LIV Golf rebel Joaquin Niemann may not have read the script as he claimed The Masters will be "more fun" in the knowledge that PGA Tour stars "hate us."
The fierce LIV Golf and PGA Tour rivalry that has split men's professional golf has been played down by several players ahead of the first major of the season at Augusta. Two-time Green Jacket winner Bubba Watson is one of 18 LIV renegades in the field next week and will attend a potentially frosty Champions Dinner with relationships strained.
But Watson has claimed "it's only awkward in the media" and that "he has nothing against anybody", while Brooks Koepka has also sought to rule out any tension. It is true that Watson and Koepka may not have burned bridges themselves during the ongoing civil war - but the American duo cannot ignore the public spiky comments and jibes made on both sides of the divide.
