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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, it happened with the TV ratings. CBS said on Tuesday that the final round of McIlroy's second straight victory at Augusta National was its most-watched Sunday in 11 years by averaging 13.99 million viewers (Nielsen Big Data + Panel), up 8 percent from 2025 (no Big Data). Coverage peaked at more than 20 million—the largest since 2013 when Adam Scott won in a playoff. Big Data, by the way, is Nielsen's newest way to collect viewership from more than 70 million Smart TVs that combine with set-top devices and the old-fashioned individual household panels.  Far more accurate and makes us wonder how much bigger numbers could have been in the past.