Golf needs more real golfers. Huge names. Must-see swingers.
Star attractions worth following, retweeting and loudly arguing over in 2024. The NFL , Premier League , NBA and the rest of the best run the sports world. Golf, fractured and divided , is increasingly an afterthought unless it's majors time again or the world's No.
1 -- normally flat, boring and far too methodical -- is suddenly being arrested on live TV for driving the wrong way in Kentucky. So where's Bryson DeChambeau at the moment that the PGA Tour needs the must-see swinger more than ever? Following up his brilliant and buzzing second-place run at the PGA Championship by waiting for LIV to play a second-rate tournament in three weeks that will barely make a dent in the golf world. What a shame.
What a huge missed opportunity for a beautiful sport that keeps going out of its way to get it wrong. LIV is never going to work -- ever. With its silly team names -- RangeGoats, Cleeks and Majesticks wouldn't make the grade in high school -- and random tourneys spread out weeks apart, golf fans across the world deserve the world's best united under one umbrella.
Instead, you have to first remember that DeChambeau technically plays for the 'Crushers,' then try to find LIV on the world sports map after Xander Schauffele downed champagne out of the Wanamaker Trophy and a confused Scottie Scheffler ended up in the back of a police cruiser. "Bryson DeChambeau is an exciting addition to LIV Golf 's supercharged style of play.