Rich Lerner says PGA Tour’s merge with LIV Golf and the DP World Tour is “one of the biggest stories in the history of the sport” and that the Saudis got a seat at the table because “money talks.” #GolfChannel #PGATour #GolfToday
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Answer the question honestly. This is a win for world golf! Coming from Australia we will finally be recognised again with a tournament as will so many other places around the world that offer golf so much more than it’s US centric PGA tour has. Jay Monaghan must stand down now. His position is untenable. Make the shark CEO
Pga knows Tiger is getting weak……..they need a kick
Time to turn off the golf…
All about the money..
Im so fucking confused how does this relate to.9/11
The PGA and The Golf Channel need to start kissing some major ass. The PGA and Golf Channel are trash. Monahan is Trash and should be fired.
Just to be clear, Trump predicted a merger in July of 2022, so don't act so shocked!
On a ethical note I didn't watch liv because of the Trump connection and the civil rights violations of Saudia Arabia.
Now I will no longer watch golf
Greed !! Is all about money…..Saudi Arabia attacked our country in 911…I'm a big golf fan..This sucks!! Tiger woods turned down a multi million dollar amount..Golf sucks today
Well liv can’t bring talent but they can bring money
Monahan needs to disappear
WILL YOU STOP GOING ON ABOUT LIV , THATS A THOUGHT LIV BY NAME DEATH BY HUMAN RIGHTS
Lmao the saudis won😂😂😂 this was never about the Saudis. PGA thought they could guilt you into loyalty but at the end of the day their top players jumped ship and Rory seemed to be opening to the idea. This was a way for PGA to save their ass
Uh!!! What happened with Liv golf? I thought it was doing well! Wasn't it supposed to be the alternative to the PGA?
Hmmmmmm. Goodbye golf I won’t watch anymore. That’s my opinion so don’t send your hate it’s my choice no more will I watch golf. They cried and left the PGA and now it seems like PGA is crying and wanted to merge. They’re all a bunch of babies.
So you take a sport with the highest integrity and sell out to a country with the lowest integrity because of money? Seems very hypocritical to me. How much is enough? Golf was the last sport I could watch without players taking a knee during the National Anthem or caving to BLM or promoting perversion. I'll just go fishing
I hope the Saudi’s didn’t just sell out the LIV golfers. Let’s see what happens. This merger is basically a cartel. The most powerful once rivals band together to eliminate all other competitors. Fasten your seatbelts, this is going to get wild. Respectfully
Liv played it perfectly with a four step premeditated master plan…buy stars …change the product…takem to court ( monopoly buster)…make it painful and drag it out…if all fails pay Jay=ace in da hole
Uncomfortable partner? It’s financed with blood money! And a lot of people won’t forget Rich.
All the PGA players who lost out on all that LIV cash are going to be pissed.
PGA is a sell out. Phil should be ashamed of himself. Greg should go down under and stay down under. Every PGA player that turned down the money should not play the rest of the season. Awful
The irony of Saudi taking money we give them (for something we know is killing us but are addicted to) and using it to outspend us at anything they feel like taking over. 😂
Disgraceful.
Get your 🍿 ready!!!
Let the Rory and Patrick Reed show begin!!!
Ohhhhh yeahhhh!!!😉
Long live LIV golf! To all you chumps who played your war games with LIV, you lost, and fuk your made up liberal values, you're no better than anyone else!
I hope some of the little whiney chumps in the PGA quit.
Holy shit this is going to be interesting moving forward. I bet there are a TON of players that are regretting saying no to LIV offers 💰 😢
They are a lot of GOLFERS WHO ARE PUNCHING THE AIR RIGHT NOW for not taking buckets of MILLIONS when it was offered to them, Including Tiger Woods who was reported turning down 800.000.000 Dollars of literally free money. He has to feel SICK at this moment and to add insult to injury wasn't even Contacted to made aware of the Merger.
Saudis did win, they are actively pivoting to China and supporting decline of US dollar…way to go Jay, brilliant.
If Sergio Garcia is banned from all tours in the world, then it's fine. If not, this is wrong.
Sounds to me like pga tour didnt want their books opened during litigation…theyre still 501c nonprofit…plus id be curious if any of their money comes from any "undesirable" sources after building their morality argument against taking saudi money
In any event, i hope the end to this feud is overall good for golf
Liv did it right…they made it a war of attrition and said theyll jusr stick around and drag it around forever…the deeper pockets would win and i hate to say it but the tours entire worth dowsnt make a dent in the worth of 1 saudi prince
What kind of scumbags are in the PGA that would turn their backs on 9/11 victims and the Kashogi dismemberment murder. ? The PGA is a disgrace and should be boycotted.
MONEY
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people are so stupid to think that pga getting funded by saudi is an issue. its nothing compared to US debt to saudi , all teh corporations , including nba, ufc . Trumps first vist was saudi , bidens 2nd visit saudi . stop falling for the ignorant people who dont even understand the type of businessmen invovled. They are falling for the mass hysteria created from PGA orginally when LIV golf got announced. LIV pays there players , there is guanrntee money not like PGA you cant come play all day and walk away with nothing. That was an issue that was too long overdue & the main reason why so many players jumped over to LIV . & honestly for golf to continue to be a entertainment sport on TV they need to adapt to how LIV is doing things. The team system is very fun to watch
Yes Saudi has bad human rights record but so does Americans. America aborts or kills more babies than any other countries and what about all the disgusting LGBTQ morality issues that America pushes to other nations. We have lot of blood on our hands as well.
LIV players laughing all the way to the bank. Smart move.
Explain this to me. When players like Dustin Johnson went to LIV and said they couldn't pass up because the money was incredible, what did the media do? They called them traitors and accused them of selling out to blood money Saudi Arabian dictatorship. But now that PGA took the same money, do we boycot this new tour? Isnt it the same Saudi blood money?
and now all the players that declined big money 💰 to play liv golf won't get that money anymore im glad the early players got smart and got thst generation 💰 first. the only ones that's gonna get a bag of money is rory and tiger
This is disgusting . Imagine all the players who didn’t take a big pay day for moral reasons . Then to have this occur is sickening .
9/11 and Khashoggi. That's all that should be said. And these guys dance around the truth. This is not a winner for anyone. People will NOT forget over time. These guys are disgustig.
Is there enough money for free access to tournaments now?
They don't care where the money comes from? the money is coming from a nation that follows sharia law and kill gay people. All those woke morons on the tour have some explaining to do.
Let the money flow!
PGA has been in bed with China for years, so DROP that “human rights” BS talking point!
I took a wild speculation, I
Thought would be interesting, somewhere down the road PGA players would face LIV players in some kind of “Cup”. Looks like that can come to fruition.
Hilarious 😂
The PGA Tour is starting to formulate a plan to “reward” golfers who remained loyal to the league over LIV Golf….DOES THIS NOT MEAN PAY OFF WITH Saudi blood money…LETS GO TIGER AND RORY MAKE YOUR OWN LEAGUE THE PGA IS DEAD NOW I'LL NEVER SUPPORT THOSE WHO SUPPORT TERRORISTS AND MURDERING UNARMED JOURNALISTS DISGUSTING
You guys better talk differently. You all will be replaced real quick. You've been nothing but haters the entire time. Saudis knew in court that the PGAs dirt would be out in the public.