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This is a series viewed as being part of Saudi Arabia’s efforts, branded “sportswashing” by human rights groups, to wipe away the stain of the kingdom’s abuses. To accept the lavish rewards, the players not only had to overcome concerns about being banned from the PGA Tour and events like the Ryder Cup, but also moral doubts. The top three teams share $5 million on top of the $20 million prize fund per event shared between the golfers individually. “I find this scoreboard difficult to follow,” said Dawkins, who traveled from the south of London. The field is split into 12 teams with garish logos and brash names, like Johnson’s 4 Aces and Graeme McDowell’s Niblicks. What confuses Dawkins is the team element. LIV is running curtailed 54-hole, three-day tournaments, with a shotgun start seeing players all tee off on different holes. “I thought as this was the first tournament of the rebel tour it would be interesting to see how it works and who is playing,” said the 91-year-old Dawkins, who railed against the PGA Tour banning players. Unlike many spectators, Jim Dawkins, who has been coming to golf events for six decades, did pay 67 pounds ($84) for his pass to the club between Hemel Hempstead and St. Scott Vincent of Zimbabwe and Phachara Khongwatmai of Thailand shot 67. Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters champion, had a one-stroke lead over fellow South African Hennie du Plessis. There was intrigue from those who did turn up, accompanied by a desire to see so many of the world’s leading players, although none from the top 10. He matched Johnson with a 1-under 69, with Charl Schwartzel leading at 65.Īcross the course, the only branding was from LIV Golf and a sparse number of spectators in attendance. Mickelson was sporting a black cap adorned by his personal logo featuring a silhouette of himself playing golf, replacing the KPMG-branded one that was worn before the corporate sponsors dropped the deal in February after he disparaged the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia. There were no signs of the Saudi backing across the Centurion Club, nor any sponsor branding. The fury of LIV Golf - a product of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund - was clear, calling the PGA Tour “vindictive” with a decision that will only deepen the divides. Johnson had already given up his PGA membership, but Mickelson is not ready to. To all the players who defected to the renegade series, they now face banishment from future tour events. The nine ageing planes rumbling overhead helped to mask the lack of significant crowd noise beyond the occasional shout of “Let’s go Phil!” as he prepared to tee off.Īt the same time, the message today from the PGA Tour was being delivered - go off. On a course just outside north London, the band dressed as imitation infantrymen were there to proclaim the arrival of Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, two of the stars enticed from the PGA Tour to potentially earn hundreds of millions of dollars on the LIV Golf series. Only it wasn’t an extension of Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee celebrations but the launch of the Saudi-funded golf breakaway, attempting to bring a sense of faux regal pageantry to the rebellion splitting the sport. ALBANS, England > At a distance it looked like a military flypast and Grenadier Guards trumpeting in a royal-style occasion.
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