{"id":380409,"date":"2025-12-30T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380409\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:36:09","slug":"major-champion-takes-aim-at-pga-tour-over-treatment-of-caddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380409\/","title":{"rendered":"Major champion takes aim at PGA Tour over treatment of caddies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Open champion John Daly says he would like to see the PGA Tour<\/a> treat caddies better.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old – who recently threw his hat in the ring<\/a> to become the next United States Ryder Cup captain – made the claim as he lamented the fractured nature of the men’s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf<\/a> launched in June 2022 and lured a number of major champions away from the established PGA Tour with enormous contracts and huge prize purses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following more than a year of unprecedented disruption in the sport, during which both sides locked horns in court, the tours agreed to an armistice on 6 June 2023 under a framework agreement.<\/p>\n

But that deal is yet to be consummated and the general school of thought is that it never will, with both sides going it alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Daly told Hard Rock Bet<\/a> that he is a fan of both tours and wants to see the sport finally come back together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I just wish both parties would get together and solve it and be one, somehow or another,” Daly said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think anytime you’re doing more world golf, I think it makes golf bigger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Now, with our World Golf Championships that started on the PGA Tour, it does go a little worldwide. But with LIV, if we can combine it somehow, I don’t know the answer to that\u2014that’s up to those guys.”<\/p>\n

Daly added: “But I hate not seeing the best players in the world on a stage of one field, whether it be a LIV event or a tour event or a major. You see them in the majors, at least the guys that play LIV can play the majors.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t know, it’s just separated some really great golfers, and I just wish everybody could get along and get together where everybody’s competing with and against each other, because I think that’s what golf really needs\u2014is seeing the best against the best every week.<\/p>\n

“I’m not opposed to any tour. I love the PGA Tour, and I love the LIV Tour. I think it’s a great motto for someone who [wants to be a success]. I’ve always believed when you’re born, you live, you try to raise a family, try to make as much money as you can.<\/p>\n

“But a lot of fans in sports, they don’t see it that way, and I just see it like, ‘Hey, we’re only here one time. Might as well get all you can and play a game that you love to death like all the guys do.'”<\/p>\n

“We need them”<\/p>\n

Daly also suggested that the PGA Tour need to take a leaf out of LIV Golf’s book.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They [LIV] take care of the caddies, they take care of everything, and it’s something that we’ve always talked about,” said Daly.<\/p>\n

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“I wish the tour would take a little more care of our caddies because they’re a necessity\u2014we need them.<\/p>\n

“That would be a motto. I wish the PGA Tour would look after the caddies a lot more than they do. They do a pretty good job, but they can do a hell of a lot better.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The LIV Tour is over the top with the caddies, but it’s a fun tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They have concerts, they play nine-hole pro-ams. Some of our tour events, I hear they play nine, and another pro steps in, plays a back nine, so the amateurs are getting two pros instead of one, which is a great motto.<\/p>\n

“I wish we’d do it on the Champions Tour. But anyway, I think they just need to get along and get it together because golf is such a great game, and it’s a worldwide sport now. As you can see, Europe keeps kicking our butt in the Ryder Cup now.<\/p>\n

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“It’s a very competitive game, and it’s a competitive world of golf, and we all need to come together and make it one.”<\/p>\n

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