Since the emergence of LIV Golf, the PGA Tour has reacted with such aggressive defensiveness against the Saudi-backed tour, banning players who were once stars on their circuit, it has played a par…
Men’s professional golf is under siege.
The DP World Tour, in bed business-wise with the PGA Tour, has followed suit with a similarly hardline stance against the LIV players, cutting off its nose to spite its face in the process. Players who had a large hand in building what was formerly known as the European Tour and are now playing on LIV have been fined so many hundreds of thousands of dollars for their involvement with LIV that they’re being forced to resign their tour memberships.
Those four tournaments are all that are left for golf fans to see the best players compete against each other. Even the beloved biennial Ryder Cup is becoming ravaged by the strife. and at the moment hasn’t even qualified to get into the U.S. Open field, which should be an embarrassment to the USGA.“We’re still the same people,” Koepka said at the Masters of LIV golfers. “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. I think that’s just manufactured by the media that we can’t compete anymore, that we are washed up.
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