{"id":31774,"date":"2025-07-02T05:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/31774\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T05:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:27:09","slug":"many-golf-fans-told-what-they-have-got-completely-wrong-about-liv-players-its-not-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/31774\/","title":{"rendered":"Many golf fans told what they have got completely wrong about LIV players,\u00a0\u2018it\u2019s\u00a0not true\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LIV Golf is currently in its third season, after they convinced many high-profile names to leave the PGA Tour back in the summer of 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The golfing world was rocked three years ago when the likes of two-time US Open winner Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>, six-time major champion Phil Mickelson<\/a> and 24-time PGA Tour winner Dustin Johnson<\/a> jumped ship from the PGA Tour to link up with LIV Golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Numerous other big names soon followed, including 2022 Open champion Cameron Smith and two-time major winner Jon Rahm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since then, talks have been ongoing about a deal that would facilitate the two tours operating in tandem with one another.<\/p>\n

That said, it was recently claimed that a merger between LIV and the PGA Tour will \u2018never happen\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the amicable relationship between LIV Golf CEO Scott O\u2019Neil and PGA Tour chief Brian Rolapp<\/a> is expected to help negotiations reach a positive conclusion.<\/p>\n

LIV has received heavy criticism from some sections of the media, and golf fans alike. Perhaps some of that condemnation has been slightly unfair though.<\/p>\n

Many golf fans told what they have got completely wrong about LIV players<\/p>\n

There is undoubtedly a continual push from those involved with LIV to promote the product on offer.<\/p>\n

One of the main criticisms of LIV is that the majority of players on the Saudi-backed golf league have no hunger, having made the move purely to line their pockets.<\/p>\n

\"LIVPhoto by Michele Eve Sandberg\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

However, whether you like it or not, it seems that LIV Golf as an entity is not going anywhere.<\/p>\n

CEO Scott O\u2019Neil sat down to speak with Rick Shiels on his YouTube channel, and insisted that every single player on the tour is hungry to achieve success.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neil said: \u201cAdrian Meronk won and I won\u2019t say the player but when these guys come off, they look so calm and cool on the course but the energy and competitive juices are flowing. There was some energy that I had not anticipated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always considered golfers just wonderful gentleman and they are. But seeing these guys compete and work, how hard they work. Everywhere we go we build a performance centre and seeing these guys work on their bodies and what they eat. Seeing how they work on the range. That stuff to me was inspiring and enlightening.\u201c<\/p>\n

He was then asked what his message would be to LIV\u2019s naysayers.<\/p>\n

The LIV CEO responded by saying: \u201cThey should come out. They should just come see us. I had a caddie meeting and we ate wings and nachos just to take Q&A. And one of the caddies was new and he grabbed me and said, \u2018hey Scottie you got a minute\u2019? He said, \u2018you know it\u2019s not true\u2019. And I was thinking is this something I said? And he said that the guys don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said I know, these guys are competitive animals. These guys would compete to see who could walk out the door first. They have competitive craziness.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey also said they don\u2019t work. I said these guys are as hard working athletes as I have ever seen. I have been around athletes from every sport. These guys work their tails off.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What is holding up a LIV \/ PGA Tour merger?<\/p>\n

According to Matt Kuchar, there is one main sticking point preventing a deal from happening.<\/p>\n

Golfweek reported last week that Kuchar suggested that LIV\u2019s insistence on including the team competition<\/a> in any deal is proving to be a major obstacle to a merger from happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cKuchar said he followed up with a LIV question and was told that the two sides are at loggerheads with no resolution in sight. The Tour refuses to capitulate on certain matters, especially Yasir Al-Rumayyan\u2019s obsession with the team concept and his refusal to budge on having it be a future component as part of any deal.\u201c<\/p>\n

Then Golfweek shared a direct quote from Kuchar. The nine-time PGA Tour winner said: \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s any breaking news that the talks have gone silent. They said we\u2019re still open to negotiations.\u201c<\/p>\n

The positive thing here is that it seems like LIV and the PGA Tour are at least involved in continual dialogue.<\/p>\n

And if healthy, balanced discussion continues, there may well be a happy ending for all parties involved.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf is currently in its third season, after they convinced many high-profile names to leave the PGA…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,19413,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-31774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-liv-golf","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114781988037679083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}