Six-time Major winner Nick Faldo had an interesting opinion of LIV Golf and the players who play there. Faldo was quite honest.
No. 1, you saw those faces, you can’t feel good being a Major champion to be suspended from the tour,” said Faldo for skysports.
“We’ve got two totally different golf tournaments. One, we play for tournaments and national championships over here and the LIV Tour is what, 54 holes and no cut, shotgun start, you know, it sounds crazy.”
Faldo believes that players who cannot dominate the PGA and who are not of good quality have decided to play at LIV Golf. “And the other thing that is very noticeable is the players that have left. Obviously, they’re in their mid-40s, they’ve been out here on Tour, they’ve been battling away and they probably know they can’t win out here against the youngsters.
So they’re taking the easy option to go over and try and win a boatload of cash”.
Jim Nantz: It is a little betrayal
Jim Nantz thinks this is a kind of betrayal, given that many of them have played on the PGA Tour for years.
It was the PGA Tour that gave them a lot, and now they are going where money is a priority. “What I keep hearing from people, too, is a sense of disappointment, even a little betrayal. They’ve always been told the story — and I know it was true — that at some point in their careers the dream was to play on the PGA Tour, build a legacy, build your future financially.
“And the Tour’s been good to them. It’s a Tour that’s come into these communities for decades and made these communities better than how they were when they first got there. I’m talking not millions; I’m talking billions of dollars into these communities”.
Source: Tennis World USA