Major champion claims LIV defectors are easily replaced

Former girls’s Main winner Laura Davies doesn’t imagine there’s a lot want for the PGA Tour to sweat the defections to LIV Golf.

Davies admits that she isn’t a fan of the LIV Golf format as a championship golf purist.

Nonetheless, she additionally concedes that it will be arduous for anybody to show down the sums of cash being thrown about.

“It simply goes to point out that everybody has their worth,” Davies mentioned. “The difficulty is for these gamers going to LIV is that there are guys going to fill their boots who’re superb gamers. We’ve already acquired Ludvig Aberg coming via, one other celebrity within the making.

“And take a look at Cam Smith? Would anybody really understand how he’s doing with LIV and that he was the Open champion earlier than he went? No person actually is aware of how he performs anymore.

“Don’t get me unsuitable. If anybody supplied me that type of cash, I’d be there. I’m not criticizing them, however they’re simply changed. Perhaps folks gained’t take into consideration Jon Rahm ultimately?”

Davies doesn’t discover LIV Golf to be a fascinating spectacle and isn’t a fan of the shotgun begin.

“I’m not within the three rounds or the shotgun begin,” she added. “As a sports activities fan, I like 72-hole championship golf the place you end on the 18th, not the fifth. LIV will not be for me.”

Davies is delighted that the ladies’s sport has actually progressed by way of prize cash and is now catching as much as the earnings on the PGA Tour.

“My greatest test was $240,000 and that was on the JC Penney occasion with John Daly in 1999,” she mirrored.

“I feel most of my checks on the LPGA had been between $60,000 and $90,000 for profitable. Within the girls’s sport particularly, it has all modified for the higher and good luck to them. I’m not envious of those women one bit as I like to see it.”

The 2024 AIG Girls’s Open at St. Andrews could also be a becoming farewell for this distinguished, acclaimed champion, however Davies is not going to be swayed by sentiment or the considered a dewy-eyed, visor-doffing final hurrah.

“Subsequent yr would be the remaining one in all my exemption, however in the meanwhile I don’t suppose I can tee up,” Davies mentioned.

“I’m taking part in in just a few senior occasions earlier than then and if I present any indicators of encouragement in any respect then I’d play. However I don’t need to take somebody’s spot. It could be beautiful to stroll over the bridge on the 18th however not at 35-over-par. It gained’t be as a lot enjoyable.”