LIV Golf is implementing one other potential incentive for gamers to leap to its Saudi-backed startup enterprise.
LIV CEO Greg Norman introduced Friday that its golfers can be allowed to put on shorts on tour throughout all competitions, not simply in observe rounds like on the PGA Tour.
“It’s official. As of tomorrow, LIV gamers will have the ability to put on shorts. The primary league or tour ever to make it official,” Norman says in the 12-second video posted to LIV’s social media accounts.
Norman additionally tagged high defector Phil Mickelson from his private Twitter account, writing “Time to indicate off these calves @PhilMickelson,” with the three-time Masters champion replying, “I can’t wait.”
Sporting shorts as a substitute of lengthy pants throughout tournaments has been a much-debated subject on the PGA Tour for the final a number of years; they've been permitted to be worn throughout observe rounds since February 2019.
LIV Golf is enjoying this week at The Worldwide in Bolton, Massachusetts, and gamers have been allowed to put on shorts starting Saturday. LIV beforehand had additionally allowed shorts throughout observe rounds and pro-am tournaments.
The 67-year-old Norman arrived Friday on the first tee of the Boston-area event through parachute. Talor Gooch leads by two rounds by one stroke over Joaquin Niemann and by two over Dustin Johnson.
“There’s no query LIV is disruptive,” Mickelson instructed Sports activities Illustrated on Thursday. “We’ve made some main disruption to the game of golf, and have created some actually distinctive alternatives for gamers and followers. And we’re simply getting began.”
The previous European Tour, now referred to as the DP World Tour, allowed gamers to put on shorts at a event in South Africa in 2020 attributable to sweltering temperatures.
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