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I guess I need to remind everyone of my pro golf gripes again:
▶️ I watched the Tour for almost 30 years. Post Tiger/Phil it was boring/stale.
▶️ Courses on Tour are mostly unappealing - too milquetoast. TPC ain’t it in modern golf.
▶️ Broadcasts were degrading: too many commercials, over-corporatized, broadcast talent drain. It wasn’t engaging anymore.
▶️ That over-corporatization kills individualism & personalities.
▶️ All that combined with 40+ events in all the same format on similar courses with very few courses I wanted to watch, with a lot of uninteresting players just nuked my interest & I wanted something new. Different style courses in other parts of the 🌎 interests me. Better broadcasts that show more golf & more of my favorite players interests me. PGL piqued my interest - LIV was able to pull it off. Combination.
Add on to that all the @PGATour skullduggery I’ve uncovered the last 4 years, and the corrupt golf media that protects the establishment and I’m out on it - doesn’t matter what happens with LIV.
If the Tour can thrive & grow as-is, with no changes - more power to them. But IDT it will grow & bring in younger fans & veteran fans turned off to the current product without MAJOR changes. They’re like a 2/10 in what they need to do.
Faking the linear TV ratings, propaganda & bad narratives only goes so far and bringing all the LIV players back won’t fix all my issues either.
Those are the cliffs notes but I talk about this on @GLUgolfclub all the time. I’ve said this so many times it really does bore me.🥱
Charities are fine, but the only charity that has added to my personal entertainment is #TheHumanFund. 😂
(Don’t get me started on the fake charities).
Bookmark this, save it bc I’m not doing it again.
what exactly was so terrible about the existing golf “establishment” pre-LIV?
purses were great. the Tour gave billions to local charities. rarely if ever embroiled in controversy.
LIV simply tried to buy its way into pro golf by outspending the competition. it failed because the Saudis don’t understand the American sports consumer. furthermore, that model was never the long play. it was designed as a temporary bridge over the moat while they infiltrated the castle.
could you for once just honest about what it really was..?
This is great stuff from @Eugeniochacarra. Having a reliable shot off the tee has changed my entire game. It also puts so much pressure on your opponents in matchplay.
Going back to courses I played before with a driver that I know where it’s going is a whole new 🌎😂
Welp, looks like the demise of @livgolf_league has been greatly exaggerated again. 🤷🏽♂️
Enough golfers commit to LIV 2.0 to keep hopes of new league alive ft.trib.al/S9oCFmD
How does Te Arai look like a hybrid of Bandon, Spyglass & Chambers Bay?
Holy moly. 😍
@AAC_Golf tees it up here in New Zealand this week. 🇳🇿
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Job done! 🇭🇰
John Catlin wins the 2026 Link Hong Kong Open and will be heading to Augusta National and St Andrews in 2027! 👏
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Here’s my question for @PepperellEddie, the rest of the DPWT working class whining about @WestwoodLee and all the LIV haters upset that the DPWT is opening its doors to former LIV players. Why aren’t you directing your ire at Ponte Vedra where it belongs? Or would that mean you would finally have to acknowledge that maybe you weren’t rooting for a benevolent member run charity organization who cares about the game of golf but rather for an authoritarian corporation hell bent on total control of the ecosystem willing to destroy any Tour including the DPWT who stood in their way?
Congrats to John Catlin for winning @TheHKOpen! Thats another national open on his resume. He’s now won the Hong Kong🇭🇰, Irish🇮🇪, Austrian🇦🇹, English🏴, Thailand🇹🇭 & Saudi🇸🇦 Opens.
But this win gets him into @TheOpen (5th start) & 1st trip to @TheMasters. ✅ @JohnCatlin59
This is where the @DPWorldTour is misguided - they cannot “kill” LIV. It may weaken LIV short term & make things more difficult, but also opens the door to more litigation.
The 1 good point @PepperellEddie made is that most of the players he references don’t move the needle & the ones that do (Rahm) may not even play much - doesn’t have to.
Euro Tour is better off (1) making the @PGATour put pen to paper NOW to extend the Alliance with agreeable terms. Or (2) working with LIV & getting Bryson, DJ, AK, Cam, Joaco etc for 8-12 events (maybe even Phil for a handful). Which option moves the needle for the Euro Tour more? Getting Bryson for X events is a bigger boost to the Euro Tour than literally anything else - as you will see in South Africa in 2 months.
Facts are the PGAT might leave the Euro Tour holding the bag after 2027 with other Middle East 💰drying up. Then what?
I think Eddie, and some other DP World Tour players, have missed the point on this. It’s not about giving players a soft landing, being fair, or even trying to sell more tickets. Guy Kinnings and the DP World Tour are welcoming LIV Players if they don’t sign up to the new league with one goal in mind, to kill a competitor.
Eddie is reiterating one very important item from the last 4 years of disruption: Most pro golfers are emotional wrecks😂. I’ve heard the words: “betrayal, resentment & contempt” more than a season of Real Housewives. This “member-run” concept is THE thing holding pro golf back. It’s old, outdated & needs to be binned post-haste.
Is Eddie a pro golfer or the lead in “Midnight In Paris?” “I’m in the wrong era.” 🙄
If these are the people continually influencing the decisions in the pro golf world, Lord help us all! 🤦🏽♂️ GTFOY.
🚨🗣️🇪🇺 #TAKING ISSUE — DPWT player Eddie Pepperell reacts to some LIV Golfers getting a fast track back to the European circuit following their exits:
“The idea that Charles Howell III is on this list, with all due respect to Charles - he’s a terrific guy - is utterly bizarre…. That represents a miscalculation to me, along frankly with additional names like Thomas Pieters, Branden Grace and even Louis Oosthuizen, as much as I admire his swing…
“None of these players are going to put enough bums on seats or in front of TVs to materially improve the balance sheet in 2027, period.”
Do you agree with Eddie?
Caleb Surratt shares the 54 hole lead at @TheHKOpen with Anirban Lahiri, Thomas Pieters & John Catlin. He’s looking for his 1st individual 🏆 as a pro. His former teammate Tom McKibbin won here last year & he’s spent a lot of time practicing with Tom as part of @LegionXIIIgc. Caleb carries himself like a veteran & he’s going to need to call on all his experience to bring home the win tomorrow! 🤞🏽
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How it stands with 18 holes left to play at the Link Hong Kong Open 🇭🇰
linktr.ee/asiantourgolf
Nice leaderboard shaping up at @TheHKOpen. Bunch of players in the LIV universe hovering around the lead. Lahiri chasing his 1st win in 11 years. Surratt trying to make it back to back @LegionXIIIgc wins in 🇭🇰. Chase Koepka is within striking distance of his 1st win on @asiantourgolf & a trip to Augusta. Matt Cheung is the home town kid trying to win his home Open.
Great to hear @dougiedonnelly @theblondedragon & the Dominator @DomBoulet on @TheHKOpen broadcast! 👍🏽
🔴 LIVE from the Link Hong Kong Open! ⛳️
Catch the moving day action from Hong Kong Golf Club as the battle for the title unfolds!
youtube.com/live/dKVvmkxVtX8
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People think this corrupt golf media stuff is some grand “conspiracy” & it’s not. The corrupt media is just a byproduct of a corrupt bureaucracy (pro golf in this instance). It’s not corrupt in the sense of taking bribes in back alleys😂. It all just fails to do what it claims to do & what society expects it to do. Politics/government is one corrupt bureaucracy & golf is another. It’s not about making golf better - it’s about protecting the construct that bureaucrats created.
You install people that have no backbone that are predictable that just go along with the “program.” That’s where the media comes in. You don’t have to direct them to do anything - you know how they’re going to operate.
So when I say people are “installed” in key positions, that’s what I mean. It’s not about the best person (meritocracy) - it’s about the most predictable person that wlll behave in the way the corporate interests/overlords (corporatocracy) want. That’s why people like Colt Knost advance in the media that fans (collectively) don’t like - everyone knows what they’re getting from him. Or why it seems like they’re actively trying to make broadcasts worse - they don’t care - positive outcomes mean nothing in a bureaucracy. Just perception matters. And they will all mislead the public when convenient to protect all of this.
Everything in golf tracks back to this & the bureaucracy - why I loathe everything that is part of it (including the media) the way I do.
If golf operated differently, fans would be better off. But it doesn’t, so I will continually criticize it and the media and everything in between as long as I have a profile.
Hope that helps and wasn’t too complicated. @BobHarig @jcorrigangolf
This is where I’ve been for a while & why I’m not mad if the 2027 season is ppd.
I think 2027 still goes as planned, but we HAVE to blow up this bureaucratic nonsense that is Pro Golf - once & for all - get all the info out. Saudi didn’t want that. BC & its co-investors might? 🤷🏽♂️
LIV 2.0 may need to be paused until the PGAT & DP are sued for restraint of trade. Once opened up some of these players may boomerang back @ProGolfCritic
Time for the @livgolf_league players to FIT-IN or FIT-OUT! @KingJames
I want to know who runs away like a 🐀 & abandons ship when things get TOUGH, OR who sticks it out and wants to BUILD!
🚨👀⛳️ JUST IN — ESPN is reporting that 2-time major Champion, Bryson DeChambeau ‘remains committed and is working diligently behind the scenes to bring LIV 2.0 to fruition.’ @BrysonLegion
As of today, the league is believed to have formally secured 4 player commitments: Richard Bland, Cameron Tringale, Ben Campbell & Brendan Steele. A commitment deadline has been set for this Sunday.
Will you be watching LIV in 2027?
