Running 2024 golf thread

Take a look at the LIV schedule.
Mayakoba Feb 2-4
Vegas Feb 8-10
They were in Saudi Arabia last week.
Off this week.
Hong Kong next week.
Basically a home game for everyone in Miami April 5-7.
Australia April 26-28
Singapore May 3-5
Houston June 7-9
Nashville June 21-23
Spain July 12-14
UK July 26-28
Greenbrier August 16-18

I get that they want to be a worldwide deal, but whoever did their scheduling needs their head examined.
If I’m playing, I would rather play 15-20 events (with 1, maybe 2 overseas) than hop-scotching all over the planet.

 

You guys know this stuff way more than I do, but I thought he came off really badly. He had no problem with the product when cashing NBC’s checks and trying to cash the them for another 5 years.

 

Nobody gives one flying fuck about the actual product. The entire LIV existence is to serve as a fuck you to the PGA tour, which it is doing by the truckload. The results aren't relevant, nobody watches, and every event is forgotten as soon as the wheels are up on the Lear jet. Anthony Kim shanking that ball last week looked like a 6th year frat boy sneaking out on a course to hit a few in Palm Springs during spring break - and that is the most memorable shot of the tour year.

 

Nobody has to overthink it.
Make a name for yourself on the PGA or European tour, then go "retire" on the LIV tour with more money than even these assholes could hope for.

Its pretty simple and I think Azinger was spot on with this.

 

The Nashville stop says is in "Franklin," but is actually further southeast at The Grove, which Norman designed. It ain't Nashville or Franklin. It's BFE middle of nowhere.

But I almost want to go one day to see the circus.

 

The only thing I find interesting about the LIV tour is the possibility that Phil Mickelson gets threatened with a shooting or hanging when he (inevitably) bitches about something tour-related.

 

This is a lot of people at jobs, isn't it? They like the work and the coworkers until their contract isn't renewed or they're laid off and then suddenly it's the 10 things I hated about you.

 

I guess, but ripping into the product and saying that he wouldn’t want to broadcast it when he was perfectly happy to do so if only the check was a little bigger comes across as disingenuous.

 

Watched the first episode of season 2 of Full Swing. Really good. Heavy dose of Rory and Koepka, the LIV split, the animosity and the first two majors.

Teaser for the second episode looks juicy with the blindside merger news.

 

Are all LIV players required to play every event?

 

He's always had the reputation of a red-ass. Seems pretty clear NBC was figuring the low-ball offer would be the "signal" that they weren't up for a negotiation. The broadcast networks are always cutting costs (except for NFL rights). I realized how serious NBC was about saving dimes when they started moving all of their sports ops to CT. I'm sure the networks realize ex-jocks need them, more than they need the ex-jocks - and there are new retired golfers every year.