LIV Golf is set to make its biggest score yet.
According to The Telegraph, the rival group will announce seven new additions at the conclusion of the PGA Tour playoffs this week in Atlanta. Staying through the playoffs allows players to go for one final big PGA score before heading to the riches of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf.
The report states that Cameron Smith, the No. 2 player in the world, will headline the group, and all the players appeared in the first event of the PGA Tour playoffs a week ago.
Smith has long been rumored to be headed to LIV Golf. Fellow Australian Cam Percy said in a recent radio interview that Smith and Marc Leishman “are gone” to LIV. Smith bristled at questions on the subject at a press conference at the St. Jude Classic before withdrawing from last week’s BMW Championship with hip discomfort.
It comes as the PGA Tour scrambles to prevent players from taking a money grab and joining Greg Norman’s tour, which already boasts some star power in Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka.
Tiger Woods flew into Delaware ahead of the BMW Championship and headed a meeting with top players. The Post confirmed that the players discussed a number of different ways to make the PGA Tour more financially enticing: An 18-tournament series with 60 players and $20 million purses, the PGA Tour giving up its nonprofit status and an annual stipend for players.
“Everyone in the room left in a better spot and excited about what’s potentially to come,” one player who was at the meeting told The Post’s Brian Wacker.
“Any time you can get a group of guys like that together [in the same room], that doesn’t happen often. Maybe it should have happened a while ago.”
It was later reported that Rory McIlroy and Woods would be launching a stadium golf competition.
Still, LIV Golf has recruited some of the top players in the sport, with more significant names seemingly set to follow just as soon as this season is over.
The Telegraph report stated that all seven players leaving after this week will be in the field for LIV’s Boston event, which is in two weeks.
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