LIV rebels in it together as rival camps collide

2022 was the year of the LIV bother. It's shaping up that 2023 will be as well.

Notwithstanding the branch of Hooters nearby, Augusta National is typically regarded as a place of genteel civility and opulence. John Daly, needless to say, is the star attraction again this year and is now close to being the establishment's chief mascot, rivalling the waitresses in the famous orange shorts.

Catch a glimpse of those fairways, of Rae's Creek, and the honeyed tones of Jim Nantz spring to mind. Jim has been good friends with every chairman of Augusta National in our lifetimes, thankfully. Never once has the club's head honcho turned towards Jim in the butler cabin and informed the new champion with a snort that here's a hired hand from CBS to ask you some inoffensive, asinine questions.

That would make for an awkward butler cabin scene. The most awkward presentation thus far was probably after Hideki Matsuyama's landmark win in 2021, for no other reason than Hideki hadn't the first notion of what was being said by the two American men seated opposite.

We might witness an even more awkward butler cabin scene this year if one of the LIV boys - aka the Saudi golf league outcasts, aka Greg Norman's rebel alliance - deliver the goods down the stretch on Sunday.

Norman retains an enviable confidence for a man best remembered for blowing an implausible number of major championships at the peak of his career. The three-time runner up has not been invited to Augusta this year - "so petty" - but he's been characteristically loud in the media all week, as befitting his role as the game's great disruptor.

His lot have been threatening to bring a touch of Ryder Cup style anarchy to proceedings this weekend.

Perhaps, if things got properly spicy,