LIV Golf Now Closed?

[Divot Master]

Gonna have to add a couple more team names for the late arrivals. How about Bone Saws GC for DeChambeau?

[Vinsk]

I don’t buy any of the nonsense talk that this is ‘growing the game’ or ‘ a change is needed’ or anything else as a reason they’re doing this. It’s money. 100%. Just shut up and do what you’re gonna do. 

[p1n9183]

12 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

It’s money. 100%

Agree with these. Every player switching to the liv tour is after money, not fame, or to be the best and I'm totally fine with that. 

As an IT guy working in a multinational company, if other smaller company offers me the same job but paying me a LOT more I would definitively take that in consideration. I don't have any work related ambition , I just work for the bucks, my ambitions are all outside the work environment, so I'm not after been the N°1 employee of my company or the country so going to another company to do the same thing for a lot more money is not that bad of an offer.

The only thing that is a risk, is that this new employee is not rock solid, it can run out of business in a couple of years and you can end up unemployed and without an invitation to go back to your previous company an not many other real options to choose from.
For the guys that are over 40 this is not a problem because they are totally loaded in cash, so they just need to invest their money wisely and live the rest of their life away from professional golf.   

[iacas]

1 hour ago, Divot Master said:

Gonna have to add a couple more team names for the late arrivals. How about Bone Saws GC for DeChambeau?

No more teams. 48 players.

[Vinsk]

I’m not really seeing this ‘team’ format appealing. I’m obviously biased with the PC and the RC with its history and meaning. But a bunch of relative nobodies and a handful of big names sounds like the dismal pro-Ams I never watch. 😳

[Darkfrog]

I'm sure for the maximum impact of the sportswashing effort, the LIV Golf players are not supposed to (or maybe even contractually obligated not to) say that they are joining for the money. So far it seems like they are sticking to the talking points. But does anyone believe the "we're doing lots of good with the game of golf" and "grow the game" BS? I certainly don't.

[phillyk]

Let’s just get this week over with. If the Masters is true, that would be a blow. 

[Zeph]

2 hours ago, p1n9183 said:

Agree with these. Every player switching to the liv tour is after money, not fame, or to be the best and I'm totally fine with that. 

As an IT guy working in a multinational company, if other smaller company offers me the same job but paying me a LOT more I would definitively take that in consideration. I don't have any work related ambition , I just work for the bucks, my ambitions are all outside the work environment, so I'm not after been the N°1 employee of my company or the country so going to another company to do the same thing for a lot more money is not that bad of an offer.

The only thing that is a risk, is that this new employee is not rock solid, it can run out of business in a couple of years and you can end up unemployed and without an invitation to go back to your previous company an not many other real options to choose from.
For the guys that are over 40 this is not a problem because they are totally loaded in cash, so they just need to invest their money wisely and live the rest of their life away from professional golf.   

Is the morale, ethics and reputation of these companies irrelevant to you? Doesn’t matter what they do or how they do it as long as you get more money?

[colin007]

6 hours ago, boogielicious said:

Will Sergio be able to hack up the greens with his temper tantrums in this new format?

I mean, it's not the first hacking that will have happened..... 👀

[nevets88]

The only way to watch it at the moment is via YouTube or Facebook. I'm not sure how a lot of the golf demographic is going to deal with something not their cable set top box, but I guess that's not the demographic LIV is going for. It'll also stream at 9 in the morning. Not exactly prime viewing time.

[jbishop15]

[Zippo]

Tiger turned down a big payment to move:

Tiger Woods Turned Down Nearly $1 Billion to Join Saudi-Backed LIV Tour, CEO Claims

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Golf icon Tiger Woods turned down nearly $1 billion to join the Saudi-backed LIV Tour.

 

[Darkfrog]

I wonder how much of the incompetence of LIV Golf is by design, versus true incompetence.

It almost seems like the horrendously stupid team names, logos, and descriptions were contrived to instigate conversation, whether good or bad.

On the other hand, Talor Gooch's "I'm just a dumb golfer and I am too dumb to understand sportswashing" feels like real incompetence.

[imsys0042]

17 minutes ago, Darkfrog said:

On the other hand, Talor Gooch's "I'm just a dumb golfer and I am too dumb to understand sportswashing" feels like real incompetence.

That’s like getting audited and saying “I’m not good at math”.

[PeaceFrogg]

8 hours ago, Darkfrog said:

I don't think I will miss Reed and Dechambeau on the PGA Tour. I liked watching Bryson because of his extreme pursuit of distance, but I find him profoundly annoying otherwise.

Meanwhile, Phil is saying that he "does not condone human-rights violations" while taking bags of money from one of the worst human-rights abusing governments in the world. 

Phil's acting like Carmela Soprano.

[iacas]

5 hours ago, phillyk said:

Let’s just get this week over with. If the Masters is true, that would be a blow. 

I've heard… the Masters will not give the same type of reaction as the USGA. And that at least one Masters champ was going to go to LIV and decided against it because of what they were told by Augusta National.

 

[Shindig]

11 hours ago, jbishop15 said:

NBA 2K Expansion team-ass logo

xkcd: Hyphen

10 hours ago, boogielicious said:

Will Sergio be able to hack up the greens with his temper tantrums in this new format?

No, the LIV rules clearly limit on-green tantrums to spitting in the cup, not hacking up the greens.  

[Missouri Swede]

2 hours ago, imsys0042 said:

That’s like getting audited and saying “I’m not good at math”.

I don't know.  Seemed to work in Breaking Bad.