No one dares asks the Sauds about an ESG score.

I finished it yesterday, very well done.

Joel Dahman has to be one of the most likable guys on tour.

ESG scores are only for US companies. George Soros has been warning the people about that for a few years now.

PGA commissioner Jay Monahan hails 'momentous day' in letter to Tour members after agreeing shock merger with rivals LIV Golf... as he insists the sport and its players will 'benefit for years to come'









'Rory is down so bad right now!': Social media pokes fun at McIlroy for 'turning down $300MILLION just to work for the Saudis for free for one year' after shock PGA-LIV merger



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Riyadh Nomads?
Riyadh Executioners?

It’s funny because the PGA made such a big deal about it being blood money until they were offered some of it

Will the tournament format change any? LIV does 54 holes vs the 72 hole standard, a 63 hole compromise would just be wrong.

As part of the merger, the PGA will control holes 1-8 and 12-18.

The Saudis do 9-11.

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I'm pretty sure half of GD either thinks the US orchestrated/faked 9/11 or that the US had it coming.

Mohammed bin Salman is just a Saudi version of Uday and Qusay.  

Let's watch as all the same guys who get sanctimonious about Chinese money suck Saudi dick over golf.

Yeah, ironic as hell, especially because PGA was initially doing lifetime bans on anyone who played LIV
and these 2 dupes are currently side-by-side in the list.

As always. Money talks. PGA painted themselves into a corner. As predicted.

PGA thought their balls were bigger than they were. Now they little shrivel cold water balls.

PGA thinking they were NCAA?  Lol. This is business.

The Saudi Investment Fund (PIF)  It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with total estimated assets of US$620 billion

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Honestly, not against what is happening here.

I liked the idea of LIV, and think they did it pretty well. Phil came out and said it in the beginning - an attempt to leverage the right of players against the PGA. It’s easy to make people bend to your will when you are the only game in town. Players not owning their own likeness is a wild concept to me.

And that’s exactly what happened. As for the guys who jumped to LIV, they set themselves up financially for the rest of their, their kids, and their kid’s kid’s lives (I believe that was a Keopka quote from Full Swing). I’d be hard pressed to knock anyone for that. $500m guaranteed to play golf is something almost anyone would take.

I think it was in poor taste what some of the names who stuck with the PGA had to say about LIV, let alone their fellow golfers. And while I give them a ton of credit for sticking to their convictions, the negative comments now look very dated.

Rory will be going from hating on LIV, to playing with/for the same, and doesn’t have a $400+ million check.

I might become more interested in golf than just work events.

Kharn

China=NBA. The Saudi Fund Has been Sponsoring Women’s Golf in Europe/ARAMCO. Fake Outrage.

Golf is like baseball. The only reason I would watch it is up I know someone was going to get hit by a ball.

Otherwise, it's probably the most boring shit ever.

The Sauds should buy F-1 and bring back the V-10s.

Let me see if I can find the tweet that compares Monahan's letter of a year ago---where he basically called the Saudis evil barbarians that caused 9/11---to this one...  

Hilarious.  I wonder how big his golden 'chute's going to be?

Weird.  That's not what I'd expect to see a wealthy Gulf Arab dumping on a pretty woman's head....

ESG scores are for companies that need to borrow big money or sell a bunch of non common shares to raise money to hedge funds. Basically everyone that wants to leverage other peoples money, and that comes with big strings attached. Hence the religion of wokeism.

Every other professional athlete in the NBA, NFL, MLB, etc right now: "Hey ya'll Saudis ready to start a league for us too?"


With the money they offered golfers, which has MUCH lower attendance/viewership, can you imagine what they'd be throwing at top NFL talent to play in a Saudi football league?  "Mr. Mahomes, we see your contract is $450m for 10 years.  How does $1bn for 2 years sound?"

The letter would be even funnier if it had "Golf, a trademark of the National Association of Golf" splashed everywhere like some shitty real estate commercial.

Kharn

Want to play soccer for the Sauds?

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The PGA isn't golf, it's just an administrator... this will be a good thing

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Dan Patrick was saying to change the “PGA Tour” name to
“Golf+” now. Hilarious.

Fucking This!

The only money Saudi has is given to them by people that use their product.


Don't want them to have money, don't use their product.....

Wow, the PGA commissioner really went balls to the wall with the hypocrisy.  

They have video of an interview where he's brow-beating players by using 9/11.

Rory, Rory, Rory…bet he feels (more) betrayed now

Chamblee is livid…like a loser might be

I think they were facing a very difficult anti trust lawsuit that they could have easily lost and took lesser of two evils …..all litigation was immediately dropped

Sorry to break the news to you but the rest of the world doesn't give two shits about the NFL or Baseball

the NBA is popular in china and a few other countries golf is at an all time high right now and I'm not talking PGA tour

but people actually playing it's nearly impossible to get a tee time on the weekends the courses are so busy .

The PGA needs to bring babes in bikinis driving beer carts. Ain't nothing more fun than watching drunks play golf.


Almost as much fun as being at the boat ramp on a 4th of July weekend.

Nothing......... no one gives a shit about the NFL or knows who Mahomes is outside of America.

Tee times are easy to get here in Jacksonville, FL.

The rest of the world doesn't care about the NFL?  Sorry, that's bullshit.

They are calling him the biggest sellout in American history.

Everyone is doing everything they can to make an exciting story about this, but big companies buying smaller companies who are stealing market share happens every single day in this country and around the world.

The Arabs have the money and are willing to pay for top notch international facilities. They even host ISSF shoots that are at better facilities than anything in the US.

Besides sports some of the stuff they are building over there is super impressive. Clean and modern while our cities are crumbling and filled with homeless drug addicts on the sidewalks.

“Golf is for people with goofy pants and a fat ass.”

That would be baseball

So, Americans playing golf for the Saudis is okay. But Americans playing basketball for the Chinese is wrong?

Fuck LIV, fuck the PGA, and fuck the supporters.

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'I still hate LIV and hope it goes away': Fed-up Rory McIlroy says he feels like a 'sacrificial lamb' after bombshell PGA golf merger





Rory McIlroy has broken silence on the PGA Tour's bombshell merge with LIV, insisting that he feels like a 'sacrificial lamb'.

The Northern Irishman, who has been vocal in criticising the Saudi-backed tour and turned down huge financial offers worth upwards of £400million from LIV, confessed that he 'hates' the rebel circuit and wants it to go away, but hopes the merge will create a 'brighter' future for the PGA Tour as a whole.

Calling an end to golf's civil war, the PGA and European Tours announced on Tuesday that they had signed an agreement with the Saudi-backed circuit to combine their businesses into a new, yet-to-be-named company.




The announcement came after 12 months of unprecedented disruption in the men's professional game following the launch of LIV, which held its first event in June 2022 in England.

McIlroy, who was joined by PGA legends Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus in speaking out against the Saudi-funded tour, admits that he now feels like a 'sacrificial lamb' having spoken out against LIV, only for them to join golf's mainstream circuit.



'It is hard for me not to feel like a sacrificial lamb. I put myself out there. I still hate LIV and I hope it goes away,' he said before the Canadian Open on Wednesday.

Admitting he has 'mixed emotions', McIlroy hopes that golf will benefit in the future now that the war between LIV and PGA has been settled.



'It was a surprise, I knew there had been discussions going on in the background but I didn't expect it to happen as quickly as it did,' he said in a press conference ahead of the RBC Canadian Open.

'I gather the (PGA) Tour felt they were in a real position of strength coming off the DP World Tour winning their legal case in London; it weakened the other side's position.

'I think ultimately, when I try to remove myself from the situation and try to look at the bigger picture and I look 10 years down the line, I think ultimately it's going to be good for the game of professional golf.

'It unifies it and secures its financial future. There's mixed emotions in there as well.

'I don't understand all the intricacies of what's going on. There is a lot of ambiguity, a lot to still be thrashed out but at least it means the litigation goes away, which has been a massive burden for everyone and we can start to work toward some kind of way of unifying the game at the elite level.'




McIlroy, pictured with wife Erica Stoll, has been one of the loudest voices against the LIV Tour


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Is that what I guy who's been figuratively kicked in the nuts looks like?

Probably just wishing he'd taken that LIV payday.

I would if I were him

And now you’re gonna die wearing that silly little hat.

How does it feel?