SOUTHPORT, England — The final major championship of the men’s golf season arrives as several major questions surround the future of the PGA Tour and rival LIV Golf.
Royal Birkdale Golf Club is hosting the 154th edition of the Open Championship, which begins Thursday, marking the 11th time the sport’s oldest tournament has been played at the course. Jordan Spieth won his third major and first and only Claret Jug the last time The Open was at Royal Birkdale, in 2017.
Victor Perez became the 16th LIV player to qualify for The Open on Sunday thanks to his T9 finish at the Genesis Scottish Open—a co-sanctioned event on both the PGA Tour and DP World Tour—which allowed seven LIV players to tee up alongside PGA Tour players in a rare non-major setting.
But this week at Birkdale will mark the final time this year that both LIV’s and the PGA Tour’s top stars will face off against each other. Meanwhile, exactly what the pro golf landscape will look like in 2027 is still up in the air.
LIV’s Unsettled Future
