There are now two phases to every golf tournament: the Monday-to-Wednesday interview sessions, which largely focus on the threat that the upstart LIV Golf tour presents to the existing order, and the Thursday-to-Sunday run of play, in which the golf itself is the story. Players and officials alike lament that we all have to go through the first part to get to the second, but the simple truth is that LIV is unlike any threat/challenge/opportunity in professional golf history, and it demands a response.
of LIV and its players on Tuesday, and the next day, Martin Slumbers, CEO of the R&A, took his turn. The R&A regulates golf around the world in every area outside North America, and Slumbers clearly sees LIV as both an existential threat and a deceptively packaged operation.
"I firmly believe that the existing golf ecosystem has successfully provided stable pathways for golfers to enter the sport and develop and realize their full potential," Slumbers said."Professional golfers are entitled to choose where they want to play and to accept the prize money that's offered to them. I have absolutely no issue with that at all.
"We have been asked quite frequently about banning players. Let me be very clear. That's not on our agenda. But what is on our agenda is that we will review our exemptions and qualifications criteria for The Open," he said."And whilst we do that every year, we absolutely reserve the right to make changes as our Open Championships Committee deems appropriate. Players have to earn their place in The Open, and that is fundamental to its ethos and its unique global appeal.
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