When we elect to call something, somebody or someone ‘peculiar’ was are we saying?
The dictonary describes the word ‘peculiar’ as referring to being different to what is normal or expected; strange.
Five-time mayor winning Rory McIlroy used the word peculiar when asked his thougths on overnight news that LIV Golf will adopt from the start of their 2026 season hosting four-round tournaments and thus abandoning the three-day events that have been in place since the fomration of LIV in 2022.
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That while @livgolf_league 72-hole move to be ‘percular’ #LIVGolf also suggested …. “It brings them (LIV) back into not really being a destructor & sort is of falling more in line with what everyone else does” he said ahead @ADGolfChamps… pic.twitter.com/cM7DY0RtiL
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Of course, we all know LIV was chosen as the name for the breakaway because it’s the Roman numeral for 54 and with former LIV CEO Greg Norman saying: “It is the Roman numeral for 54, which has two meanings: 54 is the lowest score you could shoot if you were to birdie every hole on a par 72 course, so there is an aspirational aspect to the thinking. It is also the number of holes to be played in each event.”
Whether or not LIV remains the name of now 72-hole body was not revealed in yesterday’s news release but it sure had McIlroy guessing when asked ahead of this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
“I think it’s a peculiar move because I think they could have got ranking points with three rounds. I don’t think three rounds versus four rounds is what was holding them back,” said McIlroy.
“I don’t — it certainly puts them more in line with traditional golf tournaments than what we’ve all done. It brings them back into not really being a destructor and sort is of falling more in line with what everyone else does. But if that’s what they felt they needed to do to get the ranking points, I guess that’s what they had to do.
“I think what’s hard is you’ve got the LIV guys, and say potentially they get World Rankings, but because their strength of fields are going to be so weak because a lot of the guys have fallen already in the rankings because they have not had ranking points for so long, I don’t know if the ranking points are really going to benefit them.
“It will be interesting to see how it plays out”.
Interesting is proper a good morning as questions being raised include whether the new proposed format will come with a halfway cut and if so, how will it affect the team format that has been key in the now three years LIV has been staged?
