The LIV continues to leave no one irrelevant in the world of golf, since they entered the sport with force in 2022. The Arab super league shook the foundations of the PGA (United States) and the DP World Tour (Europe), offering prizes many greater than the winners of the tournaments, causing the march of the golfers to the Saudi championship.
Despite the attempts at an alliance between the LIV and the PGA, which has not yet become official, the Saudi championship continues to introduce new variables to continue revolutionizing the world of golf. The last thing they have raised: transfers between franchises and a deadline for said transfers to be made.
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The LIV is made up of 48 golfers, divided into 12 franchises (four players per team).
The idea put forward by the Arab super league is that the teams are not static and there can be negotiations for golfers to change their franchise, as occurs in most sports such as soccer, basketball, American football, hockey, etc.
Thanks to a report by Sport Illustrated, one of the most important weekly sports magazines in the United States, it is known that the idea of making transfers is advanced but it has not yet been defined how the transfer configuration will be, as well as a date limit for these to be carried out.Although transfers as such cannot yet be made within the LIV, in the past there have been player exchanges between franchises, once the season is over.
This is the case of Talor Gooch, winner of three LIV events in 2023, he was a member of the 4Aces GC when he joined the league and this year he changed gears to compete under the RangeGoats GC franchise, with which he won the three LIV tournaments he has in his palmaresWho has ruled on the official nature of the transfers in the LIV itself is Peter Uihlein, a golfer from the Arab super league who was suspended by the PGA for joining the Saudi competition.
The American is not averse to change and understands that it can be useful for franchises to be able to exchange players as in most sports.“I mean, it’s no different than any other sport, right? Baseball, football, basketball, guys get traded (although) obviously you build a relationship with your team, but at the end of the day, if your franchise thinks it can do better, then it has to make tough decisions, and this is just a business”, commented the Massachusetts golfer when asked about all the issues of transfers between teams.One more revolution of the LIV, which forces the PGA to continue evolving within the world of golf, to stop the rise of the Arab super league.