There isn’t a more fascinating scenario to this week’s Masters than how the players from LIV fare, because there isn’t a more polarizing topic in golf at the moment.
If you were hoping for some sexy, potentially provocative pairings for the first two rounds of the Masters this week, grouping PGA Tour stars with the LIV Golf stars, forget about it.
The underlying storyline of the Masters — perhaps more pressing than the result of the tournament — will be the overlap of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf for the first time.
If this Masters is really a heavyweight fight between golf’s feuding families, and if Brooks Koepka represents the Great White Shark’s Great White Hope, then the PGA Tour had better get ready to duck.
Take away any of the competitors at the top of the leaderboard at Augusta National this week, and what you would’ve had was a major championship that short-changed the fans of golf the best product.
It was reported Dustin Johnson took a dig by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan by the Australian Associated Press following the LIV Golf's tournament in Adelaide this week.
Rules previously said golfers had to "qualify" for the PGA Tour Championship and the U.S. Open, but they were changed to say “those players who qualified and were eligible."
Phil Mickelson continues to lash out over what he perceives as collusion between the PGA Championship and PGA Tour adversely affecting his colleagues at LIV Golf.
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 part in tearing the sport apart.
The PGA Tour and LIV Golf are joining forces. The PGA Tour announced their plans to merge into one company with the Saudi-backed rebel league. The European DP World Tour will also be merging with the two.