Perspective: LIV Golf’s wealth is absurd. So is its product.
LIV Golf can’t be expected to have history in a month’s time. But it also can’t pretend to be meaningful just because it exists.
But by joining LIV Golf, Koepka has — at least for now — potentially boxed his way out of majors. His ticket to the 2023 Masters is punched — assuming Augusta National doesn’t ban LIV players — because he won the 2018 U.S. Open. Winners of the U.S. and British Opens and the PGA Championship get invitations to Augusta for the following five years.
What’s true about this weekend outside Portland: Someone will win $4 million for coming in first, and the first loser will cash out for $2.125 million — nearly a million more than the John Deere champion. That matters to the players and their investment advisers, regardless of how dirty the money might be.