‘Don’t Think That I Am Going to’: LIV Golf Pro Admits His Deep Concerns With Governing Bodies as Dark Clouds Loom Over His Career

It’s a bitter pill to swallow for the 2023 LIV Golf Individual Champion. Fresh off coming after a $35.3 million win, and looking to welcome his second child, Talor Gooch, should be jumping with joy. But as players take turns to share the Masters invitation card, Gooch gets a sobering reminder that he won’t be at Augusta this year. In fact, not just Augusta, despite playing at his career-best form, the LIV Golf pro doesn’t feel he is going to “get into the four majors this year.”

Gooch fired a salvo at the authorities for this cruel irony, just like former PGA Tour pro Jerry Foltz who hosted the LIV Golf pro on the Fairway to Heaven podcast. Foltz asked what is Gooch’s opinion on the future of Majors. The host was perhaps expecting a more brutal slamming of the “laughable” points giving authority. But Gooch’s response took a different turn before coming back to the OWGR issue.

Talor Gooch has no ‘Major’ hopes, thanks to the governing bodies

The 32-year-old is fully conscious of his bleak Major chances: “Unfortunately, I don’t think that I’m going to get into the four majors this year.” Gooch admits it sucks big time. “It does suck from a sense of like, you know, playing some of the best golf of my life that, you know, I would like a crack, you know, at each of the majors.” Last year, Gooch missed the cut at the PGA Championship and the Open Championship. The LIV Golf pro finished at 34th place in the Masters.

Notably, the U.S. Open and the British Open host qualifiers for the Majors. However, last year, Gooch didn’t participate in the U.S. Open qualifier and appears to be averse to the idea this year as well. The doors of Augusta were closed for the LIV Golf pro after he slipped out to the top 50 in the OWGR standings. 

Sporting a Smash GC cap, the American International slammed the governing bodies in no unambiguous terms. “Given the way things have unraveled, I don’t see them, for lack of a better term, being bold enough to step out and do that,” said the 2023 LIV Golf Individual champion before taking a dig at OWGR as well, terming it “irrelevant.” 

Although, he didn’t have any “communication with any representation of any of the governing bodies or PGA of America,” the Oklahoma native feels both are just gonna “let things play out.” Hammering the ruling bodies for their cravenness, Gooch hoped that once the dust settled down on the $3 billion framework agreement, they would change their policy.

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