Curtis Strange, during an interview on the Starter with Taylor Zarzour show, said he was troubled by the LIV lawsuit against the PGA Tour.
It annoys the hell out of me as well because we are growing, we continue to grow, we continue to grow to the smaller neighborhoods and more access to kids to play the game and we have the youngest major champions of all time, great kids, and there’s so much good going on in the game. I want to play in the same tournaments to compare myself at the end of the day. I want to play the same format. Zarzour asked this question: “You have some of the best players playing on one league, and a few of the best players playing on the LIV Golf series. I want to play the same courses. And then the Tour will become the Wild West. It will all be run by money, all appearance fees, and you know who suffers — the fans. “If it becomes the Wild West, if it goes to court, and they win, then there’ll be no rules and regulations on where and when you can play. I want to play the same games that Hogan and Sneed and Nicklaus and Palmer played. The reaction to the moves from those who either played or continue to play on the Tour has been one of frustration, unsurprisingly. But be that as it may, Norman comes from an emotional, vindictive attitude and history with the Tour. We know that. He said he heard Woods say he was full of gratitude to be able to play in what was his first event since his car crash. And a thought on the 15-time major champ summed up most of Strange’s thoughts on the topic du jour rather efficiently.
On this week's Subpar, Mike Tirico explained why Tiger Woods' comments on LIV Golf represented a seminal moment for the 15-time major champ.
“He has put money in more people’s pockets — including all the guys on the LIV Tour. All the guys on the LIV tour, the PGA Tour make a boatload more money because of Tiger Woods, period. “All of us in TV, the importance of golf, all of that, is because of one guy,” he continued. “I thought what he said about the PGA Tour and the LIV Tour, and the differences between the two, the dude for a quarter-century has been the face of the PGA Tour,” Tirico began.