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Can you name the latest LIV Golf winner?

By Paul Gueorgieff

Can you name the latest LIV Golf winner?

 

See who won the latest LIV Golf tournament?

 

What do you mean, you don't know. 

 

When was the latest LIV Golf tournament?

 

What do you mean, you don't know.

 

Are you not following LIV Golf?

 

What do you mean, nah.

 

Don't you care about LIV Golf?

 

What do you mean, nah.

 

I am the same. I couldn't care less about LIV Golf.

 

To me it has no meaning. The players on the LIV Golf circuit are only there because they have been purchased.

 

Players on the PGA Tour are not there because someone has purchased them. They are there because they have earned it. 

 

Players on the LPGA Tour in the United States, like Lydia Ko, are there because they have earned it. Not because they have been purchased.

 

Players on the DP World Tour in Europe, like Ryan Fox, are there because they have earned it. Not because they have been purchased. 

 

Players on the PGA Tour Champions in the United States, like Steve Alker, are there because they have earned it. Not because they have been purchased.

 

They have played well enough amongst their peers to warrant being on these major golf circuits. When they don't play well enough amongst their peers they will drop off these major circuits. That's called competition.

 

Is LIV Golf competitive? I suppose it is amongst themselves. But when you have already been paid a truckload of money just to play LIV Golf you wonder what the motivation is.

 

I wonder how long the LIV players have been contracted for. Is it one year, two years, five years or 10 years?

 

What happens when they are no longer wanted? I hope the likes the of the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour never let them back. That was the choice the LIV players made because of the truckload of money they were given. It wasn't because of golf.

 

I got tired of LIV players saying the opportunity gave them more time to spend with their families. I wonder what they are thinking when they haven't played a competitive tournament for a month, especially when they know golf is a game they are very good at. 

 

Some got paid so much they would never have to play golf again. But what do they do from day to day? When you are good at something you like to keep doing it. There is great satisfaction at being good at what you do.