ATLANTA – LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman took to Instagram on Wednesday to reply to the sweeping adjustments that have been introduced by the PGA Tour that ensures high gamers will likely be well-compensated and competing in opposition to one another extra typically.
Norman shared the viral meme wherein Monahan fictitiously mentioned to Norman: “Hey, can I copy your homework?”
“Positive,” Norman replied, “simply make it look totally different so it doesn’t look to(sic) apparent.”
The implication being: Two months after LIV’s launch, the Tour has basically copied the upstart circuit’s mannequin with a collection of elevated occasions for large purses.
“A day late and a greenback brief,” learn Norman’s caption. Lee Westwood and Charles Howell III have been amongst those that replied to the LIV boss’ submit with crying-laughing emojis.
Besides the meme additionally means that, below the brand new construction, Tour gamers now have it awfully good – and might be a lot much less prone to search different choices.
And in addition to, Jordan Spieth mentioned: “I nonetheless see lots of variations, don’t you?”
It’s nonetheless 72 holes of competitors. It’s (principally) greater than 48-player fields. There’s no league idea. No shotgun begin. No foolish workforce names.
“The extra gamers in any sport that individuals need to watch, if you will get them enjoying on the identical time in competitors, it is smart,” Spieth mentioned Wednesday on the Tour Championship.
In a drastic change to the Tour schedule, high gamers will now decide to at the least 20 occasions a 12 months, together with a collection of 12 elevated occasions. Which means followers (and community executives) can financial institution on seeing the largest names within the sport collectively at extra than simply the majors and The Gamers – the Sentry Event of Champions, Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, WGC-Dell Match Play, Memorial Event, plus the three FedExCup playoff occasions and 4 extra elevated occasions, will likely be a part of this collection.
“The concept that as gamers we are able to collaborate and get collectively to supply a greater product whereas having stiffer and higher competitors, I feel that’s simply one thing typically that makes lots of sense,” Spieth mentioned. “It’ll create a greater product for us going ahead.
“We’re going to try to get as most of the highest-ranked gamers which you could all enjoying as typically as they’ll collectively, and it simply looks as if that’s the way in which issues ought to have been all alongside.”
In that sense, Spieth mentioned, LIV’s launch was a “catalyst” for trying on the general Tour product and wanting to maximise its obtainable property. Earlier than the rival tour emerged, there was a way of, “if it ain’t broke, don’t repair it – and it wasn’t broke.”
“It’s simply now perhaps there was a very good time to make some type of a change,” he mentioned. “I feel the timing simply made sense, and it was additionally provoked a little bit bit.”
