The contentious relationship between the PGA and LIV Golf is hurting the sport, says Mike Francesa, and damaging iconic events like The Masters. Will this rift be healed before fans vanish? Plus, the Mets desperately need a win, Malachi Flynn shockingly scores 50, and the Yanks prep for Opening Day.
00:00 Pro golf is at a critical juncture
07:20 NIT Final: Seton Hall v Indiana St.
08:45 Malachi Flynn’s 50-point game
11:20 Mets v Tigers
16:20 Yanks home opener v Blue Jays
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A Tiger comeback story could uplift PGA professional golf sport.
McElroy going to LIV would probably help out the PGA. Then I wouldn't always have to see him as a favorite every tourney only to see him barely make an impact.
All that talent gone from the PGA and he cant even make a dent.
Fix the audio
I TOOK A MASSIVE CRAP ON MY LOCAL GOLF COURSE. WHAT A BORING SPORT
I don't even know have the players on the pga. It's time they merge just like the AFL & the NFL did back in the day
With all the talent going to Liv it's still a complete joke and ruined the REAL tour.
Mike jinxin UConn big time
Back afta dis
I don't know what the Saudi Group is getting from all the money they are spending. They have not made a penny on the LIV Tour. Attendance is terrible. Viewership is horrible. So is the Saudi Group just doing this to destroy the PGA? If you listen to Phil Michelson that is the case. The Saudis want to destroy the PGA and then they will come in and pick up the pieces.
Fake sport
Mets actually won a game
LIV is fun. You should watch.
GOLF DOESNT deserve to survive..a bunch of losers who took the cash and couldn't care less about the game so WHY should the public?
LET GOLF DIE.
GOOD BYE…
YOU WON'T BE MISSED…
TOO BAD OTHERS DON'T TAKE THIS VIEW.
Walk away and the golfers will find you…
My thought will never come to fruition.
That's too bad.
golf doesnt deserve to survive…a bunch of pampered millionaires who turned their backs on the game for more cash…now they are crying about the game and want the "fans"..to bail them and their billionaire backers out!!!
sc**w um…
I never watch LIV, and the PGA is too watered down.
It is delusional to think that golf will go back to the way it was under the PGA umbrella. Both tours can coexist with top players coming together 10-12 times a year.
Couldn’t disagree more Mike, Let them have their LIV. Who cares about those guys….TAKE A HIKE!!!, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. They are all washed anyway other than Brooks and Rahm. The PGA Tour CAN NOT capitulate to the Saudis. Let them play in their golf shorts, with music playing and beach balls flying around. Sounds like golf to me!!!…..like you said we got enough good guys coming up from the Korn Ferry Tour…..the days of Phil, Tiger and DJ are over with
The Saudi's have no understanding of the sports that they are taking over.
It's not only golf, they've done a similar thing to soccer where they have just extracted a bunch of stars out of Europe and replaced the void with nothing useful.
The thing is that the Saudi's are swimming in oil money and are prepared to absorb big losses pretty much forever. The sports are just something that they want to give the tourist parts of their countries a western feel. The point is, the Saudi's don't see a problem. They're getting what they want out of this.
Soccer is not failing in Europe. Fans are team and country oriented and losing a bunch of big names isn't killing the product.
In golf, the LIV tour will remain as is and is considered a success by the Saudi's.
They don't care if the PGA tour fails or not.
If the fans and players can't adjust to the new landscape, then the PGA tour will become a shell of what it was. And all of the top players will be forced to go to LIV if they want to make any money presuming the LIV will take them all.
Cheers from Canary Islands 👍
If you haven't watched LIV you haven't a clue what you're talking about. It's different, fun, competitive and has excellent players at the top and good players throughout. 40 were top 100 when they joined. I attended LIV Greenbrier last summer and it was wonderful and I've been to many PGA Tour events…
Liv is sweet..
The LIV golfers signed up for fewer tournaments with 3 rounds instead of 4 in a no cut format with some name players like Rahm given contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The one solution I see is to make LIV the equivalent of the Champions league in soccer. The top 50 players at the end of the PGA tour season will be eligible to play in 4 to 8 ultra rich tournaments even including some kind of team event. This will enable the tours to merge but with any such merger there will be those out of luck, such as the older LIV golfers who will most likey not be able to compete on the open tour and thus qualify for the LIV bonus tournaments.
Just heard you have never watched an LIV tournament. No one on LIV wants to come back getting ready to turn u off. Uninformed and biased commentator no worth listening to propaganda
LIV is a family event and the kids love it + the best players in the world…….the only thing the PGA has going for them is the Masters and will always be the Masters.
The real problem for golf is that the greatest don't stay greatest for long, except those robots with no personality like Scheffler.
In the "good old days" before golf became a complete science a few individuals with natural ability could rise above and become icons luring in the casual viewer.
Now hundreds of hopefuls know exactly how to train,eat, exercise, etc. to perfect their game. Every year a new wave of younger, stronger golfers with no injuries replace slightly older, slightly more injured players.
Only the robots who follow their sports psychologist's advice and show no emotion and golf "within themselves" have any staying power. A few purists admire their skill, but the casual viewer is bored.
Tiger and Phil were the last icons. They combined skill with emotion and the willingness to try risky shots that wowed the crowd.
Spieth could have joined them if his game were more consistent. Dechambeau is a bit of an oddball who is entertaining. But Rahm? Rory? Scheffler? It's more exciting to watch the grass grow on the course.
It's making pro Golf way better. Liv is exciting, way more interesting personalities. PGA is and always will be boring white toast golf.
The LIV guys want their cake and eat it too. You knew what you were doing when you took all that money. Jay Monahan sold out the PGA players and should have never merged with LIV. LIV would have eventually folded as they just have garnered no interest in a new golf league funded by dirty oil money. I enjoy the PGA Tour more seeing guys who have worked hard for years and now can win tournaments and the money and winning actually means something life altering.
It goes well beyond golf. It's a function of late-stage capitalism, or something like that. The system has gotten pathological. Too much money going to too few. Pro golfers are battling for more, publicly, and they appear utterly tone deaf. Another angle, from the fans perspective, is that golf has always been an escape from the accelerating amount of change and disruption in society. The fact that the disrupters have come for golf is a real turnoff. The only power the average Joe has is to turn off the set.