PGA Championship: When Brooks Koepka’s winning putt at the PGA Championship dropped, LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman was already doing a victory lap on social media, which was all too predictable.
“Well done, Brooks Koepka,” He wrote, “I am extremely proud of you. “LIV players belong, and golf and the majors know it.”
Ian Poulter added his two cents, simply saying “Any good??????'” and adding an extra 225 question marks. Yes, I did count them.
.@BKoepka take a bow my friend. Respect and huge congratulations.
👍🏼🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆— Ian Poulter (@IanJamesPoulter) May 21, 2023
It was only natural for players like Norman and Poulter to seize onto Koepka’s historic triumph and use it as some sort of justification for or support of LIV. They feel compelled to interject LIV into every discourse, as do the army of Twitter keyboard warriors they have assembled.
The truth is that this has nothing anything to do with LIV or its continuing spat with the PGA Tour. Zero, nada. This was about a golfer who is currently ranked among the all-time greats who won his fifth major championship due to his extraordinary talent and mental toughness, not because of the circuit he competes on for 14 weeks out of the year.
LIV will attempt to portray the results of some of its players in the first two majors of the year as evidence that their league is a competitive breeding environment and the much-needed boost for golf. In addition to Koepka winning the Wanamaker Trophy, Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith placed in the top 10 at the PGA Championship. Meanwhile, Phil Mickelson unexpectedly finished second at The Masters, behind Koepka, during a week in which Patrick Reed tied for fourth place.
No one had ever suggested LIV weren’t still good golfers who deserved in major events, but their supporters were quick to shout it from the rooftops that this showed it.
Undoubtedly, some of the players who chose to join LIV are no longer highly competitive, but no one has ever claimed that this is the case for all of them. In fact, the fact that we only get to witness these unmistakably world-class abilities a few times a year at the sport’s most significant tournaments is precisely the part that many golf fans have found depressing and difficult to accept.
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