CENTURION CLUB OUTSIDE LONDON SERIES
Everybody’s entitled to do what they want.”Īnd the PGA Tour is entitled to respond accordingly. The Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series will finally host its first event this week at the Centurion Club just outside of London. “There’s been plenty of guys that have been advocates of it and have just talked it up all the time and they have been guys behind the scenes that are saying, ‘I’m going, I’m doing this.’ And, like, my whole thing is, like, just go then. Justin Thomas, the eighth-ranked player in the world, isn’t losing any sleep over what his peers opt to do. Players who were expected to cross the pond prior to Monahan’s ruling include Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Martin Kaymer and Sergio Garcia and it is unclear if the commissioner’s decision has impacted their plans. I think people will slowly jump ship if some random guys are winning 10+ mil a year.” “I think some people are worried about the golfing world hating them and all the stuff they would have to hear on social media and at events. But it’s the morality of it all and the money coming from Saudi will turn most people off,” Dahmen, a 34-year-old who’s played on the Tour for almost a decade, told. Speaking with, Tour veteran Joel Dahmen said he thinks about “20ish” players “are probably going” and will risk being suspended or banned from PGA Tour play for a shot at the LIV’s lucrative $4 million top prize. Predictably, Norman’s remarks were met with backlash and have drawn even more negative attention to a tournament that PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has already informed his players they are not authorized to participate in.ĭespite the controversy and Monahan’s decision, some players may decide to play at the LIV Golf event, which is scheduled to feature a 48-man field competing for a $20 million purse over 54 holes with the winner getting $4 million, anyway and risk losing their PGA Tour membership. “Look, we’ve all made mistakes and you just want to learn by those mistakes and how you can correct them going forward,” 67-year-old Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf Investments which is funded primarily by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, said this week at an event to promote the tournaments. The large water feature that lies between the final green and the elegant modern clubhouse provides a good excuse to lay-up and play safe.Speaking ahead of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational, which is set to be held at the Centurion Golf Club outside London next month, series CEO Greg Norman called the gruesome 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a “mistake” and noted “the good that the country is doing in changing its culture.”
The last of all weighs in at 559 yards off the back tees and lives up to its name of Ad Infinitum (all the holes feature Latin names in homage to the Roman heritage of the area). The water appears again at the splendid 12th, where a lake will embrace any shots that fall short of the green, before the course returns to a more wooded landscape for the final four holes. These should also provide some shelter from a prevailing wind that rather savaged my own scorecard at the eighth and ninth, where one of the course’s four water hazards waits to catch any drives that drift to the left.
Those vistas will change over time because the club has planted 30,000 mostly native trees and 5,000 gorse bushes to flank the holes. After five elegant holes set within the woods, the course opens out into more of a heathland feel, with elevated tees to provide commanding views of the target area.
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