AUGUSTA, Ga. — Golf's civil war has all the greatest players in the world playing in the same field four times a year.
While No. 1 in the world Scottie Scheffler slowly has been rounding his game into shape on the PGA Tour, Jon Rahm has gone unnoticed playing LIV Golf events around the globe, before the league returned to the U.S. last week.
When Rory McIlroy was winning The Players at TCP Sawgrass, Brooks Koepka was finishing runner-up in Singapore.
Now, for the first time this year the best golfers from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf will be in the same field.
But with the Masters kicking off golf's majors' season, the two tours are in the same spot they were nearly two years ago.
With Augusta National as a backdrop, fatigue over the negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV's financial backers, Saudi's Public Investment Fund (and the two main players, Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan), is real.
The parties have met in different spots around the world and in settings from golf courses to the White House.
With one constant: They always ...
