LIV Golf’s Majesticks optimistic new look all-British line-up can benefit from rule changes
Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter are joined by Laurie Canter and Sam Horsfield, who will all have to be on their game after relegation was expanded
With a new look for a new season and a LIV Golf with new rules, Majesticks GC co-captains Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter see a year of potential after the struggles of past campaigns.
An off-season when Laurie Canter opted to join as a replacement for Henrik Stenson rather than head to the PGA Tour, and saw Sam Horsfield return for another year, has given Majesticks an all-British line-up for the first time.
Coupled with the move to four round tournaments rather than the three that was one of LIV’s unique selling points, it is a quartet Poulter believes should have the group moving “up the team order like I feel we probably should”.
In truth, they could not do much worse. Majesticks finished 11th out of 13 teams last year and ninth the year before that, when they finished fourth in the stops in Hong Kong, Nashville and Chicago.
They ended the 2023 season, LIV’s first full year, 11th out of 12 teams and the second place in Bedminster in 2022 is still the only time they have made the podium.
Four rounds are hardly a guarantee things will improve, but Poulter points to performances on the final Sundays across 2025 as evidence that in several cases Majesticks were not as far behind as results might suggest.