In The Golf Zone
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Professional Golfer ⛳️ Mental Golf Type Certified Coach | Founder of In The Golf Zone™ | Writer | UNC Alum | Coaching Anywhere, Remote and In-Person
Get It Done Yasir and Jay Getting to an agreement in golf shouldn’t be that difficult for Yasir Al-Rumayyan and Jay Monahan this week. The only thing getting in the way are egos, stale thinking, and desire to hold onto power by the old guard. Like it or not, what I’m suggesting is where it’s going to end up anyway (either the easy or hard way) because it’s what makes the most business sense) and it solves the DOJ and journeymen pay disparity issues. It’s imperative The PGA Tour keep its’ current format, traditions, values, and support of charities. There’s too much history to let go by the wayside. To compete with LIV, the Tour hastily created new ‘no cut’ elevated events with bigger paydays and a PIP that’s unaffordable. It’s caused rancor with Journeymen players, The Tour needs to do away with those and go back to a schedule that’s financially viable for all involved – including the sponsors. The WM Open, The Players, and the Majors continue to be elevated. Pick four or five of the 2023 elevated events that are being done away with (as elevated) and have them become the U.S. stops for LIV. That keeps them elevated but also is a way to integrate LIV into the PGA Tour umbrella in the United State. It makes the most business sense and the reality is LIV is going to be where players strive to play onto in addition to winning Majors. The meritocracy survives and the value of teams is realized. Having LIV be elevated PGA Tour events solves the journeymen vs. superstar pay disparities as well because, if you’re on LIV, you played your way into the top tier and with it comes the big team signing bonuses, bigger purses, worldwide stardom, and better schedule. At the same time, all LIV events should be sanctioned PGA Tour events. Of course, OWGR (or a successor) points should be awarded for any Tour. That’s doable in some mathematical way. As players get relegated down from LIV, they should be exempt for a period as they go back onto their previous tour. After that, they need to earn their spot as before. LIV players should be able to also play events on any Tours around the world that feed into LIV. Keeping LIV separate but also making all LIV events sanctioned PGA Tour events (or at least under the merged golf umbrella) solves another problem. When the DOJ looks at the final agreement, is going to look at the outcome and decide if a monopoly has been created (or maintained). For that reason alone, they should stay separate but related. All of nonsense about player fines, etc… should be stopped. Besides, the players that didn’t go to LIV have already been rewarded through the ridiculous PIP that was just announced (the journeymen are so right about that but in reality, it paid back PGA Tour members that didn’t go). Like I said earlier, golf is eventually going to end up here anyway because it makes the most business sense and creates the most value so the question is whether the negotiators this week make this easy or not. @PGATOUR @PGATOURComms @PIF_en @livgolf_league @LIVGolfComms @TigerWoods @PhilMickelson @hoffman_charley
