THE tournament. Love it.
Hope a LIV player wins it……cmon Smithy
I hope all the LIV players failure.
Can’t moan about Newcastle and Man City spending and then cheer on LIV.
All a bunch of mercenary cnuts.
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Could not agree more @mattyhurst 
I Hope Rose or McIlroy wins it.
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So you agree that LIV players are mercenaries, presumably because they left the PGA Tour in order to compete for higher prize money on the LIV Tour.
You also hope that McIlroy or Rose win, two players, who apart from meeting minimum requirements in order to retain their card, effectively left the European Tour to compete for higher prize money on the PGA Tour.
Appels and oranges.
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The Saudi tentacles are far reaching and there are many connections.
So no PGA players have played in Saudi….Euro PGA Saudi tournament, PGA sponsors with links connections to Saudi. Of course not.
Hypocrisy everywhere. And the ever perfect PGA and good old US of A play a moral high card.
No one accepts the abhorrent Saudi human rights.
But I still want Newcastle to beat United. And still want Smithy to win it.
Both moving from a “poorer” tour to a “richer” tour for their own personal financial gain. That’s apples and apples.
Just because the source of the money on one tour is more “tainted” than the other, doesn’t make it a different comparison.
It’s appels and oranges because the setup of those tournaments tis totally different. At the LIV you get your money just by showing up and on the ET/PGA tour you have to work for it.
But feel free to support a sports-washing tournament if you want to.
Yes, all players in a LIV Tour event get paid for participating, as there are fewer players in the field. At a LIV Tour event, there are 54 players in each field, that’s 54 players getting paid. On the PGA Tour, at the recent Valero Texas Open 71 players received prize money (for making the cut).
A player opting to move to LIV Golf knows that he will be paid for featuring in an event, but will also be aware that with significantly less tournaments and much smaller field sizes, they will need to play well or retain a high OWGR to “earn” their spot in the 54 man field for the next tournament. It’s not a closed shop of 54 players only, as the Tour grows, it will become more difficult to earn one of the 54 spots.
Thanks for your permission, didn’t know I needed it. However, I never claimed to “support” the LIV Tour, I was just pointing out the hypocrisy in rooting for players who left a “poorer” tour to join a “richer” one, while on the other hand demonising others who did the same thing.
I fully agree that the LIV Tour is certainly a sports-washing exercise… but before you go throwing stones around your glass house, go and have a look at some of the sources of sponsorship, past and present, on the European Tour (which even changed it’s name due to the influx of money from the UAE) and PGA Tour.
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Thanks for calling my support for Rose and McIlroy hypocrisy but I will support them anyway.
Have a nice day.
My money is on Scheffler, E/W bet at 7/1.
I’d like to see Rory win it to complete the grand slam, but I think all is not right with his mind or his game.
But as long as Reed, Koepka or Johnson don’t win it I’ll be reasonable happy.
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Wasn’t sure Rahm would do it around here but seems he can.
I think he’s got a real chance if he can follow it up today. Wouldn’t bet against Burns the lads had some form in recent weeks. Day will fall off on day three sadly. Hovland is a decent first round form player depends how he manages the next day.
Rory - Serial bottler lately.
McIlroy out and an other arrogant LIV asshole leads the field, wake me when the Open starts …
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Lately? He won the last FedEx cup and second in the world. Just has a psychological wall when it comes to the Masters
I think it’s Brooks Koepka’s to lose now to be honest.
He also missed the cut in The Players, that’s fairly lately.
And he was 2nd at last years Masters, not much sign of a psychological wall 12 months ago.
Waaaaaay too early for that call with over 36 holes left and the forecasted weather.
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They can’t win every competition. Not sure you can describe the 2nd best player in the world as a serial bottler
I said ‘lately’, which you conveniently ignored.
Missing the cut in the 2 biggest tournaments of the calendar year so far is not the form of the 2nd best player in the world and could be construed as bottling.