It’s Official: LIV and Phil nuked professional golf

Everything is fricked and Brian Fever Blister is going to take away other great events to put in sterile arse Miami and New York etc

If only we could thanos this and have Phil go to prison with insider trading and nothing ever changes in golf

Phil always had a hard on saying the Tour should give more money to the more popular stars of the game. That was his vendetta

The Sentry
• Sony Open in Hawaii
• The American Express
• Farmers Insurance Open
• AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
• WM Phoenix Open
• Genesis Invitational
• Mexico Open
• Cognizant Classic
• Puerto Rico Open
• Arnold Palmer Invitational
• Valspar Championship
• Texas Children’s Houston Open
• Valero Texas Open
• RBC Heritage
• Zurich Classic of New Orleans
• Cadillac Championship
• Truist Championship
• THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson
• Charles Schwab Challenge
• Memorial Tournament
• RBC Canadian Open
• Travelers Championship
• John Deere Classic
• Genesis Scottish Open
• 3M Open
• Rocket Classic
• Wyndham Championship
• FedEx St. Jude Championship
• BMW Championship
• TOUR Championship
• Biltmore Championship
• Bank of Utah Championship
• Baycurrent Classic
• Butterfield Bermuda Championship
• VidantaWorld Mexico Open
• World Wide Technology Championship
• Good Good Championship
• The RSM Classic

Only get to keep 18 of those events. FUBAR

I was just with a current PGA pro about a hour ago. His phone buzzed and got the word. To say he was pretty demoralized is an understatement.

Pretty tough situation for guys in his category of 15+ years of service, handful of wins, buy competing against this new wave of youngins has proven to be more difficult. Kids are popping up for a year or two and then fading off whereas he and some of his compadres have been on leaderboards for majority of their careers.

I get the change because the product as a whole has been somewhat stagnant but this is a pretty big blow to the guys who remained committed to the PGA tour during the LIV departure. Turning down 15-30m paydays only for the PGAT to reward its marquee players a few years later.

Tough day for these guys.

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I get the change because the product as a whole has been somewhat stagnant but this is a pretty big blow to the guys who remained committed to the PGA tour during the LIV departure. Turning down 15-30m paydays only for the PGAT to reward its marquee players a few years later.

Tough day for these guys.

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It is definitely tough for those guys but it was always going to be this way. PGA was essentially in a no-win situation when Phil pulled the LIV crap. If they didn't cater the response to the long-tenured, mid-level guys then they follow suit to LIV and the domino effect becomes catastrophic. Cater too long to the mid-level guys then the young up & comers, and the Tour elite, become googly-eyed at the Saudi money too.

Like in other areas of life, the middle class is the largest class, and they're also the ones left holding the bag.

It would be so cool if sports execs of mid-tier professional leagues realized that they will never be the NFL/NBA/MLB and trying to will only serve to kill their product.


Can anyone point to a single league (in the modern era) that left/substantially shifted focus away from it's core demographic in favor of big media markets (NY/Miami/Boston/etc) and come out the other side in a better spot?

It seems like every time this is tried, the core fanbase falls off and isn't even close to being replaced by the new fans they are attempting to capture.

Schedule will go through February through August with a match play playoff finale.

The top level will be 120 man tournaments with cuts and up to 30 players will be “relegated” and “promoted” at the end of each season.

I don’t see how it’s really that much more than codifying the existing signature event model?

Maybe in 4-5 years it’s a disaster, like NIL/transfers and college sports. But at least to me that seems like an actual attempt at creating a long term workable system based on a “signature event, you need all your big names playing the same events” model.

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I don’t see how it’s really that much more than codifying the existing signature event model?

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It's totally different.

Right now there are signature events and then other events. Under this plan there are signature events and that's it. The other events are eliminated.

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guess it depends on if you count the lower series as still the PGA tour.

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Who would? They are banning their top 120 players from playing those events