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Hack It Out Golf

LIV Goes to 72 Holes

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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? Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

live are going to 72 holes. So for anyone who doesn't watch live golf at the minute,

0:06.4

I'm sure most people are aware, it's 54 holes, so three rounds, shotgun start. And from

0:12.0

2026 onwards, all their events as I am reading is going to 72 holes, which we'll talk about.

0:20.6

It's interesting. The thing I'm enjoying most is that there seems to be

0:24.2

groups of people online celebrating in a kind of told you so, oh, aren't they so stupid now,

0:33.7

they're 72 old. They should have been 72 holes in the first place kind of way which I find quite ironic and hilarious

0:39.1

but anyway we'll talk

0:41.1

more about it. Lou and Greg

0:43.3

it's 72 owls what

0:45.2

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 apart

0:55.6

from the world ranking points? Yeah, not yet. Like, it's obviously the pathway to world ranking

1:00.0

points. I think the really interesting thing about like your first sort of little point that

1:04.4

you make about how people are getting excited or, you know, talking about how they're changing

1:10.6

and they're flexing.

1:12.1

Look, the, BGA Tour had been changing and flexing for years.

1:29.8

Yeah, but they're allowed to what they like. Yeah, right. You know, like, we didn't have the FedEx Cup years ago. It was the tour championship. It was the end of the season. And then we had the full finish. And so they, they, we all, all of golf evolves around what does the viewership want, all right?

1:33.9

And if it, if it is a playoff system, then we're going into that.

1:41.9

And if it, they're trying to marry that sort of, that ability to get money in the players' pockets and give the fans some level of like build up an interest.

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