For all the cushiness of its 54-hole events that don’t include a cut, LIV Golf’s players made the 87th Masters the first major at which the Saudi-funded circuit got leaderboard relevance.
“I think when you come to Augusta, you end up having a sense of gratitude,” he said after his closing charge to joint second with a 31 on the back nine for a 65 at age 52. “It’s hard not to, right? This is what we strive for. There’s kind of a calm that comes over you, the fact that we get to play and compete in the Masters, and I think we’ve all been very appreciative of that.”
One year after he missed the Masters for the first time since 1994, choosing solitude away from the noise surrounding his controversial remarks, these grounds seemed to reach back into his bones, one possible explanation for an 8-under-par finish for a three-time champion whose finishes this season on the LIV Tour had gone 27th, 32nd and 41st.Asked if he felt as if he was carrying a mantle for a struggling new tour, he said, “Look, I wouldn’t look at it like that.
, he said, “Separate. Separate. They are separate issues. Golf and the — and the professional golf ecosystem and how that’s been handled throughout my career, two totally separate things.”, the PGA Tour mainstay who spoke last June of deciding with wife Kelley that boosting their fortune from great to greater wouldn’t make that much difference in their lives.
“I mean, we’re still the same people,” he said of the LIV players. “So I mean, I know if I’m healthy, I know I can compete. I don’t think any of the guys that played this event thought otherwise, either. When Phil plays good, we know he’s going to compete. ‘P-Reed,’ the same thing,” a reference to Patrick Reed, who finished in a three-way tie for fourth at 7 under par.“I mean, I guess it is fractured, I guess, from the fan’s perspective,” Koepka said of the two tours.
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