Veteran PGA Tour pro: Here's how the LIV Golf affair will play out
Veteran PGA Tour pro Kevin Kisner has offered his thoughts on what men's professional golf will look like in the future as the LIV Golf battle drags on.
Veteran PGA Tour pro Kevin Kisner believes the future of men's professional golf will look exactly like the product we have now.
Kisner was a former member of the Tour's players advisory council and has previously claimed he was part of a group who implored commissioner Jay Monahan to speak to the powerful Saudi businessman and governor of the Public Investment Fund Yasir Al-Rumayyan before LIV Golf began.
Perhaps the mess of the last two years could have been avoided had Monahan taken the call.
Perhaps not.
Kisner opened up on the subject in a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, in which he explained: "From the get-go we were led down a road and led to believe that LIV wasn't going to take off.
"That's the feeling all of us had—and then "Bam!" All of a sudden, they did.
"Now they're here and they have stayed in power, because they have more money than anybody.
"So I think guys are just tired of it. Nobody really cares anymore, honestly. They want it to be constant. They want our future to be figured out, and right now, it's very uncertain."
Kisner is perhaps right to suggest the golfers are now exhausted by the lack of clarity over the future.
Collin Morikawa revealed he has stopped reading emails from the PGA Tour's leadership because they only contain 'fluff'.
Xander Schauffele is burying his head in the sand for 2024.
Kisner reckons there won't be a deal.
"I'm not in the negotiating room, but the lack of communication seems to show me that they're not really getting close," he said.
"We don't get updated enough to make it feel like they're getting close.
"And then you bring in another group in the negotiations—if I was trying to negotiate with one person and then they brought in someone else, it wouldn't make me feel great."
Kisner is referring to the fact Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of billionaires headed by Tom Werner and John Henry's Fenway organisation that owns Liverpool Football Club and the Boston Red Sox are also part of the deal that will involve the PIF.
So how does the future look?
Kisner offered: "I would imagine it would look similar to the 2024 PGA Tour schedule.
"The designated events would be their top players and our top players getting together for the biggest purses.
"Then the back half of their fields and the back half of our fields can substitute in. The product that we're seeing now, I think is the future product."
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