The major changes announced on Tuesday for the 2024 season on the PGA Tour did not fail to make the golf world react, and in particular LIV players. Several of them have thus published acerbic, even mocking messages on the web, like the Englishman Richard Bland who points the finger at the alliance between the US circuit and the DP World Tour and the sporting future more unsure of the ten Race to Dubai golfers who will cross the Atlantic at the end of the year…
As soon as the reforms were unveiled via Golfweek concerning the 2024 PGA Tour season, opinions, to say the least, were divided all over the world of golf. In particular the main players in the LIVthe splinter League born in 2022 and led by the Australian Greg Norman. Lee Westwood et Ian Poulter have, for example, been the most virulent, arguing that these announced changes were ultimately only “copying” what is currently in force on their own Tour: reduced field, disappearance of cuts on XXL tournaments with very high prize pools.
So.. Do away with the WGC’s. Load the OWGR in your favour. Create 10 limited field events for just PGA tour members(like WGC’s). Add to that 4 majors,Players,FedEx cup. That’s a full schedule for a top player. That’s growing the game????. What Strategic Alliance?
— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) March 1, 2023
Oh my my my…. When will the penny drop with so many of what’s actually happened here. ????????♂️ It really doesn’t take a ???? ???????????? to work out. And sounds very similar to another product that’s been spoken so badly about by Media and commentators. I’m all ears now ???????? I’m waiting https://t.co/lxYg6B8goy
— Ian Poulter (@IanJamesPoulter) March 1, 2023
Another “rebel” pointed to the so-called “alliance” between the US circuit and the DP World Tour. English Richard Bland thus evoked the increasingly uncertain future of the players of the European Tour who would manage to join the PGA Tour at the end of the year via these famous ten spots at the Race to Dubai played this season.
For Bland, it will become impossible for golfers from the “Old Continent” to participate in the biggest events of the 2024 season on the PGA Tour. On his account Instagramhe asked himself: How does this help the so-called strategic alliance with the DP World Tour? The ten players (non-exempt on the PGA Tour) will have no chance to participate in these limited field events. Enabling them to retain their playing rights will be very difficult. In any case, this proves one thing. The PGA Tour doesn’t care much about this alliance. » Before concluding his message in a bitter tone: But that’s okay, it helps to develop the game… »
Members of the DP World Tour and first concerned by this possible arrival on the PGA Tour in 2024 via these ten spots, the French Romain Langasque et Matthew Pavon were quick, too, to react on their respective twitter accounts…
Welcomed on the LIV PGA tour ???????? https://t.co/bkN5wTjq5l
— Romain Langasque (@Lancaisse) March 1, 2023
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