OT: PGA and LIV Golf to merge….
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I didn’t get that sense when news broke…but reading and listening all day gets me thinking otherwIse.
The name will be done. But not the concept. As I have said the WGC will be replaced by team events. It is the DP Tour siting at the kids table now.
SI reporting Norman basically had no idea and likely won't be involved going forward. He was only informed of the merger right before the announcement.
Are you trying to be numbers quoting his own forecast?? 🤣🤣
"LIV Golf and The CW signed a two-year deal, with a one-year option based on viewership. The deal leaves The CW not paying a rights fee and leaving LIV with all production costs to broadcast the events. Though the deal does show the two sides will share ad sales revenue."
LIV-CW terms: Two-year deal with one-year option
LIV Golf and The CW signed a two-year deal, with a one-year option based on viewership. The deal leaves The CW not paying a rights fee and leaving LIV with all production costs to broadcast the events.
cd-prod.sportsbusinessjournal.com
Yes. LIV golf will be done…as I speculated. Sure…the concept will be integrated into new events. No doubt.
Watching the Golf Channel was gold today. The information they got from insiders was awesome. The lady that has been covering the legal side since this startied, cut the guys off twice. The recent ruling was not a win for the PGA as some thought. First it added at least another year of this going through the courts. And 2nd was her statement about discovery was fascinating about the PGA slush fund spending and where some of that money came from.
These 48 player random events of weak fields are gone but big fields of teams making big money will be the norm. I like the team concept but more like the college model
MonaHan comes off as the biggest loser. How any of the rank and file can believe anything that POS says is impossible. Lots of high end dudes took him at his word and it cost them 10’s of millions of dollars. Have to believe the top PGA players won’t be getting a payout from this, if not the dissension will be huge.
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Huh? What does your god have to with this??
Might be funny if it comes out that one of the conditions of the merger was Trump can't host any events. His head might explode.
Couple of tweets that neither were and that both only found out this morning what was going on.
It's not off enough to get glue under it. I could try to pull off a bigger section to get access underneath but with my luck, I'll really screw it up. LOL.
I emailed Callaway/Odyssey to see what they say.
I have had many putters on a trial based. I always go back to my Acushnet Bullseye flang putter with the double line on the top. Smooth as silk!
Say what ? Greg Norman was completely irrelevant 2 years ago. He was the face of the Liv tour that took on the PGA tour and won. He has cashed enormous checks and likely has a deal that will pay him more. Now he heads to the rocking chair with a smile and unbelievably expensive Cabernet in both hands. He is the clear winner here.
Basically what just happened is the PGA sold itself to Saudi Arabia
I told everyone that Saudi wouldn’t fund this thing indefinitely. They get that they needed an off ramp. LIV will probably finish out their format and turn into the replacement for WGC.
The whole GIST is the the PGA is no longer a NON-PROFIT. They are 100% profit now
So LIV got what was offered to them from the beginning. The only reason there was a fight was because LIV wanted to play more events in the US.
Yes, it was always an option. PGA never said they would sell. They just didn’t want to be replace.
Terrible spin by another Chamblee gang member. You're a complete idiot if that what's you think especially after a day full of coverage which you obviously missed
Yup. The Saudis and LIV got exactly what they wanted. Huge win for them.
It's disappointing that more people aren't concerned about any dealings with KSA.
They are not an ally. 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi. OBM was a Saudi. The Saudis had an awareness that something on the scale of 9/11 was going to happen. It was Saudi money that funded the operation.
KSA is, to the protagonists, an alliance of necessity in the complexities of the Middle East. I'm not enthusiastic about even that - never have been. But I also understand that the region needs a strong presence to combat the inherent lunacy and we need to have some leverage, somewhere.
To me, going back to my days in the AF, KSA and Turkey were pretty similar places. Horrible nations with an inordinate population of bad actors. The singular difference between the two was that when you went to Incerlik, even in the early 80s, you were probably gonna get shot at.
But make no mistake - the Saudis are NOT our friends. They are adversaries. We don't need to be giving them anything other than a short leash. And accepting this deal as "just another deal" is, IMO, wrong-minded.
They are not an ally. 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi. OBM was a Saudi. The Saudis had an awareness that something on the scale of 9/11 was going to happen. It was Saudi money that funded the operation.
KSA is, to the protagonists, an alliance of necessity in the complexities of the Middle East. I'm not enthusiastic about even that - never have been. But I also understand that the region needs a strong presence to combat the inherent lunacy and we need to have some leverage, somewhere.
To me, going back to my days in the AF, KSA and Turkey were pretty similar places. Horrible nations with an inordinate population of bad actors. The singular difference between the two was that when you went to Incerlik, even in the early 80s, you were probably gonna get shot at.
But make no mistake - the Saudis are NOT our friends. They are adversaries. We don't need to be giving them anything other than a short leash. And accepting this deal as "just another deal" is, IMO, wrong-minded.
1st you are wrong the golf channel is owned by Comcast and has always been owned by Comcast. When they purchased NBC they merged it to NBC Sports. The reason why Comcast has always been ahead of everybody is the owned the content as well. Unless you are saying the PGA figuratively owns the Golf Channel
If you guys think there is going to be crazy major changes it's not going to happen. LIV bought it's way into major golf. It's going to go back to PGA with larger money that PIF will still fund. Think there will be more events outside US thus growing the game abroad which may be encompassed in the DP Tour. More tourneys abroad may shaft the US some. Team function will not be part of the standard tourney when cuts will be involved
What I can see happening is there being a PGA tour 1A & a PGA tour 2A. Big $$ purses in 1A events and 2A
agree with the above. Sadly, in the world we live in now none of that matters. Blurred lines all around. The price will be paid, just a matter of when.
2 years ago the Saudis were a non-entity in golf. Today they essential own the PGA and some are actually arguing that LIV lost? The Saudis don’t care if there are teams, cuts, 3 or 4 days — they wanted in and the PGA bent the knee for a massive paycheck.
