Justin Rose admits he is currently struggling to see how the top three tours in men’s professional golf can possibly unite while finding a situation which works for everyone involved.
Discussions remain ongoing between officials of the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour, and LIV Golf regarding a potential joining of forces in order to end the fracture on the men’s side, but the latest reports suggest progress – if any – has been slow.
While Rose is not privvy to the exact nature of the talks, the Englishman stated that simply working out a schedule which all of the best players in the world will agree to is becoming almost impossible given the general saturation of the calendar.
The 11-time PGA Tour winner also suggested he was not surprised by the invention of LIV given the increasing number of tournaments introduced over time.
The 44-year-old stated that golf’s main issue right now, from an elite player’s point of view, is that many only want to play a maximum of 22 times a season, restricting the amount of time fans may look to engage with the sport and consequently cutting down how many sponsors partner up with leading events.
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As a result of the sport being pulled in so many different directions by its key stakeholders, Rose admitted he is unclear on what a win-win resolution might look like.
Speaking ahead of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this week, the DP World Tour’s signature event, Rose said: “I think that’s why we’re in the predicament that we’re in, because historically, or even if you looked at the PGA Tour a while back, I don’t know how many tournaments, I’m going to say 45, but there were a lot of tournaments, and obviously the top players have seemed to only want to play 20 to 25 it times a year tops, 22 probably seems to be the magic number. Majors plus 18.
“I think that’s why there was an opportunity for someone, a tour, a league to kind of have the concept, at least hypothetically, that the top players want to play X amount of times together, and that’s why we are where we are.”
Including the Majors and FedEx Cup Playoffs, the PGA Tour offered its members the chance to play a maximum of 34 events in 2024. Including the Olympic Games in Paris, Scottie Scheffler only played 20 times as he framed his schedule around the biggest…
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