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USA Today via Reuters

USA Today via Reuters

Ever since LIV Golf’s initiation into the World of Golf, things have changed at a faster pace. Many players have shifted to the breakaway league and have left the PGA Tour. Many prominent names were among the defectors. Recently, this golf course has also made a decision to shift.


It will be the first course ever to make a change between the rival leagues. However, how is it possible that the Mayakoba Course is changing its interest after 16 years?

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Mayakoba’s El Camaleon Golf Club to host LIV 2023 season opener

PGA Tour’s long history of association with Mexico’s Mayakoba Resort is well known. The Tour has been closely associated with it for 16 years now. Although the record is now set to break and won’t remain the same for long. As per sources, the El Camaleon Golf Club has made a choice to host LIV Golf’s first tournament on its soil.

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This is set to happen in February 2023. A common link between the course and LIV Golf remains to be Greg Norman. The CEO whom everyone on the side of the Tour wants out as a prerequisite to peace talks is the architect of the Course.

The Mayakoba Resort also has ties with Norman and LIV’s administration, so it does make sense for them to shift the business to LIV golf.

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The Course is the first to leave the side of the PGA Tour and shift to LIV Golf. Only time will tell if this will cause a chain effect of some kind or if Mayakoba will remain to be an exception.

How did fans react to this new LIV news?

This out-of-the-ordinary news has had multiple fans pouring in their reactions. Twitter world fired questions and remarks on a rolling basis as soon as this news saw the light of day.

The PGA Tour vs LIV Golf rivalry keeps getting intense every day. At first, it was the defections of prominent players that angered and triggered reactions out of the PGA Tour and now the course making the shift adds to the pre-existing distress.

Golf fans globally are invested in the matter. These are some of the ways the fans chose to react in:

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