Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insider reporting on the battle for the soul of professional Golf Between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf League.
But the battle to thwart LIV revealed a deeper struggle wit.
Rory McIlroy said of playing a tournament alongside LIV golfers, It\'s going to be hard for me to stomach.
Says Brandel Chamblee, I think the LIV players are in a morally indefensible position, with a willful blindness to the consequences of their action, making them complicit to the ongoing atrocities.
Bankrolled by Saudi Arabia\'s Public Investment Fund, LIV Golf has upended the men\'s professional game with vast riches--blatant sportswashing, from the mouth of Mickelson himself.
Shipnuck\'s unparalleled access and award-winning reporting chops provide rich portraits of the brand names at the center of this sprawling tableau: Greg Norman, Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Jay Monahan, His Excellency Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Donald Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Dustin (and Paulina!) Johnson, Pat (and Ashley!) Perez, Patrick (and Justine!) Reed, Bryson DeChambeau, Jimmy Dunne, and many more.
The disruption to an old, proud sport was largely conducted in the shadows, but LIV and Let Die delivers numerous revelations about what really happened, and why.
Anyone who has a stake in professional Golf lined up for an interview with Shipnuck--because they knew everyone else was talking to him, too.
Shipnuck has traveled seamlessly Between both tours--having countless conversations with players, caddies, CEOs, agents, financiers, lawyers, flaks, fans, and Instagramming wives--to deliver a no-holds-barred account of the most chaotic moment in Golf history. (LIV\'s unofficial motto, immortalized on hats gifted at a staff party: Fuck \'Em All.) In LIV and Let Die, Shipnuck delivers the Inside Story in real time, with fly-on-the-wall reporting from the yachts where LIV was hatched and within the corridors of power as the PGA Tour flailed to fend off the threat.
Following closely on the heels of his bestselling sensation Phil, Shipnuck turns to the conflict that made Mickelson, and many other top golfers, villainous in the eyes of the public: LIV Golf\'s controversial--and belligerent--storming of the professional Golf world.
Over the past two years, professional Golf has been at war, and Alan Shipnuck has been our most trusted correspondent on the front lines.
Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insider reporting on the battle for the soul of professional Golf Between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf League
