LIV’s tournaments do not have history nor identity to build upon. There is no precedent for this team concept in professional golf. It’s a not-small mountain to climb. LIV hopes to spend its way to the top.
DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley has hit back at the threat of potential legal action from LIV Golf players in a scalding statement on Friday.
English golfers Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood, two of LIV Golf’s first recruits, have joined a group of 16 players who signed a letter warning the DP World Tour with legal action if their fines and bans from the Scottish Open are not retracted, according to London’s The Telegraph.
Multiple sources, some of whom spent years working at Pumpkin Ridge, described the local conversation around the first LIV event in the US as tense, divisive and the last thing the Portland area needed.
After months of scrapping for acceptance and validity, this was the heel-turn – the scripted moment when a guy fans already hated says screw it and becomes the villain they always wanted him to be.
For Greg Norman, the Saudi government and LIV Golf, the overnight press conferences were a victory lap of sorts; an opportunity to show off six legitimately big-name golfers they have successfully lured away from the PGA Tour.
There is one thing the Saudi-backed LIV Golf currently does not have, and likely needs, to disrupt professional golf further: Official World Golf Ranking points.
Tempting promising amateur golfers and newly-minted professionals with guaranteed money to compete in LIV Golf events is a strategy Greg Norman has openly acknowledged.
The DP World Tour tonight confirmed the significant sanctions that will be taken against members who breached Tour regulations and participated in a LIV Golf event at Centurion Club
Sources close to the new rival league have told Australian Golf Digest that April, 2023 is being looked at as a month in which an LIV Golf tournament could be held in Australia.
With new member Brooks Koepka in the fold as of Wednesday, LIV Golf announced most of its field for its first US event—next week’s invitational at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club outside of Portland, Oregon.
Commissioner Jay Monahan announced changes to the PGA Tour’s structure, schedule and FedEx Cup in a press conference at the Travelers Championship on Wednesday.
Australian Golf Digest
