Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are to face Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a made-for-TV 18-hole shootout in Las Vegas later this yr that’s being billed as PGA Tour v LIV Golf League match up.
The fourball, two-team match will air on TNT, which broadcast the earlier 9 editions of ‘The Match’, an exhibition collection that began in 2018 with a match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and most just lately noticed McIlroy tackle Max Homa, Rose Zhang and Lexi Thompson in February.
“I’m thrilled to companion with Scottie in what guarantees to be an thrilling duel in opposition to Bryson and Brooks in Vegas this December,” McIlroy mentioned. “This isn’t only a contest between a few of golf’s main champions; it’s an occasion designed to energise the followers. We’re all right here to placed on an excellent present and contribute to a goodwill occasion that brings the very best collectively once more.”
McIlroy has performed in two editions of The Match and various different made-for-TV exhibitions. Scheffler is making his debut into exhibition golf and is coming off a season through which he gained the Olympic gold medal and 7 PGA Tour occasions, together with the Masters and the Tour Championship, the place he took house the $25m first-place bonus for profitable the FedEx Cup.
The match comes because the PGA Tour faces rising stress to finalise a framework settlement of a merger with LIV Golf’s monetary backers, the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund, which was initially struck in June final yr, however has thus far proven no indicators of bringing collectively the 2 events.
