Golf: Outside the ropes, the battle heats up between LIV Golf and PGA Tour

Lawsuits are flying as the war between the two rival circuits keeps escalating. PHOTO: AFP
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SINGAPORE - Two of the world's biggest golf tours held events in the same continent last week, but the divide caused by the rivalry between the PGA Tour and breakaway series LIV Golf continues to drive them further apart.

Even as American Keegan Bradley claimed his first PGA Tour win in four years at the Zozo Championship in Chiba, Japan, talk among the fraternity continued to focus on the "disruptor" tour miles away in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where LIV golfers Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith and newly crowned Bangkok champion Eugenio Chacarra competed for the US$25 million (S$35.9 million) prize.

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