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

I feel sorry for McIlroy and the players who stayed loyal to the PGA tour. It appears that their strong stand has been sold out. I get why the PGA might have caved in to some LIV demands and why SA are seeking a piece of the PGA & Dp tours in exchange for even more billions rather than sinking that money into a LIV tour that was tanking.

The devil will be in the detail but McIlroy must feel like a used tool alright, he did play great golf last year but this year this thing has really undermined him. Tough. Hard lines.

Imho he should now just get back to being the best golfer he can be now, and maybe let others handle his commercial affairs more & compete in this thing if it's worth his while. But he should backtrack from his current & any further extraneous roles imho, cos really the PGA went straight over his head ultimately and did a deal despite he & many others being used to front their position repeatedly. So look that's the way it appears to be, he'll have to deal with it now.....

I find it bizarre that the majority of posters are declaring this a “LiV Win”.

my gut instinct is that LiV was about to go under and the PGA has taken them in under the public auspices of a merger, but what in reality is a corporate takeover.

they weren’t equals. No way was this an equal split or a LiV win.

Liv go under ?

They essentially have limitless funds.

Can Tiger Woods take $1billion off the Saudis now?

Im sure Mcilmiss the 500mill he was offered!!!

(Im guessing how much he could have got)

why?

Yeah, I'm done.

It would be lovely if ad free coverage became a norm out of all this.

Currently clinging onto twitter for this player meeting, Monahan will reach Delaney levels of Teflon if he gets through it.

Well, maybe like a used idiot. But don't we all feel like idiots when we've been taken for a ride. Through no fault of his own at the same time, but he was probably a bit too naïve to get involved to the extent he did.

Thought Pelley was an absolute disgrace there tbh, asking the reporter to explain his question, and then as you say, more or less said "so what".

How dare you....i dont need to pray for him to miss, he will do it no bother all by himself!!

All professional sports people are mercenaries , these golfers are no worse than any other sports people.

There has been no condemnation of Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema etc for taking money from the same source the LIV guys got their money from.

Seems like Golfers are being held to a higher moral standard than other sports people have been.

I think you’ll find ordinary people don’t care about sports washing at all, they just claim they do. F1, Boxing and Soccer are all heavily involved with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. The only time they care about sports washing is when it comes to displaying their faux outrage at, for example, Saudi Arabia buying Newcastle. The ordinary man, he’s outraged because Newcastle or Man City will buy a player the team he supports wanted to sign or his team won’t win a trophy because Newcastle or Man City might win it instead.

That’s all it is and to say any different you’re only kidding yourself. What I will say is that the PGA Tour to a fanatical golf fan such as myself has sold itself out. I don’t care if it’s Saudi money, Japanese money or Monopoly money but the fact is the whole thing is about money and not about the history and integrity that the PGA Tour claims are its bedrock for the last 40 or 50 years. People talk about the insane money in professional soccer really don’t have a clue what they’re talking about because golf, even before today, has insane sums of money involved in it.

Rory was right when he said Norman needed to be taken out of the conversation and let the grown ups take over when asked last year about finding a solution.

The LIV golf concept has completely failed. The format was poor with no cut meaning mediocrity was rampant and the team element didn't gain any traction. This was a sinking ship and the Saudis have simply splashed the cash to buy into the PGA tour.

Well if there was it went away very very quickly .