BROOKLINE, Mass. — In an age when professional golfers have grown more and more distant from their audiences, two-time main winner Justin Thomas took listeners proper smack into his middle-of-the-nights Monday. In a news convention forward of the U.S. Open, he talked of getting “tossed and turned and lost a lot of sleep last week thinking about what could potentially happen” to the tour of his lifelong desires.
The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, controversial and lavish past lavish, figures to current some degree of hurt to the stately outdated PGA Tour for a while barring some unexpected international rejection of fossil fuels. “I don’t think anyone can see where this thing will be in five years’ time or 10 years’ time,” four-time main winner Rory McIlroy stated.
With novelties similar to tournaments of 54 holes reasonably than 72, shotgun begins, the shortage of a reduce and a putting non-lack of cash, LIV Golf aiming to shine the status of a disreputable nation poses some nice unknowns. How would possibly its poaching have an effect on TV contracts, particular person PGA Tour occasions, the PGA Tour’s aspect in courtrooms?