LIv Golf and PGA Tour compete for hype in Vegas and Phoenix
Liv Golf Las Vegas – image LIv Golf – pity the PGA Tour didn’t make free images available for such use
The PGA Tour and Liv Golf clash heads in more ways than one this week when the PGA Tour’s most watched and hyped event, The WM Phoenix Open, is played opposite LIV Golf’s Las Vegas event.
LIV Golf Las Vegas remains a 54-hole event but, for it not to clash with the Superbowl on Sunday, also held in Las Vegas, the event begins on Thursday and ends Saturday for the first occasion in the history of the new league.
The razzmatazz around both events will be fully on display with the outstandingly successful and attended WM Phoenix Open up against an event that will no doubt generate a huge amount of additional hype due to the influx of golf’s typical demographic from around the country to attend the Super Bowl.
Traditionally, the WM Phoenix Open has finished early on Sundays to accommodate America’s passion for the final showdown of one of their Apple Pie sports, NFL, and that will remain the case so LIV Golf is afforded free air to complete their event 24 hours earlier.
But it will be the now iconic 16th par three 16th hole at the TPC Scottsdale which will have comparisons drawn with Liv Golf’s attempt to generate the sort of passion from a Las Vegas crowd already hyped with the prospect of the Super Bowl with the sort of crowd participation seen at Liv Golf events in Adelaide.
In the PGA Tour event, Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee, Aaron Baddeley and New Zealand’s PGA Tour rookie, Ryan Fox, will represent Australasia while in Las Vegas the Australian combination of Cam Smith, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert and Matt Jones chase an improvement on their 4th place finish in Mexico.
Scottie Scheffler looks the winner of the WM Phoenix Open given he has been the champion in each of the past two years and that he has begun the season well with impressive early form.
The winner of the LIV event earns US$4 million while the Phoenix Open Champion earns US$1.84 million.
