Sweeping changes that the PGA Tour announced this week are "a copy" of the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf series, former world number one Lee Westwood has said.
On Wednesday, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced the tour's top golfers had committed to competing against each other more regularly.
The changes require top golfers, assuming they qualify, to play at least a 20-event schedule consisting of the four majors, the Players Championship, 12 "elevated events" with average purses of $20m and at least three other PGA Tour events of the player's choosing.Monahan said the changes were inspired by the PGA Tour members and singled out those who held a players-only meeting last week to discuss a number of proposals in the face of the LIV Golf threat."I laugh at what the PGA Tour players have come up with," Westwood, who was suspended from the PGA Tour after playing in LIV's inaugural event in London, told Golf Digest. "It's just a copy of what LIV is doing.
There are a lot of hypocrites out there. They all say LIV is not competitive. They all point at the no-cut aspect of LIV and the short fields. "Now, funnily enough, they are proposing 20 events that look a lot like LIV...