Albertlegend Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Dcent get my head round this? Must be the biggest u turn in sports history! LIV boys have played a blinder get their 100m and now back to the PGA Tour? Is Saudi money OK now and they are the good guys now? Will there still be LIV style events 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Oh f**k off. So now the entirety of pro golf is a sport wash vehicle. At the root of this is greed. Il stick to playing now. Watching these fuckers can get in the sea 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 “If you can’t buy the product, buy the company” seems to be the approach here… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 1 minute ago, Mark Connolly said: “If you can’t buy the product, buy the company” seems to be the approach here… Michael Milken and junk bonds in the 1980's. Saudi sportswashing in the 2020's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Monahan has sold the players who stayed and defended their tour down the river with this and has made Rory look like a total idiot. What a despicable c**t 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 The European Super League merging with FIFA in 2025- you heard it here first. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Wonder if Pepp got a nod about this before it happened.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 1 hour ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Weird.........talking with a buddy a couple of hours ago about getting tickets for Scottish Open next month. He was back on the phone 15 mins. ago to say "Forget it." I feel the same way. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jun/06/pga-tour-liv-golf-and-dp-world-tour-agree-to-make-shock-merger "LIV Golf rebels have a route back towards the traditional tours and the Ryder Cup from next season after the PGA and DP World Tours joined forces with the Saudi Arabian-backed enterprise in one of the most extraordinary truces in sporting history. The shock announcement, delivered on Tuesday, will see the Saudi public investment fund pour money in a new company that will effectively control top-level golf. Ongoing litigation between LIV and the PGA Tour – for so long sworn enemies – has come to an abrupt and shocking end." I have only ever watched the majors on TV. I have zero interest, and never have had any interest, in watching ‘normal’ golf tour events. The majors and the Ryder Cup - all I’m interested in. In a similar way that I will watch the rugby 6 Nations, but have never watched a club rugby match in my life. Zero interest. Just my taste / opinion, whatever. My interest in watching any professional golf is now being tested, but I just know I’ll still end up watching the majors and Ryder Cup anyway. Look at my signature text - Newcastle are my favourite English team, and I’ve enjoyed watching them this season especially. I can also admire this season’s Manchester City, and they’re just a big business owned by…. What do you do? Where do you draw the line and burn your grandad-collar NUFC Adidas shirt? I’m conflicted. Hugely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Even the players had no clue until the news broke today. Monahan can't possibly stay on after this. And this letter. Ooft. https://twitter.com/acaseofthegolf1/status/1666092033868701697?t=JfqhEsQ6rKflsAoulaveUw&s=19 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Lovely stuff 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 This is all a bit strange 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 19 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Even the players had no clue until the news broke today. Monahan can't possibly stay on after this. And this letter. Ooft. https://twitter.com/acaseofthegolf1/status/1666092033868701697?t=JfqhEsQ6rKflsAoulaveUw&s=19 Someone better be livestreaming that Player Meeting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Dj will be pissed off,his sponsors will be expecting him to play more tourneys now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 https://twitter.com/PGALIVHotTakes/status/1666110980177231872?t=dseGsI7BkpbJ0jmAvJaMQw&s=19 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesP_81 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 28 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Even the players had no clue until the news broke today. Monahan can't possibly stay on after this. And this letter. Ooft. https://twitter.com/acaseofthegolf1/status/1666092033868701697?t=JfqhEsQ6rKflsAoulaveUw&s=19 I am far from an expert in letters wrapped up in legal jargon but the words that seemed to jump out at me most in that we're "for-profit" and " tax-exempt organization " 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Spare a thought for the folk desperately trying to get rid of their Majesticks GC merch 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 My 2 cents is that as much as I understand where the traditionalists are coming from, there should be room in the calendar for different formats of golf. The tour consisting almost entirely of 72 hole stroke play tournaments played from Thursday to Sunday with a cut on Friday night is a tired format and I think a certain percentage of tournaments should mix it up with things like 54 hole formats, shotgun starts etc. I'd also like to see a shorter format of the game in places to appeal more to fans. Look at the popularity of T20 cricket. People love is because you can sit and watch an entire match in 2-3 hours, it's not a whole day slog. Let's introduce something like that in the golf. 9 hole match play on Monday nights would be excellent. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 2 hours ago, JamesP_81 said: I am far from an expert in letters wrapped up in legal jargon but the words that seemed to jump out at me most in that we're "for-profit" and " tax-exempt organization " My take from that letter is that LIV have realised they are still way behind in terms of tv coverage etc, and have flung a huge wad of cash at Monahan to cave in and "merge" the tours. There will be lots of players who knocked back offers who might find it very difficult not to have a hold of Monahan by the throat the next time they see him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jun/06/pgas-merger-with-liv-cant-be-seen-as-anything-other-than-a-saudi-victory "The willingness of the PGA Tour, especially, and DP World Tour to forsake entrenched opposition to LIV Golf contradicts so much that has been said and done over the past two years. This serves as the latest, depressing illustration that bottomless pits of money can disrupt and distort everything in sport. And not just any bottomless pit; one emanating from a kingdom guilty of human rights abuses and which is using golf – plus football, plus anything else it can lay its hands on – as a tool to make people look the other way. Sportswashing works, kids. This chapter is to the tune of several billion dollars; chump change to the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF)." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ro Sham Bo Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 I thought there might have been some sort of special on Sky Sports to guage the reaction but no joy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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