Will Zalatoris spoke to the media ahead of the Arnold Palmer Invitational where he was asked about his form as well as the recent controversy over how to rank players from LIV Golf w/o them receiving points from the Official World Golf Ranking.
The competition is obviously very stiff I mean there’s no question about it we’ve had a quite a few firsttime winners on tour this year you’ve got some tenur guys that are contending week in week out um you know the official World Golf Ranking is what it is right
Now um but I also think that the competition that we have is is pretty stiff I mean you know it’s really good to see guys like Nick is especially come up and it just shows you the the golf climate that we’re in with kids in college coming up
And playing that great um but you know I I think that when you look at over the last few years and seeing the firsttime winners and playing as well as they have I think that’s something that I’m more excited about because on any given week
You can see someone just pop off a win you know it kind of is what it is I mean you see what Walken’s done this year and he’s 73rd in in the world um I’m not a guy who’s on the policy board or involved with those rankings
But the GU played some really good golf and I think you know having to get a special exemption from Augusta um you know it’s just there’s some really good players and there’s some guys that have gone around the world and played really good golf and um I think that’s
Something that once we get to the major Majors will be really fun to have us all back together um but I know that that’s kind of the utopian goal for all of us right now is to have the best players in the world play week in week out and I
Mean that I love this week in general because we’ve got the best players on the PJ tour and we’ve got guys that obviously really care about it but I also think you know we’ll see what happens going forward I don’t have a fix for it I know
Some guys have voiced their opinions on it I like staying out of that stuff but you know it’s um right now it’s it’s in a it’s in an interesting position I’ll leave it at that
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ah yes the PGA hit and giggle tour
I really don't like this argument "look how deep the competition is" on the PGA tour. Was Nick Taylor winning tournaments a lot BEFORE there was LIV? No he wasn't.
If you have A, B and C players on the PGA Tour. The A player pool goes from 25 player to 10 players, that means less A players to beat, more chances for B and C players to win. Now you also throw in the fact the A players remaining on Tour have played horribly this season, and you're getting B and C players winning. That's not depth, you took away the competition and gave more chances for others to win. Its such a joke to pretend otherwise
Coming and playing great? There is no one in the pga tour
Let me correct his misuse of the term competition – he meant to say that the competition is a bunch of stiff's that have not been very successful on the PGA tour.
Lol pga tour players are super delusional 🤦🏻♂️
cannot wait for Will to win his first major. but the abswers from the PGA sound scripted. as an avid golf fan no-one is winning. LIV have yr big money tournaments and let everyone play where they want. dont try and artificially keep any Tour alive. unfortunately the golf season revolves around the 4 majors. get it to work people !, if u cant then resign and let someone else try.