| | Golf Digest+ Insider | | By Dan Rapaport May 10, 2022 |
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| | By Dan Rapaport May 10, 2022 |
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| | | It’s not just about money—even if it’s mostly about money |
Sergio Garcia can’t wait to leave the PGA Tour. He made that unmistakably clear last Thursday after a rules official at the Wells Fargo Championship told him—incorrectly, it turns out—that he’d taken more than three minutes to find his ball and thus would be penalized. Garcia has long been linked with LIV Golf Investments, the Saudi-backed and Greg Norman-fronted upstart hoping to loosen the PGA Tour’s grip on elite professional golf, but any mystery as to whether he’d actually make the leap evaporated thanks to that hot microphone on the left side of TPC Potomac’s 10th hole.
On Tuesday the PGA Tour must rule on all the conflicting-event releases players have applied for in hopes of competing in the first event of LIV’s Invitational series, outside London from June 9-11, and Garcia certainly sounds like he’s among the interested parties waiting on a ruling from Ponte Vedra. (The full field for that event, a source tells Golf Digest, will be released next week, as will broadcast/streaming plans.) His Wells Fargo tantrum, however, suggested he’ll play no matter what the PGA Tour decides to do. In his own words: “Just a couple more weeks until I don’t have to deal with you.”
Garcia’s desire to ditch the tour where he’s earned more than $54 million, it should be noted, has nothing to do with any lost-ball ruling.
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