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    Tiger Woods is fighting his subpoena.

    Woods' attorney is pushing back against prosecutors' efforts to subpoena the 50-year-old's prescription drug records. In a court filing Wednesday, attorney Douglas Duncan argued Woods holds a constitutional right to privacy in his prescription records and requested a hearing to determine whether prosecutors can access files from Lewis Pharmacy in Palm Beach. Prosecutors are seeking records from Jan. 1 to March 27, including how often prescriptions were filled, pill counts, dosage amounts and any warnings about driving while medicated. Woods pleaded not guilty in his DUI case on March 31, four days after his SUV clipped a trailer and rolled over near his home.

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    LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil sent an e-mail to staffers on Wednesday.

    Amid multiple reports that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is mulling pulling its funding from LIV, O'Neil wrote to his workforce that the "season continues exactly as planned." While this may be viewed as O'Neil shutting down rumors, there are two points of interest that don't exactly dispel them. O'Neil seemingly acknowledges the fiscal contraints LIV is facing when mentioning "the life of a startup movement is often defined by these moments of pressure." Moreover, O'Neil only discusses 2026, and not the future. It appears LIV has funding to finish the season. The question now becomes, does it reach 2027?

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    Rory fixing his swing mid-Masters can teach us something.

    In the days leading up to Sunday, Rory's swing was drifting right, and his clubface inching closed. It was causing left misses.

    His solution was brilliant.

    Rory tried to get more aggressive with his lower body, knowing more hip turn would neutralize the clubface. Rory's masterstroke was finding a proactive solution (trying to do something good) rather than a reactive one (trying to stop doing something bad). It allowed him to stay aggressive, and ultimately won him the 2026 Masters.

    We break it down in the latest episode of Golf IQ here.

    A refreshed version of Harbour Town will be on display this week for the RBC Heritage.

    Davis Love III's design team oversaw a refreshing of the iconic Pete Dye design with the course reopening in November. All greens and bunkers were rebuilt with an emphasis on expanding putting surfaces back to Dye's originals and making modern tweaks to ensure Harbour Town remains one of the best public courses in the U.S. You can read more comments from our panelists on the work here.

    Some golfers over-apologize.

    I’m one of those. If you hit a bad shot playing alongside a partner, you feel compelled to say you regret it. A few years back, we itemized the times you should and shouldn’t apologize in golf (no for a bad shot, yes for a bad shot that ignored your partner’s advice), which is worth revisiting given Sergio Garcia’s mea culpa for his outburst Sunday at the Masters. Amazingly, we only hinted at this in our original guidelines, but just to be clear: if you hit a bad shot and then take a divot out of the tee box—on TV, with millions watching—an apology is a good idea.

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    The golf in the Palm Springs area is getting better.

    Coral Mountain Desert Club will be the Palm Springs area's latest private club, following Ladera Golf Club, voted Golf Digest's Best New Private Course in 2023. David McLay Kidd's new course is under construction right now and is slated to open in 2028. The La Quinta, Calif., club just released some renderings of what to expect from the club, which include a Hart Howerton clubhouse, plus other amenities.

    Look for players to use a lower tee height this week in Hilton Head.

    Why? Harbour Town has some of the narrowest fairways on the PGA Tour and the second-smallest average green size of any tour course. Unlike most weeks, accuracy is rewarded more than length. Changing your tee height (like Daniel Berger notably did at Bay Hill last month) can help control your dispersion, as we’ve shown in a MythBusters test. Hitting shots with varying tee heights, the lowest height produced shots that went 10 yards straighter, on average, compared to a high tee.

    Players will give up some carry distance, but with Hilton Head experiencing drought conditions recently, they’ll make up for it on the roll—not to mention better accuracy.

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