AUGUSTA, Ga. – The will for reunification of males’s skilled golf has been a scorching matter of debate in current months.
As for Sergio Garcia, he isn’t too involved.
“I believe the sport is in an ideal spot,” Garcia stated Tuesday at Augusta Nationwide, the place a major variety of PGA Tour and LIV Golf members are competing towards one another for the primary time since final summer season’s Open Championship. “The skilled recreation, perhaps it’s a bit of extra separated, principally due to the media, not a lot due to the gamers. However I believe the sport itself is in an ideal spot. I believe that we now have probably the most quantity of individuals enjoying the sport, which is nice, and folks have to appreciate one factor, that the way forward for the sport isn’t us. We’re not the way forward for the sport. Neither me nor Rory, no. We’re not the long run. We’re the current of the sport.
“However the way forward for the sport is these children which are watching us play, that wish to get into the sport, that wish to play after which perhaps grow to be professionals.”
The place these future professionals will play – and what the panorama of the world’s high excursions will seem like then – continues to be to be decided. The Tour just lately partnered with Strategic Sports activities Group, which plans to take a position as much as $3 billion within the Tour, although discussions are nonetheless ongoing between the Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, which funds LIV.
Even when some kind of future settlement occurs, it’s unknown what the pathway again for LIV gamers to the Tour, or a possible world tour combining one of the best gamers from each, will likely be.
Garcia looks like he’d be nice if a deal wasn’t reached, pointing to skilled soccer, which has a number of profitable leagues across the globe and solely sees one of the best footballers on the planet compete towards different in occasions such because the Champions League, World Cup and Euros.
Rahm stated, from a aggressive standpoint, he isn’t involved getting into his title protection.
“I imply, clearly the extra togetherness that you simply get, the higher it’s for everybody,” Garcia stated. “There’s little question about that. However there’s room for everybody. I don’t assume that’s an issue in any respect. The identical manner that I like watching Actual Madrid and La Liga, you want to look at the Premier League and whoever your staff is. Everyone can help whoever they’ve, and there’s loads of folks to help it.”
Garcia then disregarded a query about lingering rigidity between his fellow LIV gamers and the gamers who remained loyal to the Tour.
On Tuesday, Garcia performed a apply spherical with Camilo Villegas, who is ready to be the following participant director on the Tour’s coverage board.
“I imply, you guys love these items,” Garcia stated, referring to reporters. “You retain increase these items, and there’s nothing. There’s nothing. You guys like to type of dig and simply type of attempt to make it sound like we get within the locker room and we’re preventing one another and stuff like that. It’s not like that.”