Former Open champion launches fresh attack on ‘unwatchable’ LIV Golf
Former British champion launches new attack on ‘unseen’ LIV Golf
Former British champion launches new attack on ‘unseen’ LIV Golf
Three-time major champion Nick Price has a strong message for LIV golfers who quit the PGA Tour for throwing serviced products on runaway courses.
Former PGA Tour star Nick Price is not a fan of LIV Golf and says the Saudi-funded breakaway tour will still struggle to attract fans.
LIV is in his third season since winning over some of the PGA Tour’s elite players. Since then, many other people have joined the warehouse. In particular, we joined the current champions of Cameron Smith and Master John Lam, an open champion in 2022. However, the price (67) believes that the products created by Greg Norman are not impressive. Unlike other world-class golf tours that use a four-day, 72-hole format, LIV tournaments are 54 holes long and include a team component throughout the season. However, Price, a three-time major champion, is not a fan. Like everyone else, I don’t know what will happen in the end. No one likes the fragmented nature of games, he said on his Bunkered podcast. “I watched LIV and I didn’t think it was very good. I don’t understand why they tried to reinvent the wheel. “I don’t think Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket is a bad idea, but it has a lot to do with the decision-making and the franchise and the way they tried to organize it. But the services they currently offer I don’t think it has the appeal to get viewers to turn on their TVs, which is a shame considering how many major companies they have.
Despite a star-studded lineup that includes Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, and Bryson DeChambeau, the PGA Tour draws far larger crowds than the LIV. Compared to LIV’s 2023 TV revenue forecast of £2.4m, the PGA Tour brought in more than £400m.
LIV will be broadcast live on cable channel The CW in the United States and on YouTube worldwide. The LIV tournament finals in Las Vegas on February 10 were watched by 297,000 viewers on The CW, marking the 51st sports broadcast in the United States that day. On the same day, 1.7 million people watched the third round of the PGA Tour’s Waste Management Open. At the end of his playing career, Price admitted that he would have joined LIV Golf purely for financial gain, but was angry that the players had abandoned the PGA Tour in favor of separatist circles. was.
The fact that he ignored the PGA Tour for a while after some of the LIV Tour players signed their contracts really upset me. “I won over $100 million on the PGA Tour and some people forgot about it,” he continued.
“I am disappointed that they have made such harsh criticisms of the Tour, which is one of the elite sports organizations that represents the wealthiest corporate audience imaginable on behalf of golfers. “All these guys had it, but they turned their backs on it, because if you have an image on the PGA Tour, they want to be a part of you, so to speak. Because there are a lot of companies throwing money at it.”
