The PGA Tour have been warned by player Harry Higgs that they must make a 's*** ton of money' from their newly introduced elevated schedule to ware off LIV Golf. The PGA Tour have found themselves in a battle with their newfound rivals LIV Golf to remain the sport's No. 1 circuit.
The Saudi-funded series has been able to lure in some of golf's biggest names thanks to mega-money signing on fees and lucrative prize pots. In response to keep players on side, the PGA Tour have improved their own funding, elevating a number of events with bigger purses for 2023.
One man who will be hoping to take a share of the money increase is PGA Tour member Higgs, but he believes the events need to be a big money-maker for the American-based circuit to continue to bat off LIV.
Speaking on the No Laying Up podcast , he said: "Basically, those events need to generate a s*** ton of revenue to offset the cost of pumping money into purses, pumping money into bonuses. "If those events generate a ton of revenue, more than what we are putting into every pool, with purses, bonuses, all this stuff, all the money that is being shelled out, then we’re cool, we’re fine.
"We’re going to be just great. Every event is going to continue to run. If they don’t generate the revenue we think, or we’re hoping, then there is no way that there is anything other than a 20-event PGA Tour schedule starting probably year 2031."
Higgs' comments came after a discussion surrounding the coverage of PGA Tour's event, something the American is less than impressed with. Slamming the tour's broadcast partners, he commented: "I see the amount of work that goes into showing us play golf, and it is ridiculous.
"And I really, really appreciate all the work that they all go through to do that. But at the end of the day, they do a s***, s*** job of telling the story of what’s going on. So if we got an elevated schedule and the lesser ones are not elevated, but if you play good golf in those, you can get into the elevated ones, that’s awesome.
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"That’s something I’m sure you would watch. I’m sure almost every listener would love to watch and follow along. But they make it too f***ing hard to follow along. I don’t trust them to tell the story the way that it should be.” Higgs went on to praise new CBS analyst Trevor Immelman, whilst criticising his predecessor Nick Faldo.
"Well, it’s like, I didn’t particularly care to turn on my TV and listen to Nick Faldo. I don’t really know him that well. I’m sure he’s a decent guy. I didn’t particularly care. The reason I didn’t particularly care is I never saw the man. Like, he’s there Wednesday to Sunday. Just come out on the driving range. Now whether people talk to you or not, who knows? But listen to what’s going on. Trevor Immelman is taking his place - I see the man everywhere. I think he’s going to do a great job.”
