LIV Golfer Calls the League's Lighter Schedule 'Frustrating'

Australia's Jed Morgan wishes the Saudi-backed circuit had more events, a twist on what many players said upon joining.

An early talking point among a handful of LIV Golf players was that the rival league offered an opportunity to play less golf.

While largely derided amid criticism after LIV Golf sued so its players could continue to compete on the PGA Tour—and not necessarily true anyway given the schedule and the desire to play major championships—it nonetheless remains a talking point.

Then there is Jed Morgan. The Australian golfer, who has played 10 LIV events over its two seasons and is part of a LIV team of Australians called Ripper GC, wishes LIV had more events.

“There’s obviously quite a bit of time off with the LIV stuff at the moment, which is a little bit frustrating,’’ Morgan, 23, told News Corp Australia. “Part of being a good golfer is playing a few tournaments in a row and getting some form that way.’’

Morgan, 23, who is part of the team captained by Cam Smith and including Marc Leishman and Matt Jones, will get busy this week as part of the LIV schedule that sees the league play in consecutive weeks, three of the next four and four of the next six.

But Morgan, who won the Australian PGA Championship in January 2022 to earn spots at both the U.S. Open and British Open, signed on with LIV Golf for its Invitational Series in 2022, playing in seven events. He has played in all three LIV events this year, but has no finish better than a tie for 13th place in 10 starts.

“I think a lot of the guys would like to see it grow to 18 events, but that’s from a young guys speaking,’’ he said. “Others might like 14. You probably need to play a few more events each year to keep yourself sharp.’’

That was a concern heading into the Masters, where there were 18 LIV golfers in the field, 12 making the cut. Three of them—Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Patrick Reed—finished in the top five.

LIV played just three events prior to the Masters and some players had as few as nine rounds—due to the 54-hole format—heading to Augusta National.

That changes now as LIV Golf heads to Australia and Singapore in consecutive weeks before taking a week off prior to an event in Tulsa, Okla. That is the week prior to the PGA Championship. LIV tees it up again the week following the PGA outside of Washington, D.C., but then has no events until late June.