LIV Golf told exactly what they must change to help their players win majors after Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemman underperformed at The Masters

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While there is no merger with the PGA Tour, LIV Golf players will be under extra scrutiny at the major championships.

For most golf fans and pundits, those are the only times they watch the likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann.

And there is an ongoing debate about whether LIV’s setup best prepares its golfers to compete in the biggest events.

DeChambeau and Patrick Reed did themselves proud at The Masters last week, but many of the other top talents underwhelmed.

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LIV Golf told how to help players at major championships

Three golf experts are now in agreement that LIV Golf need to change something so that their stars can succeed more at the majors.

Former PGA Tour players Brendon De Jonge and Johnson Wagner, and famous broadcaster Gary Williams, think they don’t have to deal with high-pressure situations on a week-to-week basis.

The absence of tee times, a shotgun start, means that everyone is on the course at the same time, and there is no traditional back-nine tension with the final groups on Sunday.

De Jonge made the following suggestion: “That’s what I would say to LIV. Listen, if you guys are all about gung-ho shotgun starts, go for it. In the first two rounds, go for your shotgun start.

“You have to have a tee time to start on that final round. So you’re dealing with that final pressure at the end. Wagner replied: “I completely agree with that.”

Williams added: “And let’s say you only do it in the last event before the next major is played. If LIV wants to do what’s best for their players, what’s best is giving them the best chance to perform in those events that have all that attention, so they can gain some traction from The Masters back to whatever their next event is.

“Bryson was in the last, and Patrick had a good week, but you have to do other things that can tangentially benefit your tour. And that is, let’s take those last four events [before the majors] and make it a tee time start.

Every LIV Golf player’s finish at The Masters

Reed’s back-to-back 69s on the weekend put him in a position to capitalise if Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose fell apart on Sunday evening.

Yet, DeChambeau had the best chance to win the Green Jacket of all the LIV players as he was in the final group with McIlroy.

Unfortunately, the American’s iron play was way off where it needed to be, and he slid down the leaderboard to 5th.

Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann – the top two in last season’s standings – were fancied to contend at Augusta, and neither threatened to do so.

Perhaps the lack of a major-like atmosphere on LIV Golf is a reason for their underwhelming performances.