Weekly Read: Everyone's Getting Paid, the Michael Block Saga and Going No-Cut at Jack's Place

Another week, another animated argument around LIV Golf.

Hope you had a relaxing Memorial Day weekend. No weekend off for golf, of course, as Emiliano Grillo won at Colonial, Harold Varner III won for the first time at LIV Golf and Pajaree Anannarukarn won the LPGA Match Play.

More headlines were made earlier in the week in the wake of the PGA Championship, after a LIV player won and a club pro went on the road after a Cinderella performance.

Bob Harig covers everything around that and more in his Weekly Read.

There's One Underlying Fact in the Divided Golf World: Everyone's Getting Paid

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We can't go a week without some kind of argument between pro- and anti-LIV'ers, and Claude Harmon III and Brandel Chamblee handled the duties coming out of the PGA Championship. Harmon, Brooks Koepka's coach, had much to say that you may or may not agree with, but he (eventually) made a rock-solid point about how today's players shouldn't tee it up without getting paid. And that's really how we got to this point, right? LIV handed out the checks first in the form of signup bonuses to Harold Varner III (pictured above) and other stars, then the PGA Tour dug deep for bigger purses that next year will likely be awarded via more no-cut events. The arguments won't stop about the sources of the money and who deserves it, but make no mistake, everyone's getting theirs now.

Jack Nicklaus May Not Like It, But His Event May Not Have a Cut Next Year

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This week the PGA Tour moves to Muirfield Village Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio, for Jack Nicklaus's beloved Memorial Tournament. One of the best non-major weeks on Tour never fails to draw a great field, with the game's best hoping to shake the Golden Bear's hand Sunday evening. But the tournament could look a little different next year as the PGA Tour goes down the no-cut, limited-field road, and the Hall of Fame host doesn't love that. He has an opinion but he might not have a choice because, as we said, everyone's getting paid now. 

The Feel-Good Story of Michael Block Is Still That, Regardless of Post-PGA Play

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Sports fans seem to have an unhealthy love of crowning heroes and then seeing them uncrowned, so Michael Block's hero turn at the PGA Championship followed by a dead-last effort at Colonial drew more than a few snickers. One could argue that some of those were brought on by Block himself, but Bob Harig comes down on the side of just appreciating the club pro's great week and giving him a pass for the rest. Maybe Block will rediscover a little magic in two weeks at the RBC Canadian Open.

Weekly Read Fore! Things: More Jockeying for Major Championships

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The U.S. Open is three weeks away and the British Open another month after that, and more players are earning spots by winning or via their OWGR rank at various cutoffs. But Bob Harig sounds one ominous note in the Weekly Read Fore! Things: as it stands right now, the 2024 PGA Championship would have just five players instead of the 18 that qualified for this year's. That's how fast the landscape is changing.