Ewan Murray Thu, 29 January 2026 at 3:12 pm UTC·4 min read In one sense, it is difficult to detect anything warm and cuddly in all of this. Elite golfers, who were already obscenely rich, take the bounty on offer from a Saudi Arabian-backed disruption model before shuffling back whence they came – essentially for a trivial penalty – when the novelty wears off. This is hardly sport at its purest. Instead, an admission by Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed that they blundered in believing the fairways were greener on the LIV side. The PGA Tour, desperate to portray themselves as the big boys in the playground, welcome one-time pariahs back with open arms. Other golfers who spurned LIV’s fluttering...