# **LIV Golf: The Tee Time Twitter War That’s Got the World Swinging** In the grand theater of sports, where drama unfolds like a poorly scripted Netflix series, we have a new contender for “Most Chaotic Subplot of the Year.” Enter LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed, Greg Norman-helmed, $200 million-per-tournament extravaganza that’s got the golf world…
Patrick Cantlay, the taciturn Californian who currently occupies that curious intersection of athletic excellence and corporate ambivalence, has become our planet’s improbable barometer for late-stage capitalism’s slow-motion meltdown. While European pension funds hemorrhage over ESG golf tournaments and Chinese streaming services decide whether Cantlay’s glacial pace constitutes subversive performance art, the man himself keeps cashing…
VIENNA—Somewhere between the Alps and the Danube, a mild-mannered Austrian with the alliterative punchline of a name—Sepp Straka—has quietly become the polite face of late-stage capitalism’s favorite pastime: professional golf. That’s right, the same sport once reserved for retired colonels and hedge-fund escapees now moonlights as a geopolitical chessboard, and Straka, bless his efficient, Viennese…
Bryson DeChambeau, the human launch monitor who looks like he bench-presses physics textbooks, has become golf’s most reliable export of controlled chaos. While the rest of the planet argues over tariffs, carbon credits, and whose submarine is parked in whose harbor, DeChambeau is busy re-engineering the supposedly pastoral game into something resembling a NASA stress…
Sergio García: The Man Who Turned a Golf Club into a Global Rorschach Test By Our Correspondent in a Café That Charges Extra for Existential Dread If you mention “Sergio García” in a Madrid tapas bar, a Dubai boardroom, a Tokyo driving range, or a Wyoming truck stop, the reactions split faster than a Brexit…
Rory McIlroy: The Last Romantic in the Age of Sport-Washing By Our Man in the Rough DUBAI — While the rest of us are busy price-checking canned beans and wondering which hemisphere will ignite first this summer, Rory McIlroy is still out there trying to hit a tiny sphere into a slightly larger hole with…
