Two days after the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund agreed to a partnership that ends all litigation, one other lawsuit has been filed towards LIV Golf and Phil Mickelson over a emblem.

Cool Brands Supply, an Argentine life-style and skateboard firm, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit final Thursday that claims Mickelson’s “HyFlyers” emblem utilized in LIV Golf is a knockoff of their Fallen Footwear emblem.

Both logos function a pair of “Fs” dealing with in reverse instructions.

Mickelson is the group captain of HyFlyers, which incorporates Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale and James Piot.

The grievance says Fallen Footwear has used the back-to-back Fs for a emblem since 2003. It accuses LIV of utilizing the emblem on hats, shirts and sweatshirts bought as merchandise.

“The similarities between the two marks, particularly when used on clothing, are striking, and are confusing consumers and causing damage to Plaintiff’s senior mark and brand,” Cool Brands Supply argue within the lawsuit.

It claims it requested LIV and Mickelson to cease utilizing the emblem and so they refused.

Mickelson wears the HyFlyers emblem when he competes, together with within the majors. He is enjoying within the U.S. Open this week, the one main preserving Mickelson from the profession Grand Slam.

The antitrust lawsuit towards the PGA Tour — and the tour’s countersuit — are nonetheless in federal court docket in Northern California. They agreed to drop litigation as a part of their settlement for the PGA Tour, European Tour and Public Investment Fund to create a brand new for-profit firm involving their industrial enterprise.

FINALLY ARRIVED

Olin Browne Jr. was the medalist on the US Open qualifying website that had probably the most PGA Tour gamers. Turns out that may have been the simplest a part of attending to his first U.S. Open.

Browne, the 34-year-old son of Olin Browne, is amongst 20 gamers at Los Angeles Country Club who needed to get via two phases of qualifying — the 18-hole native qualifier, adopted by the ultimate 36-hole stage.

“I actually had to make a 30-footer in regulation to even make it into a playoff at locals,” Browne stated Monday. “Thinking back over what happened on Monday (at final qualifying), that 30-footer that happened to go in was a big deal.”

So is getting right here.

His father is a three-time PGA Tour winner who performed 12 instances within the U.S. Open. Perhaps probably the most notable was in 2005. It was in remaining qualifying that the elder Browne thought of withdrawing due to a poor begin, reconsidered due to the message it might ship his son, after which shot 59 to get in. Thirteen days later, he was within the second-to-last group at Pinehurst No. 2.

The son went to Pepperdine and has been grinding on the mini-tours ever since, not wanting to surrender his dream as a result of he retains seeing enchancment.

“If I wanted to do something else I’d hang them up and go figure out whatever that is, but I haven’t gotten there yet,” Browne stated.

For now, he’s thrilled to have an opportunity to compete in his first U.S. Open, which he known as the Super Bowl of golf.

“It’s awesome that they allow people like me the opportunity to play two qualifiers to get here,” Browne stated. “That means a lot to me. It gives you a little bit of hope every year that you’ll be able to come and play on such a great venue like this. That’s why I keep doing it.”

TROPHY TALES

The U.S. Open had a digital camera crew arrange in entrance of the clubhouse at Los Angeles Country Club, uncommon for a Monday. They have been there to seize a tragic second for Matt Fitzpatrick.

The defending champion needed to return the trophy (he will get a duplicate).

“I was so sad about that,” Fitzpatrick stated. “I didn’t feel like I spent enough time with it, really. Literally probably the month right after the Open, after St Andrews, I went on holiday to Italy with some friends. I took it there for a week. That’s about as exciting as it got.”

Fitzpatrick stated he was on a ship, so the trophy went to Capri, Amalfi and Positano.

“Had a few nice day trips out,” he stated.

Now comes the laborious half — getting it again. Brooks Koepka is the one participant within the area who has received the U.S. Open in consecutive years.

PACE OF PLAY

Billy Horschel is just not anticipating the tempo of play to get any quicker on the U.S. Open, and he factors to 2 causes. One is the 284-yard seventh gap. The different is the 290-yard eleventh.

Justin Thomas stated it was the primary time he’s needed to hit a 3-wood right into a par 3 twice in a single spherical. And then there’s the small matter of hitting the inexperienced.

Having 280-yard par 3s — two of them — is just not going to make it play any quicker,” Horschel stated.

Defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick agreed.

“I think it’ll be slow. I think the long par 3s tend to screw that one up,” Fitzpatrick stated. “So yeah, I’d probably say ... it’s five hours every week, so it will be nothing new here, I would imagine.”