Saudi Golf CEO Considering Creating ‘Majors’ For LIV Golfers

The next phase of the LIV Golf saga comes from a New Yorker article published this week. 

LIV Golf is desperate to reach the next level. In their bid for world ranking points, they even attached themselves to the previously dormant Middle East and North African Tour, causing a stir amongst the OWGR committee and another look through the legal fine print.

🚨#NEW: “For now, the majors are siding with the Tour, and I don’t know why. If the majors decide not to have our players play? I will celebrate. I will create my own majors for my players.” —CEO of Saudi Golf, Majed Al Sorour tells @NewYorker. (Via @BunkeredOnline)

— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) October 18, 2022

At the moment, several LIV players automatically qualify for majors, especially Cameron Smith, after his 2022 Open Championship. The issue of qualifying for majors has been a key reason that many players have been remaining loyal to the PGA Tour.

This week, up steps Majed al Sorour, the CEO of Golf Saudi. Sorour has said that if the Major championships continue to side with the PGA Tour, he will celebrate.

In fact, he said, ‘I will create my own majors for the players.’

Just as importantly, he went on to say, “Honestly, I think all the tours are being run by guys who don’t understand business.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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If nothing else, this illustrates the cut-throat nature of the Saudi-run LIV Tour and why words like ‘legacy’ have fallen on deaf ears. LIV has a plan to become a functioning business, and despite the ‘burning cash’ business model it currently operates under, Sorour has envisioned a LIV Golf TV channel, keeping it “in-house.” There are talks of FOX planning to allow LIV to buy air-time, but this is speculation as of right now.

Ultimately, creating more majors will not go down well and causes a whole host of problems. Not least, ruining all debate on who is the greatest golfer, what majors mean in the sport, and the nature of world ranking points. But this is 2022, and the shake-up to professional golf is only just beginning!

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