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BREAKING NEWS - PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and LIV Golf merge to form a single golf entity.
Welp, there went my Tuesday with this news. If you're not on Twitter, you need to be and watch the reactions.
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June 06, 2023
BREAKING NEWS - PGA TOUR, DP WORLD TOUR, AND LIV GOLF TOUR MERGE
Hello members,
As your group chat may have already told you, it is officially official that the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and LIV Golf merged to form a single golf entity. While further details are expected to come out, below (and linked) is the official press release from the PGA Tour:
The PGA TOUR, DP World Tour and PIF announce landmark agreement to unify men’s professional golf.
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR)
2:09 PM • Jun 6, 2023
My thoughts:
Nothing is changing this year as both Tours will operate independently. 2024 season is when some changes will / should come.
More details are coming on whether no-cut events will remain, so not going to speculate on that.
Personally, I think that Jay Monahan looks like an idiot here since he has said for almost two years that Saudi money is bad, every golfer who left the Tour is stupid and complicit in the bad Saudi money, and he was loyal to the PGA Tour players. In turn, he sold out since LIV had unlimited money and
If I’m a PGA Tour player and I’m finding out about this today, I’m not totally happy. They had to defend the Tour the last two years and say comments that maybe they believed and maybe they didn’t. Either way, it’s not a good look on the Tour in general.
In a perfect world, the combined entity would take the best parts of the PGA Tour and LIV to make the best Tour ever. In reality, we all know that won’t happen since it never does with a merger.
I am excited for more global events, but the viewing schedule will be tough in the States.
More information to come as it’s received. Look for an update in tomorrow’s Tournament Preview - RBC Heritage.
A few conspiracies floating around:
Did the PGA Tour want to avoid litigation and “opening their books”? (twitter)
Was this LIV Golf’s plan the whole time? Spend a bunch of cash, disrupt the PGA Tour, then merge to get all that cash back?
Apparently, Greg Norman didn’t know this was happening until Yasir called him before going on CNBC (twitter)
Rumor is LIV teams were struggling to get sponsors and offered the PGA Tour a ton of cash so win-win? (twitter)
Since Yasir is the chairman of the whole organization, is this the golden parachute Jay Monahan wanted? (twitter)
How PGA Tour Players are Reacting
Apparently, the news of the merger was found out on Twitter with the rest of the world. PGA Tour players aren’t handling the news well, since the PGA Tour touts itself as a “player run organization”…
I love finding out morning news on Twitter
— Collin Morikawa (@collin_morikawa)
2:13 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Nothing like finding out through Twitter that we’re merging with a tour that we said we’d never do that with.
— Mackenzie Hughes (@MacHughesGolf)
2:47 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Hearing from multiple PGA Tour players that they had absolutely zero heads up on this before the announcement was made on social.
— Shane Bacon (@shanebacon)
2:33 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Initial feedback is that the TOUR players are *not happy*.
They turned down cash, changed their own schedule, stuck their necks out against LIV for two years and now they are finding out about a merge in real-time on Twitter.
— Rick Gehman (@RickRunGood)
2:27 PM • Jun 6, 2023
PGA Tour didn’t communicate this to players at all. They found out same time we did.
“Shocked and confused.”
“Disgusted. They didn’t tell us anything.”
— Dan Rapaport (@Daniel_Rapaport)
2:40 PM • Jun 6, 2023
The amount of money involved in this must truly be stupendous.
I cannot fathom how none of the players knew about this or had any say in the matter.
— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp)
2:46 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Very curious how many people knew this deal was happening. About 5-7 people? Player run organization right? 🤷🏻♂️
— Michael S. Kim (@Mike_kim714)
2:17 PM • Jun 6, 2023
LIV Players are rejoicing a bit
…and how can you blame them? They got paid bags, played a lighter schedule the last 2ish years, and now can get back to playing bigger events on the PGA Tour.
Welfare Check on Chamblee
— Brooks Koepka (@BKoepka)
2:21 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Awesome day today 😊
— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson)
2:08 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Rory must be pissed but maybe he knew something since his tone on LIV changed the last few weeks? Either way, he was put out there by the PGA Tour to defend it and now they merge:
I'm sure Rory is pleased with the Tour rolling him out week after week to fight its battle so that, in the end, Phil, Brooks, Bryson and DJ could walk away with $500M and reunification with the league he defended. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Kyle Porter (@KylePorterCBS)
2:51 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Oh, and former President, Donald Trump, predicted this outcome 322 days ago:
"All of those golfers that remain 'loyal' to the very disloyal PGA..will pay a big price when the inevitable merger with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big 'thank you' from PGA officials."
-- Donald Trump
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell)
4:32 PM • Jul 19, 2022
Twitter Roundup
Guys who got paid millions and millions and now less than a year later get their PGA tour card back, what a heist
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat)
2:04 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Monday qualifiers to join Scheffler’s Fire Dragons GC team is going to be something to behold.
— Monday Q Info (@acaseofthegolf1)
2:29 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Legitimately just checked the calendar to make sure it wasn’t April 1st.
— Hally Leadbetter (@hallylead)
2:19 PM • Jun 6, 2023
Truly gobsmacked today.
Of the 10,000 different outcomes, this was never talked about, never discussed, never even floated. Everyone who would have known was at the PGA two weeks ago, and nobody even came close to hinting at it! twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Kyle Porter (@KylePorterCBS)
2:39 PM • Jun 6, 2023
More people have texted me today than any other life event.
— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp)
2:48 PM • Jun 6, 2023
May your rounds be filled with #oneputts.
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