LIV Golf burst onto the professional scene with truckloads of very un-golf-like attitude, brash arrogance dropped like a boulder into placid Rae's Creek. Since then — and since the June agreement between LIV and the PGA Tour — the rhetoric has cooled into more a businesslike you-do-your-thing, we'll-do-ours coexistence.
Talor Gooch, the reigning individual LIV Golf champion, disrupted the calm this week when he declared that a victory at the Masters without certain LIV players in attendance wouldn't be a free-and-clear win. Several LIV players, including Gooch, are not currently in the field for April's Masters, and Gooch aired his views to Australian Golf Digest.