One For The Golf Fans

FatFrank

FatFrank

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PGA Tour and LIV Golf (including the DP Tour) are all to merge as part of a new larger golf enterprise, immediately ending all litigation outstanding regarding lawsuits!! o_O

I thought it was an April fools prank until I remembered we were in June!!!!

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Did not see this coming at all, however I am partially happy for it as we do essentially want to see the best pit against the best each week.
 
I'm not really a golf fan; I follow it during the Ryder cup, and take a passing interest in the majors. However, this seems an incredible turn of events. Sounds like a good thing to end the schism, but I suppose we'll have to hear the terms of it an the implications.
 
Gonna leave a lot of people in an awkward situation given the vitriol handed out over the last 18 months (blood money, selling your soul etc...) Brandel Shamblee being one of the main protagonists
 
Can only be good news, otherwise Golf would have ended up like boxing with none of the best players playing each other due to rival organisations.
 
Steer said:
Can only be good news, otherwise Golf would have ended up like boxing with none of the best players playing each other due to rival organisations.
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I think you are right in what you are saying but have also got to agree with MVBoro about the PGA golfers being unhappy. This agreement can only be good for the sport.
 
I am very intrigued as to how they're going to incorporate it all to work together - LIV Golf have established a very unique casual format with players wearing shorts, scoring formats, shorter weeks and music being played on tee boxes etc. I can't see them wanting to change much.

Coincidentally, for those who are interested, there is an Asian Tour event on at Close House in August (17-20). Thursday entry is free for spectators and the entry fee gradually increases towards the Sunday finale. I went to the Slaley Hall event last year and it was well worth the trip up. Tom Kim was brand new on the scene and was known to pretty much nobody, however he is now a regular contender on the PGA Tour.

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FatFrank said:
I am very intrigued as to how they're going to incorporate it all to work together - LIV Golf have established a very unique casual format with players wearing shorts, scoring formats, shorter weeks and music being played on tee boxes etc. I can't see them wanting to change much.

Coincidentally, for those who are interested, there is an Asian Tour event on at Close House in August (17-20). Thursday entry is free for spectators and the entry fee gradually increases towards the Sunday finale. I went to the Slaley Hall event last year and it was well worth the trip up. Tom Kim was brand new on the scene and was known to pretty much nobody, however he is now a regular contender on the PGA Tour.

closehouse.com

Close House and passionate North-East welcomed return of International Series England - Close House

– Close House’s Colt Course chosen for fifth event on The International Series 2023 – Close House, a premier golf destination in the North-East of England with a strong affiliation to one of the country’s greatest golfers Lee Westwood, will hosted The International Series England 2023 and...
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I think the PGA Tour will milk PIF for all the money they can get and offer up about 4 -5 weeks a year where they play the "team game" with shorts, reduced rounds, music and booze etc... before PIF get bored and the PGA phase these events back out...some existing PGA events actually lend themselves better the LIV format (phoenix waste management etc...) and may last longer than others in the LIV format.

The PGA Tour kept the majority of the voting rights and will have the CEO so I ma not excepting anything major to change overnight.

It an absolute nail in the coffin for the DP Tour in my opinion, they would have been better off getting out in front of the PGA Tour and merging with LIV from the start.
 
The PGA have been bought off. They maintain an executive majority over the new company but LIV and all it's bells and whistles will now sit alongside the PGA and integrate on such things as the Ryder Cup, world rankings and majors entry.
 
Humpty said:
The PGA have been bought off. They maintain an executive majority over the new company but LIV and all it's bells and whistles will now sit alongside the PGA and integrate on such things as the Ryder Cup, world rankings and majors entry.
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Exactly it’s not a merger it’s a take over
 
LIV should have known better. Seems it is far easier to pay off executives than it is to pay off players.

Rory in particular has been vocally anti-LIV. Wonder how he feels about it.

I too am glad that golf is back together but I am definitely not happy that he blood money has been universally accepted. Sportswashing made perfect. Expect to see them trying to buy entire competitions instead of individual teams from now on.
 
Nano said:
LIV should have known better. Seems it is far easier to pay off executives than it is to pay off players.

Rory in particular has been vocally anti-LIV. Wonder how he feels about it.

I too am glad that golf is back together but I am definitely not happy that he blood money has been universally accepted. Sportswashing made perfect. Expect to see them trying to buy entire competitions instead of individual teams from now on.
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They already all but own f1
 
Having read a lot of the reaction over the past 24 hours, I'm finding some parts absolutely astonishing. The fact that no PGA Tour players including those who sit on the player committee had no idea that this was in the pipeline.

They then held a player committee meeting where they cheered when it was suggested that a change of management and leadership is needed replacing Jay Monahan.
 
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