LIV Golf players hit with dress code crackdown on eve of new season

The caller LIV Golf play tees disconnected astatine Riyadh Golf Club successful Saudi Arabia connected Thursday and viewers are acceptable to announcement a regularisation alteration is definite to person divided sentiment among players

When LIV Golf launched successful 2022, it pulled retired each the stops to separate itself from the PGA Tour, but up of the commencement of the caller play connected Thursday, it seems one of those changes has been reversed.

LIV volition tee disconnected its 4th play successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia connected Thursday, and its relaxed formal codification has been a diagnostic since its launch, with players permitted to play successful shorts. That is acceptable to alteration this year, though, according to erstwhile LIV subordinate Pat Perez.

Perez, who was a founding subordinate of the breakaway league, has stepped distant from the 4Aces squad aft a disappointing 2024 season and go portion of the broadcast unit arsenic an on-course reporter.

Speaking connected LIV's Fairway To Heaven podcast, Perez said: "I've heard the players are wearing pants each year." His caller workfellow connected the broadcast unit said helium had heard the aforesaid rumour.

Perez continued: "I got it confirmed the different time that the players are wearing pants and the archetypal spot I thought astir was Singapore [due to the aggravated vigor and humidity]."

LIV's caller run begins astatine Riyadh Golf Club connected Thursday, with the play opener being played nether the floodlights astatine night. Jon Rahm hopes to support his Individual Championship rubric aft finishing apical of the heap astatine the extremity of a stellar debut play connected the breakaway circuit past year.

The formal codification is not the lone alteration brought successful by LIV for the 2025 season, with the league announcing connected Wednesday it had made important changes to the scoring format for its squad competition.

Starting successful Riyadh, the scores from each 4 players connected each squad for each 3 rounds volition number towards the squad people total. Previously, lone the apical 3 scores were counted from the opening 2 rounds, and the regularisation alteration volition mean determination is obscurity for fell to players having a unsmooth time connected the course.

Legion XIII skipper Rahm welcomed the alteration successful his pre-tournament property conference. He said: "I similar it. I deliberation it benefits a squad similar ours. I deliberation we person 4 truly beardown players that are truly consistent.

"So I deliberation it's amended for the league successful wide for everybody to substance each azygous time due to the fact that Sunday is usually really, truly fun. At slightest past twelvemonth it was incredibly amusive successful that regard. But I deliberation it's amended for the teams and the players' development, arsenic well, for each circular to count. I'm precise overmuch successful favour of it."