Barking_Mad
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I don't care one way or the other, I'm just a casual observer these days, but if your word isn't worth anything, then you have problems, and his word as of a few month ago was that he wouldn't be joining LIV.
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I don't care one way or the other, I'm just a casual observer these days, but if your word isn't worth anything, then you have problems, and his word as of a few month ago was that he wouldn't be joining LIV.
WGCRider
Newbie
Seems a fair piece of transfer business. LIV has to pay half a billion dollars and give the DPWT Bernd Weiseburger and they get Jon.
Mel Smooth
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Bdill93
Undisputed King of FOMO
Someone might have said this in the 2 pages im yet to read - but the normally start 2 groups on the first tee too, so plenty of space to fill across the course.
TigerTime
Active member
You realise these are minutes and not an agenda or some secret document?
Bdill93
Undisputed King of FOMO
500 million is absolutely ludicrous amount of money and no person would turn it down if offered.
Bdill93
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pokerjoke
Money List Winner
True and u can respect that.
Looking at the PGA tour though James are they really helping others on the tour.
Rewarding millionaires with a 100 million only the top 20
150-200 players not getting anything.
Maybe just maybe players are getting sick of multi millionaires just getting richer whilst others struggle to make ends meet.
Greed is horrible,it makes people look bad,maybe others should have been honest like HV,but let’s be honest here they are all greedy on both tours we probably don’t see it as much.
When 100s of millions is up for grabs corruption will be rife .
The PGA has all of a sudden come up with 100s of millions of dollars more,where was it all going before i would be asking.
Jigger
Club Champion
He said he wants to play the PGA and DP tours with the LIV calendar not conflicting So I don’t think we’ve heard the end of this one yet. 
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Deleted member 1147
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Which bit is he being told what to say?
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Deleted member 1147
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I don't care about the greed issue. If someone offered me that amount of money it would be incredibly tempting, even if I was already rich beyond belief.
I just think it makes them all look ridiculous when they spout the rubbish about growing the game etc
Mel Smooth
Hacker
Are you sure?
Woods breaks his silence on PGA Tour's bombshell merger with LIV Golf
The documents, seen by DailyMail.com, show 'potential talking points' for Woods to address at a players' meeting at the Travelers Championship in June 2022. He denies attending the meeting.
He never attended the meeting!!
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Sad day for golf.
Saudi money seems to be buying up world sport.
Saudi money seems to be buying up world sport.
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He does get to play Valderama now though too... so maybe money and that...
The crowds at Valderama will be Huge with Rahm and Garcia there.
They will still be hunting Hideki, although his game has tailed off since winning the masters his signing guarantees you the whole Japanese golf market which is huge.
Hideki a sporting god in Japan.
D-S
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Didn't Tiger turn down more?
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With winnings and sponsorships Rahm would likely have earned that on the PGA tour anyway. All he has achieved now is turn himself into a very rich nobody.
CountLippe
Active member
Apparently Jon Rahms deal is worth more than the entire PGA tour purse. The PGA tour is struggling to fund said purse and Liv has literally no revenue and no viewers.
The Pif are literally burning money, over a short period of time, to buy and / or ruin professional golf which has evolved over a hundred years. This is obviously also happening in other sports and western society in general, however their investments outside sport at least show a return. It just seems wrong. Maybe they've earned the right to do it by maximising their natural resources.
The Pif are literally burning money, over a short period of time, to buy and / or ruin professional golf which has evolved over a hundred years. This is obviously also happening in other sports and western society in general, however their investments outside sport at least show a return. It just seems wrong. Maybe they've earned the right to do it by maximising their natural resources.
Swango1980
Well-known member
I'm not disagreeing with that at all, but I'm saying they don't need to be coached to do that.
If I took millions and millions of pounds to join LIV, I know exactly why I'm joining. But I'm not naive enough to think it is a good idea to just come out publicly and say "I only did it for the money, as LIV golf is rubbish". Clearly you need to try and get fans onside as best as possible. So I'd be perfectly capable of working out all the reasons that make LIV golf sound appealing, which apply to me most and go with that. And professional golfers will generally be better than me at that, as they have been in the public eye for a long time. To think that the golfers are low IQ morons who can't think for themselves is naive I'd say.
Swango1980
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Pretty sure Tiger turned down $800 million
