In reply to Bunk Moreland So excited about AK!

Excited about Dufner next at LIV! They both were good in 2011 so surely Yasir will grab him next.

Bunk, you think Phil's HyFlyers will put it together for the weekend?

Quite the international leader board + Gooch and Wolff.

Sergio playing good golf. Kim having an awful weekend. +16 with 4 to play.

2 good finishes going on right now

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2 good finishes going on right now

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Double playoffs after that Sergio choke

In reply to Bunk Moreland Yeah that was a really poor stroke

Going to a 2nd

And now Sergio dumps it in the water from the middle of the fairway

And then I think Sergio got sprayed with champagne by Brendan Grace and it went in his eyes… injury to insult.

In reply to Poot He was mad. I think it sprayed his wife and daughter too

In reply to 98Ag99Grad Thought I saw that too… Golf, but wetter.

In reply to Poot That was hilarious

Jon Rahm says he’d like to see a “world tour” similar to F1 and LIV need to change their format and go to 72 holes to help accommodate unification in the sport:

“I might not have not been vocal in media, but I’ve told exactly those words where we need to follow the F1 model.… https://t.co/JzXx4nCye1

— Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) April 8, 2024

The road map has been trending this way for some time. The move to 72 holes would be a good decision as well for quicker unification.

I'd be shocked if US players want to travel the world playing a world tour. Euros are used to it from the DP Tour but Americans are spoiled in that regard.

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I'd be shocked if US players want to travel the world playing a world tour. Euros are used to it from the DP Tour but Americans are spoiled in that regard.

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well guaranteed 7 or 8 figure salaries would ease them burden for those against it I am sure.

https://www.sbnation.com/2024/4/15/24131426/rory-mcilroy-liv-golf-rumors-swirl-850-million


I can believe it. He makes a **** ton of cash and I guarantee if he goes the figure out the merger ASAP. He'd actually be dumb not to go at this point.

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https://www.sbnation.com/2024/4/15/24131426/rory-mcilroy-liv-golf-rumors-swirl-850-million


I can believe it. He makes a **** ton of cash and I guarantee if he goes the figure out the merger ASAP. He'd actually be dumb not to go at this point.

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I hope he does and then merges asap. This **** is unsustainable and as much as I was hoping LIV would be a viable product, it's just not

I won't believe the rory stuff until I see it. He's been so adamantly opposed.

I never thought Rahm would go either but there he is. This would be nuts.

get ready for lots of tournaments in far flung time zones if the F1 model comes to pass. Nothing like watching a 2am Saturday tee time for the final pairing

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I won't believe the rory stuff until I see it. He's been so adamantly opposed.

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I wouldn't be surprised to see him go.

He was the banner boy for the PGAT then they secretly made a deal. And Jay Monahan - who was the biggest obstacle to fending this whole thing off at the get go and seems to have been the one who was begging the players like Rory to stand strong - looks likely to clean up in the new world. Guess that Saudi money isn't so dirty after all, is it Jay? I wonder what the 9/11 families have to say on the matter.

Point being, Rory has stood firm and gotten nothing to show for it. I think he will rationalize it by saying what everyone wants is reunification and him leaving is the best way to speed that along. And that's probably true, but it will be about the money plus a middle finger to Monahan.

Just a theory.

In reply to bagger05 Exactly. I'd love to see him go. Let LIV be the big boys and let them play once a month or so. PGAT can be the AAA if you will. Win your way onto LIV and let them demote whoever is sucking it up there.

If anything I can see him do it just to give jay the middle finger for making him look like a complete puppet the past few years.

If that number is real he'd be an idiot not to take it.

In reply to AustinCountyAg Talk about out of mind, playing once a month? I thought we wanted more people interested.

Rory should ask for a 2% stake in Caffeine TV since more people are watching LIV than NFL games on an app nobody has ever heard of!

@jamiecweir , a reporter close to Rory McIlroy says reports by CityAM that state Rory is potentially closing in on a $850M deal with LIV Golf are "complete nonsense."

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AustinCountyAg said:

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Exactly. I'd love to see him go. Let LIV be the big boys and let them play once a month or so. PGAT can be the AAA if you will. Win your way onto LIV and let them demote whoever is sucking it up there.

If anything I can see him do it just to give jay the middle finger for making him look like a complete puppet the past few years.

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This is not a golf fan. Once a month? ****ing ridiculous.

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"once a month or so". Combine that with a major for the next three months since they already played this months, plus Ryder cup/president cup at the end of the summer, yes that's about the golf season for a lot of the big boys. Two or three(at most) tournaments per month until the fall where it's drops off even less.

I'm quite a big golf fan actually, and would love to get the big guys playing more frequently together.

🚨💰🙅‍♂️ #NOT LEAVING — Rory McIlroy’s manager Sean O’Flaherty dismissed reporting by @CityAM which said Rory is potentially close to signing with LIV GOLF for $850M: “Fake news. Zero truth.” @TrackingRory (via: @independentIE) pic.twitter.com/JTGOzzb30D

— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) April 16, 2024

In reply to AustinCountyAg Most of the "big boys" are playing about two dozen events + RC/PC. Scheffler played 23 events + RC + CJ. That isn't "about once a month".

If you want to redefine "about once a month" to "at least twice and oftentimes 3X for 9 months of the year", then that's different and something i'd be good with

While they have made a concerted effort to coordinate schedules, the notion that the big boys didn't play enough together to the point that professional golf needed to be blown up just isn't accurate. Go pull up leaderboards from before all of this went down and the bigger events (Farmers, WM, Bay Hill, Memorial, Players, etc.) attracted the vast majority of the big boys. There would typically be a couple names missing depending on their schedules, but these events attracted probably 80%, if not more, of the top players. Just find it really hard to believe that this was so upsetting to people that they preferred the potential destruction of professional golf.

In reply to JCA1 this is valid

I was curious so I went back to the 2018-19 season, which was what I would consider the last normal season before COVID and LIV. Pulled 3 random, but big name, events to see who was in the field. A sampling:

Genesis: JT, Rory, Scott, DJ, Hideki, Rahm, Cantlay, Bryson, Finau, Xander, Bubba, Tiger, Fleetwood, Kuchar, Sergio, Homa, Mickelson, Niemann, Cam Smith, Spieth, Hatton and Oostie, etc.

Bay Hill: Fitzpatrick, Fleetwood, Rory, Stenson, Bubba, Poulter, Hatton, Hideki, Kaymer, Fowler, Zach Johnson, Bryson, Niemann, Reed, McDowell, Snedeker, Rose, Mickelson, Koepka, Oostie, Lowry, and Day, etc.

Memorial: Cantlay, Scott, Kaymer, Hideki, Spieth, Tiger, Rose, Fowler, Xander, Bryson, Niemann, Hatton, Homa, Stenson, Donald, Oostie, Fitzpatrick, Rory, Kuchar, Day, Mickelson, Finau, Cam Smith, and JT, etc.

I guess if you want to quibble, each one has a guy or 2 missing. But overall, those look like pretty good events to me and I'm sure you could do this with many others. Having a hard time with the "it's worth destroying professional golf because the best weren't playing against each other" mindset.