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LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil, left, during a press conference in South Korea in 2025.<\/p>\n
(Photo: Jon Ferrey \/ LIV Golf)<\/p>\n
\u26f3 LIV Golf Scott O\u2019Neil did his best to put an optimistic face on the league\u2019s future. On the other hand, Sergio Garcia said, \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d Which one is more realistic?<\/p>\n
\u26f3 Rory McIlroy said on whether some LIV players would bring value if they returned to the PGA Tour: \u201cI\u2019d argue, have they brought value to LIV?\u201d Is he being provocative on purpose?<\/p>\n
\u26f3 Lee Westwood said of McIlroy\u2019s comments: \u201cIt\u2019s typical Rory. It wasn\u2019t well thought out.\u201d Agree?<\/p>\n
\u26f3 Matt Fitzpatrick said the FedEx Cup Playoffs make no sense, that golf is not conducive to playoffs. But if one player runs away with the points \u2014 like Scottie Scheffler is now \u2014 and there\u2019s nothing to play for at the end, would people still watch?<\/p>\n
\u26f3 But to be fair, the PGA Tour has yet to create and interesting and fair way to conduct the playoffs. Adam Scott now says he\u2019s changed his mind and is now in favor of a match play format for the Tour Championship. Does match play sound like half an answer?<\/p>\n
\u26f3 Scheffler won by eight strokes at last week\u2019s first playoff event, the FedEx St. Jude in Memphis. Does that get him closer to PGA Tour Player of the Year?<\/p>\n
\u26f3 Apparently, the PGA Tour has $1.5 billion sitting around that it doesn\u2019t know what to do with. It\u2019s money from selling a 12% stake in PGA Tour Enterprises to Strategic Sports Group. Have we already forgotten about the Tour\u2019s cornerstone commitment to charity?<\/p>\n
\u26f3 Rachel Hetherington, winner of eight LPGA Tour events, quit competitive golf, went home to Australia and became a lawyer. She\u2019s competing in this weekend\u2019s U.S. Senior Women\u2019s Open. There has to be a lawyer joke in there somewhere, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
\u26f3 From equipment to greens fees to club memberships, has anyone noticed the seemingly runaway cost of playing golf?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil, left, during a press conference in South Korea in 2025. (Photo: Jon Ferrey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-863436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}