Although the backroom chats may be rewarding for fans, I can’t help feeling I didn’t come here to watch another man tediously analyse his swing.“The game has never been more controversial than it is this year,” a voiceover says in the opening moments of the show.
The show introduces the league through the story of colourful English golfer Ian Poulter, an ageing star whose victories are slipping further into the past than he’d like. He is asked straight-up by the crew if he is going to join LIV — a question he fumbles, before saying: “It’s a business decision, it’s an opportunity, so we’ll see”, before turning to look and smirk wryly at the camera. “People ask all the time, don’t you have enough already? But that’s all relative.”