After triangulating with a clear line
The American Professional Golf (PGA) Tour is erasing players who left for the LIV Golf Invitational (LIV) from history.
The American media Golf Channel reported that the PGA Tour recently decided to remove the names of players who left for LIV from the cumulative prize money category. In fact, the PGA Tour is removing the names of players who have given up membership from major records such as accumulated prize money as well as member introductions. This is a change that has a significant impact on the distribution of PGA Tour tickets for the 2022-2023 season.
The most representative player is former world No. 1 Dustin Johnson (USA). Johnson earned $74,427,559 on the PGA Tour. Tiger Woods (USA) with $120,895,206 (158.735 billion won) of the PGA Tour’s cumulative prize money, and Phil Mickelson (USA), who ranked second with $94,95,060 (124.676 billion won), are in third place. do. However, Johnson’s name is not currently on the PGA Tour cumulative prize list. With Johnson’s exit, Jim Furick (USA) with $71,572,269 (US$93.89 million) took third place. The PGA Tour removed Johnson’s name from the cumulative prize money category ahead of the RBC Canadian Open in June.
Before the St. Jude Championship, the first leg of the FedEx Cup play-off, the name of Bubba Watson (USA), who was ranked 13th in the cumulative prize money with $48,049,778 (63,89 million won), also disappeared. They announced that they would join LIV and gave up their PGA Tour membership. The PGA has erased from the history of the tour, starting with players who have publicly relinquished their membership.
On the other hand, Mickelson, Bryson Disembo, and Brooks Kepka (USA) did not give up their PGA Tour membership even following joining LIV. Instead, he received a ban from the PGA Tour.
Mickelson and D’Chambo filed a lawsuit for violating the antitrust law, arguing that the PGA Tour’s disciplinary action was unfair.
Apart from the PGA Tour, which started to draw a clear line with the players who left for the LIV, Woods, the ‘golf emperor’, also set out to gather three to counter the temptation of the LIV. Woods visited Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, where the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs, the second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs, will be held on the 17th (Korean time) and either rejected or later made a love call following receiving a transfer offer from LIV. We plan to meet top players who are highly likely to receive them.
Reporter Oh Hae-won ohwwho@munhwa.com
