LIV Golf League commentator Jerry Foltz has been highly critical of the TV coverage at this year’s Masters tournament, suggesting host broadcasters are showing bias towards PGA Tour golfers.
Foltz – who hosts the Fairway To Heaven podcast alongside fellow analyst Su-Ann Heng – believes the coverage of LIV players at The Masters this week has been tainted by “petty” and “spiteful” comments towards the 54-hole competition.
Bryson DeChambeau is leading LIV’s charge at Augusta with the American one of 13 players on the PGA Tour’s rival circuit trying to lift the first Major of the season.
But Foltz does not believe some analysts reporting on the tournament have been doing so in a fair manner and are guilty of tipping their opinions in favor of PGA Tour golfers due to being “basically controlled” by the US-based circuit.
On the Fairway To Heaven podcast this week, Foltz said: “So many people still feel threatened by LIV and that’s their defence mechanism – that’s all it is.
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“I have sat here for two days, three days and watched wall-to-wall coverage of The Masters with a lot of people who I respect, and the little petty talking points and the little establishment-type over-riding agenda, so to speak, is absolutely maddening.
“But they’re doing their job, they’re towing the line for now because they’re all basically controlled by the PGA Tour.”
Foltz continued his point by highlighting one particular analyst – who he did not name – who stated during this year’s broadcast that LIV golfers “don’t count” after being asked who they thought could stand a chance of winning The Masters.
Foltz said: “There’s one commentator who I know and I like, personally, and I used to work with who last year on set said ‘oh no, the LIV guys don’t count, none of those guys can win, none of those guys can contend, they don’t even play real golf anymore.
“LIV guys last year finished second, second, and fourth. And now all four are LIV guys with [Jon] Rahm [coming over]. Yesterday, he said the same exact thing. I have last year’s on my phone, and I’m like ‘how do you say that with a straight face?’
“How do you [purport] to have any credibility when a large collection of the best players in the game aren’t playing the tour that pays your paychecks, so you have to go out of your way…
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