PGA TOUR, DP World Tour and PIF announce newly formed commercial entity to unify golf
Padraig Harrington offering up his opinion...
Have to say, the only people I have seen supporting the Newcastle sale, is Newcastle fans. I haven’t seen any pundits welcome the SA investment, but I can’t say I have heard from them all.
Golf has received more media coverage in the past couple of years than it ever ha purely because of the moral implications of LIV.
There was barely a whimper about Newcastle being bought by the Saudi's, you had Sky Sports main pundits coming out and arguing how good it was to have Newcastle bought by them.
I think there will be some legacy issues between the players on both sides.
Oh it'd be complete dream stuff, I'm not expecting much change now at all bar maybe purse sizes and event locations
There was a tonne of articles. Just like there has been about Newcastle , man city etc. Horseshite to claim people are giving golfers a harder time.
Well if there was it went away very very quickly .
Complete vindication for Phil anyway. His criticism of the PGA Tour, their leadership and non-profit status has all proven prescient.
I always maintained his biggest crime in the eyes of the money men was referring to the Saudis as "scary mother@#€&#€#".
It's disgraceful that a supposedly player run organisation can make a decision like this without any consultation with said players.
The whole thing is murky as @#€&
I wonder if Dubai enjoys being bought by the Saudis!? But I'm sure they probably weren't consulted either.
This leaves a terrible taste in the mouth I must say. Pelley and Monahan, I obviously can't say what I think of them here.
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.
There was loads of condemnation of Ronaldo. So that's horseshite.
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.
Two main reasons.
first one is that the quickest, most seamless and least costly way to expunge the only threat to the PGA’s status, is to integrate without fanfare. Do that and it’s endgame. Never again in any of one lifetimes will we see a breakaway tour.
the second one is everyone’s favourite reason: money. Do this quickly and through absolutely other no effort of their own, the PGA’s marketing for 12-24 months is going to look after itself. Viewing numbers will rocket. Sponsorship will rocket.
Honestly folks, I reckon the PGA have played a blinder here.
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.
Think back to the backlash against the european soccer superleague.
The merger had to be announced done and dusted to avoid any such backlash in the public arena where people had to stabd tgeir ground.
The lack of details is telling. There is still a lot to be hammered out in this deal i bet.
How dare you....i dont need to pray for him to miss, he will do it no bother all by himself!!
This is kinda mad - whilst I got energy from people taking ethical positions on stuff (for once) - we are literally saying that means nothing now. Golf has got to be the most meaningless mercenary sport in history - soccer was often looked down on - but golf, is literally a pack of capitalist right wing Trump voting head cases.
If anyone comes to me with Ryder Cup and Europe bullshit in my life - they can go and **** off.
Pack of spoilt kids the lot of them - and hurry the **** up too .
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".
Only a fool would think this will lead to add free coverage. The whole thing relies on advertising.
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.
It’s the usual few who sit watching every Sunday praying for him to make a bogey so they can call him “mcilmiss” (oh look, right on cue a few posts above 🤡) or a “bottler”. Wouldn’t put much credence in their views as they can’t see past their dislike of him.
Yeah, I'm done.
If he had any Stones he'd retire. Richer beyond rich, it would be a great "moral" stance and what he should do based on all of this talk.
Its quite possible The Saudis were expecting LiV to get more traction. For the money they've spent its been an utter failure in terms of viewers and sponsorship.
I imagine he feels like he’s been taken for a fool by Monahan, but he shouldn’t feel like an idiot. He showed some moral backbone and turned down megabucks to go against his beliefs when most would have just taken the money and stonewalled the media.
Keith Pelley’s comments on Sky were pretty crass too. When asked about the players who had turned down the money to stick with the tour he basically said “so what”.
why?
Doubt it tbh. They absorbed the supposed marquee names that joined and all the top players apart from Brooks stayed with the PGAT. If anything LIV looked to be losing momentum. Seems like it might have been to do with the PGAT status as a non-profit organisation and something over the court case there. Either way Monahan is an absolute snake how he went about this. Had the player doing his batting agains the Saudis for the last year and then they find out about this on twitter, disgraceful really.
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)
That makes no sense. LIV was backed by an almost bottomless pit of money from Saudi. Even if it was going to go under why would the PGA give it a lifeline and a piece of it's own organisation?
Liv go under ?
They essentially have limitless funds.
Why would the PGA take them in, why not just let them go under?
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