Daily News | LIV Golf faces future shadow ban from British Open, overshadows Tiger Woods at 150th edition
It should have been all about Tiger and Jack in St. Andrews. Neither will hoist the Claret Jug again — Jack’s too old, Tiger’s too broken — and this 150th British Open wound up being, more than anything else, about the most dire existential threat the golf establishment has ever faced.
The future of LIV players at the four majors remains uncertain. This year’s U.S. Open welcomed qualifiers and indicated it would continue to do so. The PGA Championship happened a month before LIV Golf held its first event. The Masters has been mum. Jack Nicklaus made one last trip to St. Andrews to join America’s original diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, and America’s original international superstar, Bobby Jones, asWoods, with an eloquent address Tuesday concerning himself, the game, and its status, effectively replaced Nicklaus as the unofficial international spokesman for all things relating to golf.
Once the loudest voices in the sport, none of the biggest LIV names — past champions Mickelson and Louis Oosthuizen and major winners Johnson, Koepka, Reed, and DeChambeau — was featured during the week’s pre-tournament press conferences. Maybe The R&A figures the LIV golfers won’t matter, anyway. Only four of the 17 LIV-associated players at the U.S. Open made the cut. None finished better than 24th, which is where DJ settled, at 4-over par.Rory McIlroy, the world’s most popular active golfer, is the betting favorite, and Jordan Spieth, America’s most popular golfer, is among the top five favorites, and both have regained top form in the past calendar year. Current world No.
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