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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior Author
Followers will not have to attend till the Masters in April to look at golfers from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf League compete in the identical occasion.
PGA Tour stars Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler have agreed to face LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a made-for-TV match in Las Vegas in mid-December.
“I am thrilled to companion with Scottie in what guarantees to be an thrilling duel in opposition to Bryson and Brooks in Vegas this December,” McIlroy advised Golfweek. “This is not only a contest between a few of golf’s main champions; it is an occasion designed to energise the followers. We’re all right here to placed on an excellent present and contribute to a goodwill occasion that brings the very best collectively once more.”
Blake Smith, who represents Scheffler and Koepka, confirmed these gamers’ participation to ESPN.
“Brooks and Scottie are very excited to be part of this distinctive occasion and stay up for sharing extra quickly,” Smith stated.
There have been 9 earlier iterations of the made-for-TV exhibition, which debuted in 2018 with Tiger Woods battling rival Phil Mickelson. NFL quarterbacks Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, former NBA star Charles Barkley, and others have competed within the occasion as nicely.
In the latest earlier match on Feb. 26, McIlroy and Max Homa competed with LPGA stars Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang.
The PGA Tour and LIV Golf League have spent the previous three years competing for the very best golfers on the planet. The PGA Tour continues to barter with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, which funds LIV Golf, a couple of potential funding, which could convey the fractured sport collectively once more.
The PGA Tour and LIV Golf are anticipated to be separate entities in 2025. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has prohibited LIV Golf League gamers, lots of whom are former PGA Tour members, from competing in his circuit’s occasions.
