LIV Golf’s shadow casts uncertainty on PGA Tour events, including Nelson and Colonial

For the self-proclaimed honorable sport of golf, this week’s occasion and backdrop are sublimely symmetric.

It’s the 150th British Open. At the Old Course at St. Andrews, the hallowed home of golf.

Lurking this week, though, on the Royal and Ancient club’s sacred grounds is an Ignoble and Current tiff that threatens the fabric if not the existence of the 53-year-old PGA Tour and the 50-year-old PGA European Tour.