Dave Hyde: The PGA outlasted LIV players’ thirst for Saudi millions
DORAL, Fla. — Well, the right side won. Sometimes that happens in sports.
The PGA Tour even returned to Doral on Thursday for its first tournament in a decade, as if to officially mark the LIV Tour leaving everyone with the sour smell of a flopped hustle. The only question left is what to do with the bank-rich, morally-bankrupt LIV players who wish to migrate back to the PGA. Make them qualify all over again?
Play without a 5-iron as a career penance? “I’m not sure,’’ said Jordan Spieth, tied for second at 7 under par with Cameron Young leading by one after the first round of the Cadillac Championship. “I’m not sure if it should be the same for everyone.
I know olive branches were given out, you know, a couple months ago. “Brooks (Koepka) took them up on it. So I’m not sure what would now change.
” As it ends, what is LIV’s legacy? There was Greg Norman’s militant nuttiness. There were players in shorts, music on greens and, “Golf but louder,” slogans.