This week the LIV Golf lands in Spain, specifically in the most iconic course in our country: the Real Club Valderrama. Although the 54-hole circuit has its detractors, the idea of seeing Rahm, DeChambeau, García, Koepka, Smith, DJ, Niemann, Hatton or Mickelson is attractive to anyone. This tournament is a ‘must’. Rarely have so many golf figures met within n
our borders. However, LIV tournaments continue to generate the feeling among the public that the competitiveness is not the same as what we can find in PGA Tour or DP World Tour events. How to change this? Of course, statements like those of Richard Bland do nothing to help the sporting development of this competition. “I joined LIV and it was purely for the money. I know people have been told that golf is being grown, that golf is being done this and that. I just went for one thing and I’m not ashamed to say it,” the Briton confessed to Golf Monthly. Due to his age, perhaps Bland is back from everything, but if many more LIV players think like him, let them close now. Bland can say whatever he wants, it’s worth it. From his point of view, he has won the lottery, but LIV’s survival will depend on his fight against the lack of sporting ambition. Yes, we all work for money, but the LIV has given blank checks to the players and million-dollar prizes, so if you don’t want to be a victim of your own business ambition, you have to set sporting goals for the protagonists now. . The USGA is already talking about looking for a formula so that, through merits garnered in the LIV, several of its members qualify to compete in the US Open next year. The LIV must look for any type of similar alliance like an oasis in the desert and not abandon the fight to enter the world ranking. Needless to say, the league of Saudi origin knows this very well, but the athlete’s life is based on these types of challenges. Without them, the LIV has no future. And the golfers? Each case is unique, but it is up to them, with their attitude, to make the LIV grow. Of course we do not doubt their professionalism, but the ambition to win an event in this league should be the same as to win the Memorial or the Scottish Open, and the public is not realizing it. like this. What are tournaments without history? Well, someone has to help build it. The greatest example is golfers in the soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, whom no one blames to this day for his signing for Al-Nassr, a team from a league considered minor, because he remains the same predator as always, regardless of what they pay you. It is appreciated that Bland’s speech is sincere, but the LIV needs Cristianos Ronaldos more than Richards Blands.
