LIV had a disastrous showing(in person) yesterday

Pros

• Free parking.
• A little bit more interaction with the players if you want that kind of thing. You can tell they’re all told to mix it up with the fans.
• There was a solid crowd but more like a good Thursday at a PGA event so moving around and getting to good spots was easy.
• Nearly zero rules or people enforcing them. Ropes were more of a suggestion on many parts of the course. So almost no spots where you’re stuck for 10+ minutes behind ropes.
• Fantastic food trucks.
• There were neat areas for kids. Fun games and even this covered area with some sort of teacher doing what looked like science experiments and shite. A ton of families took advantage of this and seemed to enjoy the hell out of it.
• Cart girls driving around with food and booze

Some of these cons probably don’t have a ton to do with LIV itself and could be just local to OCN and the staff they had? Idk. But it was terrible.

Cons

• Parking was an unbelievable disaster. I pretty much bribed a cop to cut a full hour wait in line to about 40 minutes. Vehicles were getting stuck. Lines were held up as people had to exit their vehicles to lift cars and motorcycles out of sand. There was only one way in and not a single person working the event helped or changed the route.
• The amount of concessions was embarrassing and the waits in these lines were nearly an hour long. Maybe more. There wouldn’t be a single person in line NOT losing their mind and talking shite about the operation they were running.
• Cart girls were out of everything, at all times.
• The golf and entire feel of the event was so tangibly underwhelming. And you couldn’t go 10 minutes without hearing a group of people blasting LIV how terrible it was.
• A lot of people expected this huge, grandiose production and it was embarrassingly weak. Again, everyone there was speaking about it amongst themselves and very animated about it.
• EVERYONE getting alcohol was getting 2 or 3 drinks at a time because the lines were so slow. These lines were an impossibly long wait.
• Zero sense of urgency or even care from the players. The entire thing just lacked any relevance.

I had a blast. My girlfriend and I are going to enjoy anything we do together. And it was great to see the guys that left for LIV.

I don’t know if anything I wrote captures just how terrible the operation and atmosphere was, though. It was genuinely cringey and everyone was discussing it. The only thing I can think to compare it to would be a massive party at a friend’s that is promised to be the time of your life, then you show up to 6 people sitting around the living room with nothing to do.