PGA vs LIV **Updated to discuss merger**

Many products are bought and sold to the highest bidder. NCAA coaches are often enticed to coach at a rival school willing to pay more money. Some elite HS recruits are rumored to sign with the highest bidder. I guess the Tour has some contract language that was violated by the LIV org.

 

To be clear, LIV sued PGA Tour and the PGA Tour then counter sued LIV. LIV has its own claims against the Tour. Personally I think both are trash.

 

Both suits or both tours?

 

Can you even watch LIV events here in the US?

 

From context, I am guessing tortious interference. Very simplistically, you can induce those that are not contractually bound (or if their contract has certain terms that make it “breakable”), but you can’t simply induce them to breach. That’s very simplistic, many qualifications, but that is what it sounds like

 

They were on streaming only but I believe they just signed a deal with the CW network.

 

OT but for those who still watch golf...

 

PGA Tour, LIV Golf agree to merge in historic end to golf hostilities

Really weird. Not sure what to make of this.

 

In DeLand they are typically on upn or wb or whatever the network is called now. Channel 18

 

Saw a piece (maybe 60 Minutes) awhile back about how much money the Saudis are pouring into sports. Suggestion that all the spending is a loss-leader intended to soften public opinion and distract from their authoritarian and civil rights issues.

 

According to someone I know that knows these things, no players were aware this was happening. I thought LIV was floundering, there must he massive amounts of money being moved around here.

 

Yeah many (if not most or all) of the players it seems had no idea.

 

He said Rory and Tiger didn't know. Which is pretty amazing.

 

Sounds like PGA Tour caved for some of that sweet, sweet Saudi $$$$.

Of course the tour wouldn’t have had an issue in the first place if LIV wasn’t created as a direct competitor - buying off individual players. The issue is those individual players were effectively taking $$$ straight from a foreign government. That borderline makes them agents of a foreign government in my eyes, especially with so much of the commentary resulting from it. The very definition of “sports washing” when the athletes are literally paid agents of a government. It was quite sad to see them do that.

Just shows it wasn’t much of a principled stand by the PGA tour, especially with how much control they apparently gave up to the Saudi’s. On the surface it seems the PGA caved, but it’s also true that LIV itself couldn’t have been sustainable for very long (it was an endless cash sink at the rate it was going). But at least the LIV players shouldn’t have to beclown themselves in the same way anymore. Now they can all sportswash together!

 

That's nuts if true. Bet there's some heated convos right now. Some speculation that the PGA tours non profit status may have come into question if discovery had continued in the lawsuits.

 

G8tr - Article is out today that the two entities just merged.
Sorry don't have the link.

 

That would make sense to me. Otherwise this seems pretty out of the blue by the PGA.

 

That's a tight ship he's running there.​

 

Trump got something right!