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My God, how times have changed: with the LIV Golf, yes, but also with the purse and PGA Tour bonuses.
Now is the right time to be an elite professional golfer, and don’t think Trevino hasn’t noticed.
“I may not know much, but I know LIV Golf has made a lot of money for people,” he said Wednesday at a Lone Star Legends luncheon at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, where he is enshrined.
“I look at my friend Pat Perez, who made $8 million this year, and I think I got there too soon [to my career]. Not just the other people who made money with LIV golf, but the $20 million they’ll bet on on the PGA Tour: they all made more money.
Perez has the poster of LIV’s generosity: with no 15 best singles in just 8 starts this season on tour, Perez still cashed in $8 million.
Treviño said it was gratifying to see LIV players like Harold Varner, who came here from a modest upbringing like Treviño’s, lead a life of hard work. “I think it’s wonderful. I believe it,” Treviño said. I don’t know.
“I’ve dedicated my whole life to play, day and night. I still hit balls or practice 1,000 rolls on my mat at home, I still play them. I had nothing else to fall back on. “
Earlier this year, on golf instructor Michael Breed’s SiriusXM program, Trevino questioned LIV Golf’s long-term customers and players he would and wouldn’t attract. “I don’t think it’s going to last,” he told Breed. The sails, I think, will break on this ship. ” But with the first season of LIV now in the books, Treviño is more positive about its viability.
“This LIV thing is the same thing we did when we broke with the PGA [of America] in 1969,” Trevino said, referring to the motion of a small organization of the most sensible players: Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, the leader among them. — to shape the Tournament Player Division, which eventually became the PGA Tour. “I didn’t go. I stayed with the PGA, but other players parted ways. Financially] sound and the Saudis [are solid], then everything will be fine.
Unlike Rory McIlroy and others who have said LIV Golf separates golf, Trevino believes the two courses can coexist.
“I don’t think we’ve lost much,” he said of the PGA Tour crowd. “I don’t know what the grades are, but I think we’re fine. “
What’s less transparent is whether LIV has a significant fan base. The new tour does not yet have a television partner. This season, it attracted a limited number of viewers who streamed all of its events on YouTube and on its own website. Treviño not one of those listening.
“Are you kidding, I hope?” He said: “I have a mobile phone at the same time. I want help turning on a computer. I don’t know how to do those things. I didn’t look at anything. I’m not going to do that. “
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