More stars linked to LIV move in 'incredible' coup

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American linksmen Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele caput up the latest radical of mainstay golfers rumoured to depart the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed LIV series.

Cantlay and Schauffele, on with Mito Pereira and Thomas Pieters, person been linked to the breakaway league.

The question would service a immense stroke to the PGA Tour with a 72-hole illness each that stood betwixt Pereira and the PGA Championship earlier this year.

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LIV Golf reportedly intends to person each players for the 2023 roster signed by the extremity of the year.

Moving up with its multi-year plan, LIV volition big 14 events betwixt February and September of adjacent year, with 48 contracted players taking part. A greater absorption volition beryllium placed connected squad contention with the summation of a franchised league to tally wrong the tour.

Speaking astatine Trump National, wherever Aussie Cameron Smith led his squad to a immense payday successful the season-ending squad championship, LIV's president Atul Khosla projected a little volatile 2nd season.

"We are successful the mediate of the discussions," helium said of the imminent signings.

"We are going to get it done this year. We privation the teams locked successful by the caller year. It volition play itself retired implicit the adjacent mates of months."

Khosla besides addressed LIV's commercialized arrangements, revealing caller broadcast deals are successful the works.

"On the US front, we are backmost and distant with a fewer antithetic networks," helium said.

"Step 1 was to amusement them the product, which they intelligibly understand. We had to amusement them the graphics and however it would beryllium precise different. Step 2 was to wide the time.

"We are present astatine the constituent wherever outlets person said clip could beryllium cleared. There are lone truthful galore times a twelvemonth you tin bash that connected Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We are figuring retired what the commercialized arrangements could look like.

"I consciousness bully astir wherever we are but we person enactment to bash implicit the adjacent mates of months. We deliberation we are providing an unthinkable commercialized product. These are not six-month oregon one-year deals, if a TV web is getting down this it's for aggregate years.

"We person got to commencement commercialising the product. We person got to get connected TV, we person to get firm partners. These are milestones that we request to hit."

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