As golf’s civil war rumbles on, with any optimism that came from the announcement in June 2023 that LIV Golf and the PGA Tour had a framework agreement in place for a merger having long since dissipated, it’s hard to argue that the situation has created many winners.
The players that made the switch to LIV have certainly been handsomely compensated from a financial perspective but they were hardly poor before and the low-wattage LIV events seem to be harming their chances of winning majors – with the likes of Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson largely uncompetitive since making the switch and the likes of Talor Gooch now missing out entirely due to the lack of ranking points available.
