It wasn’t an accusation, just an attempt to properly characterize the nature of the initial dispute. I had no idea you were a union guy as I said. But now that I know you are I will just leave it. I meant to do that by liking your post yesterday, but that didn’t accomplish what I intended or you didn’t notice. The union/management dispute is just one element of a complicated dispute in my opinion.
Again,
They chased the money to collect the Saudi’s $$$
As @Crash posted,
When their contracts expire,
Hopefully the good players will return
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I miss Koepka, Rahm and Bryson. Can’t really say I’ve noticed that many more of them.
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https://mygolfspy.com/news-opinion/tour/does-the-pga-tour-even-need-liv-anymore/
There is not much more to say about LIV’s TV ratings.
It’s been suggested that LIV TV numbers are better internationally than they are in the U.S., but I haven’t seen any real data to back that up.
And the U.S. numbers continue to be dreadful.
Two weeks ago, LIV had Bryson, Rahm and Joaquin Niemann playing well on a Sunday. The Tour had a lengthy rain delay—and this was coming at one of their worst events on the calendar.
The situation couldn’t have been better for LIV.
The result? The Tour had 1.63 million viewers and LIV had 110,000.
Obviously, the Tour is on CBS instead of FS1 where LIV plays. But this is a massive gap. Bryson can bring in a few million people to watch a scramble on YouTube, but he can’t bring in a measly 200,000 people when he’s going against world-class players? There is almost no audience crossover there—or if there is, we don’t know about it.
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Another story
“People tune in to sports that matter. The PGA Tour is killing it and LIV is dying a slow, costly death.
“LIV players have seller’s remorse. They want the meritocratic cachet that competing at the highest level confers but they’ve shown in their choice to play for LIV that they’d rather have the money. The audience sees right through them and chooses to watch those that prefer to play for history and legacy.”
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Maybe in due time here for LIV in the US.
Like many leagues or sports that have done so, LIV could benefit massively from having their own FAST channel, which has the PGA, on top of whatever other marketing is being done.
But beyond that modern media innovation is that akin to other sports or leagues over the years, the PGA has almost all the golf media in the US locked up in allegiance,
including lots of very old stodgy “gentlemen’s agreements” that go back decades and to somebody’s dad and perhaps grandfather.
That’s the norm and not the exception in major sports media in general.
LIV basically won’t get the best look in the US for years like various other upstart sports (lest you are tied to the mighty likes of King NFL ultimately, as is that lowly UFL, for example), and dare I say it this will be the case EVEN after LIV Golf and the PGA Tour actually do make good fully on their agreement.
I also suspect heavily that “Today’s Golfer” is simply in the PGA camp like most other golf media such that in reading merely that excerpt, their strong bias and allegiance shows strongly.
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This can’t be bad news for the golf world, although Monahan will still be around until the end of 2026.
Monahan is arguably the worst PGA Tour commissioner ever, full of deceit and hypocrisy. Golf fans don’t like him because he bent the knee to LIV before pulling the “bait and switch” that is currently in progress. PGA players don’t like him because he bent the knee to LIV, in theory at least. Many including myself also despise his top secret policies and hidden agendas, a continuation of the “good 'ole boys” network that spawned the creation of LIV in the first place. Unfortunately the incoming commissioner is playing dumb on the LIV/PGA dispute, which I find to be unfortunate and evident of the PGA being ill prepared. We’ll see.
At least Monahan is out. Few players on either side will be sorry about that. The much despised and now departed LIV commissioner Greg Norman also wasn’t liked by many, but at leat he had street cred and today’s game represents his vision from the 1990’s more than anyone else’s.
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“Woods and Adam Scott were the two players on the board who were part of the search committee”
If it’s good with Tiger and Adam Scott
It’s good with me!
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Don’t know the new guy from the NFL, but he looks pretty qualified to me.
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A small step forward towards reunification. This guy is unlikely to have much of an impact, but symbolically it is a good thing.
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Well Piot just might be the spark we need for a fire to be lit, and damnit, hasn’t this saga and ordeal endured long enough?
It’s time for escalated measures, including perhaps desperate ones.
Lyle, quit screwing around at the clubhouse, for you’re up next to tee off.
Get on the case of the PGA and LIV to straighten this matter out this summer!
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