The PGA Tour announced a stunning merger with Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf venture on June 6 that creates a global operation featuring the world’s top professional golf players backed by the Saudis’ massive wealth. Sean Gregory breaks down the international controversy from LIV Golf’s origins to where it stands today.
Read more about the merger: https://time.com/6285296/pga-tour-liv-saudi-arabia-golf-merger/
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Super disappointed in the PGA!
Golf is just the start, the kingdom will go after other sports in the coming months.
PGA only took their stand last year because they wanted their slice of the pie first. The "traitor, patriotism, blood money" routine is all part of the playbook to turn the masses against the few. Allowing those in power to negotiate in the dark.
Anyone who plays for LIV has no integrity.
Everyone who left for LiV are unamerican sell outs. Anyone who defends them are ignorant or pure evil and thinks money is an excuse to give away your integrity
What about Americas Human Rights record ?
There's a lot of talk about how to welcome back the liv golfers, not enough talk about golf fans/viewers. The PGA has a belief that no matter how bad the optics look, viewers will except whatever product they put on display – tv ratings may suggest something else.
“ Money always win” Logan Roy
I will not watch now
Let’s all Note out the PGA and it’s racist history too high of a pedestal this arrogant organization, use patriotism racism to try and keep us power ultimately selling out what is most beneficial to them anyone who didn’t take the LIV, contract and principal was very naïve. Their loyalty was not rewarded.
Notice the sudden reemergence of “concern” by corporate media now that Saudi has chosen to join BRIKS
Talk about Hypocrisy
Then stop putting gas in your car!! That's where we get some of our oil!!
The PGA is not partnering with Liv!!! Get your facts correct. The PGA, PIF and the DB tour are under one new entitity.
Excellent summary
The counteroffensive was drowned in the blood of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Why Zelensky needed to throw people and equipment for slaughter for the fourth time, I don’t understand.
Everyone is talking about the burning Leopards and M2A2 Bradley tanks. By the way, the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine call the Bradley BMP – a coffin on wheels or a matchbox, because the survival rate of the crew is 25% from a quick fire and the release of acrid smoke, the impossibility of field repairs, equipment not for combat but for an exhibition. But now it is clear why the United States did not want to transfer its legendary M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, and they deftly framed Germany with their leopard tanks. Also, Great Britain insisted that they not send their Challenger 2 to the attack (there is information that they agreed to sell one unit to Russia, leaving it in position).
Also in this suicidal counteroffensive, the overrated
– HMMWV – Humvee (according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, worse than the Soviet UAZ)
– MRAP International MaxxPro (high fuel consumption, frequent breakdowns and fires)
– FV4333 Stormer
– APC "M 113" (easily penetrated often breaks)
– FMTV (sharpens on slightly damp ground, high fuel consumption).
But these are still flowers, remember the transfer to Ukraine of the MIM-104 Patriot. So, one of the two was destroyed, and the second was damaged, all the ammunition was spent on trying to shoot down Russian missiles, there are many videos on the net of how in Kiev they fall on passing civilian vehicles and residential buildings instead of hitting air targets. There have been attempts to shoot down drones of the Geranium type, and they cannot even shoot down.
The UAVs that the US donated to Ukraine are the Boeing Insitu ScanEagle, Switchblade, and Phoenix Ghost. Russia intercepts 99%, some planted in good condition.
We can say that all the equipment supplied from the United States for Ukraine became just scrap metal, and all its advantages were just a myth that dispelled on the battlefield.
Yes, I forgot about – M142 HIMARS and its European counterparts, at first caused problems, especially using Starlink, the efficiency was great, by the way, it was used to cause damage to the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in the fall, the accuracy was at the height of the hits, spillway locks on platinum were damaged. But at the moment, most HIMARS missiles are intercepted and the launch sites are easy to calculate, for this reason the frequency of their use has decreased, and the Armed Forces often change launch sites and immediately after launch they try to move away from the launch site as much as possible.
This is why the US is afraid to hand over M1 Abrams and F16s to Ukraine. After all, the whole world will understand that US technology is too overhyped and most of the price is a way of money laundering (corruption in a word).!!
Now all players are required to carry a bone saw in their golf bags.
Elon Musk bought Twitter with Saudi's back (don't know exactly how much).
Saudi also owns other major entities in USA.
I hope American people can prevent Saudi's invasion before it's too late.
Now the whole course will be a sand trap!!
A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.😢 The PGA has been in China for years now. Advertisers, sports figures and a wide array of corporations (NBA) love Chinese Communist cash.❤ Saudi Arabia's human rights record is squeaky clean by comparison. The hypocrisy is amazing.
Much respect to those players who ignored the humbug and joined LIV. 🎉😊
This is not a breakdown. These are basic points that everyone understands. I thought this was going to be a breakdown of what happened over the past year, what LIV golf is, what they have accomplished, and why both sides want to merge with major details of the deal. Instead I got "maybe they offered around 700 million dollars but that's second hand information" and "LIV is funded by Saudi money."
Dude I could have made this video with the amount of sources/information you actually presented!!
Comment senses tells me,
All three leagues will stay indicted
The new company (TBD) will handle the scheduling and marketing for all three leagues
Reporters, Better watch out, the liv minders have been known to murder journalists.
America has clean hands and doesn't commit crimes across the globe….. lol
The first order of business, now that they have all this cash at their disposal, is to set aside a million from the pot and divide up among players who miss the cut—who have something called overhead to deal with in good weeks or bad
I wish when trump showed up on the random montage the audio had the pluuuuggg sound dubbed in
The whole thing is disgusting. Golf has had a horrible reputation for decades in terms of racism, sexism, elitism, aquifer depletion, you name it…
It kinda seemed like the PGA was trying for a long time to counteract that reputation, so to then totally flip and invite blood on their hands LIV back in with open arms is ridiculous. Shameful. I wish they had stood their ground. But alas, money rules in the end.
I wish the players would pool together and start their own league. That’d be cool as hell. But of course, that’ll never happen.
Even with its sordid history, Golf is an amazing game. All the elite A-holes can go to hell, enjoying their opulent luxury on their private courses. I’ll be happily playing this great game on public courses for the rest of my life, doing my best to ignore all these disgusting politics. Because what it’s really about is the game itself. Damn the materialism. It’s about the game!
GG