Golf legend calls out 'soft' LIV players in wild rant

It's a far cry from the traditional PGA Tour format, which is four rounds of 18-holes over four days in single-stroke play.

This is Faldo's biggest gripe about LIV Golf as he argues the competitive nature of the game is non-existent.

“The guys would fist pump, ‘I made the cut, I still have a chance to win,’” Faldo said about golfers competing in the PGA Tour. “That’s more important than, ‘Oh, thanks very much. I’ll waltz around for 54 holes and I’ve got a guaranteed check.’ That’s not sport. It’s not good for you.

“Sport is bloody tough. The fear of failure is just as powerful as the quest to win. And I think when you’re on a fail-free tour, you can’t fail. It makes you go soft. I think some of those players have gone soft.”

LIV Golf and the PGA Tour have been in a feud since 2022 with neither side coming to an agreement on a plan for a merger. 

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund offered PGA Tour Enterprises a $1.5 billion investment, but the PGA Tour declined as they seek LIV Golf to completely cease operations.

“You couldn’t go to your bank manager and say, ‘This is my business model.’ He’d say, ‘Excuse me? We’ve only got this coming in and that going out?’” Faldo said. “The players are the luckiest things in the world … you’ve got guys we’ve hardly heard of, who’ve never won, playing in $20 million tournaments.”