Uniting the game is essential and time is running out. Not just so the best can play against each other but to ensure golf fans do not turn off from watching professional golf, as the story of the Tours v LIV Golf is starting to wear thin.
This is something that the LIV Golf stars are also mindful as explained by Bryson DeChambeau prior to the start of the event at Doral this week: “The fans are what drive this sport and if we don’t have fans, we don’t have golf. We are not up here entertaining. That’s the most important thing as of right now – the low-hanging fruit. There’s got to be a way to come together.
“And it needs to happen fast. It’s not a two-year thing. Like it needs to happen quicker rather than later just for the good of the sport. Too many people are losing interest.”
Next week the best golfers will come together for the first time this year to compete for the first Major of the season with 13 LIV Golf members in the Masters field, including the defending champion, Jon Rahm. This is what fans want to see, and to have classic events not open to the best players in the world might feel like to hollow victory for the winners until things are united.
“The only answer is for us to somehow come together in some sort of terms where it makes sense and for us to be playing all again in somewhat of the same boat,” DeChambeau said. “It’s great to have the Majors where we come together, but we want to be competing – at least I want to be competing every week – with all of the best players in the world.”
