The PGA Tour’s reported plans for a new-look schedule was one of the topics discussed at a mandatory players’ meeting on Tuesday, with implications for the Australasian region.
Does LIV Golf have its new next big name signed for the breakaway series? According to reports in The Guardian and Sky Sports, it does as the Saudi-backed league will announce that four-time Major winner Brooks Koepka is joining ahead of the second LIV Golf Invitational event next week at Pumpkin Ridge outside of Portland.
Adam Scott says he will have to adopt a “gladiator’s do or die mentality” at the US Open if he wants to win an elusive second Major after admitting his streak of 83 consecutive slams is not as impressive as it sounds.
The battle for golf’s future has featured two main characters: the PGA Tour, fronted by commissioner Jay Monahan, and LIV Golf, headed by CEO Greg Norman.
So, how was it for you? Did the earth move? Or was an underwhelming feeling of “meh” the prevailing aftertaste after three days of no-cut, guaranteed money tournament golf at The Centurion Club north of London?
In the end, a tournament did eventually break out. After all the talk of politics, “sports washing”, human rights abuses and who might or might not be playing next time out, the golf took over – as it tends to do amid even the most controversial of controversies.
Australian Golf Digest
