Is this merger a result of the performance of Brooks Koepka in the last two majors? Was the PGA Tour afraid he's going to continue to win majors, thus validating the LIV Tour?
I disagree. The thing that the needed to validate LIV golf was anyone giving a damn about the LIV golf tournaments. And that wasn't happening with a few exceptions, like in Australia. No one really cared about what happened on the course and you would need that to validate the sports-washing objective of the Saudi PIF.
But it sounds like they decided to throw in another Billion or two and buy the PGA Tour and European Tour.
Is there any posbbility that the PGA tour policy board says no? There are 11 members - five business execs, five tour players, and a direct from the PGA of America.
You have to think that a lot of PGA tour members are very pissed off right now. I would love to be at the meeting in Toronto this afternoon.
Maybe for some.
For players, many believed playing LIV might hurt their games going forward. Having guys playing well in the Majors and Koepka really performing opened some eyes I’m sure. Playing on what has been the pga tour proposed schedule was already getting “some” players talking about the schedule being too much.
There are so many moving parts to this
No lawsuits means no Saudi depositions.
No lawsuits keeps the pga tour from having the govt looking even deeper into anti-trust issues.
And there has been a lot of talk of where the money for all this sudden “elevated” events schedule was coming from and how sustainable it was.
Early this year, I thought LIV would be fading away by next year, it looks like the Saudis let it be known they could keep going and things had to come to a head.
Sounds like there are a lot of players not happy about the suddenness and being blindsided.
But as I’ve mentioned, if you dealt with the tour in any kind of dispute, the whole “players are the tour” does NOT mean when it comes to business decisions (IMO)