USGA CEO compares golf’s current state to the NFL as PGA Tour-LIV saga continues (Imagn)
The PGA Tour-LIV Golf divide has had an impact on golf. The sport has been changed and it likely won't ever be the same regardless of how the merger turns out, should the two sides ever come to an official agreement. USGA CEO Mike Whan has had a pretty close view of the entire thing, and he compared it to the NFL's strike from several years ago.
Whan isn't sure that football is still struggling from that, and he's not sure golf will suffer that fate, either. He said (via Golf Digest):
"I'm a kid who grew up watching all sports, so I've seen my share of strikes and things that made fans say, 'I’m never coming back.' But I don't think the NFL is reeling from its strike decades ago."
