World primary Scottie Scheffler stated Wednesday that he expects a few of golf’s best legends will put apart the PGA Tour-LIV Golf feud at subsequent month’s Masters Champions Dinner.
Scheffler, coming off a victory at The Players Championship on Sunday, revealed his menu for this 12 months’s gathering after profitable final 12 months’s inexperienced jacket at Augusta National.
The 26-year-old American additionally stated that he hasn’t determined what he’ll say in his speech to the previous winners, however he’ll rely upon them to be on their finest manners regardless of a break up that has divided golf’s elite expertise.
“I haven’t totally decided what I’ll say,” Scheffler stated. “I’m not quite sure what the vibe will be like but I think we’re all there to play in the tournament and celebrate the Masters and celebrate all being past champions.
“I believe the dinner will probably be actually particular for all of us to have the ability to collect collectively once more and I’m certain we’ll put all that different stuff apart and simply have a superb time collectively.
“Just because guys joined another tour doesn’t mean that I’m not friends with them anymore and that I think differently of them as people. They are still my friends and we’re all just going to hang out and have a good time.”
The Saudi-backed LIV Golf League has opened its second marketing campaign and gamers collect this week in Tucson, Arizona, whereas the PGA Valspar Championship is being staged close to Tampa, Florida.
With report $25 million purses and 54-hole occasions, LIV Golf lured away a number of high gamers from the PGA final 12 months, leading to a ban from taking part in tour occasions and a court docket case set to succeed in trial subsequent 12 months.
The PGA Tour has made adjustments to its format and prize cash to raised compete with LIV choices, however arduous emotions stay from some gamers at the rebels.
LIV and PGA gamers will compete in opposition to one another at all 4 of this 12 months’s main championships, which haven’t adopted the tour in banning LIV expertise.
Three-time Masters champion and six-time main winner Phil Mickelson, fellow Americans Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson and Patrick Reed, South African Charl Schwartzel and Spain’s Sergio Garcia are LIV Golf gamers who’ve received inexperienced jackets to earn a spot at the Champions Dinner.
Mickelson stated Wednesday that he has no concept what awaits on his journey down Magnolia Lane for the 12 months’s first main on April 6-9.
“No expectations. We are grateful to just be able to play and compete and be a part of it,” Mickelson stated. “A lot of the people there that are playing and competing in the Masters are friend for decades and I’m looking forward to seeing them again.”
Scheffler’s menu consists of Texas ribeye steak, blackened redfish, tortilla soup, firecracker shrimp, cheeseburger sliders and a heat chocolate chip skillet cookie with ice cream.
Scheffler had an opportunity to follow at Augusta National, together with the lengthened par-5 thirteenth gap.
“It’s like 30 yards longer probably,” he stated. “I usually hit a big hooking 3-wood off that tee and now I hit driver on a little bit of a different angle. So it has definitely changed the hole significantly.
“You may see extra guys laying as much as that gap, particularly relying upon pin place, however we’ll see the way it performs through the match.”
