Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy will face Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a televised 18-hole shooting tournament in Las Vegas later this year billed as a PGA Tour v LIV Golf League match.
The fourball game, two teams will play on TNT, which broadcasts the previous nine editions of 'The Match', a show series that started in 2018 with the match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and recently saw McIlroy face Max Homa . , Rose Zhang and Lexi Thompson in February.
“I am very excited to be working with Scottie in what promises to be an exciting duel against Bryson and Brooks in Vegas this December,” said McIlroy. “This is not just a competition between golf's great champions; an event designed to empower fans. We are all here to put on a great show and participate in an event of interest that brings together the best of the best as well.”
McIlroy has played in two editions of The Match and other made-for-TV shows. Scheffler is golfing on the show and is coming off a season in which he won an Olympic gold medal and seven PGA Tour events, including the Masters and the Tour Championship, where he took home a $25m first-place bonus for winning the tournament. The FedEx Cup.
The match comes as the PGA Tour faces increasing pressure to finalize a framework agreement with LIV Golf's financiers, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, which was initiated in June last year, but so far there are no signs of a merger. two groups.
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