Running 2022 Golf Thread

Let's see what the numbers are for their sixth tournament when Hennie Du Plessis is going down to the wire with Pat Perez.
And in regards to World Ranking Points, I don't see how they can award points for a 54-hole tournament. Points aren't awarded for the team event in New Orleans or for the Tour Championship with its "starting strokes" format. There is a precedent for not giving out points for alternative formats.
Also, I still think the shotgun start is a competitive advantage or disadvantage, depending on which hole you start or finish on. I wonder how long the LIV players are going to stand for that.

 

If you’re Phil and you have $200M to play with at the casinos do you give a shit?
And if you do, who are you going to tell? MBS?

 

One-time money grab, never to be repeated.

 

The last place golfer in the LIV shot 24-over and made $100K.

You know what the must-watch part of this experiment is going to be? The tournaments to qualify for those final LIV spots next year, because if some marginal Korn Ferry Tour guy can in they will get half million by shooting in the mid-upper 70s over five LIV tournaments.

 

Bots.

 

So they can play shittier golf and make more money.

And people accused Prince Bonesaw of not having a business plan!

 

1. CBS has basically stopped showing the golf at the Canadian Open to allow Nantz to interview Jay Monahan at quite some length -- sympathetic length, of course.
2. Schwartzel won $4.175 million for winning the inaugural LIV. That sum would put him 13th on the Tour money list.
3. Finau started the day T-1. He's now fifth, because he's blown up to a mere 3-under for his first 10.

 

Bylaws are being rewritten as we speak. OWGR points are huge for a number of events, and there’s no way you’re getting a bunch of points for a shotgun hit and giggle. LIV guys won’t be banned outright. They’ll be phased out because they won’t have enough points to earn exemptions.

 

That's also one of the fallicies of the no-cut format for that much cash. You can go 90-90-90 and make your year.

 

Where to the majors get their inventory of players? The vast majority from the PGA Tour and European PGA Tour. Without player development, the majors go back to the 1920s, with dilettantes, lawyers and trust-fund babies, perhaps dominated by your occasional Bobby Jones. Where's the interest in that?