LIV Golf

With LIV Golf's business model of team play ramping up in Year 2, more is being put on the shoulders of the team captains.

"I can't afford an NBA or a baseball team or an NFL team or a hockey team or any other team. I've got three guys that I want to be here for, whatever they need me to do, whatever they need the team to do. "As a young kid, I never thought there was an opportunity but now there is an opportunity to be a franchise owner," Watson said. "I'm just trying to fire those guys up," the 44-year-old Watson continued. "I want it to be as seamless as possible." "Everything I have an idea on I take straight to him we talk through it and we either love it or hate it. Captains also decide which two players will compete if a playoff is necessary to determine the team winner at each event. "It's a lot of work but we got 38 off weeks a year. Although the high-end players always have in a sense been a one-man business, working with their agents and putting together a team including a caddie, coaches, trainers, nutritionists and others before joining LIV, this is on a different level. among other things, but even a pizza party to keep the team loose and help players wind down from the first day of a tournament. "You can't be your best without help from others and so you have to humble yourself and ask for help. That means most of the captains own that franchise.