LIV Goes to 72 Holes
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Now entering its fourth year of play, LIV has announced that this season's events will be contested over 72 holes. In today's episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg discuss this change. Why is living abandoning its signature identity? Does it matter? Does it add credibility to its events? And how do things look for the future of this rival to the PGA Tour?
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| 0:00.0 | Live are going to 72 holes. |
| 0:03.6 | So for anyone who doesn't watch Live golf at the minute, I'm sure most people are aware, |
| 0:07.6 | it's 54 holes, so three rounds, shotgun start. |
| 0:11.5 | And from 2026 onwards, all their events as I am reading, is going to 72 holes, |
| 0:18.8 | which we'll talk about. |
| 0:20.6 | It's interesting. The thing I'm enjoying most is that there seems to be groups of people online celebrating in a kind of told you so, oh, aren't they so stupid now they're 72 old? They should have been 72 holes in the the first place kind of way which I find quite ironic and hilarious |
| 0:39.2 | but anyway we'll talk |
| 0:41.1 | more about it Lou and Greg |
| 0:43.3 | it's 72 owls what |
| 0:45.3 | does that now mean |
| 0:46.8 | for any of them |
| 0:48.5 | does the world change |
| 0:50.9 | live is now the mega beast |
| 0:53.1 | it wants to be or will it make no difference |
| 0:55.1 | apart from the world ranking points? |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah, not yet. |
| 0:58.1 | Like, it's obviously the pathway to world ranking points. |
| 1:00.5 | I think the really interesting thing about like your first sort of little point that |
| 1:04.5 | you make about how people are getting excited or, you know, talking about how they're |
| 1:10.2 | changing and they're flexing. |
| 1:12.1 | Look, the, BGA Tour had been changing and flexing for years. |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah, but how do they like? |
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