Brendan Steele’s decision to leave the PGA Tour and join the LIV Golf League was a surprising twist for the 39-year-old.
, Steele had told reporters just 10 weeks prior — on a conference call for The American Express PGA Tour event — that joining the Saudi-backed golf league was “not something that I’m interested in.” Steele also added that, at that point, he hadn’t been approached about a possible move, either..
Brendan Steele was one of three additional PGA Tour golfers to bolt for the LIV Golf League this weekend.Getty Images “We play a sport where it is very fickle and you have no contracts as far as signing with the Dodgers for five years and if you get hurt, you get paid,” Steele said, per the Desert Sun. “We don’t have any of that stuff. So to have a little bit of security in going over there, I think you can kind of understand the narrative for each guy who went.
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