Golf journalist and author Alan Shipnuck has written what publisher Simon & Schuster is calling ‘a major new work of insider reporting on the battle for the soul of professional golf that has been raging over the last two years between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf League’.
Following closely on the heels of his bestselling book Phil, an unofficial biography of Phil Mickelson, Shipnuck turns to the conflict that has made Mickelson, and many other top golfers, villainous in the eyes of the public: LIV Golf’s bid to usurp the PGA Tour.
According to Simon & Schuster, in LIV and Let Die, Shipnuck ‘delivers the inside story in real time, with fly-on-the-wall reporting from the luxury yachts where LIV was hatched and within the corridors of power as the PGA Tour flailed to fend off the threat.’
‘Shipnuck has travelled between both tours, having countless conversations with players, caddies, CEOs, agents, financiers, lawyers, fans, and Instagramming wives to deliver a no-holds-barred account of the most chaotic moment in golf history.
The disruption to professional golf’s status quo was largely conducted in the shadows but LIV and Let Die delivers numerous revelations about what really happened and why.
Over the course of 325 pages, Shipnuck’s ‘unparalleled access and award-winning reporting’ provides rich portraits of the protagonists to this sprawling story: Tiger Woods, Donald Trump, Greg Norman, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Dustin Johnson, Jay Monahan, Rory McIlroy, Jack Nicklaus, His Excellency Yasir al-Rumayyan, Pat Perez, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Bryson DeChambeau, and many more.
Simon & Schuster’s PR department describes LIV and Let Die as “the definitive account of the one biggest golf stories this century and a lively page-turner that in places reads like a spy thriller.”
LIV and LET Die is available in hardback for £25 from all good bookshops and from Amazon priced at £20.29.