PGA Tour: In an odd comparison to a pizza business, Bryson DeChambeau asserted that he “personally knows” that LIV Golf members will be able to play on the PGA Tour in the future.
DeChambeau joined the breakaway tour, which has eight events planned in 2022 before a more expansive schedule the following season. Other players who joined the breakaway tour include Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, and Phil Mickelson.
DeChambeau is optimistic that a solution can be found to allow players to participate on both tours despite the fact that PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan suspended any members who joined the Greg Norman-fronted series for an undetermined period of time.
“It doesn’t make sense (the ban),” DeChambeau told Fox News. “No, I’m not worried about that. I think it will get figured out. I personally know that it will get figured out, whether it’s legally or whether they come to the table and work out terms. I definitely think it will all wash itself out in the future, pretty shortly.”
Norman has previously said that banning LIV Golf players from other tours was “vindictive” and something that “deepens the divide between the [PGA] Tour and its members”, while DeChambeau used an unusual comparison to try to explain why the new tour can “grow the game”.
“It’s really weird because it’s like — let’s utilise this as a reference,” DeChambeau continued. Earlier this week, I heard about this. You have a pizza restaurant that has been operating for 50 years; all of your clients frequent it, and the food is excellent.
“All of a sudden, a new pizza shop opens up, right? And they start paying the customers to come to eat at their place, and that pizza is potentially a little bit better of a pizza, right? And then, all of a sudden, that original pizza house goes, if you go over there, we’re banning you from ever coming back to our pizza shop. What’s wrong with that economic model?
“Any time anyone invests over a billion dollars into the game of golf, how is that not going to grow the game and how is that not going to provide more opportunities?”
PGA Tour athletes may not compete if LIV members return
If LIV rebels are successful in overturning their sanctions, PGA Tour athletes may choose to boycott competitions, according to former Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III.
Love asserts that the PGA Tour’s devoted followers are “fed up” with the Saudi-sponsored breakaway, which will grow to include a 14-event league in 2019.
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