PGA Tour’s Jay Monahan, LIV boss to play St. Andrews in beautiful pairing

Welcome to Enjoying By’s day by day ritual — Golf Speak At present.

Every day, the crew will talk about numerous parts of the PGA Tour, LPGA, LIV Golf, and extra.

At present’s matter revolves across the week’s marquee occasion, the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship, and their pairings.

When the match introduced the pairings on Tuesday, jaws hit the ground after they noticed PGA Tour’s Jay Monahan and LIV Golf’s Yasir Al-Rumayyan collectively for Spherical 1. Monahan will play alongside Billy Horschel, and Al-Rumayyan’s companion is LIV Golf’s Dean Burmester.

Many probably questioned if the match officers did this on objective, however it doesn’t appear to be they are going to speak a lot enterprise after Horschel commented on the pairing.

There was a variety of information surrounding the PGA Tour and LIV Golf since they introduced their attainable deal over a 12 months in the past, on June 6, 2023.

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Many enterprise offers are reached on the golf course, so whereas this pairing is odd, it might be optimistic for the way forward for golf. Regardless of Horschel taking pictures down enterprise speak, who is aware of what may occur on the course between these two leaders.

Rory McIlroy and his dad, Gerry, are additionally within the area. On day one at Carnoustie, they are going to play with LIV’s Louis Oosthuizen and Johann Rupert.

Then, in Spherical 2 at Kingsbarn, he performs with Monahan and Horschel. Spherical 3 will get much more attention-grabbing as a result of they play with Al-Rumayyan and Burmester. Two of probably the most outstanding folks within the PGA Tour will play with LIV Golf’s boss.

Hopefully, this may result in extra discussions to get the deal executed between the 2 golf entities.

The attention-grabbing pairings don’t cease there.

Robert MacIntyre will play alongside his dad, Dougie, who caddied for him throughout his RBC Canadian Open victory. They may play with Shane Lowry and Gerry McManus in Spherical 1 at Carnoustie. Two European Ryder Cup members enjoying is all the time enjoyable to see.

Tommy Fleetwood and his companion Ogden Phipps II play alongside Brooks Koepka and Brian Thompson. In addition they open on Carnoustie.

Matt Wallace will play with Talor Gooch in Spherical 1. Defending champions Matt Fitzpatrick and his mom, Sue, will tee it up with Tyrrell Hatton and Jeff Hatton.

These are only a few of the notable pairings I noticed. For extra tee occasions and the whole checklist of pairings, take a look at the DP World Tour’s web site, which has every Alfred Dunhill Golf Championship pairing for the primary three days.

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