The LIV Ryder Cup might be as good as the real Ryder Cup but the traditional biennial Europe vs USA match should not be too affected by the LIV Golf departures, a high level figure in the game told Golf Monthly under the condition of anonymity.
“The LIV Ryder Cup might be better than the actual Ryder Cup,” they said, referring to a LIV vs PGA/DP World Tour style match. “Don’t think they wouldn’t try that as well.”
The Ryder Cup has been rocked in recent months with European stalwarts such as Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Graeme McDowell all joining LIV Golf. On the US side, the likes of Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed all appear to have cut their ties with the match too.
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“I would imagine the Ryder Cup will carry on with or without them,” Golf Monthly was told. “If you took the guys out of the European Tour, you’re actually not taking anybody out, they’re all too old anyway. You’ve got Fleetwood, he might go might he. You’ve got left all the younger guys, you actually would have the same tour. If you took the players out the Ryder Cup that are on LIV now, and wrote down your two teams, at the ages everybody are they wouldn’t be that much different. You take Westwood out, he’s 49, you take Poulter out, he’s 46.”
Golf Monthly has heard from separate sources that there are divisions within the European Ryder Cup side and that the once strong McIlroy/Garcia friendship has seen a “complete deterioration”.
“I think there’s a massive division isn’t there between the haves and the have nots on the European Tour, that’s what I’m told,” the source told Golf Monthly. “Apparently a lot of the European Tour players despise the guys that have gone with LIV, a lot of them.”
The Ryder Cup could be further rocked if European captain Henrik Stenson joins LIV Golf, which has been reported and rumoured over the past couple of weeks. When asked on Stenson, the source said the Swede probably didn’t think the Saudi-backed venture was going to take off.
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