He just “got his card” in the same sense Rose just “got her card.” He can compete and win tournaments immediately on the Tour.
Christ this got me. Perfectly encapsulates every Rivals boomer whose self worth, place in the hierarchy of society, and worldview is defined by their bank account and wife’s fake tit size
Brooks seems like the type that would want to win anything. Not golf specific. Straight psycho competitive
he’s hyper competitive when he wins, when he doesn’t then it’s the “pshhh that’s not important enough for me to care” attitude
if he actually cared about the value and performance of his team he sure as shit shouldn’t be carrying his brother
A much better story would have been him going out and qualifying for the US Open but instead we get the morning talk show circuit, the Chas Schwab, and Canadian open which is a footnote in the golf news cycle right now
I think the team format LIV currently has is awful but I’m intrigued by a team concept that tallies over an entire season with a draft and individual owners of the teams and free agency and players unions, etc. What if individual owners bought the golf courses or struck deals with local courses and had some home field advantage with tickets sales as income? Could be interesting
so you liked LIV, but hated their team format. Was it the Trump course or the Team Names that caused you to be a Saudi Arabian cheerleader?
never liked LIV. Thought it was ok for guys to look after their best interests and that golf could be better
People in general, but especially the Saudis are just going to have realize that golf isn’t the NFL in America or the premier league across the pond. These wild ass team concepts aren’t suddenly going to bring waves of viewers to golf on a Saturday and Sunday during the summer. You can have some kind of team event for sure. But there just has to be the understanding that it just isn’t and will never be as popular as the PIF is pretending to value it. You want similar ratings to a week 13 NFL Sunday? Go buy Tiger a brand new, functional leg and get him in contention again.
Along that same line of thinking, the indoor golf simulator show that Tiger and pals are cooking up is going to get terrible ratings.
Played the Tour 18 in Dallas today. Pretty cool to play replicas of famous holes. Chunked my approach on sawgrass 17 into the water. Last 3 holes were Amen Corner. Shot -1 on those holes. Always knew I would do well at Augusta.
We are getting extremely mixed messaging from both sides on what this means for the future of golf. I’m sure this will all play out perfectly fine!
If, huge if, you accept the premise that players like Rahm would rather play LIV but stayed behind for whatever reason, then the face of LIV could change. You might end up with the top players in LIV+Majors+Limited PGA events. huge IF
Exactly. It’s going away. Yasir reportedly paid Bryson 125 million to join LIV. Tiger has made 150 million in on course earnings spanning his entire career. That is untethered from reality. They agreed to create a for profit venture. LIV will never make a single dollar.
Also, for as much as Shipnuck has come off like a stooge in this whole thing, he’s probably been “more right” than most golf journalists have been. This tweet, for example, is being backed up by basically everyone at this point. The Tour apparently faced a near impossible uphill battle actually paying for their elevated events going forward. NLU, Andy Johnson, and others are also reporting this.
Hell at this point, I don't see why all the top players don't jump. They're getting Saudi money one way or the other now. Unless PGA is going to offer major money like LIV then there's no reason to stay.
Nice round from Block today but will still miss the cut. Imo this is a nice way to end this story. Good round, let’s not hear from ya until next years PGA.
Equity in a fairly illiquid entity that has so much money in it from an entity that doesn't immediately appear to care about massive profitability doesn't seem like too big of a win