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LIV Golf Celebrates Stealing One Of Golf Most Exciting Athletes Out From Under The PGA Tour

September 13, 2022 , , , ,
LIV Golf Celebrates Signing David Puig Out From Under PGA Tour

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The LIV Golf Invitational is headed to Rich Harvest Farms in Chicago, the 5th event in the inaugural LIV Golf season. And ahead of the event running from September 16-18, LIV has announced one of their most intriguing athlete additions yet, a golfer they stole right out from under the PGA Tour: David Puig.

20-year-old David Puig played collegiate golf at Arizona State University but is poised to make his professional debut are reportedly signing a massive contract with the LIV Golf tour. This came after a phenomenal amateur golf career that had the golf world thinking he might be the next PGA Tour superstar.

LIV Golf Celebrates Snatching David Puig Away From PGA Tour

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman congratulated Spanish golfer David Puig on joining the LIV Invitational just a few short days ahead of the Chicago tournament:

It wasn’t entirely unexpected that David Puig would join LIV but it was still a shock to some. Puig previously finished 3rd in the European Amateur (2021) and he represented Europe in the 2018 Junior Ryder Cup. At Arizona State, he won the 2021 Southwestern Invitational, just his fifth collegiate tourney, and he won it by a record 9 strokes. Then he came back a year later and defended his title. Puig and his ASU teammates also made it to the Finals of the 2022 NCAA Championship before falling to the Longhorns.

After all that, David Puig received an invitation from the LIV Golf tour to compete at the tour’s first tournament held outside of London. Puig finished in 40th at LIV Golf London (+3). He then returned to LIV for the Trump Bedminster Invitational where he finished in 42nd (+7).

Despite being a combined +10 in his two LIV Invitational appearances, his rising stardom as one of the sport’s best young golfers was enough to entice him to drop his amateur status and start competing for real money on the tour:

The golf world reacts to LIV’s fascinating new signing:

Here is how the golf world reacted to news of David Puig joining LIV and foregoing any shot at being a PGA Tour and mainstream golf superstar:

The glaring issue here is David Puig isn’t getting a massive contract from the LIV Golf Tour. He’ll be given the opportunity to compete to win money, but we’ve already seen LIV drop players as they sign bigger names. David Puig almost certainly falls within the realm of players that would get dropped for a big name coming over from the PGA Tour.

‘Exhibition sports’ where his participation also disrupts his shot at future earnings in the sport of golf:

It is fascinating to see LIV Golf and Greg Norman go after a younger golfer like this with a ton of upside. However, he wasn’t really able to build any level of stardom before joining. And should he join the LIV Golf Invitational and start winning every. single. event… is that really a good look for the Tour and the big names they’ve already got?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again until something changes: unless LIV Golf signs a TV contract and gets off YouTube they will not catch on with mainstream golf fans. Every time I’ve played golf with older gentlemen from my course they don’t even know how to watch LIV, and they are the guys who are watching golf…

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