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In a move that casts a giant shadow of doubt on there even truly being a merger of sorts between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the fledgling golf league released its full 2025 schedule on Tuesday and its last three events will go head-to-head with three PGA Tour playoff events.
Which means golf fans will now have to choose between the PGA Tour’s three FedEx Cup Playoff events in August and LIV Golf tournaments in Chicago, Indianapolis, and Michigan.
“It’s already witnessed a famous ‘Birdie over the Birdie Shack’ from Bryson DeChambeau. Now LIV Golf can reveal that Miami’s fearsome Blue Monster will welcome the League again in 2025, right on the cusp of majors season,” LIV Golf said in a press release.
“LIV Golf has also confirmed three more first-time venues for 2025. They are Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City; Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in the suburbs of Washington D.C.; and The Cardinal at Saint John’s resort in Michigan, where the winner-takes-all Team Championship decider will take place.
“This final reveal completes LIV Golf’s 2025 schedule announcement. The itinerary takes in nine countries, four continents and six brand-new venues, including the settings for both the Individual and the Team Championship showdowns.”
BREAKING ‼️Our full 2025 Schedule#LIVGolf pic.twitter.com/GO2a5hSM0s
— LIV Golf (@livgolf_league) January 7, 2025
In addition to all of that, Tom McKibbin, a 21-year-old golfer from Northern Ireland, is reportedly in talks to join Jon Rahm’s LIV Golf team, Legion XIII. Also, New Zealander Ben Campbell was recently asked by Bubba Watson to join his Range Goats GC team along with Americans Matthew Wolff and Peter Uihlein in LIV.
Meanwhile, newly appointed Official World Golf Ranking chairman Trevor Immelman has already gone on record as saying he isn’t a huge fan of LIV Golf.
“It’s a giant pain in my a–,” Immelman said of LIV in an interview with the Subpar podcast two years ago.
“From a Presidents Cup standpoint it’s made it uber tricky. We’re talking about team rooms – how about if I’d gone ahead and put images up of different players and then all of a sudden those guys aren’t able to be there? That gives it a bit of a different vibe… It’s been tough to see my sport get divided over the last year and see these cracks get made and the division it’s created. It’s been real tough, and I wish I could tell you it’s over. It’s not over.”
Professional golf, it appears, is moving further and further from ever being unified.