🚨⛳️🏆 Jon Rahm says he’s confident a LIV Golf player can win The Masters this year: “There are quite a few major champions in LIV, and there are a few that are major champion quality golfers, just pure numbers, if you go with math, wouldn't be the highest, but I'm confident that one of us can get it done this year." 
7 days until Round 1 #TheMasters ☢️ https://t.co/8749CCyFjO 
🚨🗣️⛳️ #NEW: Tommy Fleetwood talked about what sees from LIV GOLF after making headlines a few months back when he attended the Vegas event in person:
“They are obviously doing pretty well for
what they are. The players seem to enjoy it, seem to enjoy playing on that tour; one of the first things I noticed was that everybody seems happy, chilled, relaxed…
“There are certain things I wasn’t used to; the music, I don’t know how I would feel about playing with that. Beyond that my biggest takeaway was that it was just another golf tournament…
Everyone seemed very professional and working very hard. It’s basically just a bunch of people who you knew out here that are now there. So many things have just carried over.”
(Via @guardian) 
🚨#NEW: The @nypost is reporting on Tiger Woods Masters preparations, saying the golf legend is taking “drastic measures” to prepare for next weeks tournament. (H/t @acaseofthegolf1) https://t.co/8ZxuXt56iG 
🚨📉📺 #NUMBERS GAME — Rory McIlroy talks about fans losing interest in men’s professional golf and TV ratings tanking: “If you look at the TV ratings of the PGA TOUR this year, they're down 20 percent across the board. That's a fifth, that's big.
I would say the numbers on LIV aren't great either in terms of the people tuning in. I just think with the fighting and everything that's went on over the past couple years, people are just getting really fatigued of it and it's turning people off men's professional golf, and that's not a good thing for anyone.
It's going to be really interesting to see how the four major championships do, or even the three because put Augusta aside, I think that sort of lives in its own world. It will be really interesting to see how the major championship numbers fare compared to the other bigger events because there's an argument to be made if the numbers are better and you've got all the best players in the world playing, then there's an argument to say OK, we need to get this thing back together. But on the flip side, if the numbers aren't as good, it's an argument to still say we need to put everyone back together because people are losing interest in the game even if they don't want to tune in to the four major championships. Like that to me is not -- that's where I said like things need a correction and things are unsustainable because I'm close with NBC and the people that really care about these things and the people that tune in to watch golf. You know, 20 percent's a pretty jarring number this year.” @TrackingRory 
Rory: “The one thing with Butch is you go spend time with him & you’re always going to feel better about yourself at the end of it whether you’re hitting it better or not. He’s sort of half golf coach, half psychologist in a way. It’s fun to go out there.”
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💍🏌🏻♂️ Married to the game
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🚨⛳️🤝 JUST IN: Justin Thomas will have Matt Minister caddie for him at #TheMasters, per @ToddLewisGC. https://t.co/PkMSGk8ruY 
🌺⛳️ #TheMasters is just around the corner. What’s your favourite thing about the years first major? https://t.co/A5p09oUoFf 
🚨⛳️❌ JUST IN: Justin Thomas announces that he and caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay have parted ways https://t.co/kmmthMDwPV 
🚨⛳️🌦️ #DISRUPTION PHASE — Phil Mickelson says he puts his trust in Yasir and says ‘we’ll get there’ in respect to golf eventually getting to a better place : “I think in the end, we are in a transitional state where we now have competition and that's leading to a lot of disruption and change but it's also in the end product going to make golf more global where the best players travel more.
I don't know how it's going to end out, exactly, or what it's going to look like. I'm putting my trust in Yasir and where the game is headed more globally. But at some point when it gets ironed out, I think it's going to be in a much better place where we bring the best players from the world, and it's going to open up more opportunities for manufacturing, course design, for players in different parts of the world to be inspired and enter the game. I think it's going to be in a much better place.
But right now, we are in the disruption phase, so we are in the middle of the process, and when it's all said and done, it's going to be a lot brighter. But while we go through it, it's challenging. But we'll get there.” 
🚨🤝⛳️ #DEAL OR NO DEAL? — Bryson DeChambeau says people are ‘losing interest’ in golf and a deal ‘needs to happen fast’ for the good of the sport: “Well there's multiple ways that you can solve this problem. I think that from a player's perspective, it needs to come back together for the fans, No. 1. The fans are what drive this sport. If we don't have fans, we don't have golf. We are not up here entertaining. That's the most important thing as of right now, the low-hanging fruit. There's got to be a way to come together. How that comes together, that's above all of us out here.
We can give input. We can have little moments where we say, hey, we think this would be a good idea or that would be a good idea, but ultimately, it's up to the guys up top to figure it out and figure it out quickly because we can't keep going this direction. It's not sustainable for sure, and we all respect that and recognize that and want the best for the game of golf. We all love this game and we want to keep playing it and we want to keep competing.”
“The only answer is for us to somehow come together in some sort of terms where it makes sense and for us to be playing all again in somewhat of the same boat. It's great to have the majors where we come together, but we want to be competing, at least I want to be competing every week, with all of the best players in the world for sure… And it needs to happen fast. It's not a two-year thing. Like it needs to happen quicker rather than later just for the good of the sport. Too many people are losing interest. 
Doesn’t get much better than this drive to the 19th hole at Payne’s Valley 🔥
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⛳️🐍🐊 Some helpful hints…
“If you see alligators or snakes in the water, don’t go in the water..”
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🚨JUST IN: Rory McIlroy is reportedly working with legendary swing instructor Butch Harmon, per @krispursiainen https://t.co/8IvEuQHgYh 