Look, I grant you, watching the machinations of LIV golf lately is a little like reading Liberal Party policy announcements of what they’ll do “if elected” – it is all but entirely beside the point. But out of pure bloody-mindedness, I couldn’t resist some commentary on LIV’s latest announcement.

For – you hold the front page, and I’ll put the kettle on – they’ve just let the world know that from now their tournaments will go from being three-day events over 54 holes, to four-day events with 72 holes!

Seriously. All that hoopla, all that carry-on, all that endless Greg Norman buffoonery, all that pinstripes bankery-wankery about how they were “revolutionising the sport” and vastly improving and modernising its traditional staid format, and now … this.

Cue T.S. Eliot: “This is how the world ends; not with a bang, but a whimper.”

But if a LIV administrator whimpers on a lost fairway in Saudi Arabia, and no-one is there to see it, or hear it, or televise it, is it still a........

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