{"id":1245693,"date":"2023-06-28T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/sir-nick-faldo-liv-golf-wont-survive-proposed-deal-with-governing-bodies\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:46:37","slug":"sir-nick-faldo-liv-golf-wont-survive-proposed-deal-with-governing-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/sir-nick-faldo-liv-golf-wont-survive-proposed-deal-with-governing-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Nick Faldo: LIV Golf won\u2019t survive proposed deal with governing bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Nick Faldo believes LIV Golf cannot survive the proposed deal between golf\u2019s warring factions, but that Rory McIlroy can thrive following the shock outbreak of peace.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month the PGA Tour announced it was creating a new commercial entity with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which bankrolls the breakaway circuit.<\/p>\n

The deal is subject to judicial scrutiny in the United States and details remain thin on the ground, but the \u201cframework agreement\u201d does state that LIV\u2019s future will be determined by the new entity, whose board will be controlled by a PGA Tour majority.<\/p>\n

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Sir Nick Faldo during a press conference ahead of the Betfred British Masters at The Belfry (David Davies\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Asked ahead of the British Masters if LIV can survive, tournament host and six-time major winner Faldo said: \u201cI don\u2019t think so, because nobody\u2019s really interested.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not going to get the sponsorship that they want. They call it a team (event) and it\u2019s not because it\u2019s strokeplay.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see your mates on the putting green and say \u2018play well\u2019 and you see them in the scorers tent and say \u2018What did you shoot?\u2019 That\u2019s it. A team is out there helping, shoulder to shoulder. That\u2019s a true team.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have the ultimate team event, the Ryder Cup, you know the passion and the atmosphere of that. They\u2019re not playing with the same passion and atmosphere as the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only half a dozen (players) that are really current, half of the field I don\u2019t really know and half the field are there for the very nice last-placed money that you still get if you shoot 20 over.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Phil Mickelson speaks to the media during day one of the LIV Golf Invitational Series at the Centurion Club, Hertfordshire in June 2022 (Steven Paston\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Unsurprisingly, LIV player and HyFlyers team captain Phil Mickelson has a different view and believes everything that the rebels were promised by LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman is coming to pass.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that right now we have basically an agreement to have an agreement and everything over the last couple of years that we\u2019ve been told by Greg and everybody on LIV has come to fruition, so we have a lot of confidence in what they have been saying to us because everything has been happening,\u201d Mickelson said ahead of the LIV event in Valderrama.<\/p>\n

Asked if he felt vindicated by developments, Mickelson added: \u201cI would say I felt appreciation that we got to this point where we\u2019re working together because it makes me confident with where the game of golf is headed in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt like it was going to be about two years roughly before we got to that point. It took a year and a half, or six months quicker than I thought it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIlroy admitted he felt like a \u201csacrificial lamb\u201d when the proposed deal was announced, the four-time major winner having emerged as the public face of the PGA Tour in its battle with LIV.<\/p>\n

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Rory McIlroy won the 2014 Open at Hoylake, which will stage this year\u2019s championship in July (David Davies\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The following week he cancelled his pre-tournament press conference ahead of the US Open at Los Angeles Country Club, where he finished second to Wyndham Clark to extend his major championship drought.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure Rory\u2019s suffered from being constantly asked, being a spokesman (for the PGA Tour),\u201d Faldo said. \u201cYou want a clear head when you go and play golf, you want to be able to concentrate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d rather be playing well and fending off questions about why I finished second than why I finished 152nd. If you finish second it\u2019s stewards\u2019 inquiry and a dissection but he\u2019s there, he\u2019s playing that well every week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s playing beautifully so if he can just get those wedges a smidgen closer that changes everything. Putting under pressure to putting for birdie is a huge difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he\u2019s seriously inspired at Hoylake.<\/a> That\u2019s where he won last time (the 2014 Open).<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is scar tissue from nine years without a major and not too many players have come back from a long gap and then go on to reboot your career and win more, but I\u2019m sure he would just love to be able to bowl up, go and practice and play with minimal off-course work and interference.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cYou need that when you\u2019re trying to play your best. You\u2019ve got to have that all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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