bensmithnola

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Weirdest thing in the entire LIV saga was random people who make 60k a year crying that guys making 7 and 8 figures playing golf were underpaid to the point they fabricated the PGA tour sitting on billions

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Just wait until they start selling the treasure trove of NFTs that they've been sitting on. It's going to make their Pog and Beanie Baby revenue from the 90s look like chump change.

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Maybe something to course setups at LIV hitting Bryson at this point

He likely gets away with his irons being absolute dogshit over there and he doesn’t realize just how bad they are? I don’t know just spitballing because he is fried arse right now

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No way, man. He's a world-class science genius who understands not only golf but science better than anyone out there. The problem is the equipment and the game of golf just hasn't caught up to him yet. He tells these guys exactly how to build the clubs based on his science calculations and they're just not able to understand how it's supposed to be done.

Major championships are sort of a waste of time at this point anyway because only old people care about them and because the courses aren't optimized to a modern skill set like Bryson's. YouTube golf is the next big thing and Bryson is going to be growing the game like crazy once he has time to dub his videos into a bunch of different languages. Side note: Americans think they're the center of the golf world and it's actually hilarious to see once you've been all over the place and grown the game through a proprietary blend of golf and science.

Anyway, Bryson is the best golfer and once he makes a 3D printer that's capable of understanding his level of knowledge, it's going to be game over for the rest of these guys. Everyone else is dumb and he's smart and also very underpaid.

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The exact things you were criticizing
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We're not here to build a legacy, make things more sustainable, or serve the fans.

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If those are his priorities, why is he holding out on signing a new contract and asking to be paid hundreds of millions of dollars up front? Wouldn't it be better for the long-term viability of LIV for him to take whatever he earns through his play and allow LIV to invest the rest of the money back into the league? If it's true that he's asking for $500 million, that could more than cover the team and individual purses for the entire 2027 season.

"There's so much value to squeeze out of this whole thing for golf in general."

This pretty much says it all about professional golf in 2026. We're not here to build a legacy, make things more sustainable, or serve the fans. We just need to squeeze out whatever value we can while we can.

I don't know exactly when it's coming but a lot of these guys are in for a rude awakening when the people fronting the money come to the same realization that PIF did about what the market for professional golf looks like outside of the majors and the Ryder Cup. $20-30 million dollar purses for tournaments that 95% of golf fans couldn't care less about just ain't it.

My guess is that the letter was about not wearing out certain spots by posting up with training aids for an extended period, not "Mr. Kim, you're simply doing more putting than our poor greens can handle!"

Whoever LIV brings, you'll only be able to actually watch a handful of them because they'll be all over the course at the same time. At the Zurich, you can catch a couple groups in the morning, get lunch, and a couple more in the afternoon.

I can't even think of a really fun hole to post up on at the South Course. Maybe 2? 16?

Thanks!