I guess I can’t fault the players like I did as they were blindsided. Now, indirectly they may have played a role if they were holding the tour hostage for more money and threatening to go to LIV (likely).
$100M or legacy. Hmnnnn….. Tiger averaged like $6M a year from winnings. Small sum for an all time great. If you want to make football or baseball money LIV was the way to go.
I hope the players he suckered have the power to boot monahan. what a disingenuous POS.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
I guess I can’t fault the players like I did as they were blindsided. Now, indirectly they may have played a role if they were holding the tour hostage for more money and threatening to go to LIV (likely).
$100M or legacy. Hmnnnn….. Tiger averaged like $6M a year from winnings. Small sum for an all time great. If you want to make football or baseball money LIV was the way to go.
I don't blame the PGA players at all. It's not like they have a collective bargaining contract and a seat.
I won't be making any declarations about not watching yet... I know better. But I do want to see how this plays out next year.
All will be forgotten if the players all come out with similar amounts of money. They are going to have to find a way to make the guys that stayed whole, obviously. My guess is that the ones that come back get some sort of fine, suspension and are ineligible for PIP money for a year or two which will be for obscene amounts of money.
Looking forward to firing up some podcasts here. Crazy fucking day.
Alan Shipnuck’s latest podcast is worth a listen. He’s a golf writer that wrote the Phil book that started a lot of the shitstorm. Norman and Phil hate him even though he covers LIV very fairly. He also just finished a book on PGA vs. LIV (that he said he now needs to update). The pod gives good insight into what’s going on with all this.
Shipnuck seems to think LIV is going to move on in a very similar fashion as it is modeled today. That’s not the sense I got from everything today, so we’ll see
Alan Shipnuck’s latest podcast is worth a listen. He’s a golf writer that wrote the Phil book that started a lot of the shitstorm. Norman and Phil hate him even though he covers LIV very fairly. He also just finished a book on PGA vs. LIV (that he said he now needs to update). The pod gives good insight into what’s going on with all this.
Shipnuck seems to think LIV is going to move on in a very similar fashion as it is modeled today. That’s not the sense I got from everything today, so we’ll see
Similar but with non-LIV guys able to play. My early speculation is it sounds like it’s going to be what I wanted the whole time: guys like Phil and DJ being able to play Tour events, and say a Jon Rahm being able to be Sergio Garcia’s team’s hired gun for a LIV tournament in Spain…or something.
Whatever happens will be the biggest thing to ever happen in professional golf. Like the NFL/AFL merger in football in a way. A moment you can look back on decades later as “when things changed.” Very, very interesting.
Alan Shipnuck’s latest podcast is worth a listen. He’s a golf writer that wrote the Phil book that started a lot of the shitstorm. Norman and Phil hate him even though he covers LIV very fairly. He also just finished a book on PGA vs. LIV (that he said he now needs to update). The pod gives good insight into what’s going on with all this.
Shipnuck seems to think LIV is going to move on in a very similar fashion as it is modeled today. That’s not the sense I got from everything today, so we’ll see
Similar but with non-LIV guys able to play. My early speculation is it sounds like it’s going to be what I wanted the whole time: guys like Phil and DJ being able to play Tour events, and say a Jon Rahm being able to be Sergio Garcia’s team’s hired gun for a LIV tournament in Spain…or something.
Whatever happens will be the biggest thing to ever happen in professional golf. Like the NFL/AFL merger in football in a way. A moment you can look back on decades later as “when things changed.” Very, very interesting.
I don’t think that anything along those lines is mildly thought about yet…
What will future schedule and tournament formats look like?
While the deal has been described as a unification of the competing tours, they're going to continue to be separate entities for the rest of this season. The final seven LIV Golf League events will go on as planned, starting with a tournament in Spain at the end of this month. The season ends with a team championship in Saudi Arabia in early November.
The PGA Tour's plan to stage elevated events with no cuts and reduced fields in 2024 and beyond isn't expected to change.
The bigger question is what happens to the LIV Golf League after this season. The Saudis have invested more than $2 billion into the venture, and the league's lawyers said in court documents obtained by ESPN in February that it generated virtually no revenue in its first season in 2022. The league's season debut in Mayakoba, Mexico, and second in Tucson, Arizona, drew low ratings. LIV Golf has since declined to provide TV ratings.
With the Saudis planning to invest billions of additional dollars into the new entity and the PGA Tour as one of its premier corporate sponsors, it might no longer have an interest in continuing to fund the LIV Golf League with little financial return.
The team format could be folded into the PGA Tour schedule, or the LIV Golf League might continue in some iteration that takes place in the fall after the PGA Tour season concludes. But there seem to be serious questions about the future of the LIV Golf League.
"We're in a framework agreement," Monahan said. "We haven't concluded the definitive agreement. I have not had the opportunity that I'm going to have to conduct a comprehensive empirical evaluation [of LIV Golf]. I don't want to make any statements or make any predictions. But what is in place is a commitment to make a good-faith effort to look at team golf and the role it can play going forward."
Alan Shipnuck’s latest podcast is worth a listen. He’s a golf writer that wrote the Phil book that started a lot of the shitstorm. Norman and Phil hate him even though he covers LIV very fairly. He also just finished a book on PGA vs. LIV (that he said he now needs to update). The pod gives good insight into what’s going on with all this.
Shipnuck seems to think LIV is going to move on in a very similar fashion as it is modeled today. That’s not the sense I got from everything today, so we’ll see
Similar but with non-LIV guys able to play. My early speculation is it sounds like it’s going to be what I wanted the whole time: guys like Phil and DJ being able to play Tour events, and say a Jon Rahm being able to be Sergio Garcia’s team’s hired gun for a LIV tournament in Spain…or something.
Whatever happens will be the biggest thing to ever happen in professional golf. Like the NFL/AFL merger in football in a way. A moment you can look back on decades later as “when things changed.” Very, very interesting.
I don’t think that anything along those lines is mildly thought about yet…
What will future schedule and tournament formats look like?
While the deal has been described as a unification of the competing tours, they're going to continue to be separate entities for the rest of this season. The final seven LIV Golf League events will go on as planned, starting with a tournament in Spain at the end of this month. The season ends with a team championship in Saudi Arabia in early November.
The PGA Tour's plan to stage elevated events with no cuts and reduced fields in 2024 and beyond isn't expected to change.
The bigger question is what happens to the LIV Golf League after this season. The Saudis have invested more than $2 billion into the venture, and the league's lawyers said in court documents obtained by ESPN in February that it generated virtually no revenue in its first season in 2022. The league's season debut in Mayakoba, Mexico, and second in Tucson, Arizona, drew low ratings. LIV Golf has since declined to provide TV ratings.
With the Saudis planning to invest billions of additional dollars into the new entity and the PGA Tour as one of its premier corporate sponsors, it might no longer have an interest in continuing to fund the LIV Golf League with little financial return.
The team format could be folded into the PGA Tour schedule, or the LIV Golf League might continue in some iteration that takes place in the fall after the PGA Tour season concludes. But there seem to be serious questions about the future of the LIV Golf League.
"We're in a framework agreement," Monahan said. "We haven't concluded the definitive agreement. I have not had the opportunity that I'm going to have to conduct a comprehensive empirical evaluation [of LIV Golf]. I don't want to make any statements or make any predictions. But what is in place is a commitment to make a good-faith effort to look at team golf and the role it can play going forward."
A LIV style team series money grab in the fall seems like the only way LIV would actually continue. If only Monahan had taken a meeting with the Saudis 2-3 years ago when they were looking to invest in the world of golf. Could have avoided all of this nonsense from the last couple years. At the end of the day hopefully this just leads to the best players playing tournaments together again. I'm so over the PGA Tour vs LIV battle.
Alan Shipnuck’s latest podcast is worth a listen. He’s a golf writer that wrote the Phil book that started a lot of the shitstorm. Norman and Phil hate him even though he covers LIV very fairly. He also just finished a book on PGA vs. LIV (that he said he now needs to update). The pod gives good insight into what’s going on with all this.
Shipnuck seems to think LIV is going to move on in a very similar fashion as it is modeled today. That’s not the sense I got from everything today, so we’ll see
Similar but with non-LIV guys able to play. My early speculation is it sounds like it’s going to be what I wanted the whole time: guys like Phil and DJ being able to play Tour events, and say a Jon Rahm being able to be Sergio Garcia’s team’s hired gun for a LIV tournament in Spain…or something.
Whatever happens will be the biggest thing to ever happen in professional golf. Like the NFL/AFL merger in football in a way. A moment you can look back on decades later as “when things changed.” Very, very interesting.
I don’t think that anything along those lines is mildly thought about yet…
What will future schedule and tournament formats look like?
While the deal has been described as a unification of the competing tours, they're going to continue to be separate entities for the rest of this season. The final seven LIV Golf League events will go on as planned, starting with a tournament in Spain at the end of this month. The season ends with a team championship in Saudi Arabia in early November.
The PGA Tour's plan to stage elevated events with no cuts and reduced fields in 2024 and beyond isn't expected to change.
The bigger question is what happens to the LIV Golf League after this season. The Saudis have invested more than $2 billion into the venture, and the league's lawyers said in court documents obtained by ESPN in February that it generated virtually no revenue in its first season in 2022. The league's season debut in Mayakoba, Mexico, and second in Tucson, Arizona, drew low ratings. LIV Golf has since declined to provide TV ratings.
With the Saudis planning to invest billions of additional dollars into the new entity and the PGA Tour as one of its premier corporate sponsors, it might no longer have an interest in continuing to fund the LIV Golf League with little financial return.
The team format could be folded into the PGA Tour schedule, or the LIV Golf League might continue in some iteration that takes place in the fall after the PGA Tour season concludes. But there seem to be serious questions about the future of the LIV Golf League.
"We're in a framework agreement," Monahan said. "We haven't concluded the definitive agreement. I have not had the opportunity that I'm going to have to conduct a comprehensive empirical evaluation [of LIV Golf]. I don't want to make any statements or make any predictions. But what is in place is a commitment to make a good-faith effort to look at team golf and the role it can play going forward."
A LIV style team series money grab in the fall seems like the only way LIV would actually continue. If only Monahan had taken a meeting with the Saudis 2-3 years ago when they were looking to invest in the world of golf. Could have avoided all of this nonsense from the last couple years. At the end of the day hopefully this just leads to the best players playing tournaments together again. I'm so over the PGA Tour vs LIV battle.
I'm over men's pro golf. Not that the women's game would be any different, but the money isn't as big of an issue as there isn't much to send around.
monday- Brentwood cc, never played here before. Foxes all over the coarse, they wait for handouts 🤣
yesterday played Bethpage-Green, adjacent to the famous black coarse. My buddy booked before seeing the forecast. Got caught up in a gnarly hail storm, lightning…crazy shit
im playing really well… been hitting the gym last year more than I ever have, stretching, running… had 2 birdies yesterday
This guy is delusional. Doesn’t he realize “bringing those guys back in” isn’t going to be up to him or any other Tour player?
Edit: To follow up on this, some guys may have to requalify for the Tour. I'd have no issue with that. But for Phil and DJ who have lifetime exemptions, and Koepka who has a five-year exception based on winning the PGA last month, they should be able to waltz right back onto the Tour when this new deal is finalized.
Hasn't everyone said that if and when they come back there will be a punishment of sorts?
Again, my guess is that they are ineligible for a massive PIP and at the end of the day everyone is going to be made whole and they will all be fine with it.
Rory was pretty spot on with what he has said. At the end of the day, everyone is going to bicker about how it all came about, but it seems like it's what they all wanted in the end.
Also curious when LIV dies outside of some limited team stuff, if the LIV bots (guy above me included) will spin this. Perhaps it wasn't about the format after all?
Hasn't everyone said that if and when they come back there will be a punishment of sorts?
Again, my guess is that they are ineligible for a massive PIP and at the end of the day everyone is going to be made whole and they will all be fine with it.
Rory was pretty spot on with what he has said. At the end of the day, everyone is going to bicker about how it all came about, but it seems like it's what they all wanted in the end.
But that's before the the PIF was the going to be primary investor in the PGA Tour...which seemed impossible a year ago.
Also curious when LIV dies outside of some limited team stuff, if the LIV bots (guy above me included) will spin this. Perhaps it wasn't about the format after all?
Hasn't everyone said that if and when they come back there will be a punishment of sorts?
Again, my guess is that they are ineligible for a massive PIP and at the end of the day everyone is going to be made whole and they will all be fine with it.
Rory was pretty spot on with what he has said. At the end of the day, everyone is going to bicker about how it all came about, but it seems like it's what they all wanted in the end.
But that's before the the PIF was the going to be primary investor in the PGA Tour...which seemed impossible a year ago.
That was said yesterday. Monahan said the path for forward for them rejoining wasn't straightforward and that they PGA guys would be made whole over time.
Hasn't everyone said that if and when they come back there will be a punishment of sorts?
Again, my guess is that they are ineligible for a massive PIP and at the end of the day everyone is going to be made whole and they will all be fine with it.
Rory was pretty spot on with what he has said. At the end of the day, everyone is going to bicker about how it all came about, but it seems like it's what they all wanted in the end.
But that's before the the PIF was the going to be primary investor in the PGA Tour...which seemed impossible a year ago.
That was said yesterday. Monahan said the path for forward for them rejoining wasn't straightforward and that they PGA guys would be made whole over time.
I don't even know what this means. Path forward isn't straightforward? PGA guys would be "made whole over time"? What does this mean?
This guy is delusional. Doesn’t he realize “bringing those guys back in” isn’t going to be up to him or any other Tour player?
Edit: To follow up on this, some guys may have to requalify for the Tour. I'd have no issue with that. But for Phil and DJ who have lifetime exemptions, and Koepka who has a five-year exception based on winning the PGA last month, they should be able to waltz right back onto the Tour when this new deal is finalized.
I don't know if he's delusional or not, but he's right. They did harm the tour and there should be something. Understood about lifetime exemptions, they are what they are. But even though Rory doesn't have a seat at the table, he's got a huge microphone and people want to hear what he has to say as much, or more than Monahan. So I say good for Rory.
Hasn't everyone said that if and when they come back there will be a punishment of sorts?
Again, my guess is that they are ineligible for a massive PIP and at the end of the day everyone is going to be made whole and they will all be fine with it.
Rory was pretty spot on with what he has said. At the end of the day, everyone is going to bicker about how it all came about, but it seems like it's what they all wanted in the end.
But that's before the the PIF was the going to be primary investor in the PGA Tour...which seemed impossible a year ago.
That was said yesterday. Monahan said the path for forward for them rejoining wasn't straightforward and that they PGA guys would be made whole over time.
I don't even know what this means. Path forward isn't straightforward? PGA guys would be "made whole over time"? What does this mean?
That they are not just joining PGA tour events without some sort of punishment and that the PGA guys will in the end make the same amount as the LIV guys or how much they are worth.
Also curious when LIV dies outside of some limited team stuff, if the LIV bots (guy above me included) will spin this. Perhaps it wasn't about the format after all?
Come on Cliffy, it was all about growing the game!!
Also curious when LIV dies outside of some limited team stuff, if the LIV bots (guy above me included) will spin this. Perhaps it wasn't about the format after all?
Come on Cliffy, it was all about growing the game!!
I realize you are likely throwing shade at them, but how are they ever going to grow the game to a multi billion dollar sport like the NFL or NBA.? That seems impossible based on the history of every single golf tour that ever existed. Its not like these players can draw the type of money the big three sports do. The money, unfortunately, is just not on that level for golf. Until we started overpaying for oil, of course.
Let’s be honest, Koepka and Phil are not generating hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, no matter what they do. They took a bribe plain and simple, and do not care why the Saudis are willing to lose billions of dollars to take over the tour. Now we don’t have a tour, the people who gut us for oil profits do.
Just got my heating bill, $4.70 a gallon after peak season ended ffs. Thanks Phil and Brooks, hope you enjoy my cash!
Is Jay/Saudi play chess to kill LIV and invest in the PGA? Basically the deal gets killed, without the PGA there is no viable way to continue LIV financially so that dies, then they turn around and put all that money into the PGA.
Or Shipnuck is right and all things move ahead full steam?
Or something in the middle?
Basically, no one knows anything and I'd say the ones pounding their chest the hardest right now (LIV), might want to take a breather.
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When the Saudis announced the other day they were cutting production again, I wondered if that was to raise oil prices to pay Phil and Brooks.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
I won't be making any declarations about not watching yet... I know better. But I do want to see how this plays out next year.
Looking forward to firing up some podcasts here. Crazy fucking day.
edit: details on that here.
https://www.si.com/golf/news/jay-monahan-doesnt-expect-liv-golf-to-continue-in-2024-in-its-current-form
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
What will future schedule and tournament formats look like?
While the deal has been described as a unification of the competing tours, they're going to continue to be separate entities for the rest of this season. The final seven LIV Golf League events will go on as planned, starting with a tournament in Spain at the end of this month. The season ends with a team championship in Saudi Arabia in early November.
The PGA Tour's plan to stage elevated events with no cuts and reduced fields in 2024 and beyond isn't expected to change.
The bigger question is what happens to the LIV Golf League after this season. The Saudis have invested more than $2 billion into the venture, and the league's lawyers said in court documents obtained by ESPN in February that it generated virtually no revenue in its first season in 2022. The league's season debut in Mayakoba, Mexico, and second in Tucson, Arizona, drew low ratings. LIV Golf has since declined to provide TV ratings.
With the Saudis planning to invest billions of additional dollars into the new entity and the PGA Tour as one of its premier corporate sponsors, it might no longer have an interest in continuing to fund the LIV Golf League with little financial return.
The team format could be folded into the PGA Tour schedule, or the LIV Golf League might continue in some iteration that takes place in the fall after the PGA Tour season concludes. But there seem to be serious questions about the future of the LIV Golf League.
"We're in a framework agreement," Monahan said. "We haven't concluded the definitive agreement. I have not had the opportunity that I'm going to have to conduct a comprehensive empirical evaluation [of LIV Golf]. I don't want to make any statements or make any predictions. But what is in place is a commitment to make a good-faith effort to look at team golf and the role it can play going forward."
It was NEVER about 9/11. It was about money, that's it. Trying to get rid of competition.
One thing it did do? It made the PGA open up their wallets and pay the players more so if anything those that went to LIV should be thanked.
astoria 06
albany 06
hartford 06
reading 06
barcelona 06
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nijmegen 07
this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
monday- Brentwood cc, never played here before. Foxes all over the coarse, they wait for handouts 🤣
yesterday played Bethpage-Green, adjacent to the famous black coarse. My buddy booked before seeing the forecast. Got caught up in a gnarly hail storm, lightning…crazy shit
im playing really well… been hitting the gym last year more than I ever have, stretching, running… had 2 birdies yesterday
that’s hail near the beer can
Edit: To follow up on this, some guys may have to requalify for the Tour. I'd have no issue with that. But for Phil and DJ who have lifetime exemptions, and Koepka who has a five-year exception based on winning the PGA last month, they should be able to waltz right back onto the Tour when this new deal is finalized.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Again, my guess is that they are ineligible for a massive PIP and at the end of the day everyone is going to be made whole and they will all be fine with it.
Rory was pretty spot on with what he has said. At the end of the day, everyone is going to bicker about how it all came about, but it seems like it's what they all wanted in the end.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Let’s be honest, Koepka and Phil are not generating hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, no matter what they do. They took a bribe plain and simple, and do not care why the Saudis are willing to lose billions of dollars to take over the tour. Now we don’t have a tour, the people who gut us for oil profits do.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-saudi-pga-golf-deal-isnt-going
Is Jay/Saudi play chess to kill LIV and invest in the PGA? Basically the deal gets killed, without the PGA there is no viable way to continue LIV financially so that dies, then they turn around and put all that money into the PGA.
Or Shipnuck is right and all things move ahead full steam?
Or something in the middle?
Basically, no one knows anything and I'd say the ones pounding their chest the hardest right now (LIV), might want to take a breather.