🏌🏻 A Third League?

Good morning. Don’t miss the deal of the day which is 43% off on Amazon ahead of Christmas. Apart from that - golfers send lawyer’s letter to PGA Tour for full transparency, rumors abound of a third league to rival PGA and LIV and Fred Couples lashes out at LIV Golf.

Seems like there’s still a lot making news as we head towards the holidays.

So, sit back, relax, and let's dive into today's golfing world together!

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📖 This day in history: In 1998 Presidents Cup Golf, Royal Melbourne GC: International team wins for first time; Shigeki Maruyama and Steve Elkington unbeaten as Internationals beat US 20½–11½.

ALBATROS
Golfers Send Lawyer’s Letter To PGA Tour

Lawyers representing 21 golfers, including the former Masters champion Danny Willett, have written to the PGA Tour to demand “full disclosure” on ongoing negotiations aimed at securing the organisation’s future. The sport remains mired in civil war, and dissatisfied low ranking players claim they have been “kept in the dark about this process.”

A letter from the New York law firm Susman Godfrey to the PGA Tour board seeks to “obtain information about the PGA Tour’s consideration of several proposals that will alter the structure of the PGA Tour and may have a profound impact on our clients’ lives and the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of other tour players”.

Willett has joined the likes of Dylan Frittelli, Lanto Griffin, Grayson Murray, Scott Piercy and James Hahn in putting his name to the correspondence.

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A Third League To Rival PGA And LIV?

Pro golf's landscape has never been messier than it has been the past two years with the PGA Tour and LIV battling for the game's biggest stars. But there's a chance things are going to get even murkier.

LIV's signing of Jon Rahm has most believing some sort of merger between the two entities is coming. However, muddling things further is the fact the PGA Tour has been in talks to partner with other private equity groups. And in the meantime, there are rumors that another new golf league could be created.

That's right. A rival to these already rival leagues - a private league that’s up and coming with 6-8 events a year.

Golf Digest senior writer Joel Beall talks about this wild scenario on the latest episode of The Loop podcast.

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What else is making news

Couples vs LIV: Fred Couples says players will never go to LIV Golf 'for free' and the league's 'not changing a thing'.

LIV Golf: Kevin Na aiming for second Asian Tour Title 21 years after first at Saudi Open.

Q-School Purse: PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry purse breakdown.

PGA-PIF Update: Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, as well as former Milwaukee Bucks owner Marc Lasry, are among a group of investors with ties to pro sports in the Strategic Sports Group, a unit that's negotiating a potential investment with the PGA Tour.

BIRDIE
PGA Tour Offered Rookies $500,000 Up Front

The PGA Tour approved a new program this season to make sure rookies and most Korn Ferry Tour graduates get $500,000 up front. That money would be recouped from their earnings to make sure no one lost any money.

How much that cost the Tour is still to be determined. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan predicted $2 million to $3 million — money spent making up the difference if players didn’t reach $500,000 — though that’s what is still being computed.

Rookies had the option of getting the money up front. But the program was for every fully exempt player, which might have come in handy for Kevin Kisner in a strange year. He was torn between bad play and wanting to be at home with three young children during the summer when he stopped playing in June.

Kisner made $335,671 this year, which presumably means a check for $164,329 — except for the fine print.

Read the full article here.

DRIVING RANGE
Stop Topping Your Ball With This One Tip

GOLF Top 100 Teacher Trillium Rose demonstrates a simple casting drill to help you stop hitting errant shots.