Over the past several months, the rivalry between the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf has created quite a rift in professional golf. And golf legend Tom Watson does not think it’s good for professional golf.
At the Masters this week, Tom Watson opened up about the current rivalry between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour and admitted a pretty brutal truth about the state of professional golf – nobody really has the answers to fixing it.
“We all know it’s a difficult situation for professional golf right now,” Watson said. “The players really kind of have control, I think, in a sense. What do they want to do? We’ll see where it goes. We don’t have the information or the answers. I don’t think the PGA Tour or the LIV Tour really have an answer right now.
“But I think in this room, I know the three of us want to get together,” he said. “We want to get together like we were at that [Masters] champions dinner — happy, the best players playing against each other. That’s what we want in professional golf. And right now, we don’t have it.”
Obviously, Watson wants golf to be unified again, but it’s not exactly clear how that’s going to happen. And that’s clearly not an easy place to be.
[ESPN]
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