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Merging of PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV!!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭RoadRunner


    They are all in love with each other again 😃



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,972 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Interesting to see how this pans out, will it be an actual worldwide tour now or just more money pumped into the same old thing



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭dan_ep82




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭dublin49


    I wonder will the Westwood,Poults,Sergio gang get all their loot or will this supercede it,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Quite a bizarre turn of events but if it puts an end to all this litigation, ensures that the best players are playing against each other more often, and develops the game at the grass-roots level, its a good thing.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Russman


    Didn't see that coming !!

    Could be some awkward catching up between some of the players now 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭TinaTiernan


    What a joke.


    PGA weak pussies



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    Did anyone expect this? I certainly didn't. It'll be great to have all the best players playing the same tournaments again.

    Interesting to see the impact on the Ryder cup, will Mickelson/Poulter etc get to be captain now I wonder.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭zocklie


    This feels so slimy, I don't like it. Seems quite vague as to what this actually means for the players, are they going to have 200 players at each event now they've combined 3 tours?


    Great move for Thomas pieters, just moved over and now gets paid out and straight back into all your events.


    Ryder cup will be a shitshow, so many dynamics between the players



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,760 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    been a while since a sports story nearly knocked me over. first I'd to check the whatsapp group image to see if I'd see something obscene when I clicked in, then I double-checked it wasn't april 1st.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭UsBus


    The moral of the story here is if you ever get the chance to make easy money, snap it up. The bank balance will ease the possibility of any consequences.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭Keano


    Nothing will change but everything will change in the end. Money trumps everything



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,882 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Saudi win wow 😮😮

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,106 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Ya it’s kinda vile to be honest.

    If I was to take a genuine guess at how this has happened, my assumption is that a couple more top brass players have said they’ll be jumping ship. PGA had to act



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,972 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Don't think it's that easy. LIV wasn't going to last, but pga didn't have the pockets to drag it out long term. Of course, won't know for sure until more details emerge, like how season is structured or if there's any other changes



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,888 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    So the Saudis now own golf.. disgusting move by the PGA and DP tour...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    This is what I'm thinking aswell, wonder did Koepka winning the PGA have an impact on the top players' perception of LIV



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,882 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Think Brooks winning the PGA was the beginning of the end for the PGA tour.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Trampas


    One thing for sure is European tour will be even less as a result of it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,925 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    So that's why Rory stopped talking about LIV around about a month ago. He probably got wind of what was coming down the road.



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭Keano


    By all accounts the player's didn't know about it coming either. Jay is going to sit in a room with them and explain how the Saudi's made him a billionaire and sure what else was he supposed to do....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,888 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    This pretty much sums it up. I'd say PGA will be heralded as the "face" but behind the scenes it'll be LIV & Co running the show.



    PGA have the history.

    LIV have the world class investing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,773 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    How are they going to square this with the players who didn't join and didn't get the big pay off? How about the players who didn't want the blood money? Are they now forced to take it with no other option available?

    PGA also seem to be taking on the team golf aspect.

    Honestly think I'll delete the PGA app. Not to make a stand or that it'll make a difference, just not interested in this sh*te.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,925 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    That's what I take out of this. A load of players made truck loads of cash signing for LIV. Were minority inconvenienced for a year and now get to carry on like nothing ever happened. Win-win for them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭Lionel Fusco


    Rory McIlroy's next interview will be interesting. LOL at the people who think there's morals in Golf.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Russman


    Bet he feels like a F'ing idiot now. Should be fun when/if he meets up with Phil or Sergio next.

    Just shows though, all the same, money trumps everything these days and if you've enough of it, a way will be found for you. Honestly I've no strong feelings either way on LIV golf or the Saudi angle, but its kinda sickening to read that statement from Monahan, given all that's been said before.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,051 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    I'm glad they both saw fit and decided to grow the game globally... very admirable.

    On a selfish level, delighted that we'll be seeing the best players competing more often.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,972 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Weren't Phil and Rory at a champions dinner at the USPGA? Lot of that will be overblown. I think he'll have more of a bone to pick with Jay though, the man constantly hid behind the players and has now sold them down a river.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭TinaTiernan




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