Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts tees it up in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this week, but while the DP World Tour’s flagship event is a prestigious occasion in its own right, there is added interest this year because of the inclusion of 17 LIV Golf players in the field.
As a result, much of the focus has once again been on the Saudi-backed venture, meaning that even a tournament boasting an $8m purse and the availability of European Ryder Cup points is struggling to take centre stage. As far as Colsaerts is concerned, though, the Series isn’t doing the positive things for the game LIV Golf claim, even though he likes some of its innovations.
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Speaking to Golf Monthly ahead of this week’s tournament, the 2012 Ryder Cup star said: “I don’t think it’s growing the game, no, I don’t think it’s growing the game. I do agree with a lot of stuff that they do. I do agree with 54 holes, I do agree with music, noise and all that kind of stuff, I do agree with that. Shorts? Yeah, maybe, yeah… the shotgun tee. I can’t possibly think that anybody switches on their TV and thinks like, ‘Oh, I’m going to follow the Hy Flyers.’ But I do agree that the game needs some modernisation. I just don’t want it to be vulgar.”
On the subject of the LIV Golf players who will be joining him on Wentworth’s West Course this week, Colsaerts was even more dismissive. He said: “You have guys coming back here thinking they should do whatever they want. You don’t do what you want at school and you don’t do what you want in a team environment when you play team sports when you’re young – there are rules and you’ve got to follow the rules, and believe me, I hate rules, but there are rules that you can’t bend.”
The LIV Golf players are taking advantage of an exemption category that allows the world’s top 60 players to compete in the tournament while they await the outcome of a legal battle to determine their DP World Tour futures. That has led to some discontent among other players in the field, including Rory McIlroy,…
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