“First, it is different than anything I have experienced covering golf, the music, the champagne celebrations, the players coming to post-round interview sessions with drinks. One thing that was missing was the tension in the air that you can feel at a major or big PGA Tour event.” - Mark Schlabach, ESPN There was music on the driving range, practice green and around the course. I’m not saying that’s necessarily a good thing, but it was definitely different. The atmosphere was decidedly different from what I’ve seen at the majors and PGA Tour events. It was one heck of a party everywhere I went. “I attended the LIV Golf events at Pumpkin Ridge, Rich Harvest Farms and Trump National Doral, albeit from a news-gathering position and not so much the actual golf. It proves how ripe men’s pro golf (and potentially pro golf at-large) was for the taking.” - Sean Zak, Golf Magazine It did that, which is all I seem to think about these days. ![]() This time a year ago LIV held massive goals of disruption and for establishing itself in the lexicon. In that I mean it had huge goals and accomplished many. “I think LIV had almost exactly the year it wanted. Thanks to Tom D’Angelo (Palm Beach Post), Bob Harig (Sports Illustrated), Garrett Morrison (The Fried Egg), Mark Schlabach (ESPN) and Sean Zak (Golf Magazine) for contributing. To help contextualize all that happened this year and look ahead to 2023, I enlisted the help of some friends and colleagues from various media outlets who covered the upstart circuit in its inaugural year. In 2023, LIV will transition to a 14-event league with even loftier goals for its future. Over the last year, LIV held eight events and secured some of the best players and characters pro golf has to offer. Others scoff at the idea of the major champions and mini-tour players alike playing in no-cut events that have been largely criticized as a way for Saudi Arabia to sportswash it’s human rights record, seeing as LIV is financially backed and supported by the Kingdom’s Public Investment Fund. The emergence of LIV Golf has dominated the sport to an extent fans haven’t seen since Tiger Woods joined the picture in the 1990s.įor that reason, indifference in regard to the breakaway entity that has split professional golf in half is rare to find. Some enjoy LIV’s format, which features individuals and teams competing for outrageous sums of money via shotgun starts in a festival-esque atmosphere that makes you almost forget you’re at a golf tournament.
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