Regardless of how protracted negotiations between the Saudi PIF and PGA Tour go, LIV Golf is here to stay and will only get “bigger, badder and better” according to Bryson DeChambeau.
Phil Mickelson naturally enough agrees, and is “bullish” about the future of LIV Golf on the global stage – with the League playing a major role in the growth of the sport into newer markets.
LIV Golf boss Greg Norman has continually maintained that his tour will continue about its own business as a complete outside entity to the ongoing possible merger with the PIF and PGA Tour.
It’s a message that’s been fed through to the players, and two of LIV Golf’s biggest and most involved players are in agreement – both seeing the future as bright.
“Wow. The future of LIV. We know it’s going to be here, bigger, badder and better than ever before,” DeChambeau said ahead of LIV Golf Singapore. It’s just going to continue to keep growing over the next five to ten years. Where I see it heading, I think there may be an opportunity for this to be just – from an audience perspective – even bigger.”
DeChambeau feels that the team element of LIV Golf will improve over time as rivalries start to develop between the league.
“You’re going to see a lot more interactions from teams,” he added. “I think the competition between the teams will get heightened. The rivalries will get heightened.
“There’s already some sort of rivalries going on right now, but as the years go on and people are going to win championships, that team championship at the end of the year last year like the Crushers did, I think there’s going to be a lot of rivalries to be produced that you’ll see, and it’s stories to be told I think will be pretty insane over the next five to ten years.”
Mickelson can only see more excitement for fans and players coming up in the future – with a global approach being driven by tourism departments from countries keen to attract and keep LIV events.
“I think there’s a lot of things that are going to transpire over the next five or ten years,” said Mickelson. “I’m very bullish and excited about what that means for LIV Golf.
“But there’s also a lot of uncertainty. I think the things that I do know is I think the quality of the players will continue to get better each year. I think that the ability and the sites…
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