Perspective: The Masters doesn’t need LIV Golf. LIV Golf badly needs the Masters.
Those 18 are the defectors who bolted for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit, and they are on trial this week. In golf, it has always mattered who wins the Masters. But it has never mattered where that player competed and whose money he takes. Now, it does.
Uh, check that, Cam. How’s month in and month out? The first LIV season concluded in November. The second began with a tournament in February. Then came two weeks off, another event in mid-March, a week off and the just-completed event outside Orlando. But anyway … So LIV will, ahem, live as long as the Saudis want it to. But what’s at stake here is the competitive legitimacy of the renegade circuit. LIV has, inarguably, forced positive change on the PGA Tour. But if iron sharpens iron — and the leader boards at the PGA Tour’s new “elevated” events have been gangbusters for golf fans — do pillows soften pillows?
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