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Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson are four shots off the lead after the first round of the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational.

Stinger GC, which features Schwartzel, du Plessis, team captain Louis Oosthuizen, and the now-former PGA Tour member Branden Grace, are atop the leaderboard after the first round at 9-under. The teams are competing for a $5 million purse, with the first-place group receiving $3 million. The era of free agency is beginning as we are proud to have a full field of players joining us in London, and beyond." With the event's shotgun format, where all players start at the same time on different holes, there were few lulls in the broadcast action with rapid-fire cuts from shot-to-shot. You have made a different choice, which is to abide by the Tournament Regulations you agreed to when you accomplished the dream of earning a PGA TOUR card and - more importantly - to compete as part of the preeminent organization in the world of professional golf. "Today's announcement by the PGA Tour is vindictive and it deepens the divide between the Tour and its members," LIV Golf said.

Well, the LIV Golf Invitational Series is off and running. Centurion Golf Club outside London is hosting the inaugural event, a three-day, shotgun start, ...

Here’s a look at some of them. There is no TV partner for the new circuit so LIV Golf created its own YouTube channel and streamed the action there. Well, the LIV Golf Invitational Series is off and running.

Follow all the action from the first event of the Saudi-funded breakaway series in St Albans.

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Follow all the action from the first event of the Saudi-funded breakaway series in St Albans.

He hasn’t been fantastic on the greens today and leaves himself a 15 footer for birdie on the eighth. Dustin Johnson is over the back of the green in two on the par-4 10th. DJ moves back to level par for the round. He’s battling hard though and pulled this beauty out of the bag: Louis Oosthuizen is letting the Stingers GC down here and he’s the captain! Of the $25m, $5m will be split between the top three teams.

Charl Schwartzel holds a one-shot lead after the first 18 holes of the 2022 LIV Golf Invitational at the Centurion Club in London. Dustin Johnson and Phil ...

T24 That was often interrupted by breaks to show the rest of the field with what was termed “Don’t Blink” highlights of quality shots all over the course. Most of the streaming coverage during the shotgun format was with the group that started on the first hole in Johnson, Mickelson, and Scott Vincent.

The big names in the event also had positive moments. Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson both finished one stroke under par, putting them in a tie for seventh ...

Schwartzel and Du Plessis also keyed an impressive performance for Stinger GC in the team race. LIV Golf @LIVGolfInv LIV Golf @LIVGolfInv A double bogey at No. 4 put him at two over earlier in the day, while Johnson also had one double when a tee shot went out of bounds. Birdie. On. Point. 🎯#LIVGolf LIV Golf @LIVGolfInv DJ doing DJ things 👏#LIVGolf LIV Golf @LIVGolfInv The controversial tour, which is backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, features only three rounds with no cuts. Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson both finished one stroke under par, putting them in a tie for seventh place and four strokes off the lead. Leaderboard via LIV Golf broadcast.

In amongst the politics and off-course drama, a golf tournament broke out at Centurion Club.

But as the intervention of Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee illustrates, the controversy is about more than just rich players wanting to become even richer and a perceived lack of loyalty to their respective tours. It's not hard to see why the Europ...sorry, DP World Tour is annoyed at the rebel tour but in changing it's name the European Tour has been accused of helping a form of sportswashing of its own - DP World being a huge company from the UAE, another country accused of having a less than exemplary human-rights record. But until we see what actually unfolds in Hertfordshire and beyond it's also clear that, for now at least, the only thing it's supercharging is the bank accounts of those golfers who've seen an extra nought and jumped ship from the PGA and DP World Tours. The events of the past few months have been mired in controversy. Meanwhile, playing partner DJ has to settle for a bogey and he drops a shot to join his fellow American at one-over for the round. The shotgun start does make it very tough to live blog - everyone hitting at the same time. Playing partner Mickelson then hits his into the deep rough on the other side of the fairway - there's at least 100 yards between those two balls. The Zimbabwean is playing with Mickelson and Dustin Johnson and he's more than holding his own. The commentators are trying hard to make what has been a fairly slow, nondescript round into some memorable, great, seminal, bundle of excitement and it's sort of grating. I have just Googled the South African so you don't have to - thank me later... The total prize pot for each of LIV Golf’s eight invitationals this year is $25 million, of which $5 million will go to teams and $20 million to the individual players. The shotgun start meant all 48 players started and finished at the same time.

Phil Mickelson marked his competitive return to action by getting within four strokes of the early lead at the opening event of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf ...

"I struck the ball really well and didn't putt very well. I really struggled with the putter the front, the first six, seven holes but I played really well and fought back after a double on nine to shoot one under and get myself right in it on the first day." "It was fun for me to get back out playing.

Par 70. 1. Charl Schwarzel -5 2. Hennie Du Plessis -4. T3. Scott Vincent -3. T3. Phachara Khongwatmai -3. T5. Branden Grace -2. T5. Justin Harding -2

T24. Kevin Na +3 T24. Jinichiro Kozuma +3 T24. Kevin Yuan +3 T24. Oliver Fisher +3 T24. Jediah Morgan +3 T24. Richard Bland +3

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T-7. TORQUE GC (+1) – Adrian Otaegui 70, Talor Gooch 71 “How many mocks to make a mockery? T-2. CRUSHERS GC (-3) – Phachara Khongwatmai 67, Peter Uihlein 70 There was a mock red phone box. “There was a mock double-decker bus. It was overkill.”

The Sporting News is tracking live scoring updates and highlights from the first day of LIV Golf's London event, including the performance of both Dustin ...

9:21 a.m. — Lee Westwood is the first player to log a score. 11:00 a.m. — Shaun Norris had a nice chip-in from off the green to get to 1 under par for the tournament. 9:57 a.m. — Dustin Johnson had a long par putt on the third hole and was unable to make it. 9:06 a.m. — The LIV broadcast is now live, and you can click here to watch it. He ends up carding a double-bogey on a Par 4 and will go from 1 under to 1 over for the tournament. 9:23 a.m. — Phil Mickelson landed his second shot on the green after a massive tee shot. 11:10 a.m. — Kevin Yuan had a beautiful shot off the tee at a Par 3. 11:30 a.m. — Speaking of Vincent, he just hit a beautiful shot out of some thick rough and got the ball on the green. 11:25 a.m. — Both Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson are in the fairway at the difficult ninth hole. He notches a double bogey on the Par 4 ninth which seems to be the toughest on the course. 11:42 a.m. — We are officially halfway through the first day of the LIV Golf event. 12:19 p.m. — Phil Mickelson hasn't had his best day with the putter, but he just made a birdie to get to 1 over par.

How have players like Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson performed in the new league's inaugural event?

T24. Kevin Na +3 T24. JC Ritchie +3 T24. Kevin Yuan +3 T24. Jinichiro Kozuma +3 T24. Oliver Fisher +3 T24. Jediah Morgan +3 T24. Ryosuke Kinoshita +3 T24. Ratchanon Chantananuwat +3 Players who take part in future LIV Golf events will face the same punishment. T24. Richard Bland +3 Schwartzel took the lead Thursday after posting a 5-under 65, with Du Plessis 1 shot back at 4 under. Charl Schwartzel and Hennie du Plessis, both from South Africa, lead the field after the first round.

The legendary Fox Sports executive sat before me virtually in his beautiful Los Angeles home. He wore a white linen shirt and a wry smile, his voice carrying ...

But the bigger problem, the one that will be hardest to fix, is also the simplest: After six months of promising innovation, LIV Golf’s first broadcast was decidedly normal. In many ways, Thursday served as a tryout for LIV Golf’s broadcast team, which is headed by Steve Beim, former U.S. Open and “The Match” producer. Instead, the first LIV Golf Invitational series round was blasted out to the world on YouTube, Facebook and the LIV Golf website … for free. On Thursday, LIV went live for the first time, presenting its vision for golf’s future in a neon-tinted shade of lime green. He had just accepted a new role as a broadcast consultant for his good friend Greg Norman at LIV Golf, and it was his job to bring golf broadcasting into the 21st century. “The LIV Golf broadcast will be unlike anything fans have seen before,” Will Staeger, LIV’s chief media officer, said in a release announcing the new product.

There have also been no shortage of reminders that the renegade league that has poached a number of big-name players from the PGA Tour with more on the way is ...

The leaderboard — a black and highlighter-green rail on the left side of the screen — did a good job bouncing back and forth between team and individual scores, showing how many holes remaining there were and what number shot a player was on at a particular hole. And unlike on the LIV tour, there is no guaranteed money on the PGA Tour. As for the telecast, the production was relatively slick, particularly given the short amount of time and it being streamed only online. Even as Kevin Na and Talor Gooch earlier this week comically tried to explain that one of the biggest appeals of joining the circuit was the shotgun start because it eliminates being on the wrong side of a PGA Tour draw, there were ample reminders throughout the broadcast of the first round what’s at stake financially. Splashy black and highlighter-green graphics showed just what everyone is playing for: a $20 million purse for individual players, with $4 million to the winner and $120,000 for last place. There’s the team concept and the wacky team names and graphics.