Augusta, VE. – There was a moment in the last round of the LIV golf on Sunday in doral when the upper part of the classification was full of champions of previous teachers.
The three -time winner of the Phil Mickelson green jacket, at age 54, was there in the mixture to capture his first LIV title.
Jon Rahm, the winner of Masters 2023, was also there.
So were Sergio García (2017), Patrick Reed (2018) and Charl Schwartzel (2011).
Liv Golf could not have guided a better ending with Masters week waiting for the day after that final round.
His only problem was that this delicious classification table, in the end, did not end with one of those winners of the green jacket at the top, with the Australian Marc Leishman winning.
Liv Golf desperately needs more eye on its product.
Despite the stars playing in the rival circuit of the PGA Tour, it seems that these players are exercising their witness protection trade.
LIV television rating numbers have been lower than “I Dream of Jeannie”.
But there’s surley a hope on the part of liv that If one of its 12 players in the masters Field Wins This Week at Augusta National, It Woold Be the Liv Profile and Add Credibility To The Tour Spray The Pga Tour Loyalists and The Powers That Bet Fete Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Cone Eages Fete Conete Cone -ups Cone Fetares That Be Feta -Gorthe Cone Feta -Gorthe Cone -Psat Bete Cone or the fields of 48 short players and playing 54 holes instead of the usual 72.
It is a difficult thing to measure, because there is no tangible evidence that the victory of the Bryson Dechambeau United States Open last June in Pinehurst moved the needle.
But the more LIV players stand out in important events, you can’t help raising your profile.
In the Masters last year, Dechambeau and Cam Smith ended up tied in sixth place as the highest LIV players. Tyrrell Hatton ended up tied for ninth and Reed tied in the 12th.
In 2023, Rahm won, Mickelson and Brooks Koepka ended up tied in the second and Reed was tied in fourth place.
In 2022, Smith was tied in third place, Dustin Johnson, the 2020 masters winner, was tied in the 12th and Schwartzel tied in the tenth place.
Clearly, LIV players are a threat to win this week in Augusta and, if one achieves that, it could be a great impulse for the credibility of the rival tour.
Rahm is burning to win another masters, particularly after a poor 2024 season by its standards.
“It’s not my important favorite season last year,” Rahm said. “I didn’t play very well here [a tie for 45th]He did not play very well on the PGA and was not at Tee’s beer at the United States Open [with a toe injury]. I feel that I am playing much better to golf this week.
“Playing in doral last week was extremely challenging. It was definitely one of the most difficult settings I have played. Feeling very, very good with this year in general.”
Rahm said he appreciates the pressure to perform this week.
“I feel that my expectations, the pressure I put in Myelf has always been quite high,” he said. I will say my few specialties when I became professional, I do not think I have handled it in the best case. I think wanting to win so bad where I wanted to control everything too much, and it took me a few years to know that I only have to go out and play and let it happen.
“I think that much of that changed one, I could win my first specialty. There is definitely a before and after, when you go to an important knowing that you have done it, and you know what the formula is.”
He was asked Deschambeau what he learned last year in Augusta, where he shot 65 in the first round.
“I fed up enough, obviously, he said with a course.
The DcChambeau draw for the sixth last year was the best of his career, the best previous end was a draw for 21 in 2016 as an amateur.
“As an amateur, I felt that I knew the golf course quite well, but I didn’t know how to control many of the nerves that flowed through my body, and that was something I still work on today,” he said. I felt that I was really patient last week and I coined a good career.
“Hopefully that is worth this week.”
From his lips to the ears of the LIV god.
