This not enough?
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Hadn’t read article, Vince 1! But did he enter knowing of the promotion? Blah blah blah lol law
they posted win this truck with a hole in one on hole 10 on facebook at the very least and the truck was right there on display, I know lol law and all but there’s definitely no reason for someone to think it wasn’t a prize.
the dealer insisting that they understood it was just display only (which uh, what that doesn’t make much sense to me) and the golf course screwed up (which is also possible of course), so that’ll be a fight by them to whoever pays it, also both of them possibly more in lawyer fees than if they just gave up the truck in the first place.
Looks like there is case law on this type of thing: Cobaugh vs Klick-Lewis.
With all the LIV drama, the PGA Tour still doesn’t get it. Biggest event until next year with 15 of the top 20 in the world playing and you get 3 hours of TV coverage unless you want to listen to golf on the fucking radio. An absolute joke of an organization. They deserve to fail.
Television: Thursday-Sunday, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. ET. [ Radio ] Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m. ET. Saturday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. ET. Sunday 12 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Who else is excited for the LIV season finale? 
I know nobody cares about it, but I watched a bit of the first round LIV highlights on YT. This week’s tourney is the tour’s team championship rather than an individual tourney.
I couldn’t care less which team wins, or about LIV in general, but the match play format was somewhat entertaining.
I think that LIV even has a prayer of making it, they should go all-in on the team format, making every tourney a team match play event and ditch individual stroke play all together.
That would at least make it a departure from everything else that’s out there, and possibly generate drama in a way that only the match play format can.
It’s tough to build any interest in the teams unless there’s a fun way to do it.
Making the teams based on region could be fun. Not sure the breakdown of Americans and non-Americans b/c I don’t really follow it, but a Euro team, Asian team, African/Latin team, Southern USA team, etc. might work.
Or maybe religious fanatics vs. non idiots. Or olds vs. youngz. Whatever, but randomly grouped teams is a nothingburger.
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Don’t disagree with anything you wrote. There’s no reason to root for a random group of golfers not associated with a locale, a school, a country, region, etc.
But there is something compelling about match play as opposed to stroke play competition, and in team format as opposed to individual, and having that be the basis for a tour/league instead of the same old stroke play events.
If nothing else, it’s different.
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The clear plan is to base it off nationality. Have 16 teams of 4 or so with approx half being American cities/states and the rest other nations.
I couldn’t give a hoot about the SpeedSticks but name them the Australian Aces il be in.
Tying into a yearly All-Stars USA vs the World event (obv a poor man’s Ryder/President’s Cup).
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Nobody is watching this garbage
https://twitter.com/robopz/status/1586128737300406272?s=46&t=eSRqeHQHlFuVbOyHSe7MDw
Greg destroyed what was left of his already tarnished reputation only to be unceremoniously tossed out of LIV on his ear.
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you hate to see it
No football tonight so bumping this for The Match. I’ve got a hundo on Tiger/Rory at +105 because it’s Tiger and Rory. Tiger says he can hit every shot, just can’t walk 18 holes. Luckily they are taking carts and only playing 12 holes tonight.
They’re playing this at night with artifical lights?
Lol
Desantis in the match gtfo
So starved for golf I might actually watch this.
Published yesterday. Cliffs: lol McKinsey
Early in 2021, consultants working for Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund studied an audacious idea: The desert kingdom wanted to become the world leader in the hidebound realm of men’s professional golf.
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The proposal, code-named Project Wedge, came together as Saudi officials worked to repair the kingdom’s reputation abroad, which hit a low after the 2018 assassination of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents.
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The documents represent the most complete account to date of the financial assumptions underpinning LIV Golf. One of the most significant was prepared by consultants with McKinsey & Company, which has advised the kingdom’s leaders since the 1970s. McKinsey, which has worked to raise the stature of authoritarian governments around the world, was key to Vision 2030, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to diversify the kingdom’s economy and turn it into a powerful global investor. Worldwide sports have become a pillar in that plan, with Saudi officials even discussing the possibility of someday hosting the World Cup.
The wealth fund did not comment.
McKinsey, which declined to comment, analyzed the finances of a potential golf league, but pointedly said in its report that it was not examining whether it was a strategically viable idea. And many of Saudi Arabia’s rosy assumptions, McKinsey added, “have been taken for granted and not been challenged in our assessment.”
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The consultants detailed three possible outcomes for a franchise-driven league: languishing as a start-up; realizing a “coexistence” with the PGA Tour; or, most ambitiously, seizing the mantle of dominance.
In the most successful scenario, McKinsey predicted revenues of at least $1.4 billion a year in 2028, with earnings before interest and taxes of $320 million or more. (Federal records show that the PGA Tour, a tax-exempt nonprofit, logged about $1.5 billion in revenue and posted a net income of almost $73 million for 2019.)
By contrast, a league mired in start-up status — defined as attracting less than half of the world’s top 12 players, navigating a “lack of excitement from fans,” reeling from limited sponsorships and confronting “severe response from golf society” — stood to lose $355 million, before interest and taxes, in 2028.
For now, LIV’s standing tilts sharply that way.
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McKinsey’s work on the golf project is part of a longstanding pattern of foreign consultants providing rationales for Gulf States’ multibillion-dollar projects, some of which become white elephants. When the crown prince announced plans to build a futuristic city called Neom, McKinsey was among the companies that helped envision proposals for robotic dinosaurs, flying taxis and a ski resort that officials say will host the Asian Winter Games in 2029.
The Project Wedge analysis was conducted for Saudi’s sovereign wealth fund, which is led day to day by its governor, Yasir al-Rumayyan. Mr. al-Rumayyan, a longtime golf enthusiast, is also chairman of the Saudi Arabian Golf Federation. In 2019, he hosted a “Golf Means Business” tournament at the crown prince’s annual investment conference in Riyadh. The PGA Tour describes Mr. al-Rumayyan in court documents as a micromanager whose “daily involvement and influence bears on everything from LIV’s global strategy to the tiniest detail.”
To paraphrase Clay Davis, “I’ll take any motherfucker’s money if he’s giving it away.”
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