Imagine LIV Golf banning a journalist for his reporting. Can’t? Well, it happened. Bill Hobson, the host of “Michigan Golf Live,” initially got the green light from LIV Golf for tournament credentials from Friday to Sunday. However, after he interviewed and then aired a podcast with Pat Perez, a former LIV golfer, LIV Golf told Hobson on Tuesday afternoon he’d no longer have access to media areas for the Team Championship.

But the question is: why did it happen at all? Hobson says LIV Golf took issue with two specific questions he asked – one about the tour’s funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), and another about the rocky tenure of former CEO Greg Norman, who was replaced earlier this year. In January, LIV Golf named Scott O’Neil as Norman’s successor, after Norman h

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