LIV Golf has secured a landmark broadcast deal with FOX Sports, emphasizing the league's ever-strengthening foundations in professional golf, and Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka have heralded the news
While that has mostly been negative, the golf world has seen one major positive over the last month, and that's been the debut of the TGL, or "Tomorrow's Golf League," a venture spearheaded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
Jon Rahm was in the Persian Gulf this week, playing in the DP World Tour's Hero Desert Dubai Classic. It is one of the more iconic tournaments on the European Tour each year. Rahm posted a respectable opening round, but fell flat Friday, carding a 5-over 77. That was enough to send him home packing for the weekend.
Rahm went on to dub it “unfair” that the LIV Golf league does not receive points yet. It is pertinent to note that the former Ryder Cup star is the highest-profile player to jump to the breakaway circuit after the PGA Tour-PIF framework agreement announcement in 2023.
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Rory McIlroy will be joined by a raft of LIV Golf stars at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, with the Northern Irishman looking to claim victory at the Rolex Series event
McIlroy has been an outspoken critic of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League ever since the breakaway tour was introduced in 2022. The Irishman has also acted as a mentor to golf prodigy McKibbin, who comes from the same village as McIlroy in Belfast.
Hero Dubai Desert Classic tournament director Simon Corkill to discuss Rory McIlroy and the future of the event
There has been plenty of talk over growing the game of men's professional golf in recent years, and the DP World Tour have done exactly that with their ventures in Dubai