LIV Tour golf 2023

Even if he quits playing altogether and just disappears?

I know none of us can claim to know what goes on inside his head,
but I would find it very hard to cheat on Elin, let alone with dozens
of 'odd' women.
I also cannot understand the CONSTANT injuries he's had since the mid-2000's.
Many other golfers play in a lot more tournaments than he ever did, and few of them
have many, if any, injuries at all. (not counting car crashes)
And he has a daily workout regimen, too, to keep up strength and flexability, guess that didn't help...

 

Is there still a Champions (senior) tour? If so, Tiger should quit for now and reappear when he turns 50.

 

The man damn near had his leg amputated from a car crash for **** sake-

It's amazing he can walk much less play golf at any level-

He's the GOAT- period- Me made golf "cool" versus fat rich white guys dressing like pimps-

Who gives a **** what he did in his personal life- I'm quite sure "Elin" was no picnic- If she broke the glass out of my vehicle I would have double tapped her in her augmented forehead and put her in the Hudson

Tiger is the GOAT- He proved that with the PGA win and dotted it with the Masters win- Period

 

He would have broken Jack’s major record if he could have kept his dick in his pants. When you have a fall from grace that far it’s hard to recover.

 

So his dick was out when he crashed?

I agree him not being ****ing Andy Griffith or The Waltons with the psycho money grabbing 9-iron window smashing troll impeded his journey- but everyone can't be Saint Jack

 

No but everyone that he was such a good guy and had a stellar reputation. Then all this crap came out, if he just honored his wife and wedding vows, maybe his head wouldn't be so messed up.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/06/pga-tour-agrees-to-merge-with-saudi-backed-rival-liv-golf.html

 

I think this is pretty interesting. Seems like LIV was the big winner here. The PGA had to merge or could have lost too many.

 

The transaction is interesting because a non-profit is merging with a for profit business....creating a new for profit business. I can't think of another example of that happening. Perhaps Dale @Texas Forever will opine on this.

I'm sure they will keep a non-profit on the side for the education and training activities.

 

Wild news... I've been laughing at golf twitter for the last hour... lots of gems out there right now... but this is the best (check the date):

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Charles Payne on Fox Business today showed a graph of golfer's winnings over the years. Quite surprising. He said that most golfers didn't make much money until Tiger showed up and winnings have gone up quite a lot but most pro-golfers make less than someone playing pro Soccer in America. That's pretty shocking. So the LIV / PGA merger will raise salaries for everyone.

 

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Ok now this is the best one I've seen all day

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So will they play 54 holes or 72? I'm guessing they will go with 54 (and no cuts) for "normal" tournaments and stick to the traditional 72 (with cuts) for the majors. (I've said for years that the Players Championship in Ponte Vedra should be designated a major tournament. No one ever said that 4 was the limit. Maybe now is the time to do that.)

 

I don’t think it would be too hard to create a annual schedule that blends it all together.

the 4 majors - still the own separate halos
the current ‘elevated’ PGA Tour events + fedex cup
the LIV events - w/ party focus like TPC Scottsdale does with the stadium on 16

you could have the team element across all of it with an annual leaderboard, like F1 constructors championship

the team format is actually great… but it needs to focus on regions (Aussie team, California team, Florida team, UK team, Latin America team, etc) rather than the current crushers, smash, 4 aces, etc….. also, if they each have a title sponsor you have Team Nike, Team Titleist, Team TaylorMade, Team Under Armor, etc.

 

Jack also hit steel-shafted clubs and the heads had a sweet spot the size of a thimble.
The clubs today do most of the work for you, and have the sweet spot of a pie plate.
And the balls of today are good for an extra 75 yards - or more.

Would - MAYBE - but didn't.

But how do you choose team players?
How do you 'fire' them?

What I think would be neat would be 4-man Best Ball... but you have to find a way
to not always use Rory's drives, or Phil's chips off the green...

Your proposal of different countries sounds like the Ryder Cup, but also, how do you pick
a Texas, Florida, California or any other geographical location team?
Birthplace?
College town or where they went to High School?
How do you pick 4 players for Team Florida when half the PGA players were born there?
If there are ONLY 4 guys from Idaho in the PGA and one quits/gets injured, then what?

 

Well LIV was trying to get to a ‘draft’ format where the captains have to wait to choose from the new guys… and real trades between teams like in other sports.

And for the regions I think ideally you want people from there… but eventually it’s just a team…. Not like all the Dallas Cowboys are from Dallas, etc… but people from Dallas root for that team.

 

The PGA tour merging with LIV feels a bit like Dunder Mifflin buying the Michael Scott Paper Company.

 

You can't merge a non-profit into a profit. You can have strategic alliances and other arrangements.

 

I get that, but I also think golf is a little more sophisticated than that.

'And in other news, Team California has put Tiger Woods on IR, he will miss the remainder of the season...'

Sure you can.
You dissolve one into the other.
Or - as you said - you can have different 'arms' of a company, one arm holds the tournaments
that are for-profit, the other is for non-profits, like the St. Jude Classic.
NOW, how to distribute TV revenue between the two, I don't know, prize money?
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How does an entity that 'profits' be able to call itself 'non-profit'?
By distributing it's 'profit' to the employees, and buy buying, adding to and upgrading 'facilities'
How?
Look at just about any hospital, 'profit' is where the money comes from to pay for all the expansions.

 

I've played golf since I was a kid, and at that time watched it on TV. As an adult I still play golf but rarely watch it on TV.

Now I have a reason to cut back from that much. I think it's just the Masters going forward.

 

Careful. Wasnt Augusta exclusive to blacks and women? in other words racist?