ATLANTA — The revolution begins Thursday, with a shotgun start. Employing the same format as any charity scramble — in this case the cause is the Phil Mickelson Bad Decisions Relief Fund — the LIV Golf International Series dawns in London.
They’re really doing it, staging an eight-event circuit — half the events in the U.S. — in a direct challenge to the PGA Tour, the big, swinging titanium driver of professional golf. With the backing of a Saudi government looking to paper over its many abuses in colorful tender, LIV Golf is stress-testing one of the most comfortable organizations in sports.
This, after all, is a Tour whose pilings are sunk deeply into the bedrock of the Fortune 500 and its top players are running out of new homes to buy in South Florida before they run out of capital. Yet could there be even a greener pasture than this?
