Humpy
Active member
I see that Eduardo Romero died today aged 67 from cancer. I remember his lovely free flowing swing when I was growing up.
RIP
RIP
2022 Professional golf thread
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Shame. I loved the way El Gato played the game. 8 ET wins so he could play a bit
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Whisperings from across the pond that Bryson has said he won't be playing any more PGA Tour events......
What happens this space...
What happens this space...
Why is the play-off not happening at 16? Or 17?
Where did you see that? Someone made a good point of who on earth is going to televise anything from the Saudi league?
Where did you see that? Someone made a good point of who on earth is going to televise anything from the Saudi league?
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Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
NLU podcast via Golfmagic Tweet...
Quite a few of the top players have, seemingly distanced themselves from it....
What about in the States? They were saying Fox was the only possible option
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Someone would pick it up - I don’t know the sports channels over there but if there is an event with lots of top class golfers then one of them will - they won’t care about the issues , just care about the subscribers
howbow88
Hacker
Sky have been on a big equality drive over the last year or two. And on the Sky Golf podcast, a number of Sky contracted contributors have openly criticised Saudi in recent months. I'm really not too sure that Sky will be on board for this... I think it is very different to Saudi just having a single event in the tour calendar.
As for how it stops - I think the only way would be to ban Saudi affiliated players from majors, and I just can't see the major organisers wanting to do that.
Barking_Mad
Well-known member
It's great having 20k fans round a hole. The beer throwing is just pathetic though.
Am I right in thinking (and very real possibility I'm not) but if players go to Saudi I assume there will be no world ranking points on offer and so over time players will drop down the rankings. That would affect Masters invites and Open qualification surely. I wonder if Amazon would look at picking it up online as they've moved into football and held other events on their platform
Whydowedoit
Hacker
Moving on completely...... It's Riviera this week. My favourite US tour event. Always a strong field on a proper golf course. The season really does start here.
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
it really doesnt!
Cherry13
Head Pro
Isn’t this why the link with the Asian tour is so important for the saudi league? And then on top of that the strength of field will be relatively high, if as reported today they’ve got close to 20 ‘top’ stars.
Not sure sky will pick this up, maybe a few of the fringe broadcasters, but saudi rep in the industry won’t be great after the beout debacle.
Was interesting to see DJ was pictured with Al-Rumayyan (nufc chairman) and Jared kushner of all people recently. Some Twitter rumours that saudi golf will be one of the first toon sponsors, but certainly appears al-rumayyan is a driving force behind a lot of this.
What are peoples thoughts on Charley Hoffman? It does appear to me that a few players are now openly looking for a beef with the tour.
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Hoffman has previous, not to mention being a hypocrit on the basis hes one of the players directors on the tour board! do something about it rather than moaning like a bitch!!!
As someone posted on twitter, not sure anyone would even notice if he left
howbow88
Hacker
Yep, Asian Tour affiliation is a very smart move by the Saudis.
A Saudi sponsor for Newcastle would be a way to try and get around FFP, but I don't think it is so easy these days.
Hoffman is a tool.
Listened to the No Laying Up podcast last night, they were very good/hilarious on Hoffman and said much the same.
The '17' players quoted as having signed up is as fascinating as it is tedious, even I would struggle to watch Tiger v Phil in a money match so a load of old boys cashing in on some ordinary courses isn't likely to cut the mustard
The names I've heard so far are just under Senior Tour age and would be just as interesting to watch if that is all that moves across (I don't watch the Senior tour in case there was any doubt as to my sincerity there). The Saudi's need to ask Greg some questions about the box office of some (most) of these players.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I can see both sides of the Scottsdale 16th argument. On the one hand, I think those scenes might show golf in a better light to a lot of people who have dismissed it as an uptight stuffy game. On the other hand, even in football if fans were all throwing drinks onto the pitch there would be criticism against those fans, so I can understand those saying it doesn't belong in golf. Did they have cans that they were throwing?? I'd at least expect them to give out the beers in plastic cups in the grandstand so at least they won't fly as far or do any real damage.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Ortiz got hit in the back by a can of beer
