Billy Horschel is clearly furious after Lee Westwood’s statement yesterday that the PGA Tour is copying LIV Golf. Horschel thinks that’s nonsense, and that the PGA Tour did the same things a long time ago. “They’re saying we copied them; we’ve had a $20 million purse before, we’ve had small fields before, we’ve had no-cut events before,” Horschel said, as quoted by sports.yahoo “Are they doing anything different than we’ve done in the past? No, they’ve got a 54-hole shotgun start and there’s teams.
That’s what’s different”. In an interview with Golf Digest, Lee Westwood commented on the changes that the PGA Tour decided to make. “I laugh at what the PGA Tour players have come up with,” Westwood said.
“It’s just a copy of what LIV is doing. There are a lot of hypocrites out there. They all say LIV is ‘not competitive.’ They all point at the no-cut aspect of LIV and the short fields. Now, funnily enough, they are proposing 20 events that look a lot like LIV.
Hopefully, at some point they will all choke on their words”.
Billy Horschel: They stole a concept
Horschel believes that LIV Golfers have taken the concept of Andy Gardner and PGL and applied it to their tournament.
He thinks that such things were much earlier on the golf scene. “The problem I have is they’re saying we’re copying them, the LIV tour, we’re not copying them,” Horschel said. “They stole a concept from Andy Gardner and PGL and pawned it off as their own.
The Saudis had teamed up with the PGL to do a deal and get their tour off the ground and that didn’t happen. “It’s funny when they say we copied them, and we didn’t, but when you look at their concept they literally copied someone else and stole it from them. Who is copying who?”
