VIRGINIA WATER, England – As Graeme McDowell made his way down the 54th hole at Sunday’s BMW PGA Championship (insert LIV punchline here), he considered the moment.
“I nearly got someone to bring me a pint of Guinness so I could drink it going down the last in case that was my last walk as a European tour player,” he smiled following a 69 at Wentworth. “I hope it’s not.”
The convergence at last week’s BMW PGA of old and new, good and evil – a decidedly sliding scale depending on one’s outlook – proved to be a sort of seminal moment in the growing divide between the game’s established tours and LIV Golf.