The field at this year’s Masters is already being reshaped by the LIV Golf controversy—and it foreshadows more drastic effects at majors down the road
Ahead of last year’s Masters, an Englishman named Paul Casey was ranked as the No. 25 golfer in the world and there was no reason to believe that would dramatically change anytime soon.
Casey was thriving on the PGA Tour. There was no indication that a new Saudi-backed golf league called LIV Golf would upend the sport’s professional landscape or Casey’s career. LIV had been declared “dead in the water” by none other than Rory McIlroy, one of the game’s pre-eminent stars.
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