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O\u2019Neil had been under pressure from LIV\u2019s top players to move away from the 54-hole format<\/p>\n
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LIV has just finished its fourth season, which is more than many predicted it would reach when it was launched against a backdrop of acrimony in 2022, but the last accounts filed at UK Companies House showed losses for the business outside the USA in 2024 had spiralled to $468million. <\/p>\n
The estimated outlay by the Saudi Public Investment Fund on the LIV project is now close to a staggering $5billion. While some events have been well attended this year and broadcast deals with Fox Sports and ITV have constituted progress, LIV has been a less disruptive presence over the past year and there has been no indication from the PGA Tour that it feels the need to sign a peace deal.<\/p>\n
One of the major problems for the breakaway tour is that it is still not recognised by the Official World Golf Ranking, so players signing up are risking their participation in the majors. An application for points was withdrawn in 2024, but a new one was submitted in July. <\/p>\n
The 54-hole format was not the primary reason for being denied rankings points, with the closed-shop format and long-term contracts considered more difficult issues to overcome, but LIV bosses will feel the coming change cannot harm their chances.<\/p>\n
Last week Peter Dawson, the former OWGR chairman, told Global Golf Post that while players were clearly good enough to be ranked, the format made it hard for them to be judged equitably with other tours. He added: \u201cI can\u2019t see that LIV has been a success by any measure. Yes, it has given great wealth to a very few people, but in terms of engagement, its format of team golf isn\u2019t resonating anywhere near enough with the fanbase.\u201d <\/p>\n
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DeChambeau described LIV adopting a format which has been standard in major tournaments since 1898 as a \u201cfantastic evolution\u201d<\/p>\n
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In April, Dawson was replaced by Trevor Immelman, whose previous assessment of LIV Golf when Presidents Cup captain included describing it as \u201ca giant pain in my ass\u201d.<\/p>\n
LIV Golf players lined up to laud the move. Bryson DeChambeau said it was a \u201cfantastic evolution\u201d while Dustin Johnson said: \u201cPlaying 72 holes just feels a little more like the big tournaments we\u2019ve all grown up playing. I\u2019ve always liked the grind of four rounds. It gives the best players a chance to rise to the top.\u201d <\/p>\n
There are no plans to change the circuit\u2019s name to LXXII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf will ditch its 54-hole format next season and move to regular 72-hole tournaments. It is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-244827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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