Lee Westwood has totally blasted the DP WORLD TOUR! Right before handing his resignation and saying goodbye to both the DP world tour and European tour. Lee Westwood has said that no one from the DP world tour or the European tour told him the extent of the punishments.
Lee Westwood has come down very hard on the DP World Tour after officially announcing his resignation from the circuit where he has spent close to 30 years applying his trade.
LEE WESTWOOD TOTALLY FURIOUS at the (feeder) DP WORLD TOUR..
Ian Poulter, Sergio Garcia and Richard Bland joined Lee Westwood in tearing up their DP World Tour cards. All four players were sanctioned for serious breaches of the DP World Tour’s ‘conflicting tournament regulations’ committed last June when they competed in the very first LIV Golf tournament at Centurion Club in England
Liv golf tour, DP world tour, PGA tour, PGA championship, European tour has been a hot topic recently. There is expected to be more LIV Golf players holding DP World Tour cards are expected to also announce their resignations within the next 24 hours! This is a huge move. The biggest news now is that it means none of them can ever captain a European Ryder Cup side! Who can’t wait for this years Ryder cup?
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Who’s side are you on? Do you think Lee Westwood makes some good points?
Yes, they should be able to… You want the best team to field… Exactly what you said about Ronaldo… these guys are contractors, and they should be able to play where ever they want. The PGA did not do the right things for new guys coming up, and now The LIV started, and all of a sudden, the PGA found all this extra money and started making changes to what they are doing. How is it any different than Rory was not in the PGA he came over for more money, just like the LIV players did. In my opinion the PGA was not doing what they could have been doing to make gold better.
Latest LIV was better than the latest Masters. PGA made the same mistake as Fox News firing Tucker Carlson. Total idiots.
Read the contract. Like it, sign it.
It’s always been a feeder tour
Most athletes in most sports want to play on the biggest stage, and money is a driving force. So all tours are a feeder tour for the PGA. Now you might have to put the LIV in the mix, if it can hold on.
Dp world tour will be dead within the next 10 years. No one cares now, they need liv players to succeed.
The LIV tour through a wrench into all this. It’s going to take time to all of them to sit down and talk this out. I understand the backing of the LIV tour and where the money comes from, but to be hypocritical on if they can play, can’t play. But they are allowed to play in tournaments in that country with them as sponsors. It ya confusing time for all.
The PGA tour’s monopoly over golf is so very apparent. The tours money comes from the far left liberal, Marxist socialists who want control over everything you see and want to control the narrative. Without pushback and non compromise vs the tour and its controlling interests the whole world will end up being dictated to by them.
Well said Sir!!!
I could care less if it was me that left for the LIV and the money. I’d be set for life financially and still be playing golf but have more time with family.
I agree with Westwood. The prize money on the DP is so small compared to the PGA Tour that its become the European equivalent of the Korn Ferry tour.
Its incredibly hypocritical of people criticising Saudi funding when so many PGA players including Mcilroy took appearance fees to play the HSBC etc in Abu Dabhi. "The Saudi Swing."
I feel the Ryder Cup has become a lesser event without the best players in the world competing in it. I'm struggling to become interested in this year's event.
I agree with you and look who the US has lost also from their Ryder Cup team, Capt. Dustin Johnson, Brooks and Capt America himself Patrick Reed and Phil
As far as the punishments they have received, I am honestly surprised that those are being upheld. Given the fact that their have been similar suits brought such as in baseball regarding free agents, especially given some of the rulings that have come out of American Courts
So when Lee Westwood went to the PGA the European tour wasn't a feeder tour
pga and dp tour don't Like competition
The DP was already a feeder to the PGA before LIV and now more so because PGA is offering the DP top 10 a free pass to PGA. Ripping to quality out of DP.
DP changed the rules after the LIV players signed.
The DP Tour players that are playing on the PGA now didn't become good enough they already were. Have you watched the PGA ? Not the same. If you ask me the PGA rolled out the red carpet for them due to lost ratings and a drop in viewership. The LIV Tournament this past weekend was incredible! If your suffering from insomnia record a PGA broadcast play it at bedtime and you'll sleep like a baby! That's as long as McCilcry doesn't have a tantrum and John rhainbrow doesn't start swearing and slamming his clubs
They made their beds, now they have to lie in them. I don't feel a bit sorry for any of them.
Think they were coming to end of their Ryder cup careers. Real shame they will never captain though.
Nobody told me…what are they, 5 year olds?
Nobody knew what the sanctions would be because the situation was emerging, had they asked they would surely have been told to wait until things were clearer before making a decision but instead took the huge sums to sign on before it could be withdrawn.
Same things have happened in other sports down the years so shouldn't be so surprised at the outcome.
Don't understand young players going over and the older ones had the option of the champions tour to look forward to as a pension already.
Not watched any LIV golf.
The tour should stop making anything public and simply reply that they do not comment on disciplinary issues regardless if they are tour members or not.
DP can go F itself. Listen to what you said at 6:17…tell me when has the DP POS tour EVER place such a BS punishment on those that have played on its tour….hmmm? Tell me which pro golfer on ANY tour knew or could have foreseen such an at? DP has become a joke….much like world ranking points. The European Rider Cup team just got F'ed by DP; DP also F'ed all the golfer that enjoyed see these pro golfer playing. DP is going to pay dearly for such action. DP action is what a Communist Nation would do towards it players. I will not watch a single DP Tour; in fact I recumbent EVERY golfer to BOYCOTT them.
I can name 5 players who this hurts the most and it has become a 2nd rate FEEDER with all the talent ever
1. Robert Macintyre
2-3. Hojgaard Twins
4. Tapio Pulkannen
5. Rafa Cabrera- Bello
6-100. The ENTIRE REST OF THE FIELDS who can win anywhere at anytime…
They are independent contractors, they have played on various tours around the world for years (Asia/Sunshine/Australia/PGAT). This is TOTALLY NEVER FORGET ABOUT THE PGAT trying to HOLD A MONOPOLY. Not sure why you say they should have known, they have played around the world before, the Asian tour has totally embraced LIV, so I am not sure why you think they should have known, are you saying just because the SAUDIS are richer that makes it different, because I cannot see what else you mean. Pelley is Jay's gimp, the European Tour should have partnered with LIV just as Asia did, the Asian tour going from strength to strength we all know the future of the European tour…… calling it a world tour courtesy of the sponsor don't make it so…….
LIV didn’t do this… the players didn’t do this… the DP and PGA are the cut babies that handed down punishment AFTER the fact. For no reason.
I support LIV ahead of the others now just because the childish bs these tours continue to pull.
And the money talk is behind annoying. DP is funded by Middle East, point blank. PGA has tons of money coming from the Middle East. Not to mention all of the companies that are sponsoring and a part of these tours are equal or worse offenders if you’re speaking on “atrocious behaviors”.
So F em. I still watch PGA, but I’d pick college golf over that bs if they wanted to hold a gun up.
Lastly, this English prick won’t get a subscriber just because he’s made sooo many stupid comments about the LIV situation he’s basically balls deep to the chin with PGA on his stance.
In Australia growing up in the 70's and 80's we had a great summer tour here. All of or aussie greats would play as well as some top internationals. That has all but disappeared. The fact that the USPGA want their tournaments to run all year round locking up players has a big effect on all other tours. I use to watch the USPGA tour to follow Australians. When Cam and Leishman left for liv I haven't watched much of either. Then liv in Adelaide happen here. Being in Melbourne I watched it on TV. It was exciting, not for the music, not for the beer throwing, just because we had some top quality golfers back down under. I also like how the coverage shows all the players in the field, not just two or three lining up putts for 5 minutes. The tours need to work together if golf is going to benefit. Thats what we all want is golf to survive so councils don't turn golf courses into parkland.
Typical woe is me Westwood playing I am a victim. Instead of making DPmWorldvTour better, you bailed. He is a great golfer with great skills but I don’t think he has been honest with himself. It doesn’t matter knowone told you about consequences. Take a look at yourself and why YOU decided to leave. I wish him all the best.
I’m a bit confused. We’ve been hearing a lot about how great it would be to have all the best golfers competing against one another on a regular basis (not just 4 times a year at the majors). Well that would be hard to do if they are on different tours. If you want to the best go at it frequently, they kinda have to be on the same tour.
Pelley sold DP and continues to bury the product.
US basketball and soccer coaches are paid to coach foreign teams in the Olympics. Coaches from various countries coach teams of other countries for basketball and soccer teams, whether it be for the Olympics or otherwise. There is zero reason these guy from “a different tour” should be excluded from coaching/captaining Ryder Cup teams. That said, you Euros are a lot more attached to the Ryder Cup than we are in the States.
Is anybody ever going to address the Aramco sponsorship of the LPGAT and the 23 sponsors associated with the Saudis on the PGAT?
You made your bed Lee, lie in it.
I thought it was common knowledge that DP world tour was a feeder tour for the PGA lol after all the PGA is the top dog.