Being a PGA Tour event and not actually a Major, the PLAYERS cannot invite any LIV players. That said, Fleetwood isn’t worried about it. In fact, he joked that a win involving a depleted field would thrill him.Via Golf Magic, he said:
“If I win The Players… if there was just me in the field, I’d be perfectly happy. I would play with the media team, and I’d be happy winning the players! I’ve got a chance; I would rather it be like that!.
He later added that a win is a win, and it doesn’t matter who it comes against:
“If we win one of these tournaments, I’m not going to put it in my trophy cabinet and be worried about a few players missing really.”
Signature Events and Major tournaments, like the PLAYERS, invite the best of the best on tour, and Tommy Fleetwood believes the competition and prestige is still there in spite of a few golfers being absent.He said via Golf Magic:
“Tournaments like last week (Arnold Palmer Invitational), the Players Championship, the BMW at Wentworth, you can rattle off tons of events that a bunch of us as golfers have dreamt of winning as a kid, have dreamt of playing in as a kid.”
Fleetwood doesn’t think the field determines how any golfer should feel about winning a tournament they once dreamed about. He continued:
“I have kids that are in the game now that are trying to be the best they can be and make it. For some people, it’s the dream to play in these events, they actually just want to get to The Players, they just want to get to the Wentworth, so I don’t think it takes anything away.”
The English golfer did admit that it is good for golfers to compete against the best players in the world, which does include some LIV players. He’s just not worried about who is or isn’t in this field he’s taking on
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