PGA, DP, LIV merge WOW!
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Most seem to believe that just about all the players based the decision on money.
The thinking was that the older players made more money going to the LIV and the younger players made more by staying in the PGA.
Now, the players that got a lot of "up front" money are probably the winners.
There are a lot of big names who insisted that the LIV and all associated with it were evil. They will now have to decide how they will treat the merged enterprise.
The Chairman of the new enterprise is from the LIV Saudi team and the president is from the PGA.
Will the evil guys make the whole thing evil or will the PGA guys' virtue win the day?
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I understand the PGA will manage holes 1-8 and 12-18. The Saudis will take care of 9-11.
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I understand the PGA will manage holes 1-8 and 12-18. The Saudis will take care of 9-11.
@LuFins-Dad said in PGA, DP, LIV merge WOW!:
I understand the PGA will manage holes 1-8 and 12-18. The Saudis will take care of 9-11.
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Don’t know and don’t care if the Saudi regime is politically incorrect. I do however note that I consider that it is morally reprehensible and politically duplicitous.
As for the sport of golf…no opinion other than I have it played once or twice and have no desire to watch it being played at any level.
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Somehow, they've managed the unimaginable. They've made watching professional golf even less appealing.
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Eventually Mr. Biden will eliminate all oil.
This will leave the Saudis with nothing to do.
Now is the time for them to move on to the next thing. Maybe that next thing is sport.
All forms of gambling are illegal in the Saudi Kingdom.
A match made in heaven.
The Saudis as arbiter of all sport, uncorrupted by the evil influence of gambling that has claimed most of professional sport.
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https://www.wsj.com/sports/golf/liv-golf-pga-tour-bryson-dechambeau-3abf7b85?mod=hp_lead_pos3
After spending recent weeks on life support, LIV Golf has lost the funding of its Saudi backers.
LIV plans to tell players and staff by Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will no longer bankroll the circuit after this season, according to people familiar with the matter. The move sounds the death knell for the upstart that sowed chaos in professional golf by plowing billions into the sport and poaching A-list players.
The writing had been on the wall for nearly a month. When PIF recently laid out its vision for the next five years, it made no mention of the league that has divided the golf world since it first teed off in 2022. The people said that while LIV has grown the sport globally, the operation was no longer consistent with the new phase of PIF’s investment strategy.
Even as LIV seeks outside investors to keep it afloat, it will be nearly impossible for it to exist bearing any resemblance to its current form after the Saudis lost billions on the endeavor. They paid exorbitant fees to put on tournaments with lucrative purses featuring elite players such as Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm. LIV is already in talks with outside investors, a person familiar with LIV’s thinking said.
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