LIV Golf “took all the assholes and bad guys,” PGA Tour golfer Harry Higgs joked, while admitting he “don’t blame any of those guys for leaving.”
PGA Tour golfer Harry Higgs joked about controversial Saudi support LIV Golf Series “took on all the assholes and bad guys”, while highlighting a problem within the sport he calls the ” Tiger Woods hangover”.
In an interview with Golf WeekHiggs noted the enormous impact of Woods’ fame, success and struggles on golf coverage, stating that at his peak, “no one was forced to be good at their job…(because )Tiger was winning and c** *just sold out because he showed up.”
Higgs said: “I think it’s part of Tiger Woods’ kind of hangover, if we take it in a very, very, 30,000 foot view, where really no one had to be good at his work.
“And I’m not saying people weren’t, because they were, but really no one had to be good at their job in the golf landscape because Tiger played, Tiger won and shit had just sold. because he showed up.
“We’re definitely moving into an era where that’s going to happen less and less, if at all. I obviously want that to happen as much as possible, because it helps everyone involved.”
Higgs also addressed the current divide within the sport, with LIV attempting to drive away several of the sport’s biggest stars with lucrative deals and the PGA responding by suspending all of LIV’s golfers.
“As far as the division and all that, I don’t necessarily agree but I don’t blame any of those guys for leaving,” he added. “We joke throughout – they took all the assholes. They took all the bad guys.
“And that’s a problem. They also took some of our best players. But the ones that left didn’t put it in a place where it’s like, oh, shit, you know, all the great players are gone and played elsewhere.
“It’s not, but they took some of those who would have stories written about them, maybe in a negative light with negative connotations. And OK, that’s kind of a driving force for for people to read your story or for people to turn on their television. I struggle with that.
