{"id":1119152,"date":"2020-03-16T20:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1119152"},"modified":"2020-03-17T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:03:16","slug":"should-the-pga-be-worried-about-a-rival-golf-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/should-the-pga-be-worried-about-a-rival-golf-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the PGA Be Worried About a Rival Golf Tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An upstart organization that hopes to challenge the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/the-oldest-golfers-to-win-a-major-in-pga-tour-history\/\">PGA Tour<\/a> will be hitting its next shot from the rough. And we\u2019re not talking the three-inch blades of grass around the fairways at your local municipal course either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Premier Golf League is in\n\u201ddon\u2019t lay your bag down or else you might not be able to find it again\u201d rough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm pledge loyalty to the PGA Tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pro Golfer Brooks Koepka Breaks Down Golf Scenes from Movies | GQ Sports\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwRhYzsHMGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The PGA Tour didn\u2019t have a\nvery good weekend on the course. The people in charge made the decision to try\nto squeeze in The Players Championship at a time when that the NBA, NHL, and\nMLB were going on hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic and the NCAA was\ncanceling its basketball tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PGA officials relented after\nthe first round and then received a needed boost when two of the world\u2019s top\nthree golfers announced they would not join the proposed Premier Golf League. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/how-much-money-has-brooks-koepka-made-on-the-pga-tour-this-year\/\">Brooks Koepka<\/a> kicked off Sunday by saying he would not leave the PGA behind in large part because he didn\u2019t want to abandon the second- and third-tier competitors who may not crack the leaderboard very often but make for great stories when they\u2019re contending against the big names on the back nine on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> \u201cI get that the stars are what people come to see. But these guys who we see win, who have been grinding for 10 or 15 years, that\u2019s what makes the cool stories. I\u2019d have a hard time looking at guys and putting them out of a job.\u201d<\/p><cite>Brooks Koepka<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours later, second-ranked Jon Rahm also declared he wouldn\u2019t be joining the Premier Golf League, which meant that the PGA Tour had locked up its top three players. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/rory-mcilroy-rips-into-new-golf-league-that-would-rival-the-pga-tour\/\">Rory McIlroy<\/a>, ranked No. 1 on the points list, had said earlier in the year that he was staying put because he was uncomfortable with the funding behind the PGL, a concept that had been discussed for several years but not yet launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\nmakes three young, highly successful players that the PGL won\u2019t be able to\nbring on board if it gets off the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s the premise behind the Premier Golf League?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reaction to Rory McIlroy&#039;s stance against PGL | Morning Drive | Golf Channel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yMijETohM44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/golf\/2020\/3\/16\/21181454\/premier-golf-league-brooks-koepka-jon-rahm-comments-pgl\">The Premier Golf League<\/a> would bring together 48 players competing individually and as part of four-man teams. The attraction for players would be an 18-event schedule with 54-hole formats and $10 million purses. The idea of them being given equity in their teams has also been broached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ndrawbacks for players include losing the ability to make their own schedules,\nwhich could also affect endorsements, and not being able to play in the sport\u2019s\nmajor tournaments. PGA commissioner Jay Monahan has said that anyone leaving to\nplay in the PGL would lose their Tour card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money to make the rival league happen reportedly comes from Saudi Arabian government sources willing to compete with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/golf-the-longest-standing-records-in-pga-tour-history\/\">PGA Tour<\/a> and European Tour, which would both struggle to continue if they lost most of their big names. Their idea is hardly new; Australian star Greg Norman tried to pull together an international competitor to the PGA in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the other top players thinking?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tiger Woods confirms he has been &quot;personally approached&quot; by Premier League Golf organizers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjCRfVQcyZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Being\nturned down by Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, and Jon Rahm is a\nsubstantial blow to the ambitions of the people organizing the Premier Golf\nLeague, who have suggested a 2022 debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They could still make a splash by garnering commitments from <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/why-tiger-woods-should-be-esctatic-about-the-masters-getting-postponed\/\">Tiger Woods<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/heres-how-much-phil-mickelsons-gambling-issues-really-cost-him\/\">Phil Mickelson<\/a>, but those two huge names will be long retired while McIlroy and Koepka are still near the prime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That leaves the PGL left with chasing the likes of Justin\nThomas, Dustin Johnson, and Adam Scott. To date, none have committed to leaving\nthe PGA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier Golf League has begun approaching PGA Tour members and the top three players in the world have made their decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":1119154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4898],"tags":[11999,8429,12970],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should the PGA Be Worried About a Rival Golf Tour? - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Premier Golf League has begun approaching PGA Tour members. 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