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The veryfirst week of the PGA Tour vs LIV Golf is in the books and there was one clear winner and one extremely clear loser from all the playinggolf action.
The winner: The PGA Tour, which had a appeal of a surface on Sunday that saw Rory McIlroy hold off Justin Thomas and Tony Finau for his 21st PGA Tour success. McIlroy covered up his triumph in front of thousands of shrieking fans who nearly stormed the 18th green in event and then he took a tremendous shot at LIV Golf CEO/commissioner Greg Norman.
It was all such a enjoyable and joyful scene in Toronto.
The loser: The soulless gamers who left the PGA Tour to go play worthless exhibits that are moneyed by the filthy cash of killers. Charl Schwartzel won the LIV exhibit in London and gathered simply under $5 million bucks however there wasn’t one remarkable or significant shot from the occasion which was rightaway forgotten by anybody who follows golf.
It was all such an empty and desperate scene in London.
It truly couldn’t haveactually been a muchbetter weekend for the PGA Tour, which had some of the finest gamers in the world playing their finest down the stretch of a truly enjoyable occasion that had real significance to it.
On the other side, LIV Golf had a lot of average golfenthusiasts swimming in irrelevancy and playing for an quantity of cash that is a heap, sure, however implies absolutelynothing in the huge photo of the sport.
Here’s what the PGA Tour needto do moving forward with this grass war – happily wave farewell to any gamer who chooses to provide up and play for the unclean cash rather of playing for lot of cash and traditions on the PGA Tour. The Tour doesn’t requirement those gamers around, fans won’t missouton them (when was the last time that Graeme McDowell did anything intriguing on the golf course?), and the gamers can go off and delightin the vacuum that is LIV Golf.
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