Rocket Scientist
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Not many LIV golfers with a shot to win this weekend.
The new Saudi Arabia Golf Tour aka LIV Thread
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Rocket Scientist
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Sergio Garcia has officially quit the European PGA Tour to do Liv full-time. His reasoning is classic victim-bytching Sergio:
"When Thomas Bjorn, former Ryder Cup captain, came to the BMW Championship and told us, 'We don't love any of you and all players say so.' ... I already have an age and had enough suffering to be enduring nonsense like that."
Between Sergio Garcia, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Ian Poulter, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, and Greg Norman, they really put together the greatest collaboration of insufferable golfers the world has ever seen. Who is even left that's that big of an a$$hole, is Fuzzy Zoeller gonna come out of retirement now?
"When Thomas Bjorn, former Ryder Cup captain, came to the BMW Championship and told us, 'We don't love any of you and all players say so.' ... I already have an age and had enough suffering to be enduring nonsense like that."
Between Sergio Garcia, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Ian Poulter, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, and Greg Norman, they really put together the greatest collaboration of insufferable golfers the world has ever seen. Who is even left that's that big of an a$$hole, is Fuzzy Zoeller gonna come out of retirement now?
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Copy Ninja
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That Arabial money.
They got Paul Casey to join.
A former UNICEF ambassador who in the past refused to play Saudi Arabia events because of the country's human rights violations. That Saudi money must have been enough for him to forget about all that.
Rumors also Cam Smith is gonna join.
In the end it's showing how incredible weak a lot of rich people are. He has over $60 million in lifetime earnings, he SAID he wouldn't play in Saudi Arabia due to their human rights violations, and there he is compromising himself for money. At 44yo with a bad back I can't even imagine they paid him all that much, like Rahm said how much of his life is actually going to change? But his friends and family will know forever that he was spineless.
Crazy shyt is that the Saudis have spent what, a billion dollars on this? And they have $600 billion in the fund. So the money might as well be infinite. What's the endgame? If they want to they can literally just break golf indefinitely solely to sportswash their atrocities.
Copy Ninja
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I think the end game for them is to be the main tour in Golf.
For guys like Casey, Poulter, Garcia, etc, dudes who are older and not grinding to be top 10 anymore, it makes sense from a monetary and time perspective. Guaranteed money, less tournaments, more time doing other shyt.
It's the younger guys like Wolff and Bryson I'm more disappointed about bolting for easy competition.
I don't mean their desired endgame, I'm asking what the actual outcome for the game of golf is.
There are golfers who are never going to leave the PGA, sponsors who will never associate with LIV, historic and elite courses that will never have a LIV event. All the classic tournaments that aren't going to stop being PGA tournaments. So are we just looking at a permanently split game from here on out, where dominating the PGA Tour is easier than it has been in decades but competition in LIV is weak as well? Is LIV going to forever keep giving star golfers giant appearance fees as if it were an exhibition match? Limited events, 54-hour tournaments, shotgun starts, no cuts, guaranteed money, is that the new normal?
I don't have any super-deep attachment to professional golf. If it dies it dies. But I'm not seeing a "good" endgame here unless the Saudis get bored and move on to other endeavors at some point, like chopping up journalists or bombing brown people or paying off local imams to force women into burkas worldwide or any of that other shyt they enjoy.
He's just another past his prime has-been, hasn't won a tournament in 30 years.
He has been offered over $110 million just to sign up.
Cameron has been a pro for 10 years and his lifetime earnings are $27 million. They're quadrupling his lifetime earnings just to switch, and that doesn't even count the automatic no-cut money he's getting every time he plays.
Copy Ninja
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This is unprecedented for golf so who knows what comes of off this.
It really depends on how much money the Saudis want to burn.
Trump openly stumping for LIV Golf now, threatening PGA Tour players. You can't make this shyt up.
"All of those golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big ‘thank you’ from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"If you don’t take the money now, you will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the original signees were."
www.foxnews.com
"All of those golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big ‘thank you’ from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"If you don’t take the money now, you will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the original signees were."
Trump warns ‘loyal’ PGA Tour players, explains why they need to make the jump to LIV Golf
Former President Donald Trump is getting ready to host a LIV Golf tournament at the end of the month and warned current PGA Tour players about the future of the sport.
www.foxnews.com