# LIV Golf’s Michigan debut opens some eyes: ‘Not the vibe I expected at all’
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the tours have such different formats and schedules. For starters, PGA Tour tournaments like the Rocket are four days (72 holes), and played with the traditional tee-time format, so there’s golf all day, sun-up to sundown, and few fans come for an entire day. Most usually pick a few hours to watch, so the fans aren’t all on the course at the same time.
LIV Golf, meanwhile, is three days (54 holes, hence the Roman numeral-inspired name of the tour), and is a shotgun start, meaning groups start at the same time, on different holes. That also means they all finish around the same time, so the golf is condensed into a 4-hour pocket. That can make it easy to see every golfer you want to see, in a shorter amount of time, and that also made for some visually impressive galleries over the last week at The Cardinal, especially around DeChambeau, the 2020 Rocket Classic champion, and Mickelson. At the Rocket, like all PGA Tour events, if you want to get a glimpse of nearly every golfer, you would be there all day, especially if your favorite players are the opposite sides of the morning and afternoon tee draws.
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The Rocket is a traditional golf event, where the sport is the show. LIV Golf, with all the thumping music, MCs, pyrotechnics, parachuters and beer, lots and lots of beer ― vendors walk around hawking $13 Michelobs like they’re at the ballpark ― feels like more of a festival. And many fans, some who came for the actual golf and many more who came for the curiosity factor (or even the Imagine Dragons or Swedish House Mafia), were digging the easy-going, talk-on-your-phone-if-you-want vibe.
“This is way more upbeat,” said Kim LaRosa, 40, of Northville, who attended with her friend Katie McKernan. “There’s a lot less pressure; it’s less serious. It’s more fun this week.”
“Not the vibe I expected at all,” said McKernan, 46, also of Northville. “This is almost like a party. It’s just fun, and I didn’t think golf would be fun.”
"The music, the planes, the flags, the everything, it’s great,” said Kendall Wegehaupt, 27, who attended with fiancé Kayden Stuart, also 27; they’re both from Westland, and came to LIV Golf for Saturday’s play for Wegehaupt’s birthday. "I didn’t ever really think you could do golf like this; I think it’s a really unique approach to a tournament.
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the fans came through in impressive numbers, with what appears to be more than 40,000 attending over the three days of competition, which ended Sunday.
LIV Golf hasn’t yet shared official attendance numbers for its first Michigan stop, but there were believed to be more than 10,000 a day, with perhaps close to 20,000 on Saturday ― the same day more than 85,000 fans attended Lions and Tigers games in Detroit ― as the rival tour continues to see an uptick in interest from fans in the United States. A week earlier, LIV Golf set its U.S. attendance record when more than 60,000 fans attended the tournament in Indianapolis.
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