You don’t want to be thinking that. I stayed focused on being in the moment, even when Cam came out all guns blazing and made some birdies on the front nine. The par save I made on seven was huge. Then the long putt I made for birdie on eight really set the tone and calmed me down.”

While Ancer was the undoubted star of the show, this was a week dominated by those, like the champion, who compete on the LIV Golf League (the lead sponsor of this event is also the financial backer of the upstart golf circuit). Of the top 11 finishers, other than Kaewkanjana, only Young and Herbert (who also received a release from the PGA Tour to play this week) weren’t regulars on the Saudi-backed circuit. Indeed, the event at Royal Greens served for many as a warm-up tournament ahead of LIV Golf’s official season-opener later this month at Mayakoba Golf Resort in Mexico.

Which is not to say this week represented success all the way for the LIV players. Phil Mickelson , Bryson DeChambeau , Open champion Cameron Smith , Bubba Watson , Justin Harding and Kevin Na were among those who missed the halfway cut, all likely appreciative to knock off the competitive rust as they get set to play on the no-cut circuit in three weeks.

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World No.17 Cameron Young is reportedly the latest target for LIV Golf.

Per The Times report , the American, who finished runner-up in last month’s 150th Open at St Andrews, could be heading to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series following the conclusion of this season’s FedEx Cup Playoffs. However, No Laying Up have called it "inaccurate."

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Nevertheless, if the report is accurate, it will give a significant boost to the credibility of LIV Golf, as the New Yorker is regarded as one of the brightest talents in the game. Aged just 25, he is also entering the prime years of his career. In that sense, such a capture would be viewed similarly to another reported signing – 28-year-old World No.2 Cameron Smith .

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Speaking ahead of this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, Smith refused to comment on reports that he’s also about to sign up to LIV Golf. However, it is widely anticipated that he will leave after the conclusion of the FedEx Cup Playoffs and in time for the fourth tournament in the Series, which begins in Boston on 2 September.

If Young does opt for a career with LIV Golf, he will join an increasingly impressive roster that already features the likes of Dustin Johnson , Phil Mickelson , Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed . Next year, LIV Golf plans to turn the Series into a fully fledged $405m League over 14 tournaments featuring promotion and relegation. With the calibre of players opting to join the venture appearing to be improving, there are surely likely to be even more departures in the months before it starts. 

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One Cameron doesn’t appear to be bolting for LIV Golf after all.

After reports that reigning British Open and Players champ Cameron Smith was expected to join the Saudi-backed circuit, another report, from The Times of London on Wednesday, said that Cameron Young would follow him . That doesn’t appear to be the case, however, at least for now. Two sources told The Post that Young, a Westchester County native, is likely not headed to LIV.

A judge’s ruling denying a request by three LIV players to be allowed to participate in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs, which began Thursday, may have played a part in Young’s decision, according to one of the sources.

While landing Smith is another significant get for LIV Golf, his name has long been linked to the league. Young, however, would be something of a surprise.

The 25-year-old rookie, whose father, David, is the longtime head pro at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, has enjoyed a terrific start to his PGA Tour career, with seven top-three finishes, including a runner-up to Smith at the British Open last month.

Last spring, Young didn’t have status on any tour before working his way onto the Korn Ferry Tour, on which he won twice. That earned him a PGA Tour card for this season, and in his second start, he tied for second at the Sanderson Farms Championship last fall. He had a runner-up at the Genesis Invitational at famed Riviera in January. This spring, he had three-straight top-three finishes, capped by a tie for third at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills.

After the runner-up finish at St. Andrews, followed by a tie for second two weeks ago at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Young has climbed to No. 17 in the world.

Meanwhile, players who tee it up for the rival faction continue to be suspended by the PGA Tour.

On Thursday, Young shot a 3-under 67 in the opening round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first of three playoff events. He was tied for 30th heading into the second round.

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How all 13 LIV golfers performed at 2024 Masters first round, including Bryson DeChambeau

Fewer LIV golfers qualified for the 2024 Masters than a year ago (13 compared to 18), but the players who split from the PGA Tour continue to be some of golf's biggest storylines.

A deal to merge the two entities emerged last summer that would have bridged the two tours through Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, but talks have stalled after missing a Dec. 31 deadline.

While several LIV golfers qualified as past champions, a couple have earned their way through world rankings or major championships in the past couple years. Joaquin Niemann, however, received a rare special invitation from the Masters to compete in 2024.

“The Masters Tournament has a long-standing tradition of inviting leading international players who are not otherwise qualified,” Masters chairman Fred Ridley said in a release. “(This) announcement represents the tournament’s continued commitment towards developing interest in the game of golf across the world."

2023 Masters champion Jon Rahm became one of the most well-known PGA Tour defectors when he joined the LIV Tour in December. He has top-8 finishes in all five LIV events he's competed in this season.

"I understood my position, yes. And I understood that it could be, what I hoped, a step towards some kindof agreement. Or more of an agreement or expedited agreement," Rahm said on Tuesday about the tours merging. "But, unfortunately, it's not up to me. But I would hope it would be something that would help expedite that process. But at the end of the day, I still did what I thought was best for myself."

The tournament was delayed 2 1/2 hours on Thursday as weather swept over the area. Players teeing off later in the opening round will like have their rounds carry over into Friday morning.

Here's how each LIV golfer performed Thursday in the 2024 Masters opening round. They will be updated as golfers complete their rounds:

Bryson DeChambeau | 7-under 65, Leader

DeChambeau was on fire from the start Thursday, with birdies on his first three holes on his way to the top of the leaderboard. The LIV golfer birdied five of seven holes to close his round, and a bogey on No. 9 was his only blemish of the day.

DeChambeau held a 3-shot lead when he finished his round over former Masters champion Danny Willett, Viktor Hovland and Byeong Hun An.

Joaquin Niemann | 2-under 70, T8

A double bogey on the par-4 fifth hole was an unsightly blemish on an otherwise fantastic round for Niemann. The special invite to the tournament had five birdies and just one bogey outside of the poor fifth hole and finished his round at 2-under and tied for eighth.

Cameron Smith | 1-under 71, T16

A ball into Rae's Creek at No. 12 was the only downside to a positive round for the 2022 Open Champion. Birdies at Nos. 2, 6 and 15 were highlights of a 1-under par round.

Sergio Garcia | Even par 72, T27

The 2017 champion closed strong on an up-and-down day, posting birdies in three of his final six holes.

Garcia had three bogeys and a double bogey in the middle of his round and found himself at 3-over after landing his tee shot in Rae's Creek on the par-3 12th.

Tyrell Hatton | Even 72, T27

Hatton fell apart Friday morning when he resumed his first round with a double bogey on 15 and a bogey on 18. He was 3-under par and tied for sixth when the day began. He tees off his second round at 9:48 a.m.

Jon Rahm | 1-over 73, T36

The defending champion carded five bogeys and four birdies during an uneven opening round at the Masters. A three-putt at the 17th gave him his third bogey on the second nine and he closed his round with his fourth.

Brooks Koepka | 1-over 71, T32

The defending PGA champion had a pair of bogeys after resumption of play on Friday but rebounded with a birdie on 18 for a respectable day. He tees off his second round at 10:30 a.m. Friday.

Phil Mickelson | 1-over 73, T32

Mickelson struggled to get his round rolling on Thursday after a bogey at No. 1. He had birdies at hole Nos. 3 and 8 but bogeyed the 16th and 17th to finish at 1-over. The three-time champ finished his round tied for 42nd.

Patrick Reed | 2-over 74, T48

Reed closed with bogey, bogey, double bogey to move from 2-under to 2-over and drop from T9 to T48 in the matter of three holes. He tees off his second round at 9:36 a.m.

Charl Schwartzel | 2-over 74, T48

Schwartzel rallied with three straight birdies down the stretch to salvage a respectable round. A bogey at the par-3 16th quelled some of the momentum he gained back from a 4-over par start through the first 10 holes.

Bubba Watson | 2-over 74, T48

Three bogeys and a par was on the card for the two-time champion. He tees off his second round at 9:24 a.m.

Adrian Meronk | 6-over 78, T85

It was a rough day for the Polish golfer who carded eight bogeys in his round to just two birdies. Fortunately for him, the final birdie came on the 18th which will hopefully provide momentum for Friday. But he's currently 86th of 88 golfers in the Masters field.

Dustin Johnson | 6-over 78, T78

It was a disastrous restart for Johnson, who went double-double-bogey on Nos. 14, 15 and 18, respectively, including a ball in the water on the 15th.

He tees off his second round at 10:54 a.m. on Friday.

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A source close to PGA Tour player Cameron Champ says his PIF Saudi International appearance is not as sign he's joining the LIV Golf League.

PGA Tour pro Cameron Champ is playing a "one-off" event in Saudi Arabia and it shouldn't be interpreted as a sign he is testing the waters for the LIV Golf League , according to a source close to the American.

As reported by Barstool Sports' Dan Rapaport , Champ has committed to his full schedule on the PGA Tour and has already committed to the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale, which has been given "elevated" status. 

Champ and two other PGA Tour players - Jhonattan Vegas and the reigning rookie of the year Cameron Young , are in the field at the PIF Saudi International this week at the Asian Tour's flagship event. 

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PGA Tour commissioner confirmed that players were granted releases to compete in the tournament, which conflicts with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am . 

The source close to Champ told Rapaport: 

What's the deal with the releases? 

Whilst the event is under the banner of the Asian Tour, it is sponsored by Saudi's sovereign wealth fund PIF. 

PIF is the primary back of LIV Golf. 

According to the PGA Tour's player handbook, members are generally not allowed to compete in events when there is a PGA-approved or sponsored event taking place at the same time. 

But if members play in a minimum of 15 events [the number of events needed to have voting rights] then players are eligible for three conflicting-event releases per season. 

That's why so many players have played in the Saudi International, where the prize purse runs into the millions and the appearance fees are mind-boggling. 

Last year's Saudi International - won by Harold Varner - proved to be an indicater of those who would be future breakaway tour members. 

Varner has recently slammed the petty behaviour of the PGA Tour and LIV. 

All these players competed then signed for LIV:

Phil Mickelson

Cameron Smith

Dustin Johnson

Ian Poulter

Lee Westwood

Joaquin Niemann

Abraham Ancer

Bubba Watson

Sergio Garcia

Patrick Reed

Jason Kokrak  

Henrik Stenson

That being said, there are some who played in Jeddah last year that have so far remained loyal to the PGA Tour. 

Shane Lowry , Tommy Fleetwood and Tony Finau all teed it up at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club. 

We don't know which players requested releases. 

Event releases have been at the heart of LIV's antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour. 

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A week after Rory McIlroy edged Patrick Reed at the DP World Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic, we have another PGA Tour vs. LIV Golf battle on our hands – at least for those who care to view it that way.

This time LIV’s Abraham Ancer leads Cameron Young, the Tour’s reigning rookie of the year, by two shots entering Sunday’s final round of the Asian Tour’s PIF Saudi International.

Ancer fired a 6-under 64 Saturday at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club to move to 17 under while Young posted a third straight 65 and sits at 15 under, five shots clear of third, which is shared by two LIV members, Matt Wolff and Sadom Kaewkanjana, and Tour pro Lucas Herbert.

Ancer’s last worldwide victory came at the 2021 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, but the world No. 37 told reporters Saturday that he wasn’t focusing on anything except his game – LIV-Tour storylines included.

“Another very solid round,” Ancer said. “Happy with no dropped shots. That’s always my goal. On a golf course like this where it’s blowing pretty good, I’m really, really happy. My ball-striking has definitely been on, and I’ve been rolling it really nice all week. Yeah, extremely happy. Not really focused on what everybody else is doing. Just trying to play the same game I’ve been playing the past three days. … It’s nice to see my name up there. Can’t really focus on that. Just got to do it again.”

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Young, who last summer said he was “very interested” in joining LIV Golf before ultimately deciding to remain with the PGA Tour, hasn’t lifted a trophy since going back-to-back on the Korn Ferry Tour in Summer 2021. However, he did post seven top-3 finishes last season, two of them in majors.

“I think I’ve played really solidly,” Young said. “Obviously, Abe’s playing some really nice golf. So, I think tomorrow will be fun. … If the wind is similar to today, it will probably take 62 or [6]3 or [6]4 because I don’t see Abraham shooting anything bad.”

Wolff, who carded the round of the day, a 63, was also asked about catching Ancer and making it a three-horse race.

“I’ve been focusing on having a good time out there, keeping it light and easy and let things come to me and not force things,” Wolff replied. “When I get thinking about my swing or where I’m at on the leaderboard or anything like that, that’s when I get kind of panicked and a little more frustrated a little quicker and stuff like that. For me it’s trying to stay calm, be happy, have fun, and let it come to me.

“I know I have a game to come out and win, so if I do me and play the way I should, I might be on top. If not, I know I had a good week.”

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Golf | LIV golfers, PGA Tour stars together at the Masters, for now

Liv golf has 13 players in the field, seven of them former champions who can play as long as they want, but that’s down from 18 a year ago and only nine liv players are assured of being back next year.

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

AUGUSTA, Ga. — More than golf’s first major championship of the year, the Masters represents unification. This is the first time since July at the British Open the best players regardless of their tours compete against each other – same course, same tournament, same television network.

“I believe everyone agrees there’s excitement in the air this week,” Masters Chairman Fred Ridley said Wednesday. “The best players in the world are together once again.”

Still unclear at Augusta National is for how much longer.

Saudi-funded LIV Golf has 13 players at the Masters, seven of them former champions who can play as long as they want. That’s down from 18 a year ago. Only nine LIV players are assured of being back to Augusta National next year, depending on how they fare in the majors this year.

Ridley offered little hope the pathway for LIV to Augusta National was about to get wider.

He said the Official World Golf Ranking was a “legitimate determiner” of the best in golf, bad news for a rival league that does not get world ranking points. And while the Masters annually reviews its criteria for invitations, Ridley announced no new changes.

Instead, he leaned on the Masters being an invitational, and the club alone decides who it deems worthy of getting that elegant, cream-colored invitation in the mail.

“If we felt that there were a player or players, whether they played on the LIV Tour or any other tour, who were deserving of an invitation to the Masters, we would exercise that discretion with regard to special invitations,” Ridley said.

The battle is for a green jacket, but that might not be the only competition.

It will be difficult to look at a leaderboard without considering who is with LIV Golf. That much hasn’t changed from last year – the first Masters since LIV was launched – and LIV certainly showed the 54-hole, no-cut league didn’t affect them. Three players were among the top four on the final leaderboard.

And just like last year, there is no animosity inside the ropes.

Phil Mickelson and Joaquin Niemann from LIV Golf played a practice round with Akshay Bhatia, the final player into the field because of his Texas Open victory last week. Xander Schauffele told of running into Dustin Johnson and the two decided to play a practice round, no different from what would have happened long before LIV began luring away players with guaranteed riches.

But the future remains murky.

Augusta National and the other three organizations that run majors have seats on the OWGR board that reviewed LIV’s application to join and get world ranking points. The vote was unanimous not to award points until certain enhancements were met.

LIV eventually decided to withdraw its application, and several players decried the world ranking as no longer relevant.

It is to Ridley and the Masters. The top 50 at the end of the year and a week before the Masters still get invitations. Bryson DeChambeau said the majors, including the Masters, should invite the top 12 from the LIV points list.

Ridley wasn’t buying that.

“I think it will be difficult to establish any type of point system that had any connection to the rest of the world of golf because they’re basically – not totally, but for the most part – a closed shop,” Ridley said. “There is some relegation, but not very much.

“But I don’t think that prevents us from giving subjective consideration based on talent, based on performance to those players.”

That’s what led Augusta National to offer an invitation to Niemann. The club did not cite anything he did on LIV – the Chilean has two LIV wins this year – but his willingness to travel outside LIV and win the Australian Open, along with a top finish in the Australian PGA.

Talor Gooch did not get an invitation. He won three LIV events last year and later suggested Rory McIlroy would have an asterisk next to his name if he won the Masters because all the best aren’t there.

Gooch is unlikely to be missed, not with Scottie Scheffler going for a second green jacket, with McIlroy chasing the career Grand Slam, Tiger Woods playing for only the second time this year and a host of others from all tours chasing one of golf’s most prized possessions.

And then the PGA Tour will head to Hilton Head and LIV Golf will make its way to Australia, and they all have to wait until the next major May 16-19 at the PGA Championship.

“There’s a lot of people a lot smarter than me that could figure this out in a much more efficient way,” Jon Rahm said. “But the obvious answer is that there’s got to be a way for certain players in whatever tour to be able to earn their way in. That’s the only thing can I say. I don’t know what that looks like. But there’s got to be a fair way for everybody to compete.”

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5:12 a.m.-8:18 a.m. — Jose Maria Olazabal, Taylor Moore, a-Santiago De La Fuente

5:24 a.m.-8:30 a.m. — Danny Willett, Austin Eckroat, Stephan Jaeger

5:36 a.m.-8:42 a.m. — Charl Schwartzel, Luke List, a-Christo Lamprecht

5:48 a.m.-8:54 a.m. — Gary Woodland, Thorbjorn Olesen, Bryson DeChambeau

6 a.m.-9:12 a.m. — Zach Johnson, Corey Conners, a-Jasper Stubbs

6:12 a.m.-9:24 a.m. — Sergio Garcia, Chris Kirk, Ryan Fox

6:24 a.m.-9:36 a.m. — Lucas Glover, Byeong Hun An, Harris English

6:36 a.m.-9:48 a.m. — Phil Mickelson, Sepp Straka, Tony Finau

6:48 a.m.-10 a.m. — Nick Taylor, Joaquin Niemann, Russell Henley

7:06 a.m.-10:12 a.m. — Patrick Cantlay, Min Woo Lee, Rickie Fowler

7:18 a.m.-10:24 a.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Will Zalatoris, Justin Thomas

7:30 a.m.-10:36 a.m. — Jon Rahm, Matt Fitzpatrick, Nick Dunlap

7:42 a.m.-10:48 a.m. — Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele

7:54 a.m.-11 a.m. — Wyndham Clark, Viktor Hovland, Cameron Smith

8:06 a.m.-5 a.m. — Lee Hodges, Adrian Meronk, Grayson Murray

8:18 a.m.-5:12 a.m. — Camilo Villegas, Denny McCarthy, Cameron Davis

8:30 a.m.-5:24 a.m. — Mike Weir, Ryo Hisatsune, a-Neal Shipley

8:42 a.m.-5:36 a.m. — Vijay Singh, Si Woo Kim, Emiliano Grillo

8:54 a.m.-5:48 a.m. — Fred Couples, Adam Hadwin, a-Stewart Hagestad

9:12 a.m.-6 a.m. — Justin Rose, Eric Cole, Peter Malnati

9:24 a.m.-6:12 a.m. — Akshay Bhatia, J.T. Poston, Shane Lowry

9:36 a.m.-6:24 a.m. — Bubba Watson, Nicolai Hojgaard, Adam Schenk

9:48 a.m.-6:36 a.m. — Patrick Reed, Sungjae Im, Kurt Kitayama

10 a.m.-6:48 a.m. — Keegan Bradley, Mattieu Pavon, Tyrrell Hatton

10:12 a.m.-7:06 a.m. — Adam Scott, Sam Burns, Cameron Young

10:24 a.m.-7:18 a.m. — Tiger Woods, Jason Day, Max Homa

10:36 a.m.-7:30 a.m. — Brian Harman, Brooks Koepka, Tom Kim

10:48 a.m.-7:42 a.m. — Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Aberg, Sahith Theegala

11 a.m.-7:54 a.m. — Dustin Johnson, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood

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Opinion: PGA Tour needs to embrace LIV Golf, have young golfers act like Mickelson, Trevino

One of the many reasons the PGA Tour is bleeding viewers was offered up at the 6 th  hole of the Masters on Thursday.  Harris English hit an incredible tee shot on the tough par 3.  So incredible that it just missed being a hole in one by about one-fourth of an inch.  English did not even so much as offer up a smile to the crowd.

To that unforced error, one of the commentators for the Masters online telecast implored: “Come on, Harris.  Smile.”

English is no doubt a very good person, but in that one instance he demonstrated a trend turning off both loyal and occasional golf fans.  That being that many of these players now seem to be robotic and aren’t inclined to give anything or very little back to the fans who ultimately afford them their living.  Several years ago, I watched as one of these players birdied seven of nine holes and never once cracked a smile or acknowledged the crowd.  He gave off the vibe that he was in the middle of a root canal rather than setting the golf course on fire.     

Many of these PGA Tour players now look the same; swing the same; dress the same; act the same; go through the same sports academies; have the same coaches; the same sports psychologists; and seemingly, the same “it’s all about me” attitudes.  Note to these guys: a smile, a laugh and regular interaction with the fans goes a long way.

Over the last three decades, Phil Mickelson has given a Master Class on giving back to the fans.  As his time on the golf stage winds down, maybe some of these cookie-cutter, indistinguishable from the next, seemingly self-absorbed younger golfers may want to take a lesson from that golf legend.  As Arnold Palmer demonstrated for years, personality and individuality does matter.

Speaking of Mickelson, we come to reason number two why the PGA Tour is losing viewers.  Their foolish, ill-advised, and not remotely thought through war on LIV Golf .  It was the PGA Tour – and some enablers in the media – who ultimately were driving a wedge between the fans and the game.

From day one, myself and others were imploring the PGA Tour to embrace LIV Golf precisely for the good of the fans.  But not only did they fail to do that but again, some of their mean-spirited enablers went out of their way to smear Mickelson, Greg Norman, and LIV golf.  Premeditated, highly personal attacks that both offended and turned off countless golf fans.

Competition matters to fans.  Seeing the best against the best matters to fans.  Class matters to fans.    

Suddenly, you have someone like Scottie Scheffler winning the Players Championship - often referred to as the "5th Major" by professional golfers – last year but with many fans wondering if there should be an asterisk next to his victory.  To be sure, Scheffler is a phenom.  That said, he won the “5 th  Major” against a dramatically weaker field.

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A field that did not include Mickelson, Brooks Koepka; Cam Smith (the defending champion at the time); Bryson DeChambeau; Dustin Johnson; Marc Leishman; Joaquin Niemann; Patrick Reed; Harold Varner III; Jason Kokrak; Thomas Pieters; Sergio Garcia - and a number of other topflight players. 

This did not go unnoticed by the fans then and it is not going unnoticed by the fans now.  I am a longtime supporter of the PGA Tour.  That acknowledged, even I have tuned out its product of late. 

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The PGA Tour’s undeclared war against LIV Golf was not about acting in the best interest of the fans.  It was about wrongheadedly trying to protect its brand and their jobs to the detriment of the game and its fans. 

That also did not go unnoticed by the fans.

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If the PGA Tour wants to stop the bleeding, bring the fans back and increase their footprint, the organization needs to do two things immediately.

• First, embrace LIV Golf and figure out a way to bring those exceptional players back into the fold.  The PGA Tour and the Saudi-sponsored LIV have been negotiating for 10 months.
• Second, ask Mickelson and Lee Trevino to teach their often petulant looking, robotic young golfers to smile, laugh, sign autographs and give back to the game.

Back in the glory days of NASA, the warning was: “No bucks, no Buck Rogers.”  For the PGA Tour, it should be: “No smiles and unification, no fans.”

The PGA Tour and its players have the power within them to turn this all around.

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At Stake This Weekend For LIV Golfers: A Claret Jug, and Respectability

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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Good vs. Evil.

Many books, movies and songs are written, shot and composed with the fight between the virtuous, moral, decent and respectable against the wicked, vile and immoral.

The theme of good vs. evil is highlighted throughout the bible, Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth" and in all eight "Harry Potter" movies, where author J.K. Rowling drives the point home.

Maybe this is overkill considering the rest of this discourse will be about the genteel game of golf, which has become a moral and potentially legal quagmire as insurgent LIV Golf challenges professional golf's ecosystem.

Dustin Johnson is LIV Golf's highest-ranked player in the world and highest on the leaderboard at the British Open. 

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The war is foremost about control, money, and power in the professional game . More specifically, it’s the DP World Tour and PGA Tour vs. LIV Golf.

In Friday’s second round of the 150th Open Championship, Dustin Johnson shot a 5-under 67 and with that performance put LIV Golf squarely in the spotlight.

The establishment has feared that a LIV golfer could not only contend, but possibly win a major championship.  Such a victory would lend credence that LIV is not exhibition golf, as Tiger Woods said, but that its 54-hole, shotgun start has actually been good preparation for championship golf.

“But what these players are doing for guaranteed money, what is the incentive to practice?” Woods said, criticizing LIV Golf in his Open championship press conference on Tuesday . “What is the incentive to go out there and earn it in the dirt? You're just getting paid a lot of money up front and playing a few events and playing 54 holes. They're playing blaring music and have all these atmospheres that are different.”

Positive attention for LIV at a major-championship venue would be unacceptable to the ecosystem, and it would counter some of the negative comments from the players like Woods and McIlroy.

Johnson is one of the original members to join LIV, and his jump from the PGA Tour to LIV was one of the biggest prizes for the nascent tour.

His performance on Friday at the Old Course moved the two-time major winner into the clubhouse lead and when the dust settled in the second round, in the third-to-final group and four shots back.

It was a shot across the bow in a war that already has had many battles with many more on the horizon.

Ahead of Johnson are two of the game’s young stars in Cameron Smith and Cameron Young, players that the PGA Tour is counting on to replace and solidify its value and strengthen fields that have taken somewhat of a hit as LIV golfers have departed.

Tied and paired with Johnson is newly minted Masters champion Scottie Scheffler , creating a pairing that, for many, might highlight the good vs. evil theme.

Of course, individually neither man is necessarily good or evil, but they represent groups that are considered good and evil.

For the sake of argument, Scheffler, who represents the traditional tours and the current ecosystem, will be characterized by most as the good, and the revolutionary LIV and its players as evil.

Talor Gooch, another LIV golfer on the leaderboard, would argue that.

“Everybody, it feels like, is against us, and that's OK,” Gooch said after a 3-under 69 that kept him in contention at 7 under. “It's kind of banded us together, I think.”

Neither Johnson nor Scheffler will be wearing boxing gloves or brandishing weapons. But two organizations that are opposites in their stance on what pro golf should be will be represented by players duking it out on Saturday in the third round of the Open.

The winner, if there is one, will have won a small battle in a war that continues to grow in fury as more PGA Tour players jump to LIV. More players will almost surely defect to LIV after the Open and again after the FedEx Cup concludes at the end of August.

In a good story, it’s never clear until the very end if good or evil triumphs.

That will be true after the third round as well, but one thing is clear: if Johnson, Gooch or any other LIV Golfer wins the Claret Jug this week, it will be not only a big story, but also propel LIV Golf to new heights. Others may start to wonder if LIV is a rebellion, or the new ecosystem itself.

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Verne Lundquist ends his broadcasting career in his traditional spot on the 16th hole at Augusta National. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

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Sunday at the Masters is about who will don the green jacket. This one was also about Verne Lundquist.

The esteemed CBS broadcaster made his final Masters call Sunday afternoon, his 40th and final Masters on the mic. Lundquist, 83, has voiced several iconic moments at Augusta National, including Tiger Woods' chip-in birdie from behind the par-3 16th green in the 2005 final round, en route to a playoff victory over Chris DiMarco.

The moment wasn't lost on Lundquist, whose dulcet tones have grown synonymous with the Masters’ storied history.

"When I leave here on Sunday, I'll have nine billion memories, and a choked-up voice,” Lundquist told ESPN earlier this week.

Lundquist made his final call at No. 16 for Sunday's final pairing of winner Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa, after which play-by-play commentator Jim Nantz offered a tribute amidst soft music and slow-motion shots of Scheffler walking to glory.

"Verne wrote a book back in 2018 called "Play by Play," and the last line in the book that you wrote, Verne, I’m going to apply it to you. You said thanks, to borrow a phrase, thanks for the memories. Your voice has been a beautiful instrument. Thank you for a wonderful soundtrack for all of our lives," Nantz said.

A clearly emotional Lundquist responded with brevity: "Thank you so much, Jim. My honor. My privilege."

Woods and Lundquist shared a moment Sunday afternoon as Woods played No. 16, a testament to the five-time green jacket winner’s high esteem for the broadcaster.

“I’ve heard that call a couple times,” Woods quipped earlier this week, before turning serious. “That's what I grew up watching. I grew up listening to Verne. He has just an amazing ability to bring in the audience and describe a situation and just be able to narrate it in a way that is poetic but it's also – he describes it with emotionality. He just draws the audience in. It's amazing.

“And he made a nice call there at (hole) 16, and it's one that I've been lucky enough to … I will have that memory with Verne for the rest of my life.”

Lundquist worked nationally for ABC Sports from 1974 to 1981, CBS from 1982 to 1995, and TNT from 1995 to 1997, before returning to CBS from 1998 to 2016. He spent a decade-plus as the radio voice of the Dallas Cowboys, and he has covered everything from the NFL, NBA and Olympics to college football, basketball and even the game show “Bowling for Dollars.” He was lead play-by-play announcer for SEC football on CBS from 2000 to 2016, before retiring from college football broadcasting.

The Masters has been a constant. Lundquist took the mic at Augusta National in 1983, and he maintained the role aside from a two-year hiatus in 1997-98. His first Masters assignment was on the par-5 13th hole, the final leg of Amen Corner, and he was assigned to the 17th-hole tower for 1986 – after longtime 17th-hole announcer Frank Glieber, a close friend, died of a heart attack in 1985. Lundquist eventually moved to the tower at No. 16, the picturesque par 3 known as Redbud with water guarding the green’s left side and a mid-green ridge that tends to funnel balls toward a traditional Sunday hole location tucked near the water’s edge.

Augusta National’s par-3 16th tower was a fitting place for Lundquist’s Masters career to conclude, where he punctuated Scheffler's 10-foot birdie Sunday that extended his lead to four strokes, en route to his second green jacket.

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2024 RBC Heritage one and done picks, strategy, field, sleepers: Golf predictions, expert PGA betting advice

Mike mcclure locked in his expert pga one and done golf picks, projected leaderboard, and top sleepers for the rbc heritage 2024 at harbour town golf links in hilton head.

One of the PGA Tour's eight signature events is on tap this week, with the 2024 RBC Heritage set to get underway on Thursday at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Scottie Scheffler, who is fresh off a win at the Masters, headlines the 2024 RBC Heritage field. Scheffler is listed as the 18-5 (+360) favorite in the latest 2024 RBC Heritage odds. Other top contenders in the field include Xander Schauffele (10-1), Rory McIlroy (11-1), Ludvig Åberg (12-1), Patrick Cantlay (16-1), Collin Morikawa (18-1), Tommy Fleetwood (20-1), Max Homa (22-1), and defending tournament champion Matt Fitzpatrick (22-1). 2022 RBC Heritage champion Jordan Spieth is listed as a 30-1 longshot. The players will be competing for a total tournament purse of $20 million, with the winner taking home $3.6 million.

Can Scheffler outlast the field and win his fourth event in his past five starts? Or will Scheffler stumble and open the door for a sleeper like Shane Lowry or Byeong Hun An to break through? Before locking in your 2024 RBC Heritage one and done picks, you need to see what SportsLine DFS pro and PGA expert Mike McClure has to say . 

The One and Done format is growing in popularity. It has several noticeable similarities to NFL Survivor pools, with the main difference being entries are not eliminated with a bad week. Players pick one golfer per week and earn points based on their selected golfer's prize money for that tournament. Golfers can only be used once per season, and the point format makes nailing majors, signature events, and big money tournaments critical.

McClure is a DFS legend with over $2 million in career winnings, and he's been red-hot on his PGA picks dating back to the PGA Tour restart in June of 2020. McClure uses his proprietary simulation model to analyze the field and crush his  golf picks .

McClure has been on fire with his One and Done picks in 2024. At The American Express he backed Justin Thomas, who finished in third place and took home $635,600. At the Genesis Invitational, McClure tabbed Patrick Cantlay, who finished in fourth place at the signature event, as his top OAD pick. At the Cognizant Classic, McClure's top one and done pick, Min Woo Lee, finished in a tie for second place. Finally, at the Arnold Palmer Invitation, another signature event, McClure recommended using Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris. The Result: Scheffler won the event by five strokes, and Zalatoris finished in fourth place.

His hot steak continued at the Players Championship, where McClure again recommended using Scheffler (if was still available) and Xander Schauffele. Both players were in contention until the end, with Scheffler coming out with the win and Schauffele finishing in second place. Then, at the Valspar Championship, McClure recommended using Cameron Young, who finished in second place, in OAD pools.

Now, McClure has dialed in on the RBC Heritage golf tournament and just locked in his one and done picks and PGA predictions. They are a must-see for any player looking for an edge in their One and Done pool. You can only see McClure's RBC Heritage 2024 one and done picks at SportsLine .

Top 2024 RBC Heritage One and Done picks

One of McClure's favorite OAD picks this week for the 2024 RBC Heritage is former Texas Tech standout Ludvig Åberg. The 24-year-old burst onto the professional golf scene when he notched his first career PGA Tour win at the RSM Classic in November and hasn't slowed down since. Åberg has recorded top-25 or better finishes in seven of his last nine starts in 2024. 

Åberg has been particularly strong against elite fields. He finished in second place at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, eighth place at The Players Championship, and then second place at the Masters. He enters the RBC Heritage ranked 12th on the PGA Tour in total strokes gained (1.116), 15th in strokes gained off-the-tee (0.513), and 17th in strokes gained tee-to-green (0.974). McClure expects Åberg to once again be in contention this week at Harbour Town.  You can see who else to back at SportsLine .

How to make RBC Heritage 2024 One and Done picks

McClure is also targeting another golfer for his 2024 RBC Heritage one and done picks who has a long track record of success against elite competition. This multiple time PGA Tour winner has the ability to win any tournament he enters, and is one of the most talented golfers in this field. You can find out who it is, and check out all of McClure's RBC Heritage one and done picks at SportsLine .

Who wins the the RBC Heritage 2024, and which golfers should you target for your PGA one and done picks this week at Harbour Town Golf Links? Visit SportsLine now to get Mike McClure's RBC Heritage 2024 one and done picks, all from the DFS pro who called Nick Taylor's epic win at the RBC Canadian Open and Rickie Fowler's win at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in 2023, and Scottie Scheffler's wins at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players Championship, and Masters in 2024 , and find out.

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When Neil Young hits the road this summer with Crazy Horse, he’s planning on performing “Cortez The Killer” with verses that have been missing from the song for 50 years. “Just a couple of days ago, I found the other verses,” Young told fans Monday afternoon during a Zoom with paid subscribers to the Neil Young Archives . “Just the lyrics…We may have those lost lyrics in the show, which will be fun for me.”

When the band cut the song originally in a California house near Zuma Beach, the power to the recording console died in the middle of the take, though the band was completely oblivious. They felt it was a prefect performance. “Don’t shoot yourselves,” producer David Briggs told them when they came out of the studio. “But the power went off, and we missed one verse.” Briggs told them which verse they had lost. “I never liked that one anyway,” Young replied.

In a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone , Crazy Horse guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro recalled cutting “Cortez The Killer” shortly after he joined the band. “It was a sunny day at Zuma Beach, and this guy came by, and I smoked angel dust with him,” he said. “And then Neil came up and said, ‘Let’s try this song,’ We never played it, and I was like, ‘Oh, shit.’ If you listen to the first recording, I thought the second chord was the first chord. Neil was emphasizing the first one, I was emphasizing the second one. [Laughs]. But you know, it goes around in a circle, so it doesn’t really matter too much.”

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After Covid hit in 2019, Young took a break from the road for three years. When he emerged last summer for a solo tour, he played only outdoor venues. He’s playing 24 shows with Crazy Horse over the next few months, and they’re all outdoors as well. “We gotta be careful,” Young said on the fan Zoom. “I don’t know the stats on it, but I imagine if you look at a regular group of 15,000 or 20,000 people, just randomly from around the world, and then look at 15,000 or 20,000 people that all went to a show, and how many of them got Covid, I think you’d found people that went to a show inside have a lot more of a chance of getting sick. I don’t really need to do that. Willie Nelson told me he’s only playing outside now. I felt that was a good idea, so that’s what I’m doing.”

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Young largely dodged questions about what songs he plans on playing this summer with Crazy Horse, though he noted that he enjoyed playing Tonight’s The Night, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere , and Ragged Glory at intimate club gigs late last year. “The songs that the Horse plays are so simple you can go almost anywhere with them,” he said. “A lot of them only have two or three chords in them, and they just repeat. There’s another song that has four chords in it. We’re going to try that. The Horse has [rarely] played ‘I’m The Ocean’ before. I think we’re going do that one. But we should be able to jam for a long time on all that stuff. I’m looking forward to that.”

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Young also gave an update on the upcoming Archives III box set. “It’s different from the other two,” he said. “It has a different approach. There’s more audio vérité in it. We have real-time things happening that people haven’t heard. There’s one scene is myself and Nicolette [Larson], Linda [Ronstadt], and [David] Briggs. We’re sitting around a table, and I’m singing all the songs that are on the next record to them for the first time. And then they start singing along. It’s just a live thing of people sitting around a table. I think it’s very interesting to hear them…There’s really a really cool film in there called Across The Water that is a great Crazy Horse film. It’s really big. It’s bigger than the other volumes.”

According to current plans, Volume III will cover a 30-year time span. Volume IV will do the same. “Rather than keep putting out volumes that are smaller,” he said. “We’re going to put out IV and that’ll be it. We’re starting on the last one. It’s a monumental task.”

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NEIL YOUNG CRAZY HORSE: LOVE EARTH TOUR 2024 (Bristow) | Jiffy Lube Live

Get ready to rock out at the NEIL YOUNG CRAZY HORSE: LOVE EARTH TOUR, set to take place at Jiffy Lube Live on May 11, 2024. This legendary concert will kick off at 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow, VA, 20136, and promises an unforgettable experience for all attendees. The lineup features iconic songs by Neil Young and Crazy Horse that will have the crowd on their feet and singing along all night long. Fans can expect to hear timeless classics and new hits that showcase the raw talent and passion of these music legends. Tickets for NEIL YOUNG CRAZY HORSE: LOVE EARTH TOUR will be available for purchase starting from February 16, 2024, at 3:00 PM, until May 12, 2024, at 1:00 AM. Don't miss your chance to witness this epic event live and immerse yourself in the electrifying atmosphere that only a Neil Young Crazy Horse concert can deliver. Mark your calendars and secure your spot for a night of music that will resonate with your soul.

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