LIV Golfers are Missing the Most Important Golf Tournaments for What?
Missing the 2024 Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club when Tiger Woods is playing in the field has to be gut-wrenching for the LIV Golf players, especially, last year’s winner Jon Rahm, the winner two years ago Joaquin Niemann, and other former winners now playing at LIV Golf:
- Phil Mickelson won in 2008 and 2009
- Dustin Johnson won in 2017
- Charles Howell III won in 2007
- Bubba Watson won in 2014, 2016, and 2018
This is one of the three player-hosted Signature Events the PGA Tour is holding this year. The other two are the Memorial with Jack Nicklaus and The Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The Genesis Invitational has a history going back to 1926 and has a list of Champions that resembles a Major; Hogan, Palmer, Snead, Nelson, Miller, Watson, Venturi, Casper, Faldo, Scott, and Irwin, to name a few. Two notable golfers not on the list are Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus — a tournament neither has won, yet Tiger still has a chance.
All three of these events and the Players Championship have to be hard for the LIV golfers to miss. The RBC Heritage is one of my favorite events and it is now a Signature Event as well, so include that one too.
