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

Brooks Koepka has been one of the most outspoken players against this thing.

More players will go but the vast majority of fans won't care and won't follow. The biggest appeal golf has is the legacy. Fans love golf because of the history and comparing the present to the past. They don't watch it really for excitement. Why would fans give a f*** about these events? Every player who plays at these events is a winner. It's not even a competition really. The fundamental appeal of sport is that there is a risk of losing. Watch LIV you may as well be watching lads going to their office jobs.

They need at least 3-4 of the top players to make it viable. Also the more average players that go to LIV the worse it probably is for the long-term viability of LIV.

It would be funny if you end up in a situation where the pga tour has smaller fields with 90% of the field being at the elite level while LIV has weak fields with 10% being elite and the rest is the tour plodders etc.

I really hope Lowry doesn't end up ever going to this thing

But he’s a family to think about. I wonder how many will use that excuse

Lowry was defensive when quizzed about his participation in the Saudi open earlier in the year playing the I'm not a politician stock answer but after that he pretty much shot down participating in a breakaway league saying it didn't sit well with him

After DJ's categorical commitment to the PGA tour a few months back I wouldn't make any confident predictions on how resilient golfers will be to some of these preposterous sums of dollars being waved in their faces

McDowell said he is doing it for the kids ....lol

If I were the players’ agents I wouldn’t be letting them do any press conferences indefinitely until they can come up with some sort of defence to playing that isn’t embarrassing like that

Ya I agree. Same with most players probably which is grim

I don't know which would be best or worst from the PGA & Euro tours' perspectives:

Lets say DJ wins the first two events, does any fan really care about him winning another few million ? but would say Rory and all the other top guys be influenced by it ?

On the other hand lets say a complete nobody wins the opener and picks up a few million for himself - would aspiring new pros now be inclined to try to get onto that tour instead of the PGA or DP World tours ? DP World could become even more of a developmental feeder tour than it already is.

Interesting times.

If they do end up getting Dechambeau, Rickie Fowler and Brooks it will be a fair dent to the PGA tour.

But is it the monopoly on top quality golf they want or is it to protect the likes of the John Deere or Sanderson Farms Classics ? I mean there's probably at least 10/15 events on the PGA each year that nobody outside of the hosting towns would miss. You're right though, the tours could easily IMO come to an arrangement to operate in tandem.

I think it'll burn itself out in a year or two. Most people and players who are already multi millionaires are more interested in the majors. I have zero interest in Johnson or Mickelson getting even richer. Give me Mcilroy or Lowry walking down the 18th on a Sunday with a chance of winning.

Remember Lowry in the Open? LIV won't be able to match that in any way shape or form.

In saying that I could be totally wrong and this could be the end of the PGA.

One potential issue I see is the reaction of major sponsors in general to a sport that is deemed at least by some to have knowingly become involved in sports washing.Major corporations are ultra conscious of brand image and may make the decision Golf has moved from being a safe bet to a Sport that they might no longer want to be associated with.

I don't think DJ will win the first few, might win one alright. He's not in good form for a start, and then on any given day any of the top 500 (pulled that from thin air) can shoot a low score, or hit a streak of form. The top players obviously shoot lower scores much more consistently but tournaments are hard to win. You could throw any of the top 10 in the world into a Korn Ferry tournament, and the odds of the field winning will be shorter.

Mc Dowell must have committed to be a pr role. One thing he said it won’t speed up the game as mentioned 4.5 to 5 hours.

Reed and Bryson are like marmite as they say.

So is the team or individual more important? If team is winning will players look at the leaderboard and say my shot selection is based on a team score than individual. Should be one or the other.

They should have allowed range finders to speed up play

But is is days 1, 2 & 3 or 2, 3 & 4 😊

Could be a plan, makes it just the same as pga tour then

I’m going to tune in and see how it looks, if it grips me I’ll watch it. It’s hard to tell how it will do over the long term or what damage it could do to the PGA Tour. Maybe the PGA Tour will fight back and make some changes.

I hope they have lots of cameras out there so we can see a lot of the players. Plenty of money sloshing about so hopefully they have high quality coverage.

Some of the PGA events where the big players rested themselves were pretty boring, it would be good if they could come to some arrangement so we could see the best players turn up for the bigger PGA Tour events as well as the LIV Tour, DP World Tour, The Majors and the Ryder Cup. From a fans perspective that would be ideal.