BruceMGF
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The problem is there are no qualifying criteria other than the Saudis like you. They could invite a bunch of 20-handicappers, stage a "tournament", and demand OWGR points for their results.
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Was he reading that from a Teleprompter?
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Yeah, it's like the whole LIV field is "sponsor's exemptions". If you lose your PGA tour card through inadequate play, you can try again by Q-School, satellite tour, Monday qualifying. With LIV you play if some hereditary royal likes you (or his delegated agent like Greg Norman).
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Someone should do one on the old James Bond theme: LIV and Let Die.
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Tennis?
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And then what happens to players no longer of any use to LIV, and no longer welcome in the PGA (and maybe other tours, we shall see)?
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How many can jump if LIV maintains their 48-player format? Or is that going to change? And how many players are they going to pay exorbitant amounts just for showing up?
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It's not just golf. Watch when a foul ball sails into the seats at a baseball game, or a hockey puck goes over the plerxiglass at a hockey game. More than half the people in the vicinity aren't paying attention.
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I must say, the LIV thing has given me a new appreciation for the Curtis Cup. On TV or in person? Or both? And why?
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It's probably for the guys in the Canadian tournament checking out the new league before or after their rounds.
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I didn't think LIV intended to appeal to anyone but the casual fan. Not the hardcore. Question for the forum: any idea what happens to players who join LIV without ever having been in the PGA (or DP)? If they left LIV (or it collapsed) would they be welcome in the PGA?
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But they weren't high-profile until they did something on a pro tour. They don't come to the PGA with the reputation of a Heisman Trophy winner (some of whom have flamed out badly in the NFL). To come to the PGA already having a big reputation, you've got to do something sperctacular (Tiger's three US Amateurs is all I can think of. I suppose Bobby Jones, had he ever gone pro, would have come in with a big reputation).
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"Bring in"? This is one of the reasons I don't like this thing. You qualify for the PGA (or DP) tour by Q-school, mini-tour, Monday qualifying, etc. You bring yourself in. Apparently this LIV tour just wants to pick players it likes, right now it's players established on existing tours, who knows in the future - players who say what they're told in public? Where are these high profile players to come from? The US college circuit? This isn't college football. Nobody's that high-profile for setting golf records at Purdue or wherever.
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Can't be Hogan or Snead ...
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OK, this comment got me to check it out. For all of 15 seconds. Yeah, it's annoying.
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How are very big playoffs handled? I'm not thinking of first-place playoffs, but something like a qualifying round for a 64-player match play field and you've got something like a 15-way tie for 59th place. Surely they can't have all 15 tee off in one group? If nothing else there's no way they could avoid standing in each other's line on the green. Do they tee off in smaller groups and the first finishers have to wait on the second tee to see who survives behind them?
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Really? ANY other sport? I found this on bleacherreport: "Players in the National Lacrosse League earn $9,200 in their rookie season, which is then negotiable up to as much as $27,000 a year after that ($34,000 for a Franchise Player)." Better to be a professional bowler, where the top pros make 200000 to 300000. But a whole lot less than any exempt player on the PGA tour. You're comparing golf to the richest pro sports organizations in the world. Maybe golf isn't quite there. Of course, Phil Mickelson could have tried to an NFL quarterback or an NBA guard. I don't think he would have made it. Or he could have learned to code, as I did, outearning pro lacrosse players.
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Apparently I've been out of the loop, because I just heard of this today and I see it's been discussed here before. I don't remember it being discussed on any telecasts I've seen. Is this going to happen? If players are banned from the PGA and other existing tours, what happens when the Super League no longer requires their services? And if the Super League is so popular that the PGA and other tours aren't viable, where would this Super League find its "top players" in the future?
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Hmmm. I haven't been on Sand Trap for a while, but I saw this thread and couldn't resist adding my choices: Baseball - Moneyball, A League of Our Own Basketball - Hoosiers Golf - Greatest Game Ever Played Horse Racing - Pharlap Rugby - Invictus Auto Racing - Grand Prix Hockey - The Rocket Spelling Bee (it's on ESPN, so it's a sport!) - Akeelah and the Bee, Spellbound Football - Knute Rockne, All-American Cycling - La Petite Reine ('cause I saw Jeanson race in person numerous times) Boxing - The Power of One
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Or - someone has to take care of the kids while he's on the golf course. And the wife is drunk.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he ducked into a bathroom and vomited between holing out and the Butler Cabin bit.
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So ... is Willett on a grand-slam watch?
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This guy says commercial time accounts for all the difference: http://www.101sports.com/2014/08/22/math-mlbs-bogus-pace-game-issues/ Makes sense to me. I haven't watched more than half-an-inning for years, because I wander off during the commercial break and don't come back.
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When George Archer was defending champ, he missed the cut and had to hang around not only for the final two rounds, but an 18-hole playoff as well.
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That's bikini-waxed patrons. McCord says so.
