I’m tired of not seeing my favorite players on the PGA Tour!
At this point, LIV Golf has officially ruined professional golf. The PGA Tour also helped ruin golf by not letting the LIV golfers play in their tournaments after they joined the alternative league.
I never liked the way the PGA Tour handled the matter, yet the LIV Tour is the impetus of the destruction, let’s be honest.
I’ve kept track of the LIV Tour since it began, yet I’m tired of keeping track at this point — the tournaments don’t mean as much as the PGA Tour, and the tournaments on the PGA Tour don’t mean as much without the LIV golfers…
As an X Gen golfer, I was looking forward to seeing the older guys in their 40s competing against the young generation golfers. This is happening in some measure with Lucas Glover, Zach Johnson, Adam Scott, Ryan Palmer, and others, yet many of the best of my generation and the older Millennial Gen golfers are gone.
I’m tired of looking over the players at the weekly PGA Tournaments and not seeing the golfers I’ve been used to seeing for decades. And I don’t want to turn on the midnight rave party to see them playing for essentially some big money and hollow prestige…
I’ve been a fan of LIV Golf as much as I could be, since it began in 2022, mostly because I didn’t like how the PGA Tour was acting when the players left. Still, when it comes down to it, the LIV Golf Tour doesn’t compare to the real deal…it is a crap show.
This year, I turned on my LIV app for the first time in what seemed like a year (their off-season) and it wanted me to download the latest version, OK, so I did. Then after that was opened, the next day it wanted me to download another updated version — that’s when I made the decision to just delete the app.
Also helping this drastic decision, I turned on the first tournament of the year (held in Saudi Arabia) to see fluorescent lights and hear loud rave music while the once great golfer Jon Rahm (now off in golfing obscurity) was teeing off — while he teed it off into a foreboding night full of jungle beats, I turned off the app in disgust.
What the heck is this? Whatever it is, it isn’t golf like I know it and I don’t want anything to do with it anymore.
I still have the PGA Tour app, and that’s all I need this year. As for all the once-great golfers now on the RAVE Tour, they are essentially retired to me.
I don’t care who is at fault, I’m sick of not seeing my favorite players around my age play in the tournaments I have always watched or kept track of!
They are missing out and for what? Time off? Money? Give me a break, they had plenty of money and time off.
I understand that LIV is team golf, yet golf is not a team sport no matter how you dress it up. That is why I like golf, it is an individual sport, the golfer vs. the golf course. That is all it will ever be and all it needs to be.
The best part of LIV was that it had no commercials. I enjoyed watching the entire last day without any interruptions, yet that is going to change and then it will just be a crap show without any prestige or meaning past money and fabricated team dynamics.
Maybe this is a bit harsh, yet this split is proving to be a long-term destruction, which means the finite years of competitive golf of my favorite players is dwindling away on some RAVE Tour crap show. Thanks a lot.
What a sad state of golfing affairs. Maybe we are close to the end of the world if this is the best we can do, and, of course, we are.
Yours truly, an average golf fan in America.
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