No Laying Up’s Kevin Van Valkenburg tells Rich Eisen how much control over golf the Saudis are getting in their LIV Golf/PGA Tour merger, what the future, if any, the LIV Tour has once the merger is completed, and more.
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29 Comments
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I don't know how the PGA is going to compete with the money? These guys get paid way more money to play way less golf. I don't think LIV is going anywhere!
You invited a guy who has been wrong about this topic for past year
PIF decided Norman and LIV wouldn't give them what they want so they ditched them for a partnership with the PGA.
Thank you for this story!!
No no no no no🤑🤑✌
U invite guys who are biased
Top shelf copium.
“Best dad ever” – I hope your kids don’t learn to skew a story in their favour like you. And I sincerely hope they’re never bullied by someone who can skew a story in their favour like you.
Also, a gentle reminder about just how right you or Kevin have been about your PIF/LIV takes so far.
Absolute garbage being talked by this Valkenburg, LIV are in their infancy and sponsors are now coming forward, because it’s a great product, all the most interesting players are there, and as it turns out, they already have the big names, two of the current major champions play at LIV. The law suits needed to go away because the PGA we’re running out of money, and government agencies were snooping into the finances of the PGA, the biggest question being, how do you pay golfers so much money and not pay a bean in tax? The only thing he got right was that the PGA were made the offer and arrogantly turned them away. And Rich Eisen, do yourself a favour, if you like golf, watch LIV and decide for yourself, this towing the company line and trashing a product you know nothing about makes you look stupid and smashes any credibility you have as a sports show, the most exciting golfers to watch are all at LIV, but you probably don’t know that.
The Peacock boomer 🤡s. Been wrong about everything since LIV started.
This interview sounds like 2 people who don’t have the facts but needed to make a TV segment. Not great to say the least.
You're just haters. Now that your beloved PGA Tour is taking PIF money… You're just looking for other ways to bash LIV players as you can't use blood money anymore. Why don't you criticise PGAT for taking blood money now??? Oh yeah coz you're just a hater. 😅
Stop already. Clueless.
Kevin is being misleading when he compares the PGA/LIV merger with the PIF investments in Nintendo & Disney. I assume he did so unknowingly.
PIF owns 8.6% of Nintendo and less than 1% (~0.27%) of Disney. I am assuming after the deal, the PIF will own much more than that of the PGA.
Rich Eisen still too naive to understand that money talks 😂
This is great work by Rich and the team. Pressing this issue is important. Clearly all of Golf media is breathing a sigh of relief after this deal. They were probably all worried about their livelihood in the previous circumstances.
Eisin still sucking PGA "Richard"
Rich your obsesion with liv golf and saudi money harm you to much. you lost credibility. i know your religion made a path for you to hate Saudi and Palestina and etc. but you taken this too personally. every guest is biased to confirm your takes. always biased
The joke that gets missed in all this is this LIv is successful .
Rich doesn’t realize how insane he has been over this whole Saudi deal. Literally saying the country is trash and they’re murderers when USA is literally prolonging a war in Ukraine where hundreds of thousands of people are dying because they won’t sign a peace deal.
It’s asinine to think that Saudi isn’t trying to change their imagine and be a global partner. Not sure why this is so hard for Rich to grasp, but when he was told my left wing media how bad they are his brain melts when he realizes this isn’t the case.
Hey Rich, this isn’t the only thing your left wing media has lied to you about either.
LIV golf is going nowhere… they have a larger global audience than PGA now!
Sponsors are lining up to back it now that litigation has been dropped!
Crowds are huge at LIV events… and only getting bigger!!
You guys know…. stars (including Rahm where ready to join LIV) and now EVERY player would jump over to LIV given the chance.
PGA will be thrown a bone and allowed to “survive” to keep up public appearances!
Hence the “board seats” allocated to “PGA friendly” members haha 😆
Board seats with NO capital = powerless board seats!
1 board seat with 100% ownership of the CAPITAL… owns the vote!
Keep believing your bullshit lies… haha
His “Excellency”. Really? 🤮
Remember the person with the most gold sets the rules. This has been true since mankind existed. Now it chances for the PGA tour? 😂😂😂
PIF wants a seat at the table and they will get it. What I don't understand is how is this a good investment? Fine that you invest billions into golf but where is your economic return??
Delusional
So many golfers and their fangirls just cant wait to pocket that blood money. They must be desperate 😄
All I see is a failing PGA, a failing roster of golfers, being so desperate and hopeless that they will accept money from murderous dictators.