Phil Mickelson thinks Super Bowl week is the best moment to introduce LIV Golf, calling it a “perfect vibe.”
LAS VEGAS — The perfect metaphor for LIV Golf was the scene on Wednesday at Las Vegas Country Club, which is at the far end of the Las Vegas Strip and in the shadows of where the real action takes place.
The dubious, upstart Saudi-upheld golf visit has spent the better piece of its two or more year presence asking for consideration — even as it’s marked huge name player after enormous name player away from the PGA Visit and constrained the Visit into rolling out seismic improvements to its establishment.
However, the truth, as it remains right now, is that the PGA Visit — notwithstanding blemishes have been all uncovered in the recent years — remains ruler of the game.
This is what makes this LIV Golf tournament, which is taking place in Las Vegas during the week of the Super Bowl, so compelling.
The eyes of the games world will be upon Wrongdoing City. What’s more, the Super Bowl swarm around addresses the extremely segment LIV is attempting to draw in with reckless methodology evades the practices of ace competition golf with music playing on each opening and players wearing shorts.
“It’s the ideal energy for LIV Golf,” Phil Mickelson told The Post Wednesday as he played his supportive of am close by North Carolina quarterback and first-round-draft prospect Drake Maye and Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis.
No one jumps at the chance to wed golf and football like Mickelson, who’s a games addict.
“You have such countless cool individuals that are here in the neighborhood that are getting presented to LIV Golf and cherishing the energy and how hip it is,” he said. ” We need to carry golf to the more youthful age and make it cooler and hip. I am not suggesting that it ought to be this way every week. We generally need the extraordinary practices that the game gives, yet we additionally need to adjust to the present climate if we have any desire to keep the game intriguing and developing.”
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LIV Golf being in the midsection of the monster with the Super Bowl four days away figures to be an ideal fit. You need to think NFL fans who are additionally golf players will come watch any semblance of Jon Rahm, Creeks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Cam Smith and Mickelson while they’re visiting the area for Super Bowl week.
The golf players are stirred up about the Super Bowl, each having his own viewpoint on who to pull for and who they accept will win.
“I think the Niners will win and Brock Purdy will be one of the best stories in the NFL, similar as Tom Brady was,” Mickelson said. ” Clearly, [Chiefs quarterback Patrick] Mahomes is perhaps of the best quarterback that we’ll at any point see thus amusing to watch play, yet I think Brock Purdy is quite possibly of the best story and quite possibly of the most misjudged ability we’ve at any point seen.
“Brock Purdy saved the San Francisco 49ers. He comes and he’s playing for under $1 million and he’s playing at a level of a $50 million quarterback. It’s staggering.”
Maye, who figures to be one of the main a few picks in April’s NFL draft, referred to his experience as “magnificent playing with Phil, a blessing from heaven.”
Maye is utilizing this week to find out as much about the NFL as possible. The golf was a reward. After the supportive of am Wednesday, he was made a beeline for an occasion where he was meeting with Eli Monitoring, who he said is coaching him through the pre-draft process.
“I’ve been working with Eli in the meantime, getting on Zooms and talking football with him,” Maye said. ” I’m figuring out in Versatile, Alabama, and his reinforcement quarterback in school was Dave Morris, and he’s preparation me for the draft. Little world. Also, I was at the Monitoring Camp this mid year, so I got to see Eli and Peyton.”
Levis, as Maye, was awed by playing with Mickelson, saying, “In any event, I got to get a few hints from one of the best golf players ever. Despite the fact that I didn’t hit it as well as I’d prefer to, I actually came out a superior golf player hence.”