Within the absence of a merger that he considers inconceivable, the three-time Main winner and former Ryder Cup captain imagines the institution of cross-invitations between the 2 camps on the assorted tournaments of the circuits.
And thus gas the sporting rivalry of the most effective gamers on the planet, as is the case 4 instances a yr through the Grand Slam occasions.
Harrington, statements
Regardless of talks that appear extra critical than ever, Padraig Harrington doesn’t imagine in a merger between, on the one hand, the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour and on the opposite with LIV Golf supported by the very highly effective Public Funding Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia.
However the Irishman, three-time Main winner, has the answer to deliver the completely different entities nearer collectively: set up a number of invites on the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour and LIV Golf. He believes that by having LIV gamers play in different occasions and having an invited workforce of PGA Tour gamers in a LIV occasion, it could assist create an enormous buzz round these tournaments.
“Ideally, for me, I’d recommend that each PGA Tour and DP World Tour occasion has 4 invites for LIV gamers, and each LIV occasion has 4 invites for a global workforce,” Harrington mentioned on the sidelines of the Irish Open in Northern Eire this week at Royal County Down Golf Membership.
“That approach we’ll have sufficient contacts for Jon Rahm to play on the European Tour and Abraham Ancer to play within the Mexican Open”. “The Majors have by no means been higher due to these rivalries, so why can’t we have now that this week? Why can’t we have now a number of gamers, like we had with Tyrrell (Hatton) who created a buzz two weeks in the past on the British Masters?”.
Due to the number of comparable names, you will need to clarify what the PGA Tour does and doesn’t run. The PGA Tour doesn’t run any of the 4 main tournaments or the Ryder Cup. The PGA of America, not the PGA Tour, runs the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, and co-runs the Ryder Cup with the PGA European Tour.
The PGA Tour isn’t concerned within the girls’s excursions in the USA, that are managed by the LPGA. The PGA Tour can be not the official governing physique of the sport of golf in the USA; that’s the position of the USGA, which additionally runs the U.S.
Open. What the PGA Tour does do is run all the opposite golf occasions week in and week out, together with The Gamers Championship and the FedEx Cup, in addition to the biennial Presidents Cup.
