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So someone went round in an 84 ?! 22 shots worse than the leader 😲
As you often remind how even handed you are with your criticism, trust you have already posted about the +14 score in Zurich? 🤷‍♂️
Genuinely don't follow why it seems to bother you so much, surely people enjoy the good stuff they can see. Many people are 'glass half full' types.
 
As you often remind how even handed you are with your criticism, trust you have already posted about the +14 score in Zurich? 🤷‍♂️
Genuinely don't follow why it seems to bother you so much, surely people enjoy the good stuff they can see. Many people are 'glass half full' types.

Sihwan Kim has been in a terrible run this year, and unlike 'conventional golf' - he has nowhere to hide, there's no cut to take any of the guys out of the picture and for all the criticism of LIV for not having a qualification process it means that players in bad form are going to be teeing it up at the next event. He could of course have opted to drop out with an injury - done a Rory if you will, but credit to him, he's trying to play through it, so it's great to see the guy shoot 1 under today - let's hope it gives him something to build on.
 
Also great to see Phil M has continued his great play from 2nd at the masters posting -9 after 2 Rounds.

Important for Liv that he starts to play good golf again as one of the poster guys of the Liv Tour
 
Also great to see Phil M has continued his great play from 2nd at the masters posting -9 after 2 Rounds.

Important for Liv that he starts to play good golf again as one of the poster guys of the Liv Tour

Brooks in the 'final' group as well tomorrow - so he's continued his good form from Augusta. He looked really relaxed in the post round interview - wouldn't be surprised to see him shoot a low score tomorrow.
 
I love all the anti LIVer's who spend all their time looking up the scores and everything related to LIV, hope LIV continues for a long time so these people have something meaningful to do in their LIVes

I checked flash scores while having a look at the arsenal score last night man was also already browsing this forum it took about a minute fella

Good to see brooks up there mind some round of golf to get him up the board
 
As you often remind how even handed you are with your criticism, trust you have already posted about the +14 score in Zurich? 🤷‍♂️
Genuinely don't follow why it seems to bother you so much, surely people enjoy the good stuff they can see. Many people are 'glass half full' types.


Sorry I must apologise for not being able to predict that two seniors would have a bad score - believe they were 5 over after the first round which would have been the score when I posted - but then this is thread about LIV not PGAT 🤷‍♂️
 
Sorry I must apologise for not being able to predict that two seniors would have a bad score - believe they were 5 over after the first round which would have been the score when I posted - but then this is thread about LIV not PGAT 🤷‍♂️

They just want it to be a LiV circle jerk between about 3 posters by looks of things
 
Any one remember a guy called Kerry Packer? He looked at a game which hadn’t changed for decades and was dying on its feet and decided to do something different. The vested interests in the establishment and their captive media laughed and mocked pyjama cricket as they called it, wouldn’t let them play at proper cricket grounds and sought to ban the rebels. Initially hardly anyone in the world would broadcast this rubbish, white balls, coloured kit, some current top players but equally quite a few big names well past their best…
The parallels with LIV are eerie and it isn’t going away anytime soon, there will be a ladies tour and a senior and even a super seniors tour, there will be a rapprochement with the PGA and R&A, there will be new inclusive world rankings, those who qualify for the majors will play and be welcome, there will be loaded tee events and team events and 18, 36, 54, 72 and probably 90 hole events, there will be new scoring formats, there will be mixed events, there will probably be speed golf events…long overdue change in golf is a genie which will not be going back into the bottle.
All in my humble opinion, of course.
 
Any one remember a guy called Kerry Packer? He looked at a game which hadn’t changed for decades and was dying on its feet and decided to do something different. The vested interests in the establishment and their captive media laughed and mocked pyjama cricket as they called it, wouldn’t let them play at proper cricket grounds and sought to ban the rebels. Initially hardly anyone in the world would broadcast this rubbish, white balls, coloured kit, some current top players but equally quite a few big names well past their best…
The parallels with LIV are eerie and it isn’t going away anytime soon, there will be a ladies tour and a senior and even a super seniors tour, there will be a rapprochement with the PGA and R&A, there will be new inclusive world rankings, those who qualify for the majors will play and be welcome, there will be loaded tee events and team events and 18, 36, 54, 72 and probably 90 hole events, there will be new scoring formats, there will be mixed events, there will probably be speed golf events…long overdue change in golf is a genie which will not be going back into the bottle.
All in my humble opinion, of course.


For better parallels Imo look up the Indian Cricket League - privately funded away from the governing bodies etc , collapsed after a couple years
 
13 men’s T20 leagues and 12 womens including IPL, Big Bash, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, UAE, USA, The 100, 10 over leagues, World Cups in T20 and 50 overa, all with their own broadcasting deals and worldwide distribution and exposure and of course the widely acknowledged failed Indian CrIckes League.
 
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