While some of the more vocal anti-LIV Golf players on the PGA Tour have softened on their beliefs – at least publicly – Fred Couples, with his unique perspective, remains defiant. Golf’s King of Cool still doesn’t see the need for the upstart league’s existence.
“I don’t think I’ll ever understand it,’’ Couples said this week as he prepared for the Masters. “Maybe I’ll go to one and see what it’s really, really like. I know how great they are as players. I get it all, and I get the 54 holes and you drive a cart to your tee and shotgun. That’s easy to pick on.
“Sometimes I’ve picked on comments that people have made, and I’ve picked on comments that they talk about the Tour, which I have now 44 years invested in. I don’t want anyone picking on a tour that I think is very good.
“Now, everything can get better, but let me tell you, if the LIV Tour is better for golf, I’m missing something there. But again, I’m not here to bash them anymore.’’
Is Couples – the 1992 Masters champion – a bit thin-skinned? Maybe. But like he said, after 44 years on Tour – most of them being one of its biggest stars – he’s earned that right.
Couples also praised a couple of his friends in the LIV Golf League.
“I love DJ (Dustin Johnson). I love Brooks (Koepka). I don’t know if they even comment on the LIV Tour. They just play golf.’’
