In a tournament that felt closer to a weekend scramble than a PGA Tour event, the Black Desert Championship turned golf’s elite into amateurs, with lost balls, rulings galore, and players scrambling through lava rock-strewn roughs.

McCarty, a 26-year-old from Scottsdale, Arizona, won his fourth golf tournament in the past three months by outlasting several PGA Tour veterans to win the inaugural Black Desert Championship Sunday afternoon in southern Utah.

Ivins • Two days before the PGA Tour was set to return to his home state, Zac Blair huddled with doctors worried about his shoulder. The same shoulder that had kept him out of golf for over a year was flaring up again.

Rory McIlroy will team up with Scottie Scheffler to take on Bryson DeChambeau and Scottie Brooks Koepka in a matchplay showdown at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas in December

Crucially, the event has been promoted by LIV Golf. A graphic has been created and shared by the Saudi tour of the four participants, including the PGA Tour golfers, the first promotion of their rivals of any kind by LIV Golf.

That is where "The Showdown" believes it has found an edge. Whereas others went too far in the direction of celebrities and non-golfers -- a similar shift has happened in boxing -- this consortium is going to focus on golfers who recently are only playing each other four times a year and often not head-to-head.