NORTH PLAINS, Ore. – The volunteers and staff of the LIV Golf Invitational Series are learning on the fly, and the crew this week in Portland for the second event were woefully unprepared for the fan turnout for Saturday’s final round.
Just 90 minutes before the shotgun start, LIV Golf announced the final round was expected to reach full capacity and that no more tickets would be available for purchase at the gate. By that point there was already a line of cars miles long waiting to get to the parking not just on the back roads leading to Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, but extending to the highway.
“I live in Lake Oswego, so it’s usually like a 30 minute drive and it took two hours,” said Jim Curzon. “It was about two or three miles up (U.S. Highway) 26 and it started to really, really back up. Then probably another hour once we got off the highway just to get to the parking.”
