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PLOT TWIST!!! SBR: Graeme McDowell & LIV golf tour
UPDATE: PGA & Euros to merge with LIV into new, yet-to be named company. For all the outrage, looks like LIV will accomplish changing the game:

PGA, Euro tour, & LIV merge

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If you don’t follow golf, rich Saudis have founded a competitor to PGA in LIV Golf. 14 events (first is next weekend in Mexico), shotgun starts, 54-holes, no cuts, individual and team competition. Go to LIVgolf.com for all the info. I’m pumped as hell!

Graeme was one of the earliest, and most vocal, to commit and play the practice run in 2022. Now he’ll be with a host of the hugest names in golf (already having announced to play in LIV instead of PGA in 2023 are Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Keopka, Bubba Watson, etc.) Will find out today or Friday what team he will be on...they are announcing rosters 4 teams per day from 2/14-2/16.
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Blood money
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PGA tour is a scum sucking monopoly.
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(02-16-2023 06:51 AM)linus Wrote:  Blood money

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Blood money.
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Blood money.
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(02-16-2023 06:51 AM)linus Wrote:  Blood money

(02-16-2023 10:01 AM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  Blood money.

(02-16-2023 10:04 AM)58-56 Wrote:  Blood money.

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The Saudis want to control international sports. They're making huge investments in motorsports, as well.

They've made a $20 billion offer to buy Formula 1 racing from Liberty Media, purchased major stakes in both McLaren and Aston Martin, and are trying to get F1 teams to relocate their HQs from Europe to the linear city they are developing in the desert.
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The LIV tour is the first live sporting "League" property ever signed to be aired on the CW Network (under new ownership).
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(02-16-2023 10:59 AM)BlazerFromMD Wrote:  The Saudis want to control international sports. They're making huge investments in motorsports, as well.

They've made a $20 billion offer to buy Formula 1 racing from Liberty Media, purchased major stakes in both McLaren and Aston Martin, and are trying to get F1 teams to relocate their HQs from Europe to the linear city they are developing in the desert.

Also bought Newcastle United in the Premier League. Sports washing is their new thing.
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McDowell on team Cleeks GC
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Blood money. I thought better of him.
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Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.

Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the
perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
hand.


For every barbarism, there is a Shakespeare quote.
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(02-16-2023 04:54 PM)blazr Wrote:  McDowell on team Cleeks GC

Who else is on his team?
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(02-16-2023 05:04 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  Blood money. I thought better of him.

A boatload of guaranteed money for a fraction of the work. Any of us would take the same deal.

Let’s not forget the almighty pga tour didn’t take kindly to Tiger’s type as a whole 25 years ago(and probably today) and wouldn’t allow female members at one of their biggest events.(and yes, I’m aware the pga doesn’t own the masters)
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(02-16-2023 06:02 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  A boatload of guaranteed money for a fraction of the work. Any of us would take the same deal.

Speak for yourself. No amount of Mister Bone Saw's cash will change my mind.

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(02-16-2023 06:02 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  
(02-16-2023 05:04 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  Blood money. I thought better of him.

A boatload of guaranteed money for a fraction of the work. Any of us would take the same deal.

Let’s not forget the almighty pga tour didn’t take kindly to Tiger’s type as a whole 25 years ago(and probably today) and wouldn’t allow female members at one of their biggest events.(and yes, I’m aware the pga doesn’t own the masters)

I'm not defending the PGA. I don't give a crap about protecting them.

Grahame has gotten in bed with Mohammed Bone Saw. Turkey and the CIA have plenty of evidence that Jamal Khashoggi was killed on the orders of MBS. He was lured into the Saudi embassy to get documents to marry his fiancee and never came back out. An execution squad strangled him while MBS was on the phone listening, then his body was dismembered and smuggled out.

If you go to work for that man and do public relations work so he can whitewash his reputation, I feel well within my rights to judge you a sleazyass scumbag whose greed is far more powerful than his ethics.
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You are well within your rights to call him whatever you want. None of us have been presented with an open checkbook, so we don’t know how we’d respond in his shoes. What happened to Khashoggi was horrible. What happened to make the World Cup take place was horrible, yet people participated and watched. What’s happening in China today(concentration camps) has stopped no number of athletes from competing there. Hell if you aren’t from the US there are probably a mountain of moral reasons you shouldn’t participate in sports here.

I wish him the best and hope he can live with the decision he made.
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(02-16-2023 05:19 PM)BlazerDave Wrote:  
(02-16-2023 04:54 PM)blazr Wrote:  McDowell on team Cleeks GC

Who else is on his team?

Martin Kaymar (first German to win PGA Champ, won US Open)
Richard Bland
Bernd Weisberger (mainstay on Ryder Cup Euro team)
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Dustin Johnson said he can get the same amount of $$ and spend much more time with his family. It’s a dilemma in choosing I’m sure, but I hope it will shake up PGA formats. If they remain sneering at anything “not official” it will be interesting to say how it plays out. The shotgun starts, at the least, make sense.
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