Dustin Johnson might not say a lot but, when he does, he offers some genuine nuggets. With nothing concrete in terms of what the new golfing world will look like after the recent partnership announcement between the Saudi Public Investment Fund and the PGA and DP World Tours, the future of the LIV Golf League has been questioned.
Now though Dustin Johnson, who is captain of the 4Aces GC team, is confident that LIV will be on the calendar and that it will be a full 14-tournament schedule similar to this year.
“As far as I know, LIV will go into 2024 and they’re doing the schedule now,” Johnson told Sky Sports. “That’s the plan but I can’t answer really any further than that. I mean I’ve talked to the guys but yeah, as far as I know, it’s going to 2024 and is going to be a full schedule just like we did this year.”
Johnson then confirmed that it was the PIF governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, that he had spoken to which added even more weight to his story. What’s more, the two-time Major winner also spoke to the Golf Channel and he added that he would look forward to there being more of the game’s greats at the same tournaments in the future.
“I just hope we can get all the best players playing at the same time at golf tournaments. Obviously it’s a little split right now, but PGA Tour has great events and LIV has great events and to get everybody playing together would be fun and exciting.”
Sorry to burst peoples bubble, but they’ll be there for 2024. Assuming more teams and captains. DJ is on the inside and clearly spoke with the boss. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Rahm in 2024 schedule along with some PGAT events. Cherry picking. #golf #pgat #livgolf #usopen pic.twitter.com/glRbZnO9hzJune 13, 2023
How that would look remains anyone’s guess. The PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was asked last week if there might be a scenario that the PGA Tour and LIV have concurrent events, as we have this year, and that the players can go back and forth between the two tours.
“I can’t see that scenario but I haven’t gotten into the full evaluation, full empirical evaluation of LIV that I’m going to do to be able to comment on that. But I don’t see that scenario, no. To me, any scenarios that you’re thinking about that bridge between the PGA Tour and LIV would be longer term in nature,” explained Monahan.
As for the prospect of the LIV Golf League not existing in a year’s time Monahan refused to be drawn.
“We’re in a framework agreement. We haven’t concluded…
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