Pro golfer reportedly entered the LIV golf world today for a (minimal) 3 years for a guaranteed $300M!
Generational money!
Truly, there is no money like oil money….
Generational money!
Truly, there is no money like oil money….
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The PGA is an old weak tired brand, they need to let LIV take the reins or just fold up shop.Pro golfer reportedly entered the LIV golf world today for a (minimal) 3 years for a guaranteed $300M!
Generational money!
Truly, there is no money like oil money….
You really are a bot, aren’t you?The PGA is an old weak tired brand, they need to let LIV take the reins or just fold up shop.
Did you ever actually enjoy watching golf?Yeah I’m over golf….hate the Saudis and LIV and now I hate the PGA for selling out to them.
And rahm can be a prickly guy. I could see him thinking he’s just gonna play in a more relaxed world with better ability to limit assholes’ accessPro golfer reportedly entered the LIV golf world today for a (minimal) 3 years for a guaranteed $300M!
Generational money!
Truly, there is no money like oil money….
I just post the facts the PGA is a toothless shell of its former self.You really are a bot, aren’t you?
Does this mean he won't be invited to Ryder Cup 2025?
The PGA has definitely taken a hit and is probably past its peak forever.I just post the facts the PGA is a toothless shell of its former self.
LIV is the hip new game in town.
The vibe I get watching LIV is the celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe. It’s not serious.The PGA has definitely taken a hit and is probably past its peak forever.
LIV is a horrendous entertainment product.
All this stuff has done is push professional golf further into niche territory and pretty soon, it’ll be like F1 or NASCAR, where everyone pretends to care for the Master’s then goes away for the rest of the year.
Brooks Koepka says hello and see you at the Ryder Cup Jon.Does this mean he won't be invited to Ryder Cup 2025?
Isn’t that really the way most of the world works?The lesson of sports is now get the money when you can, and as much of it.
And they were throwing around mad cash to try to acquire soccer players.Saudis also made some overtures into professional cycling. Didn’t really go anywhere but I doubt they are done.
They are trying to spend/bribe their way to broad acceptance of their horrible society.And they were throwing around mad cash to try to acquire soccer players.
I am glad liverpool held strong and refused the saudis offers for Salah. When the next transfer window opens i dont know if they could resist stupid ridiculous money for a player in his early 30s
The vibe I get watching LIV is the celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe. It’s not serious.
yeah, i just cannot imagine being a professional trying to play golf with techno throbbing in the background. hell, i chewed a guy in my own foursome out once for turning on a radio in his cart.The vibe I get watching LIV is the celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe. It’s not serious.
honestly, i'm not sure that's the primary driver, though it's certainly a driver. professional sports are a wonderful license to print money. most mid east countries see the long term writing on the wall with respect to nondiversified economies, and have had a hard time creating the mid east version of London or NY or Hong Kong in terms of a financial hub. people world wide love their bread and circuses, and it's an almost completely unregulated industry.They are trying to spend/bribe their way to broad acceptance of their horrible society.
Seems impossible but they have what seems trillions of dollars to throw around. Their financial mistakes could be a few billion and it’s little normal people tipping over a soda.
Yeah I’m over golf….hate the Saudis and LIV and now I hate the PGA for selling out to them.
I just can’t see golf being that profitable. Not with the money they are tossing around.honestly, i'm not sure that's the primary driver, though it's certainly a driver. professional sports are a wonderful license to print money. most mid east countries see the long term writing on the wall with respect to nondiversified economies, and have had a hard time creating the mid east version of London or NY or Hong Kong in terms of a financial hub. people world wide love their bread and circuses, and it's an almost completely unregulated industry.
Understand, but Aardvark...if someone offers you that kind of money, you telling me you would say “No thanks!”And rahm can be a prickly guy. I could see him thinking he’s just gonna play in a more relaxed world with better ability to limit assholes’ access
What was the PGA angle in that agreement? Allow LIV players to compete in PGA Tournaments and the PGA gets a big check?the PGA for selling out to them.
Content is king, and golf provides it year round. And that's before you factor in the value of the equipment market, which is probably about 7.5B a year and for which visibility at pro events is a massive marketing tactics. the value's there, even if the liv production values to date don't seem like they're particularly good at capturing it yet.I just can’t see golf being that profitable. Not with the money they are tossing around.
It might be as simple as trying to impress other Arabs. From what I read they pay millions to have license plate numbers on their cars that are low.
interestingly, BTW, some of the stuff that some of the arabs are doing has another purpose that most americans don't even realize. The emirati are among the most obese people in the world because they are wealthy, genetically nomadic, and have become exposed to western diets. Some of their more forward thinking leaders are actualy investing in sports as a way to tell their people that it's ok to get up off their asses. (When my wife was a nurse in DC, they'd occasionally get saudi royal family patients in the hospital on a special floor, who would literally have a team of servants to move them out of their chair or scratch their back when necessary)I just can’t see golf being that profitable. Not with the money they are tossing around.
It might be as simple as trying to impress other Arabs. From what I read they pay millions to have license plate numbers on their cars that are low.
oh hell yeah i'd take it...in cash and up front. Reminds me of a law school hypo where i was arguing market standards and ethics applied to dictate a particular result, and the professor changed the hypothetical to one involving the sale of a persian rug.Understand, but Aardvark...if someone offers you that kind of money, you telling me you would say “No thanks!”
That is money that will set you and yours up several generations. I have always been “wary” of Arabs and their ethics (I had a family friend who was a POW in WW2...his plane went down in N Africa in ‘43 where he was picked up by a tribe of Arabs and they were taking him to the Allied lines until they ran into a Nazi patrol and turned him over to them for a pack of American cigarettes..the family friend spent the next year and a half in German POW camps)..Arabs don’t have th3 same moral/ethical code as me but they do understand how to play the game...$$$.
300 Million much > Ryder CupBrooks Koepka says hello and see you at the Ryder Cup Jon.
yupAre the Saudis going to start a football league next?
Rahm passed Tiger Woods in career earnings just because of that portal move.Pro golfer reportedly entered the LIV golf world today for a (minimal) 3 years for a guaranteed $300M!
Generational money!
Truly, there is no money like oil money….
The PGA has definitely taken a hit and is probably past its peak forever.
LIV is a horrendous entertainment product.
All this stuff has done is push professional golf further into niche territory and pretty soon, it’ll be like F1 or NASCAR, where everyone pretends to care for the Master’s then goes away for the rest of the year.