A whole host of LIV Golf stars opted to walk away from the PGA Tour to make the move to the breakaway league, with the league’s reduced schedule clearly a bit pull.
A group of LIV Golf stars have spoken out on the importance of the breakaway league’s reduced schedule compared to the demands of the PGA Tour, with Team Championship winner Lucas Herbert the latest.
Herbert – who helped guide Cam Smith’s Ripper GC to the season-ending title in Dallas last month – opened up on his first season with the breakaway league last week, and highlighted how having just 14 events in his calendar helped him improve his performance on the course in 2024.
“I played so much more in 2023, but itās just a perfect schedule now,ā he told News.com.au. “You get your time to get away from the game and get your development blocks to be able to get better, not just from a perspective of hitting balls for three or four days and then go to an event, you can actually really work on your game and elevate your skill set rather than just tune it up.
I have been practicing that for the past 10 months now that Iāve had that opportunity, it has been great. The Australian went on: I am comfortably, comfortably better this year. I mean I spent an hour with Cam Smith at the Greenbrierās chipping ground. Canāt imagine that ever happening to any other player when we are playing individual events on the pga tour.
āJust the ability to share information with my teammates at different times during the season has been great, and my game has great a lot from that,ā he said. As expected Herbert is not the first man to make the LIV switch who has hailed the schedule of the league.
Another of LIVās more high-profile individuals, Dustin Johnson agreed with this point they said playing less golf, but get more bucks, and that was quite a good deal. I recall thinking for myself it was less playing and more money. Iām not doing much, pretty simple,ā Johnson said while on Netflix cameras in the Full Swing season one behind the scenes.
One person offers any person a job, doing what the person is doing right now at work but spending less of their time at the office and they will be paid more. Pretty sure youāre gonna take it. And somethingās wrong with you if you didnāt.ā The same applies to Johnsonās former 4Aces teammates with Talor Gooch also in support.
āFor that reason, among others, that is one of the things that is great about LIVā, he said to Forbes last month. As it stands, it is easy to take the family out on the road because I am only able to play 14 times in a year unlike before when I was playing 30 times on the PGA Tour. I donāt travel long distance frequently and am barely in and out of the house daily. It just gives me more time at home and I can work from home, which is great for me.ā
As alluded to by Gooch, less golf means more family time for those on the breakaway league, which also proved a huge plus for Sergio Garcia. “It has benefited my life,” the Spaniard recently told Mirror Sport. “It has made my life more manageable with family and everything.
So in a way that helps. I am more settled not only financially but as a family time which you get to spend of course with the family, resting and getting our body recharge, that unfortunately we did not really have. The first man to engineer an exodus from the PGA Tour was Phil Mickelson in the LIV.
And Mickelson gave as good a reason as any for the fact the leagueās schedule is preferable to their Tour counterparts. Its excellent, whether loving LIV or hating it, is the best way/Tour to be your best in the majors,ā he tweeted on the first of May last year. That is enough to keep one alert, energetic, and ready for the next tournament, but not too tired as from too many tournaments or obligations: 14 LIV events, and 34 weeks free to get ready for 4 majors. Fact.