WOW! This is VERY INTERESTING! Martin Kaymer DOES NOT HOLD BACK in recent interview about the merge between the liv golf tour and the pga tour! Martin kaymer calls the liv golfers HYPOCRITES and goes onto say “EVERYONE GAVE ME S***!”
Martin Kaymer has addressed his critics after the PGA Tour/PIF deal. In this interview it goes into detail about the liv golf tour, pga tour and DP world tour merge. Here is the reaction video! This interview from kaymer is brilliant, he gives his opinion on all things golf, as well as the future for the ryder cup, the pga tour and the pga tour players, the liv golf tour and the liv golf players and so much more.
This is one of the most honest and best interviews i have seen from a professional golfer in a long time and i think he deserves a lot of credit!!
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Does Martin Kaymer have a point??
I have made this comment before. Why should the LIV players be allowed to play in the Cup. The Europeans on LIV are not doing that well, and there are only a few Americans doing ok on LIV, and really only Brook doing well in both. LIV is not my issue. My issue is the LIV players went for the money, nothing else, and that is OK, but the PGA players who rejected LIV are now being made to deal with what Jay has done and see the LIV players come back like nothing as happened.
Yeah, money talks, but shows how peoples morals have descended to meaningless words. Saudi just wanted a seat on the PGA and DP tours so they could continue their sportswashing of the terrible human rights. 20 years ago, this would not have happened. Remember 9/11, done by Saudis and organised by Bin Laden, a Saudi. Money is more important than human life and rights and I find that disgusting. And Kaymer's words at the end, they will still have a warm meal on their plate. He would still have a warm meal on his plate if he stayed on the PGA and DP tours.
It was all about GREED and nothing about building the game. LIV will be gone at the end of this season, the Saudis have paid the PGA and DP tour large amounts of money, Norman will be gone and the LIV players will be the mega rich on the tours.
So integrity is dead
You're good at this…. keep them coming
On a money point of view, even more amazing is that, the PGA, up until a few days ago, were listed as a charity, and have paid no tax in 50 years…!!!
C'mon man. He went nuclear on PGAT golfers not LIV golfers.
As LIV players have taken blood money, I think the answer is: yes, they would play golf in Russia if the money was good. Cricketer's played cricket in South Africa even though it was boycotted due to apartheid for the money, so I don't see why golfer's wouldn't do the same in Russia…as those that went to LIV have. It seems to me that there are no longer any red lines any more, we let those with the money do and get away with whatever they want.
His argument is correct . But let’s face it no liv player is good enough for the Ryder cup apart from Garcia
Martin Kaymer makes a valid point about the Ryder Cup. I do not agree with his next point. The LIV golfers were made an offer to go to LIV, the remaining PGA tour players are now FORCED to make a decision after being sold out by the Tour. Choices are:-
1. Stay and take the money
2. Go to Japan, Asia, India
3. Imagine if they all resigned en-masse (i know its not likely) and started their own new tour (again highly unlikely!)
But if you stay in and take the money, make sure there is no clause saying you cannot criticise the Saudi Govt! Sometimes the best way to effect change is to be part of something.
A lot of people have commented that this coming together is a good thing, but there is a huge danger of it massively damaging men's professional tournament golf for years to come.
I think it would really spice the ryder cup up if everyone was envolved the atmosphere would be off the planet
The difference is MK made a choice to join LIV.
All players that remained committed to the DP and PGA haven't been given the choice on this merger. So his logic is they give up the earning potential for the decision they haven't made.
With great respect to the European players who served the Ryder cup well they have had their time and its time for fresh blood The USA on the other hand have still got quality players who can still contribute so should be considered for the RC – If I'm honest the whole LIV/PGA thing was mismanaged from the start and its caused this huge rift but it will subside with time.
I laugh at the people who called it "blood money". First of all, these people are simply followers who are just repeating what they heard others say. That is what followers do. They can't think for themselves, so they just repeat what they heard other people say. They hear some guy on tv call it "blood money" and they just repeat that. The most ridiculous thing is when people talk about 9/11. That was Al Qadea, who is arch enemies with Saudi Arabia. How can you blame the Saudi government for what their arch enemies did? That would be like blaming Americans and/or the American government for what Timothy McVeigh did.
It is true that the Saudi government was responsible for murdering Khashoggi. that was disgraceful. But we can't boycott every country that has done something bad or we would not be able to deal with 80% of the countries in the world. China is horrible but we still do a lot of business with them. Putin is as evil a person as I've ever seen. He's murdered tens of thousands of innocent people in Ukraine for no reason. Yet the truth of the matter is, we still do some business with Russia right now and if Putin pulled out of Ukraine tomorrow, I'm sure most of our boycotts would be withdrawn.
Almost all of you buy Apple and Nike products, both of which are manufactured with some slave type labor and child labor. So anyone talking about this "blood money" nonsense is a total hypocrite. On one level or another, we all do business with bad countries. If you drive a car, you probably use Saudi oil. The bottom line is that it's ridiculous and hypocritical for people to be bashing these guys who joined LIV. It was a personal and business decision that was up to them to make. In the same way that it would be none of anyone's business if any of you got a new job at a Chinese or Saudi company, It's none of our business if a player decided to join LIV.
And what if one or two that earned there way to a Captain's pick…Tony Finau??? perhaps a few others on both sides???Just to be passed over by a LIV player??? I think NOT!!!!
Click bait
Hypocrisy by the PGA is thicker than butter. Their only concern was to protect their monopoly on golf and once it was apparent that ship had sailed they did a deal and sold everyone and 😅Rory, especially down the river. This should make all professional golfers realise they are independent contractors and nobody has there backs but themselves. Maybe a union to protect themselves is in order watch Jay's glasses steam over then
Click bait much?
I didn’t see him throw any shade the direction of LIV players. It was targeted at PGA
m is, the best European [layers live in the USA
so you can only play top level golf if your happy to work for the Saudi's then
Okay .. Who developed the Ryder cup? Originally a British vs American thing it has now morphed into a American – European thing. It is STRICTLY been nurtured along due to the hard work of the PGA and European tour!! Therefore.. they and only they .. make the decisions on who gets to play and represent either entity. Part of that is that one must be a supporting member of either tour. LIV players knew EXACTLY they would no longer be eligible but playing OUTSIDE the PGA Tour or DP Tour.
So get over it!! .. Develop your own equivalent to the “Ryder Cup”. Your looking to “GROW” the game .. make it happen. Get a board, get a CEO that can organize things, get sponsorship money, get TV rights, get a venue … AND PUT ON A SHOW WITH YOUR STARS.
Oh … to much work .. why not bitch and complain that you only thought of the money for yourself and no are on the outside looking in.
Cry me a River. Why is it that all LIV can do is want what others have built over 50, 60, 70 yrs … and think they should have it also .. without putting in the work!!
Agree. It should be best versus best.
I think they would all be better not to make comments like this. The merger is definitely better for professional golf and hopefully toxicity like this will pass. I'm not sure there is any moral high ground for anyone now on either side of things. I think it will be interesting to see how many people get through Q school again. Would Poulter even win on Korn Ferry anymore?
Your video title is wrong.
Too many hypocrites out there. LiV and DP and PGA Tour players all play friendly games around Florida residences. It’s all crap.
What I worry about is the rich getting richer, and poor club pros or 3rd tier tournament players are losing out.
Don't get your title to this clip. Did Kaymer went ballistic with LIV Golfers
I haven't been watched Golf on TV since this garbage started…..fuck em…
Difference is he got paid to leave. The loyal players have all been lied to and let's be honest the only reason anyone thinks this is good for a sport is the owners and shareholders of Livm PGA and Dp World tours now they are for profit. The underpinning of £600bn would secure anything it wanted. Without Saudi money the LET would be dead and now world golf is the same. Future secured but more players wronged than respected.
SPORTSWASHING at it's finest. Saudis don't care about LIV or any of their players, they are getting exactly what they want, it's definitely not profits… (while laughing at all the in-fighting)
love watching your show, but three times you say that we cant disagree with the comments,i do disagree to a lot of the content and feel that loyalty has gone in world golf,the biggest disappointment to me is how luke donald must feel after stepping up to the plate only to sold out by,??????
The PGA players now have no choice unless they simply walk away from golf, which of course is absurd. Martin Kaymer at least used the term "BLOOD MONEY" which I haven't heard on this channel or any other golf related info. Saying that you just want to see the best golf possible is such a gutless response. Stick your head in the sand all you want, in the end terrorism is terrorism and murder is murder, even if it means "better golf". This just infuriates me.
I see everyone is fine being a golfing slut for the saudis. I hope they enjoy their freedom of speech these days, with all those dollar bills. Good thing I don’t give a damn about the dumbest game ever created, golf
It’s all about selling out, now golf hast to answer to the Saudi‘s, they bought Formula One, it’s hard for them to buy a team league because there’s so many players, but when you have an individual as the star money speaks loudly
We hear some people talk about "loyalty". I don't think anyone stayed on the PGA Tour because of loyalty. The guys who stayed, simply stayed because they thought it was in their best interest to stay. Their goals were simply more aligned with what they would get out of staying on the PGA Tour rather than leaving. Most of the top players want to be #1 in the world. If you leave the PGA Tour to play on LIV, you can't be #1 in the world because you don't get any points for winning LIV events. So for most guys, making a little more money on LIV wasn't worth it. For other guys, depending on their situation, it was worth at it.
When you take a guy like Brooks Koepka, at the time he made the decision, he was not healthy physically and he didn't know what his future earnings potential was. So he decided to take the safe route and go for the guaranteed money. Every guy who either stayed or left, made the decision based on what they felt was best for them. I doubt a single guy stayed out of loyalty.
And I don't think the Saudi connection had any effect on the decision for anyone. I think the same guys would have left if LIV was a British company, rather than a Saudi company. And I think the same guys would have stayed. I doubt the Saudi connection was an issue for a single guy. It may have become an issue once guys say the criticism that was being levied at the guys who joined LIV. But other than that, I don't think the Saudi connection had any effect. That was just propaganda made up by the PGA Tour and the media.
For one time only – let’s ditch Ryder Cup as US v EU and make it LIV v PGA/DP Tour! 😊
All differences settled on the course and shake hands after 😂
9/11 was done by THE Saudi's when was that proved yes the majority where from Saudi but you cant hold there government responsible. Was every Irishman guilty of terrorist acts during the troublesmainly funded by Americans) did we blame America and Irish governments. You should engage your brain before parroting propaganda
Yep! Get in there fellas
It's called "MONEY" and contractual agreements. If you accept compensation to play on LIV tour and violate your PGA contract you can't do both because you violated a contractual arrangement. Give back the money and ask for forgiveness.
You talk way too much way way too much. I can’t subscribe
Kaymer destroying these hypocritical fools. The man is on point.