Golf Fans are SHOCKED after Potential Nike x LIV Golf Leak

LIV Golf’s Team Smash shocked fans with a social media post flaunting a possible Nike Golf collaboration, and with Nike discontinuing partnerships with a number of high profile PGA TOUR players, does this indicate a big move in the global apparel brand’s loyalty?

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All right the internet is on fire once again with comments after Brooks kepa’s team smash dropped this image tagging both Smash and Nike showing what appears to be a shoe collaboration and the reason why this has been such hot news Mike and we’ve been talking about it

Here on the podcast is because in recent days we have seen uh a number of very high profile names of course including tiger Woods himself parting ways with Nike and this makes us Wonder like what’s going on here is this that Nike is potentially leaving the PGA Tour and

Its association with PGA Tour players in favor of live we’re going to talk in a second there was also a big rumor not too long ago that Nike be potentially investing a lot of money to be a key sponsor in Brooks kepa’s team or is this just something that we all know Brooks

Kea likes to do and that’s just kind of troll the internet just a bit possible and tease us it’s totally possible it’s possible right because I mean I don’t know did they make these shoes I mean are they working with them um I know we’re going to talk about um a

Possibility of Nike coming in with a large bag at one point for Brooks’s team but maybe I don’t know maybe just speculation that if Nike leaves the PJ tour and they’re going that way they’re not just going to live but they’re going for more Global eyeballs in golf and

That’s something we’ve talked about like the at the end of the day Liv you look ahead at its schedule it’s a very Global league in a lot of ways they’re going to be playing all over the place there was which we’ve got I’m sure we’ll talk about more on future episodes but we

Just saw Phil mikkelson on the Pat McAfee show and he was talking largely about that being a huge part of Liv’s business model uh he he talked there about one bit of Revenue that a lot of us wasn’t privy to previously talking about how a lot of the the tourism uh

Agencies for different countries are actually paying big money he claims we’ll see how true that is but he claims to bring live there for that increased tourism but getting kind of back to this and looking at this you know one thing that that has to be said is that the the

The clear reality is that anyone can take their logo and throw it on Nike shoes yeah you know or or really any shoe I mean anybody can do that right I’ve made Nike IDs before I’ve gotten them and I’ve used them exactly and Nike ID some people had even pulled that out

In the comments that you can go in there build shoes like this of pretty much any lame for a guy with gazillions of dollars in a big celebrity Spotlight to make his own shoes and spend the money well the question is it what’s the intention and and I I we all know Brooks

Is a notorious pot stirer I mean do you remember back in the Ridder cup where he had all Ricky Fowler and all the guys wearing his team smashh and none of that is not done without an intention and you have to have to question the timing of

This because the news is just right on the heels of tiger parting ways with Nike um Jason day to malbon and all that exactly the timing of it I mean I can very much put myself in that room where Brooks is like hey guys you want to have

A little fun exactly you know what I mean he’s like throw the logo on on a pair of shoes I’ll wear them we’ll just drop a picture no contexts it’s just a smashing into 2024 right and we’ll get people talking and from that regard it is a great publicity stunt you can’t

Knock that you can’t no I and I honestly my my personal feeling is I don’t believe Nike’s leaving PJ tour and going to live yeah I don’t think so I don’t think and the reason for that is Tiger Woods you won’t leave Tiger Woods and go to there unless there was extreme Bad

Blood right which we know there’s not because based on the announcement they thanked tiger very amicable part very nice parting where I would believe that potentially they would be investing in live ni Nik would be if they did not pull out a golf these guys are still

Going to wear Nike and they wanted to expand their model there right pull out here and go there it just doesn’t make sense I think it is Brooks being Brooks and I kind of love it for I love it and listen we want you guys to weigh in the

Comments so let us know below what you think this is is this just Brooks trolling or is this something bigger you know make Playing devil’s advocate and trying to like look into it I can see how it’d be possible that company like Nike could be like listen Tiger’s

Winding down the reality is we’re only if if you want ey tiger is the way to get eyeballs we all know that he always has been but if tiger is going to get to a point where we only see him in five six events per year you know I could see

A company like Nike saying well I could take that same money and probably even less C some less money potentially to grab you know the the entire team of from of Smash and and one big thing that we heard uh Phil Michelson saying again in that interview was saying that

Sponsors are going to come to live this is what he claims because they it’s guaranteed appearances they know how many times they’re going to be there and all those types of things but I maintain in my personal opinion and guys again you guys weigh in the comments let me

Know whether you you agree with this or not we did an entire podcast on it we’ll link to that so we won’t have to go too deep into it again here but I still believe Nike is leaving golf I think what’s happening is as contracts are coming to their natural conclusion I

Think they’re just not being renewed and I think that you’re going to see a regular in steady phase out I think it’s it follows exactly the model of what Nike did with its equipment not too long ago I think apparel’s next I think the golf is just not the market that they’re

Pursuing going forward I think you’re absolutely right so the where we did see these rumors of Nike dropping two billion dollars into live Nike’s a huge company they can afford it I just don’t see it happening do you look at Nike in the past and the athletes that they’ve

Had like who are the top three Nike athletes that have ever worn Nike it’s did what Jordan Jeter and tiger yeah was Federer a Nike guy I believe he was Fed was I mean and that makes a lot of sense they go after those big big

Person the goats they go for in a lot of ways so and I’m not saying that they’re they’re they’re dropping a level by by leaving the goats and going to live I’m not not knocking Nike but I just don’t see their business model going in a direction where Liv isn’t established

Yet you know like I don’t see them going that way it is true but the other side of that coin there’s two sides to every coin the other side of that coin is that Nike’s always been one of those brands that will take the risk on something new something that’s disruptive they’ve done

That and and live in a lot of ways we know is that and and and that’s their own words I mean you heard over and over you heard uh Phils calling how they were disruptors um they could be saying hey look we look at the global long-term

Market and live is is growing in these other countries and that’s where it may be so there’s obviously there’s a lot of ways you can look at this we’ll continue to watch it we’ll continue to report on it here on the on the show but really we

Want to hear your opinion weigh in is this an indication that very soon we’re going to see some sort of announcement of a partnership between Nike and either smash directly or live in general or is this Brooks Kea taking his advantage and making a a what is arguably a very smart

Publicity stunt in the light of all the announcements that are happening with tiger and others and just saying hey this is a great moment for us to get some eyeballs and maybe uh you know prod the system just a little bit I think he’s just prodding it a little bit

Brooks being Brooks and I I absolutely love it and again I could see him saying guys all these things going on with Nike we’re still wearing Nike even if I have to pay for it cuz I want to look like Nike didn’t drop us that’s Brooks you

Never know we yeah we know Brooks loves to to do that type of stuff so uh waiting in the comments let us know what you think