{"id":68884,"date":"2022-09-07T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/liv-and-pga-tour-golfers-converge-this-week-at-bmw-pga-championship\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:47:01","slug":"liv-and-pga-tour-golfers-converge-this-week-at-bmw-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/liv-and-pga-tour-golfers-converge-this-week-at-bmw-pga-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV and PGA Tour golfers converge this week at BMW PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\"><button class=\"wpds-c-gNHrZC wpds-c-gNHrZC-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-gNHrZC-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-gNHrZC-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-gNHrZC-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-gNHrZC-futxca-cv wpds-c-gNHrZC-ihhnWqF-css\"><button class=\"PJLV PJLV-igcOMTV-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-coakfw wpds-c-efqEZa focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\" iconstyle=\"[object Object]\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Players from the LIV Golf Invitational Series have not played on the same course with their PGA and European tour counterparts since July&#8217;s British Open, which was won by a golfer \u2014 Cameron Smith \u2014 who has since left the PGA Tour for LIV.  Since the year&#8217;s final major, the saber-rattling between the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour (its European counterpart) and LIV has only gotten more pronounced, with LIV golfers and the league itself suing the PGA Tour on anticompetitive grounds and the PGA Tour unveiling a host of new features \u2014 most of them centered on paying its players more money \u2014 to counter the LIV threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">But this week, 18 LIV golfers are in the field for the DP World Tour&#8217;s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club in England.  Yes, it&#8217;s going to be awkward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">&#8216;I hate being hated&#8217;: LIV Golf&#8217;s new recruits face a harsh reality<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Rory McIlroy, who has been a champion of the PGA Tour both on and off the course this season after winning the season-long FedEx Cup and becoming the tour&#8217;s most prominent anti-LIV voice, will play in the tournament alongside other PGA Tour stalwarts such as Jon Rahm, Matt Fitzpatrick, Viktor Hovland, Justin Rose and Adam Scott.  He did not seem all that thrilled about playing alongside the defectors when he was asked about it after winning the season-ending Tour Championship last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cI hate what it&#8217;s doing to the game of golf.  I hate it.  I really do,\u201d McIlroy said.  \u201cLike, it&#8217;s going to be hard for me to stomach going to Wentworth in a couple of weeks&#8217; time and seeing 18 of them there.  That just doesn&#8217;t sit right with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">McIlroy was even more blunt Wednesday, taking a shot at LIV&#8217;s tournaments, which require golfers to play one fewer round than most events on the PGA or DP World tours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<div data-oembed-type=\"twitter\" class=\"\" style=\"min-height:171px\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rory \ud83d\ude03.<br \/>Q. If come Sunday you find yourself in contention and the man to the side of you is a LIV player, would there be more incentive to win?<br \/>RM: I mean, I&#8217;ll be trying to win a golf tournament regardless.  they are going to be pretty tired on Sunday;  it will be the fourth day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rex Hoggard (@RexHoggardGC) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexHoggardGC\/status\/1567498054487445504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Defending BMW PGA champion Billy Horschel also piled on, asking why the LIV golfers were in England this week considering how many of them said the Saudi-funded breakaway tour&#8217;s shorter schedule would allow them to spend more time at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cI don&#8217;t think those guys really should be here.  \u2026 The Abraham Ancer, the Talor Gooch, the Jason Kokraks: You&#8217;ve never played this tournament.  You&#8217;ve never supported the DP World Tour.  Why are you here?\u201d  Horschel <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentleyGC\/status\/1567165041304129544\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters<\/a> Tuesday, though Kokrak is not among the LIV players in this week&#8217;s field.  \u201cYou are here for one reason only and that&#8217;s to try to get world ranking points because you don&#8217;t have it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cIt&#8217;s pretty hypocritical to come over here and play outside LIV when your big thing was to spend more time with family and want to play less golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">But Gooch took to Twitter on Tuesday night to remind Horschel that Horschel hasn&#8217;t really played in too many DP World Tour events that weren&#8217;t majors or World Golf Championship tournaments, either:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<div data-oembed-type=\"twitter\" class=\"\" style=\"min-height:171px\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Billy&#8217;s DP pro career 2013-today.<br \/>64 events.  58 major\/WGC\/2022<br \/>Scottish(pga tour event).  6 pure XP<br \/>events in total(I wonder how many he<br \/>got $ to play)and his first non maior\/<br \/>WGC P appearance 2019 BMW(won<br \/>fedex in 2014).  he supports whats<br \/>best for his career.  Like all of us do \ud83d\ude01 https:\/\/t.co\/vJlrZi9y9u<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Talor Gooch (@TalorGooch) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalorGooch\/status\/1567277543543214080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Fellow LIV golfer Sergio Garcia said he doesn&#8217;t really care if his presence and that of his LIV contemporaries bothers anyone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cI&#8217;m sure some guys will be tense about it [because] we&#8217;re going to go out there and play;  what I&#8217;m going to do is support the European tour and that&#8217;s all I can do.  Whoever doesn&#8217;t like it, too bad for them,\u201d Garcia told Golf Digest during this past weekend&#8217;s LIV event outside Boston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">One LIV golfer, Martin Kaymer, has decided to skip the BMW PGA Championship because of all the awkwardness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cOf course, there will be friction there.  That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not going,\u201d Kaymer told Golf Digest last week.  \u201cI don&#8217;t need to go to a place where, feel-wise, you&#8217;re not that welcome.  They don&#8217;t say it, but [it\u2019s there]\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">The PGA Tour has banned golfers who have played in LIV tournaments, but those golfers are allowed to play on the DP World Tour after an English arbitration judge that the European tour could not punish the LIV golfers until the matter received a full judicial review.  That won&#8217;t happen until February, and the LIV players are free to play on the DP World Tour at least until then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">In a memo sent to players last week that was obtained by the Golf Channel, DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley addressed the \u201cstrong opposition\u201d to the LIV golfers who will play at Wentworth and asked that they not wear any clothing that features LIV logos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cThey will not be given any on course competitive disadvantage \u2014 ie unfavorable tee times \u2014 but they will not be required to play in the pro-am on Wednesday and will not be in TV featured groups,\u201d Pelley wrote in the memo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">The BMW PGA Championship \u2014 which is considered one of the European tour&#8217;s marquee events, if not its most prestigious \u2014 will be crucially important for some LIV golfers because of the Official World Golf Ranking, which does not yet award ranking points to LIV events and may never do so (LIV has applied for OWGR sanctioning, but a decision could be months away).  The BMW PGA&#8217;s strong field means it will give LIV golfers a chance to stay in the OWGR top 50, which is generally the cutoff point for major championship qualification.  (Past major champions receive long-term major invitations, so LIV golfers such as Smith, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau don&#8217;t have to worry much about their world ranking, and none of those players will be at Wentworth this week) .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Gooch, for instance, ranks 46th in the OWGR, and a strong showing at Wentworth will keep him in the top 50. Otherwise, by continuing to play in LIV events that aren&#8217;t recognized by the OWGR, he will continue to sink in the rankings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Other LIV golfers in the field this week include Ancer, Graeme McDowell, Patrick Reed and Lee Westwood.  Rahm said their presence at Wentworth this week means lower-ranked golfers who don&#8217;t have the benefit of LIV&#8217;s Saudi riches are getting bumped out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cWhat I don&#8217;t understand is some players that have never shown any interest in the European tour, have never shown any interest in playing this event, being given an opportunity just because they can get world ranking points and hopefully make majors next year, \u201d Rahm told reporters Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cA perfect example \u2014 a good friend of mine [Spain\u2019s Alfredo Garcia-Heredia] is the first one out on the entry list right now.  It doesn&#8217;t hurt me, but it does bug me that somebody who has played over 20 [European tour] events this year cannot be given the opportunity to play a flagship event because some people that earned it, to an extent, are being given an opportunity when they couldn&#8217;t care any less about the event.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"b bt bc-offblack dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this story Comment Players from the LIV Golf Invitational Series have not played on the same course with their PGA and European tour counterparts since July&#8217;s British Open, which was won by a golfer \u2014 Cameron Smith \u2014 who has since left the PGA Tour for LIV. Since the year&#8217;s final major, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/liv-and-pga-tour-golfers-converge-this-week-at-bmw-pga-championship\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LIV and PGA Tour golfers converge this week at BMW PGA Championship<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68133,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/billy-horschel-calls-out-liv-golfers-by-name-at-bmw-pga-championship-why-are-you-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":68884,"position":0},"title":"Billy Horschel calls out LIV Golfers by name at BMW PGA Championship: &#8216;Why are you here?&#8217;","date":"September 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Billy Horschel did not hold back at the BMW PGA Championship on Tuesday.He called out several LIV Golf Invitational Series members by name ahead of the DP World Tour event at Wentworth, clearly mad that they're trying to compete there after leaving for the controversial Saudi Arabian-backed venture.\u201cAbraham Ancer, Talor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34729,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/phil-mickelson-other-liv-golfers-file-antitrust-suit-against-pga-tour\/","url_meta":{"origin":68884,"position":1},"title":"Phil Mickelson, other LIV golfers file antitrust suit against PGA Tour","date":"August 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment on this storyCommentEleven golfers from the fledgling LIV Golf Invitational Series filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, arguing that their careers were hurt when the Tour suspended them after they joined the Saudi-funded organization. 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