Former Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has warned that reunion between PGA Tour, Liv Golf and DP World Tour will take time to end, but is necessary to end a ‘ridiculous’ period in the gentlemen’s professional games.
Lectures have been underway since the signing of a Framework Agreement in June 2023 between PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudia Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) – which has been rolling Liv Golf League since launching the previous June.
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and player director Adam Scott met last month with President Donald Trump, previously quoted as saying he could solve the gap between trips in ’15 minutes’.
Tiger Woods said that men’s games can “heal quickly” with Trump involved, with the former world # 1, indicating that the negotiations to end the Gulf’s Civil War are in a “very positive place”.
“I think going to go here before they start running together,” McGinley told Sky Sports Golf Podcast. “There could be some sort of message where there will be a higher commitment between the two groups [PGA Tour and PIF].
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“It is probably more likely that it could start with it and give them a little more time to find out how to get a worldwide and a cast of the two trips, especially the role that the DP World Tour will. Play. In that.
“It sounds like things are coming together. It sounds like there is pressure for it to happen, and hopefully it will because at this point it is ridiculous what is going on. No tour is flowering – all of them are fighting and none of Them can be happy.
How has golf been affected by the gap?
Players competing in the Liv Golf League have been suspended from having on PGA Tour, including Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Tyrrell Hatton, reducing the world’s best players who have been able to compete together in the latest seasons.
“The only people who are happy in the last three or four years are the players,” McGinley added. “They have created an absolute fortune on both sides – including the DP World Tour compared to what they were before life – so they really, really benefit here, but everyone else has lost.
“Sponsors have lost because they have to spend more money. The media has lost, watching numbers go down and sponsor money coming in. The public has lost because they have to pay more money for their tickets and Access to go to these tournaments.
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Rory McIlroy believes that the introduction of life -golf has drawn players financially, but believes that everyone should now start looking forward to uniting men’s games
“The public watching TV is suffering because they see diluted products all the time when players come together for the four majors and maybe Ryder Cup. No one wins here except the players, and it’s not sustainable.
“The pricing funds that are in golf at the moment are not sustainable on any tour. Everyone says the Saudis have received money and they will throw millions and millions on it, but they are not a charity.
“Largely [Saudis] have made a lot of noise. To a large extent, they have got what they wanted to gain respect. To a large extent, they have won in many ways, and PGA Tour has lost in many ways. There is definitely a time now for everything to come together. “
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R&A has announced qualifying paths to 153. Open at Royal Portrush, with a new category introduced to players competing in life golf to secure a place
Time to enter into the world’s best?
Liv Golf League has pretty much the same field every week, with players who sign contracts and have their schedule dictated for them, but could it be a cross-golf solution to get the world’s best teeing it together more often?
“Golf as a company has radically changed,” McGinley explained. “One of the things that I would like to see change, and that is one of the things that I think life has had quite right is Contracting Players.
“With the idea of ​​independent dealers where players choose and choose when and where they want to play, there is no other sport thrive where it happens. People are talking about we will follow the ‘Formula One model’ but tell me when A driver ever misses a race?
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Rory McIlroy said in November that Donald Trump could help broker
“Also imagine Mo Salah dictating to Liverpool and going ‘I don’t want to play Newcastle. It’s too cold up there. I won’t go up there in February and play that game. My wife likes to go to London and I Will go down and play London matches because it’s great and I like that city.
“That’s what happens in golf. Players make decisions 100 percent themselves and I don’t think it’s good for the sport and it’s not good for trips. I want to see a rejection of the business model for golf so there is a or other species of control over trips with regard to the schedules that the best players play.
Listen to full Paul McGinley interview on the latest edition of Sky Sports Golf Podcast, who hosted each week by Jamie Weir. Now subscribe to Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Spreaker, while Vodcast editions are found on the Sky Sports Golf YouTube channel.