LIV pro Dustin Johnson 'emphatically' denies making negative remarks directed at PGA Tour commish

LIV golfer Dustin Johnson did not have a lot of time to enjoy his team's achievements over the weekend at an event in Australia.

Shortly after Johnson’s team, the 4Aces, won the LIV team event at The Grange in Adelaide, Australia, the Australian Associated Press reported that the golfer made some critical remarks about PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.

"We don’t give a damn how he feels," Johnson said, according to the Australian AP. "We know how he feels about us, so it’s mutual."

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Since its inception, LIV Golf has struggled to create a high level of fan interest. But the Grange in Adelaide event was sold out three straight days.

Johnson’s 4Aces team won its first team title of the season.

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The comments attributed to Johnson seemed to be a change in the position he has taken over the past several months. The 38-year-old has avoided speaking poorly of the Tour or its leadership.

Johnson’s agent, David Winkle, released a statement denying the golfer ever made the statements about Monahan.

"I spoke with Dustin from Singapore this morning, at which time he emphatically denied making any such statement," Winkle said. "He elaborated by saying his actual response to the question was ‘no comment.'"

LIV spokesperson Jane MacNeille took to Twitter to back up Winkle's statement about Johnson. MacNeille also clarified that Pat Perez, a teammate of Johnson, made the comment. 

"Dustin didn’t say it, Pat did. AAP reported it incorrectly," MacNeille wrote.

There is no record of Perez's comment in the transcript of the 4Aces’ post-round interview. 

On the Netflix documentary "Full Swing," Johnson laid out his rationale for leaving the Tour.

"The decision to join LIV, I mean, it finally just came down to the offer that they made me," Johnson said. "For me, it was playing less, making more money. Pretty simple."

Wisconsin judge drops former Parole Commission chair's felony charge

A judge on Tuesday dropped a felony charge against the former chairperson of the Wisconsin Parole Commission.

Racine County Circuit Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz dismissed the case against John Tate II on Tuesday, the Racine Journal Times reported.

Prosecutors charged Tate on April 18 with using his public position as a Racine alderman for his private benefit, online court records indicate.

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According to a criminal complaint, Tate unlawfully negotiated the terms of his employment for Racine’s new violence interruption coordinator position after approving the creation of the job as Common Council president. He then applied for the position, and city officials offered it to him.

Tate initially announced that he would resign as an alderman to begin his role as the coordinator in mid-November. However, he didn’t resign until his term finished April 17 after he said he had been advised that state law prohibits sitting local elected officials from taking positions that were created during their term of office.

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His attorneys, Patrick Cafferty and Jillian Scheidegger, filed a motion to dismiss the case Monday. They argued that while Tate was a public employee who privately negotiated a contract, his only action as a public employee was to vote to accept grant funds that would allow the role to be created.

The judge dismissed the case without prejudice, which means prosecutors could charge Tate again if any additional information comes to light.

Last year, Gov. Tony Evers asked for Tate’s resignation as parole commission chairman, following Tate’s decision to parole Douglas Balsewicz, who was convicted of stabbing his wife to death, in the presence of the couple’s two young children.

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