MarathonMike
Diamond Member
The Saudi-backed LIV tour is posing the greatest challenge to the PGA tour it has ever faced. It has already enticed several top players to resign their PGA tour membership. The PGA leadership has suspended those players and removed them from the FEDEX cup. An interesting side note is that the suspended players can still play in the US and British Opens since those tournaments are not run by the PGA. The Masters and PGA majors are still in undecided whether or not they will allow LIV players to participate.
IMO the PGA tour has a right to protect it's "turf". The stars going to the LIV tour would not be stars without the tournaments and history that the PGA tour has developed. It has taken the PGA many decades and billions of dollars of investment to build the tour into what it is today. I'm also a traditionalist being an old golfer and fan so this LIV tour doesn't "feel right" to me. The Saudis are offering these players many millions of oil dollars and cherry picking the stars. I am surprised that these very wealthy golfers are making this choice especially guys like Phil and DJ who are clearly damaging their golf legacy for the big bucks. But it is their right to do that, it just surprises me. I'm glad Tiger is staying with the PGA tour and hopefully most of the top players will do the same.
What do you think? And if you don't care about the subject, please stay out of the thread. There is nothing more useless than someone dropping a "I don't care about this" turd in a thread. If you have an opinion please share. If you don't, please move on.
IMO the PGA tour has a right to protect it's "turf". The stars going to the LIV tour would not be stars without the tournaments and history that the PGA tour has developed. It has taken the PGA many decades and billions of dollars of investment to build the tour into what it is today. I'm also a traditionalist being an old golfer and fan so this LIV tour doesn't "feel right" to me. The Saudis are offering these players many millions of oil dollars and cherry picking the stars. I am surprised that these very wealthy golfers are making this choice especially guys like Phil and DJ who are clearly damaging their golf legacy for the big bucks. But it is their right to do that, it just surprises me. I'm glad Tiger is staying with the PGA tour and hopefully most of the top players will do the same.
What do you think? And if you don't care about the subject, please stay out of the thread. There is nothing more useless than someone dropping a "I don't care about this" turd in a thread. If you have an opinion please share. If you don't, please move on.
