“Captains criticized colleagues during PGA Tour”- Surprising discovery regarding LIV team captains Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau
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Charles Howell III, Jason Kokrak, Paul Casey
Many fans were shocked when Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka switched to LIV Golf. Both celebrities originally resisted the lucrative tour with obstinance but finally switched from the PGA Tour to it. Both celebrities are now enlisting PGA Tour players for their teams as they serve as the team captains of their respective LIV Series squads.
The third tournament of the year for LIV Golf is scheduled to take place at Bedminster’s Trump National Golf Club. It will be the second competition on American soil for the Tour. The LIV Golf Invitational Series will return on July 29 with 12 teams and 48 golfers. On July 26, the teams were selected through a draught.
Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka’s engagement with LIV
At LIV Golf Portland, a number of golfers made their professional debuts, including Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, as noted by essentiallysports.com. And now, in the following competition, both celebrities will serve as tournament captains. Former Ryder Cup teammates have also been signing excellent PGA Tour players for their teams by exerting their influence.
The newest players to join the LIV Invitational Series are Jason Kokrak, Charles Howell III, and Paul Casey. While Kokrak joined DeChambeau’s Crushers GC team, Casey and Howell joined Koepka’s Smash GC. Both DeChambeau and Koepka criticized their current colleagues while they were competing on the PGA Tour, according to Dan Rapaport of Golf Digest. He continued by saying that almost all of the captains have been recruiting for their squads in accordance with the same procedure.
Rapaport tweeted, “Bryson DeChambeau called Paul Casey and Charles Howell III, who claimed that’s how they got engaged with LIV. Likewise, Kokrak claims about Koepka. I’ve heard the same thing, that team captains are enlisting players to join their squads, he continued. Interesting.” Paul Casey and Charles Howell III have both played on the PGA Tour for more than 20 years, and Jason Kokrak, at 37, first turned pro in 2008.
The trio is still viewed as a sight to behold even though neither of them has any Major titles to their names. Though many spectators expressed their ire at the LIV Golf leaders, others even challenged the new competitors for putting the blame for their contentious choice on the captains. “So Kokrak, who is sponsored by Saudi Golf, wasn’t going to join LIV until Koepka pushed him into it LOL?” wrote one fan in a tweet.
Whatever the case, the team captains’ hiring practices are unethical. The players must nevertheless show respect to the 92-year-old PGA Tour even though they quit it to join the lucrative series. The only thing this will affect is the golfers’ reputation.
We may anticipate more turmoil in the coming days as the Saudi-backed Golf Tour spreads its wings. The victor of the upcoming Bedminster competition will receive a comfortable $4 million. Additionally, the victorious team will receive an additional $750,000 for each member. The event is only made more thrilling by the fresh additions.
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