LIV Golf Invitational League...... NO Political/Ethical conflict posts, see Post#2

Fair enough, maybe not reported in detail by the media throughout the years. But there was enough talk outside of mainstream media to paint the picture I think.

I've certainly had him down as a "bit of a gambler" for years. And I mean that in an Irish sense... I.e a chronic/compulsive gambler.

Interesting background to his "realtionship" with Shipnuck and obviously mutual beef that they've held onto for years.

It will be interesting to see who the team leaders will be for the LIV. Apparently they will be getting a percentage of the franchise rights. Obviously they tried to get Jack Nicklaus involved but he wasn't interested.

Norman was mentioning Crickets IPL as a potential structure. IPL teams have "mentors". Basically high profile ex pro's that just sit on the bench and don't do anything.

Gary Player is an absolute lock to be involved. Not even Phil Mickelson would take that bet.

Im surprised Darren Clarke isn't involved. Maybe he will as a team mentor?

I am also interested in seeing who from golf punditry will be involved.

golf is an awful spectator sport at the best of times, 90% of the field are regularly also rans and add little or no entertainment value.In conventional tournaments John Rahm may be having a bad day but he is still John Rahm and there is some novelty factor in that .That won't apply to the current LIV field so they are obviously trying to imitate the Ryder cup cameraderie to paper over the lack lustre nature of the field.

I think if you follow Rory,Shane or now Seamus or whoever you are very much interested in the tourneys you listed.

The change I would like to see is being let watch all the shots for a player of your choice,all the holes are covered by cameras so shudn't be too difficult.

I was listening to newstalk during the week and they made a very interesting observation (gag at his expense) that DJ is the ideal spokesman/frontman for LIV... Because he rarely has anything to say in general and people won't be asking him/expecting him to answer any hard hitting questions.

The nightmare scenario is for it to end up like the BDO and the PDC.

I'd hate for DJ not to be playing the majors as he's undoubtedly one of the world's best players (currently in a blip of sorts) and the majors would be poorer without him.

Kevin Na resigns from pga tour over it, did mention he'd face disciplinary action if not. Think people will only care about DJ if he's not on pga tour, nobody really bothered about the rest

While he's not exactly on the breadline, he has a young family and is probably coming to the end of his peak years. Can set himself and his family up for life with just a handful of events a year.

I imagine he still got some kind of stipend, not in DJ's level, but to give up his Tour membership he'd need something to protect him. What if the whole thing fell apart after just a few tournaments?

Good to see someone testing the waters anyway. The Tour will be putting serious pressure on the Majors to toe the party line I imagine.

Phil has boarded his plane and flying to the uk

I saw Westwood was giving 100 tickets away, didn't realise it extended to every player. Ij fairness, it seemed very pricey to attend

So he will still be allowed play the 4 Majors?

Any Official announcement for Rickie Fowler yet?

that's huge news and the first of many, people scoffing at Garcia, oosty, Gmac,phil, Na can hardly scoff at Dj, Koepka will join his brother too. You got to hand it to the shark the tide has turned.

He's called it the true test of golf. Is a team event shotgun start is a true test of golf? Cos I don't think anyone has called it that with a straight face

I can't see what they can do to revolutionise the game, different formats are grand for a novelty but I can't see them changing the game altogether.

Probably bit early to say whether PGA tour have shot themselves in the foot. The public are only disappointed in the loss of DJ, if he goes back to the tour then its a failure for them, if he doesn't then its only one person gone

I think potentially the biggest losers will be the European Tour and ultimately Norman's Wheelbarrow tour will replace it and the PGA will soldier on.

The big events on PGA Tour like Memorial will insist on 5/10 star players on rotation each tournament and the rest will be free to feather their nest with Norman and Co.

The guys that are rostered to play in PGA Tournaments will probably get generous appearance money so on both current tours there will be less to go around for guys not in the top 50 in the world.

Garcia ,Westwood & Poulter need to make hay pretty sharpish as they will be outside the golden bubble pretty sharpish if this thing gains momentum.

Norman will probably want to have a 5th Major as well under his control.