The civil war that has split men's professional golf into two is set to swap the court rooms for the pristine fairways of Augusta for the 87th edition of The Masters.
A LIV Golf event had not yet been staged when Scottie Scheffler slipped his arms into a Green Jacket last year - but over 20 per cent of the Masters field will now be made up of players who have defected to the lucrative Saudi-funded circuit.
A total of 18 LIV renegades will tee it up in the first major of the year desperate to prove that they did not surrender their competitive relevance when joining the contentious enterprise.
