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From the WSJ:
https://www.dowjones.com/professiona...revenue-driver
“Golfers who joined the nascent LIV series can still participate in the three majors outside the PGA Championship”
The pga championship does not have this option:
Qualify for masters:
“Catch the Masters Committee’s attention
The Masters Committee also reserves the right to extend an invitation to players that they feel are deserving of a place in the field.”
PGA Tour annual charity award. $30k to a food bank.
Rory gets $15mm for shitposting on the internet.
PGA tour events now averaging 200k viewers. Tour is dead. Money is way beyond its value.
John Smolz finished +22 @ champions q school. 31 shots off cut line and 51 shots off the lead.
Amazing fact!!! Keep going, you're on a roll.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
People who play a lot, buy a lot of gear, etc. kind of like the difference between real skiers and people who go skiing. Most dedicated golfers do not give a shit about LIV.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
I think the key here is Rahm held out but once the PGA merged with the Saudi’s (or whatever, this whole thing has been weird AF) he probably figured well what’s the difference at this point. So while it bums me out, good for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Or the PGA Tour for that matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by TahoeJ
This right here. If the PGA has already announced some sort of partnership with LIV, where should a golfer golf to preserve the heritage, history, and sanctity of the game away from connection to Saudi money? Especially when you were one of the pros standing up for the PGA. Hard for a purist to find high ground when everything is below water.Quote:
Originally Posted by TahoeJ
That's a fair point, wasn't thinking of the actual tour selling out.
Now that the US Ryder Cup team has been exposed as mostly a self serving bunch it’s a fast slide down. Look how fast Goldman Sachs dumped that absolute bore Cantlay and now he’s on the player advisory for the tour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cisco Kid
Burn it down! lol..
Self serving players in an elitist sport has been a given since Arnie and Jack got it to pay big. Nonames always fill the field this time of year. We'll see who shows up to play when the season gets in full swing. If Spieth goes I may take up pickle ball or go back to drinking.
Ultimately I think it just shows what a bunch of d bags all these guys are. Rahm announced his departure live on faux news. I get golf digest sent to me from buying some clubs on line and the latest issue has stories about the private flights these guys all take, makes me hate almost all of them. But back 9, in a Sunday with multiple players involved for the win is quality entertainment, and LIV doesn’t offer that with their unwatchable format. Screw all the “top” guys, bring on the next young crop. Hell corn ferry guys playing for their card is just as entertaining as mega rich D bags taking 5 minutes for each shot.
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He's only worth a lifetime supply of kabsaQuote:
Originally Posted by Cisco Kid
So if someone can afford to fly private and has to travel a ton as part of their job that makes them a d-bag? You sound oddly jealous.Quote:
Originally Posted by altacoup
It's more of a hostile takeover than a sell out. The partnership is just a tiny perch at the bargaining table that will soon prove to be worthless or nearly so. One last big check for the top executives running the PGA Tour to insure they go quietly into the night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Does make you wonder when enough $$ is enough. That was a huge carrot they dangled and they found the magic number for $$.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
I do think holding others to ethical boundaries we, as Americans, don’t hold ourselves to becomes complicated.
Golfer complains because he isn't invited to the Masters after renouncing his PGA membership to play for LIV, and not getting world golfing ranking points because he's playing non-sanctioned LIV events.
/leopardsatemyface
LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
"Talor Gooch questions validity of Masters victory after snub
Gooch, 32, gave up his PGA Tour membership in 2022 when he moved to the upstart, big-money LIV Golf circuit. He had one career PGA Tour win and $9.25 million in earnings -- well eclipsed by the $46.5 million he won in his first two LIV seasons."
Pretty sure the boys in Augusta will get along just fine without you there Taylor.
"But I'm the LIV Champion!" (who only played a handful of events that don't play 4 full rounds and have no cuts; but it's just the same!!!)
OK, guy.
Gooch is a taint on the gooch.
He compared a random ass Liv event's atmopshere to playing in the Ryder Cup. As if he has ever had a fucking chance at playing in the Ryder Cup.
Masters committee won’t take kindly to a whiny bitch either.
***Somewhere in Butler Cabin, reading ESPN.com article about whiny LIV defector with 1 PGA tour win to his resume.***Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
"Well, take that guy off the list forever".
drive chip and putt today for the kids. seems overrated and overhyped but todays eventual texas open winner, bhatia; was one of those kids; about to win his second pga event. man, if you kids with skillz; be worth trying to get them in that.
Guess, no one was counting on Denny shooting 28 coming.
Played against him in a club match many years ago.
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That back nine was wild
sad end. really thought bhatia had it in the bag. he still got it but denny deserved it after setting the record on that back 9. to hit it in the water in a playoff after coming from 6 back. hope that doesn't affect him. he is not the first to blow it in a playoff after caching the lead but from that far back ? i really hope he somehow wins somewhere in the next month so today doesn't haunt him.
Augusta looks a lot different without the green dye.
Took my 9 yo last summer to local qualifier at snooty CC in Greenwich (Stanwich Club) he did al. Drove as far or better than many butt off the grid to the right, just like dad.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkiCougar
Top qualifiers were all club kids who played/took lessons there every week.
It's the greenest grass in the whole worldQuote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
I got 2 or 3 to root for and a bunch to root against.
Amazing round by Scheffler!
Played Stanwich once. It was the round that convinced me to join a club. Awesome facility and magnificent course, but wouldn't want a steady diet of those greens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
Solid acceptance speech by Scottie, not too boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
Did he praise the lord?
maybe he did, maybe he didn't, maybe go fuck yourself
maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by SKIP IN7RO
if he was coming thru the tour 40 around 1985, post jack but pre tiger; i'd give him a great chance for top 5 in wins and majors all time. he still has a chance but the competition is so much greater, seems a longshot.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
Biggest laugh, I got out of watching all weekend was after I commented that Phil looked extremely haggard, my buddy, without missing a beat, turned to me and said he’s a degenerate gambler who was just given $200 million to play with. No shit he’s going to look haggard; probably hasn’t slept in months. Lol.
Scottie is on an all-time heater right now but he will probably regress just like the other current players who at one point seemed like they were headed for double digit majors (Rory, Spieth, Brooks)Quote:
Originally Posted by SkiCougar
Y’all like rooting for a Christian Nationalist? Golf is unwatchable these days.