LIV Golf fans not letting leagues swirling drama take away from Trump National event

Long LIV Golf? How about Let LIV Golf seemed to be the vibe on Friday at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster.While the talk of the golf world has been the announcement that LIV Golf has found an investor to keep the rebel golf league going — although there remain plenty of details to iron out — inside Trump National there wasn’t much concern or interest in the topic among the spectators that showed up to the New Jersey course for this week’s LIV Golf New York.Fans milled around the Donald Trump-owned property, followed the fan favorites Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm and took in the action on a sweltering second day of the event.But was the drama around keeping the league alive past this season or the ongoing battle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf something that golf fans cared about?“I mean, people bring drama too much into it just to make it a bit more interesting and make it more exciting than it has to be,” 21-year-old New Jersey resident Lorenzo Stanziola told The Post before Friday’s round began.

“But if you like the game, then you’ll like the fact that it could be expanded globally and everybody is going to get involved rather than just the PGA [Tour] keeping it strictly [to] Europe and America.”Standing near the tee box on the 10th hole, Steve Kozel, who is in his 60s, said that he had heard about the drama surrounding LIV’s future, but that “it doesn’t really concern me,” and when asked about the new funding replied, “That doesn’t mean anything to me.”Many of the fans that The Post spoke with on Friday explained that they were there because they enjoy the sport.John Coutinho, 48, from nearby Roxbury, N.J., was at his first-ever live golf event with his son, which he described as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”LIV’s survival has been an ongoing narrative during the 2026 season and hit a fever pitch when the Saudi Public Investment Fund pulled its financial backing earlier this year.

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