WOW, now this is BREAKING GOLF NEWS! Liv golf backers announce very strange compensation fund for PGA tour loyalists. Liv golf tour and pga tour has been in the press a lot recently due to the liv golf and pga tour merge. This is the first MAJOR step in the golf industry as we see the first signs of compensation for PGA tour loyalists.But the questions is is this going to be a fairy process for the entire tour? Now it is US OPEN week so this story couldn’t get much bigger and what an opening round for Rickie Fowler! Can Rickie fowler go on to win the US open? Who will with the US open, who are your US open picks?
The Huge players in question for the compensation fund are Tiger Woods, Jon Rahm, Jordan Spieth, Hideki Matsuyama, Patrick Cantlay & Viktor Hovland just to name a few!! These are all PGA tour players who never took the huge money to join the LIV golf tour!
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Is COMPENSATION right? Who should get it?
It's not compensation its to guarantee that come and play in LIV team events
Rory said last week he was never officially offered anything so that bitch shouldn't get paid anything
Blood money
I don’t understand why this keeps getting mid reported all the time – PGA is not merging with LIV they have entered a partnership with PIF – just because PIF funds LIV doesn’t mean the merge is with LIV – none of them should be compensated – they chose not to go 🤷♂️ also no need for LIV players to pay a fine considering ALL of them have already been fined, it’s just being blown out of proportion now 😂
Who said that any LIV players want to go back to PGA.??? They will continue to play LIV and play a few pga events or DP events if they quality. Just as high ranking DP players get invites to play PGA if they want.
They deserve nothing. They made their choice. They penalize the LIV players and the lawsuits will be huge. First the US regulators might not even allow the world monopoly merger.
well if the top players of PGA are so richous they should say thankyou to soudeys and pass it on to the lesser members of the PGA WHO DONT HAVE A LOT WHO WILL LOSE THEIR CARD AS FAR AS FINEING THE PLAYERS WHO MOVED TO LIV THEY DID A CAREER MOVE AS DID THE ONES WHO STAYED WITH PGA SO WHY ARE SOME OF THEM BICHING ABOUT IT END OF
Any compensation funds available should be spread down to grass roots competitions & struggling players that actually need the the help to continue their professional journey ! 🙏👍
No compensation and no fines. They all made their choices.
If this is to bring harmony back to the game then fines and compensations ain't Gona help.
Draw a line under it a move on.
The lack of information is pretty normal during merger and acquisition talks. I've worked on quite a few and you have to keep things under wraps until you are certain of things.
Worst thing you can do is incorrectly set people's expectations, even if it was what you were intending to make happen.
Nothing is set in stone.
i agree with everything you say about the rewards should go down to everybody and not just to the top players
anyone who was offered a contract or money and rejected it had the same opportunity as those who did. They rejected it so therefore no compensation at all, what about compensating the players who took the offer and put up with all sorts of character assassination and penalties. They took all the risks of never playing PGA again, where others took no risk at all. Sorry those people who used such harsh language about where this money is coming from…… give me a break…… how dare they now want compensation from this same source.
So Rory hates LIV, but he’ll take the money?
There is no chance they get compensated by people they told to get lost and are now the owners of the tour?
What are they getting compensation for? The made a choice but no one forced them to choose the PGA. They chose for themselves for various different reasons so there should be no compensation. Besides, many didn't even want the money. Jon Rahm said himself that he was already rich and had all the money he ever needed and that $400m wouldn't change his lifestyle.
BLOOD MONEY BLOOD MONEY BLOOD MONEY all round. they are all hypocrites. Only solution is for yet ANOTHER breakaway league. Tiger started one didnt he? theyd have to build it on the back of his name and theyd need some really good golfers leading the push, like Rory (again). Tiger would have some strings he could defs pull and the whole world knows who he is. So the marketing would look after itself. But again, you need more players and probs or the same quality LIV currently has for it to start momentum. Tiger would pull sponsers. And well, if this doesnt happen then I am afraid, even single one that has it recorded on film or paper, internet is here to stay and they will forever be spineless spineless blood money hypocrites. With zero integrity. And yes, they will be the same golfers that your children look upto. And the same golfers that YOU will be supporting. Same goes for all of YOU reading this. If youve ever run the blood money line, you are a spineless zero integrity hypocrite also, if you continue to support the merged tour (thats if you genuinely didnt know about the blood money already been in the PGA) ..my intuition tell me that 2023, 90% of you will fall into this category.
I found it mind boggling that those players who had been so critical of the players who left for LiV are now asking for compensation (read money) which they very well know is coming from the Saudi PIF which they have been so critical about!! What hypocrites…
I think there should be NO compensation. They turned it down when offered period.
Extra compensation besides Prize Money should be apportioned to EVERY golfer accepted to play at any event – perhaps a stipend of $10K for everyone who tees up on Thursday – That would cover expenses for aspiring players who may miss the cut. But if they were accepted or invited (like invites to Majors), the PGA should at least offer a basic living allowance for their participation.
The PGA tour players are just plain weird. They get offered obscene amounts to sign for the Liv Tour. The likes of Rory and Woods to name just two of the players who are hypocritical morons. They didn't want to move from the PGA tour and turned down the many $millions offered to them and now are accepting compensation? Compensation from a country whose human rights violations was one of the many things spouted by the PGA tour players, their not elected spokesman Rory who put his foot in his mouth more than once now wants money from the Saudis. Lack of vision from the PGA Tour players shouldn't be compensated it should just be forgotten and put down to experience. Dustin, Phil and the rest of the Liv players had the sense to accept the offers put on the table, probably realising that the PGA Tour was fighting a losing battle and once litigation started they would soon be begging to join the Liv Tour and calling it a saving face "merger". Give the PGA tour players nothing would be my opinion
Everyone in golf looks greedy right now
I don’t play the lottery, but I demand a share of the winnings, I don’t think so!!!, they need to get over it and it’s dirty money anyway 🤔😎
Load of bull shit
Thought they were not gonna move to LIV…BECOS WAS SAUDI BLOOD MONEY…NOW OK 🤔🧐🤨PGA… bunch of hypocrites
That’s the biggest bunch of crap so far in this total mess. Leave it up to Jay Moneyman to screw things up again.Finally if I got 200 million I wouldn’t ever go back to the PGA. I would play hundred dollar games with friends and forget it.
I don't see this ending well. All this Saudi money is just throwing a wrench in free market pricing. All those golfers you showed with the offers they received…does anyone actually think that what they do is really worth that much? Let's say you live in a house for which you recently paid $1M. But your uncle is Elon Musk, and now you are in a cash crunch so he helps you out by purchasing your house and paying you $50M. And now all your neighbors think that their house is also worth $50M, and you see what I'm saying…Fans are going to get tired and put off by this, and I think the game will lose popularity and this will be the peak that everyone points to years later.
Why should PGA players get compensated for turning down Saudi money? They didn't take all the hate/personal attacks from media/fans, have their names dragged through the mud and receive zero OWGR points. LIV players should keep their money and the prize funds going forward should be increased for all.
I think some of the lower performing pga members shouldn’t necessarily receive compensation. They have already been compensated by getting a place on the pga tour from the players who defected to liv. Otherwise they would still be on one of the mini tours where the chance of winning big prize money is non existent!
Boycott LIV/PGA golf 😎
I’m not surprised that they’re going to be giving money to the big players and the players that were talked about in your podcast. I find it very difficult to make things equal for everybody because life is not that way if you have unlimited money and you want to try to make people happy, good luck because it’s gonna take a lot of money. I’m from the camp that innovators always benefit, and the early adopters should be compensated. The ones that didn’t take the money. That’s a difficult one because they trusted the tour and Jay Monahan and they faced their argument on a moral stance and that never wins. I’m still interested to see how things are going to shake out and excited that everybody will be competing against each other how to make everything whole. I find that one very difficult task. Your podcast is really good and I love your observation, inside and style. Keep up the good work. 😊💪⛳️
It is now one tour means it is now the Saudi's tour. You would be insane to refuse any money just on principle as the situation is now. But what if Tiger takes the money and never plays again or if he plays one more tournament and just limps around for 2 days shooting 90 then says he got further injured so he needs to take time off but never plays again. For that matter any player who got 100M or more payment might possibly just retire or play a couple more lousy tournaments and go on permanent vacation and just play golf everyday for fun. Saudi oil aristocrats have been receiving tons of money for over a century from oil sales, but what good have they ever done in business or humanitarian causes or even to really raise the standard of living for 95% of their own people? Not much. They are not very smart, they don't see that as something they need to be. This whole business investment idea is not a smart profitable investment idea from the Saudi's point of view. Its just a lark for amusement or for ego actually its a stupid thing to do with their money. So the Saudi's will take over PGA and professional golf and it will ruin the game of golf at the professional level.
Opening a can of worms doing this… so if money goes to Rahm, and Mcllroy then the the top bracket of Liv players should also need compensating for being unable to earn money on the PGA, being kicked out of key tournaments they would have potentially won… so they surely should pay Cam Smith, DJ, all the winners should be compensated etc because they would have earned substantial money had they not been unfairly kicked off the tour… they also lost out going that way…. It’s got to swing both ways. Talk about having your cake and earning it argument the PGA players have been dishing out for all this time…. This is just silly.
Will only work if LIV players are not penalized to rejoin the US PGA Tour. Even then it will be contentious.
I know this report is all about the merger and compensation to PGA players but I'd like to respond to the merger and the PGA tour going forward which will include golfers from both tours. It has been stated that most of the "new PGA" tour events will be be elevated with limited fields which I think is a shame (sham). But if they do this then the PGA should make the the secondary tour (Korn Ferry) much more enticing for the players left out of the new PGA tour events. How? First, add more money to the Korn Ferry events. Why? Because you are going to have many more PGA players moving onto Korn Ferry that are just below the standard to play elevated PGA events. We'll get to see some really good golfers (some ex-Major winners most likely). Secondly, and this would be a big one, make 20 or so of the top Korn Ferry players eligible for the PGA tour events and drop the 20 poor performing PGA players DURING the PGA season! I don't think this could be done on a weekly basis. I would think that this could occur once at the end of March, and again in mid-June. And of course at the end of the Korn Ferry tour in the Fall. If a PGA player gets sent back to the Korn Ferry tour in March they have a chance to get back to the PGA tour in June or at the end of the season. In the mean time the Korn Ferry players moving up to the PGA bring new blood and excitement. If they perform well they get to stay. Perform poorly and back the the Korn Ferry they go. The Korn Ferry tour will get more viewers and TV ad money which should help with revenue along with help from all the new PGA money coming in. What do you think?
It's not right to compensate the whole tour, maybe just some of the top players get money if they we offered to come to LIV and stayed with the tour. Also the tour player loyalists didn't have to get ridiculed by social media. Mickelson got hammered by the media.
Maybe just stop watching golf and go have fun playing yourself.
Compensation should be equity like stock in the Tour. LIV can buy in with their holdings if they want. PGA players would get stock options since the PGA would not be a 501(c)3 anymore and issue stock. No money exchanged to the PGA and no fines. The Tour grows and the players are rewarded and can sell their stock when they want to after x years. That is my suggestion.
Yea😅 go back to the criminals who are making you an offer on something they have no legit intrest in!! Meaning Monahan without a player vote!! Whose tour it is supposedly 😜😀😊😉😆
I'm not interested in their earnings because the heritage of golf is the most important part of this beautiful sport.
The LIV players got paid because they were taking a risk going to LIV. They didn't ask to come back so they should keep what they got. I don't see why compensation should be paid. The PGA pay more now because to LIV. Just be happy that the PGA is still.going to exist into the future after Monahan promised what he couldn't actually afford.
Everyone has been dragged down to the bottom with the Saudis where money or equity in the new tour is the only way to sort it out now. It should be top to bottom – grass roots.
To accept PIF money now because you did not accept it before is laughable hypocrisy!
put it into prize money
the whole thing is BS, this kind of money is insane.
Oh PGA players… you don't need to consider hiring private bankers for LIV advice. Here's some advice for free… if a psychopathic Saudi murderer who dismembers living bodies for fun wants to offer you WAY more money than you're worth to be his little golf puppets, just say no. If you go along with it, it's just a matter of time before you're helping him dismember living bodies at the championship awards banquet, and dismembering living bodies is bad… mkay?
Just wondering why a "Public Investment Fund" would invest in a non profit organization if they can't make money. There must be bigger changes coming to the PGA than I thought.