re: FINAL 2024 Roster for LIV Golf

Top 3 finishers from LIV Golf promotions earned their spots on LIV 2024 roster.
5 spots remaining, including 3 open spots on Rahm’s new team.

Kalle Samooja (Finland)
- Won Porsche European Open in 2022 for his first DP World Tour victory

Jinichiro Kozuma (Japan)
- Made three starts in the 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series, finishing 29th in points

Kieran Vincent (Zimbabwe)
- Won the 2023 International Series Vietnam on the Asian Tour and brother of current LIV Golf member Scott Vincent

ETA: I think the Vincent bro’s would fit well on Cam Smith’s Aussie team. Haven’t heard of any other Australian guys jumping from PGA

I think it would be cool if the teams were to sign a reserve of players. Have like a farm system on the asian tour and be able to bring guys up to LIV when they want or send people back down when they struggle.

Hell they could draft kids out of college. Trade draft picks and all that.

I like the idea of team golf but the current format needs major help. Currently when someone is injured they bring up a random reserve who plays on whatever team.

Those 3 just won the lottery & earned their way in too. Life changing. A lot bigger than earning a PGA Tour card

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How did those guys "qualify" for LIV?

Norman is such a lying sack of shite, how many times is this he's said that same bullshite?

But he put his hand on his heart

Looks like they have extended the deadline for the PGA-PIF merger. LINK

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The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund have extended their self-imposed deadline on a proposed business agreement to create a new for-profit venture tenatively labeled PGA Tour Enterprises.

The news was delivered to the PGA Tour's membership in a memo sent on Sunday from commissioner Jay Monahan. The surprise "framework agreement" between the tour, DP World Tour and PIF announced on June 6 called for a more formal deal to be completed by Dec. 31, although all sides had the right to push that date back.

Two sources familiar with the discussions told Golf Digest the hope is to finish negotiations by the Players Championship in March, held at the tour’s headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. There’s also an unspoken directive not to allow unresolved discussions to carry into April, sources tell Golf Digest, as the tour does not want to take away focus from the Masters tournament.

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Phil says stay patient… maybe we'll still see Rahm, Smith, & others at the Players

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Kalle Samooja (Finland)

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I had that same reaction when Rory said his “dream scenario” is a world tour, funded by corporate America & Saudi Arabia too

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Apparently this has been his idea for awhile, not Greg Norman’s

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My dream scenario is a world tour, with the proviso that corporate America has to remain a big part of it all. Saudi Arabia, too. That’s just basic economics. But there is an untapped commercial opportunity out there. Investors always want to make a return on their money. Revenues at the PGA Tour right now are about $2.3 billion. So how do we get that number up to four or six? To me, it is by looking outward. They need to think internationally and spread their wings a bit. I’ve been banging that drum for a while.”

“Whether they are rotated on the new global circuit, or we go with the same ones every year, I’m OK with either,” he says. “The Australian Open, for example, should almost be the fifth major. The market down there is huge with potential. They love golf. They love sport. They have been starved of top-level golf. And the courses are so good.
“The South African Open is another I’d have in the mix. Then you have places like Singapore and Hong Kong and Japan. What a market Japan represents. That would be another opportunity. We could end up with something that resembles Formula One, but with a little more of an American presence.

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Rory has been talking about the world tour idea far before LIV

Rory has always been for more world events. He just thinks LIV is shite, and fans agree

From the year 2020. Rory has always been for more world events, he just wants it done within the framework of existing structure of golf

Rory golfweek article speaking of world tour in 2020

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The concept of a world golf tour has been bandied about for some time, but McIlroy suggested the global pandemic – not to mention the efforts of a rival league – could be the impetus to bring it to fruition. Does McIlroy support the concept of one world tour?

“I’ve sort of been calling for it for a while. Yeah, I would like to see that,” McIlroy said. “I think for the health of both tours, a world tour is something I’ve always wanted, but it had to be done the right way. I think the PGL coming in and trying to do it their way wasn’t the right thing, so trying to make change from within the game already and not letting an outsider come in is the right way to do it, so I’d be supportive of that, for sure.”

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It’s amazing how brain dead you are