The second major of the 2025 golf season has arrived with plenty of players looking to set a tone for the remainder of the campaign. While no one enters with particular pressure on their shoulders, Rory McIlroy will be looking to become the first golfer since 2015 to win the first two major championships of the year.

The 27-year-old has been dealing with a neck injury, but after missing The Truist Championship, was expected to play at Quail Hollow. The PGA Championship has already been hit by the withdrawal of three former champions, Vijay Singh, Rich Beem, and John Daly.

McKenzie met up with Scot O'Neil, who replaced Greg Norman as LIV Golf CEO earlier this season. The breakaway Saudi golf league currently visits nine different countries on the 2025 schedule.

Following a few not-so-fortuitous final rounds, Bryson DeChambeau fought tooth and nail to avoid another at LIV Golf Korea. And that he did. DeChambeau fired a final round of 6-under 66 and reached 19 under for the tournament to fend off Crushers GC teammate, Charles Howell III, for a narrow two-stroke victory.

OWGR Chairman Trevor Immelman assured that it is nothing new for LIV Golf to enter the world ranking system, but the ball is not in his court.

LIV Golf's investors are reaching into their pockets again for funding, with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund nearing $5 billion in spending on the three-year-old league.

“The president is going to Saudi Arabia to tell its autocratic leader, Mohammed bin Salman, that any deal between the Tour and the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund will be on the Tour’s preferred terms, and those terms will not include a long-term future for LIV,” Lynch wrote .

President Trump's Saudi visit may reignite golf's civil war, reinforcing Tiger Woods' stance as LIV Golf faces an uncertain future.