Scott is always ON POINT!!! Great points and you can tell he held back because there was some emotion and that shows passion and love for his work! Great interview DP!!!!
Hypocrites all around. LIV golfers sue the PGA for a monopoly but are happy to join a larger monopoly. Hypocrisy. PGA: It's blood money, but now it's blood money in our pocket. Hypocrisy! I guess I'll have to find something new to fall asleep to on Sunday afternoons.
was out at Dewey Beach in Delaware a bunch of years back. Standing in line for Pizza and SVP is standing right next to me. He was the nicest guy and so down to earth. ever since then been a huge fan and even without that experience still would be. Great analyst and hilarious too.
Isnt Dewey Beach an all Gay bar what the Hell were doing their Matt trying to get lucky with a ball headed oversexed underloved idiot like SVP or just waiting on a friend like Mick Jagger back in 1980?
One has to wonder if this will lead to a class-action lawsuit by the PGA players, under threat of unionization. They fell on the sword for the PGA Tour and for Jay, and he put a dagger in their backs.
I am very interested in one number. And that number is how much did Monahan get out of this? Everyone knows it's astronomical. I want to know what it is.
It means that if you have the money you can buy whatever you want, including not just the ability to murder with impunity (no one was going to arrest MBS for killing Keshogi) but also the admiration you want for being a murderer. A few years from now only the weirdos and complainers will remember this. They will just be caught up in the corrupted and corrupting glitz of "the biggest purse in history."
How dirty are the PGA books that Monahan had to take this deal ? Well played by the Saudis to box the Tour in with litigation. They’d have had to known just how bad the tour needed to protect their books.
22 years ago this would have never happened. But time moves on and people forget about what happened on 9/11. As an American I’m just going to drop the remote and only watch the majors I guess. I Just feel dirty now watching once all of this goes into affect. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It sure leaves more than an unpleasant taste in the mouth. And if an ex-LIV player's coming down the stretch looking certain to win that Major, I'm switching off. I just wish the Saudis had picked another sport to destroy and left our golf alone.
So the Saudis now own The PGA Tour? My God, what has the world come too? Integrity, honesty, and decency for sale to a criminal and horrible nation. Well, extreme money and class rarely do go together.
It always seemed to me early on that Dan and all the US media was given a script on what to say by the PGA... 9/11, Norman is an idiot, we hate LIV, etc. So now I must admit I do find it funny that the PGA screwed them and the players and said, "Oh, we'll take that deal!" Money over ethics, I guess.
Agreed. Brandel Chamblee listed those off with great eloquence and passion in an interview yesterday. He spoke a lot of sense. Although a lot of people seem to hate him, for whatever reason.
There is no way he will continue on if anything they say are true - that the players will determine the direction of this tour - the first thing they do - is kick him to the curb
DP, The PGA players will tell you that theyre relieved in a way. They dont have to be afraid of the backlash. Theyre all going to get a raise of some kind. Managable schedules , etc Its way better for them going ahead.
It was clear that pga did not have the leverage when Brook won the PGA. Jay knew this. The fact that pga tour does not have control over the Majors means they have no leverage. Hence, Jay needed to do a deal. The losers are the players that did not take the LIV $$$$
Brooks winning the PGA was great for Brooks. Hats off to him. The tour can get by without him and the rest of LIV golf. The Saudis were going to spend their money on golf, DO YOU WANT IT? Hell yeah!
They had all the leverage in the world with all of the court victories. They just don't have the pockets that LIV has to fight this in court forever. They would have bankrupt fighting it eventually. And the guys who didn't take the money are going to be compensated for it now.
LIV will decide if there are “losers” and to what extent. And let’s note, they can easily control the flow of their money. They are sovereigns after all. The PGA is just an industry trade group if that.
@@user-ti2me2br8g The Saudi Public Investment Fund is worth like $622 Billion as of 2022, the 6th largest government public fund in the world. As April of 2022, about $56 Billion of that was invested in the equity (Common Stock) of US publicly traded companies listed in the NYSE. You would be surprised how many companies they own a significant, although non-controlling interest, of equity in. In fact, companies like Fedex, Coca-Cola, both major sponsors of the PGA are among the ones with major investments by the Saudi PIF. FedEx in turn is making major investments in facilities in Saudi Arabia as it has become a hub for shipping to the Middle East (it is a US ally in the region). In fact, the PGA tour fan Shop has a large investment by the Saudi PIF.
Monahan lied to our face. The PGA took the blood money. But the fans will keep watching their game. That is the sad truth. In the end the common man controls all this. The fans never want to take their part of the blame in sports.
this is the PGA preparing for the tour post tiger woods. the tv and sponsorship money will revert back to pre-tiger days when tiger officially retires (which will be very soon). and with the saudis throwing silly money at the players, there would be no way to stem the tide. the tour needs saudi money to survive.
As far as golf TV personalities are concerned, I don't see how David Feherty will benefit from what happened after doing coverage for LIV. Feherty left NBC Sports because he felt confined to how he was able to cover golf, and I can't imagine that the network would bring him back.
So, it sounds like LIV and the PGA Tour will continue to exist mutually exclusive of each other. There has been no talk that LIV Players will return to the PGA Tour or that guys can drift back and forth between the two. Zero talk about where Greg Norman lands in this deal.
I agree that these two are the best, but not sure what they added. This was a corporate squabble. I suspect the judge just told both sides - you've got all this money. If you can't get together you both might not like how I decide on this.
I look at it this way........ They all can have each other!........My Sunday afternoons from early Spring to late Fall just opened up for the rest of my life!!!! (When you sell your soul to the devil.......there are no returns.) (The second paragraph of the obituary of all those involved, will be written in the next few months.......I don't think it will mention how big their bank accounts were......only what kind of person they were and how they conducted themselves. Their actions concerning this situation will mark them for the rest of their lives.)
If Saudi Arabia was responsible for 9/11, why do they still exist, but no we are playing golf with them??? Good conversation, unlike the crap the GC put out.
i am not a golf. i find the sport incredibly dull. fun to play. excruciating to watch. this news has captured and held my attention. for two years, the pga and the media absolutely CRAPPED on the liv tour and its players. now what?
Policy Board is a representative board of the players. Thats really it. They can offer opinion but at the end of the day PGA runs the show. PGA also signed up the USA to buy all oil from the Saudis lol.
The first order of business, now that they have all this cash at their disposal, is to set aside a million from the pot and divide up among players who miss the cut-who have something called overhead to deal with in good weeks or bad
Truly upset with the original LIV players. Their shortsightedness laid the groundwork to let the fox in the henhouse. PGA Tour had no choice but the Saudi’s will on golf within 10 years.
I think LIV will go away. The new entity is an umbrella over PGA Tour and DP Tour. No one has talked about the LIV contracts. If is there a buyout provision?
I think there's is clear evidence 9/11 was an inside job. The Saudi angle was a convenient audible. If that were really the case, the Government wouldn't be bending over backwards to do business with them.
Tell Us about CHINA Jay! PGA Tour China is one of several developmental circuits sponsored The PGA. The PGA Tour appears unfazed by China’s appalling human rights record, which currently includes accusations of brutal persecution of its Uyghur Muslim population. The PGA Tour’s failure to file a 990 form disclosing its financial dealings with Chinese private equity firm Yao Capital As a tax-exempt organization, the PGA Tour is required to disclose such business dealings in China. It seems a clear case of the PGA Tour trying to have it both ways: gaining entry into the lucrative and largely untapped Chinese golf market, while flying under the radar of U.S. regulators and the IRS.
Lots of contradictions of information flowing today. No way PIF is abandoning LIV Golf [that's their baby] and sending back those players to PGA Tour. PIF and LIV is the same thing. The powers to be know what was agreed upon, they just want to spoon feed us for the time being.
I hope that many, if not all, golf fans discontinue watching the sport. This was another sad moment in sports history, where a wildly corrupt entity, with a stupid amount of money, has darkened a once noble space with their positive spin washing of their money. It is epically gross and is a sign that almost the whole of the sports world is now owned by thugs, murders, and thieves.
First, I didn’t have an issue with Liv, but I personally wasn’t a fan. Only issue for me. Don’t oversell the blood money, and the first chance you get, you jump on the “blood money.” Saudi is one of the biggest trade Partners with the US. Every time you fill up the tank, you’re supporting Saudi. The players shouldn’t have bought into the “PGA is a family” BS companies tell retail workers. Honestly, I hope Rory and Tiger leave the PGA and make their own league.
@Tim Rooney - Agreed, but only if Dan does not slander and smear the PGA on a weekly basis. Otherwise, he's just another talking head trying to make a living.
Once again….greed is at the heart of this…..I was close to actually watching golf….now, not so much…..I’m 55, and saw the whole Tiger Woods era……this is just a travesty…..I’m out…
is there anybody else in PGA tour involved in this decision or this is an unilateral decision. this sport is already played by the priviledged anyway. this is hypocrisy at best. we as country has shown to be in bed with the devil with this example again. this proves it. follow the money. looks like commish got bought. sorry for for too many points..
maybe soon the discussion can be about new golf tournaments and golf, not who is wrong and blaming each other. especially all the talk about human rights and all that BS, and virtue signaling. it is very popular to try and shame and blame in today world.
Not a big golf fan and never bought into the idea that PGA executives really believed what they were asserting but I am person who did and still does believe that the Saudi Rulers have not been properly held to account for their role in 9/11, the aftermath of 9/11, Kashoggi etc. I have respect for Rory, Ricky , Rahm, Tiger et al who spurned the Saudi money so when I choose to watch it will be to support those players. I have nothing but contempt for those executives of the PGA who used the 9/11 families and others for their own purposes and caved so utterly.
All of the players you named have made millions playing in Saudi Arabia over the years. I guess it's a matter of debate as to whether the Saudi government was involved in 9/11, I would doubt that. As for Khashoggi, he was a lifelong member of the Muslim Brotherhood. They believe in the law Sharia. No thanks.
@robert riteman - Just to clarify...the 911 terrorists were of Saudi descent, only. It wasn't the entire nation or government of Saudi Arabia that was responsible for 911. Blaming the entire Saudi nation is akin to blaming all Americans for the horrifically high volume of domestic gun violence mass murders the past decade that have claimed the lives of hundreds of American citizens. 🤔
