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Valiant effort....@PhilMickelson @livgolf_league

@traytalks27 @sportsinfive Not sure the economy outside of Alberta could support any events

@sportsinfive Don't know why liv hasn't decided to come to Canada and play out west. Seems like a no brainer. Go play Banff Springs or Cabot Cliffs

Liv Golf South Africa is rivaling Adelaide in it's first tournament, what are some other locations that would bring fans out like this?

Explore the stunning Steyn City course from above with @RickShielsPGA 🚁 #LIVGolfSouthAfrica #SouthAfricaAwaits #ComeFindYourJoy

Bryson DeChambeau believes that travelling around the world with LIV Golf and playing on different grasses in different conditions is helping him become a better player. Speaking after rounds of 63 and 65 to solo lead LIV Golf South Africa by 2 shots, he said: “I think playing on different grasses, playing on different surfaces, going from the most fast greens in the world last week to greens that are normal this week and championship style greens, you know, it's just something that we have to adapt to. “I think learning to adapt in different places has helped me become a better golfer in that regard. Sometimes we all wish they'd be more consistent, but I also think that adversity is helping me for places like the Open Championship or even the PGA when weather comes in or the Masters if it gets really baked out on Saturday. “I feel like there's enough diversity out here that it allows us -- for me, it benefits me in understanding how to play in different scenarios and try to gather that information and really hold that in the back of my head. “I do think in some instances it's helped. I know other tours have the same thing, but we just go to completely different grasses all the time, and we have to learn to adapt pretty quick. It's been nice to become more of a complete golfer with that opportunity.” Since joining LIV Golf Bryson has definitely become a more complete player. He’s had his highest ever finish at The Masters the last 2 seasons, won a US Open, had a record low final 54 holes at The Open, and been runner up in back to back PGA Championships. If he can win over the weekend he will also win in back to back weeks for the first time since 2018. He’s once again trending up toward major season. @brysondech @Crushers_GC @livgolf_league

The scenes as our leaders make their way down 18 😍 #LIVGolfSouthAfrica

US PGA Tour only fans should take note. The game of golf is global. 🌍 Thankfully, the rest of us have the @livgolf_league

Liv Golf South Africa

@ErnieEls_Golf watching LIV do something in South Africa that neither he nor his beloved Tour has anything to do with

@Eaglebauer @livgolf_league @NoLayingUp If its not a Sig or Major, they cant tell you more than the highlights of anything now. Soly pulls up SG stats to over compensate.

@CrawdadTweets @livgolf_league @NoLayingUp I’ve listened to them enough to know that they are fully bias against LIV and they use it as a “bit” towards the end of an episode and are too lazy to even watch highlights or a recap. But they have time to do breakfast takes, silly videos at Starbucks, bro golf vacations etc.

You’d never know there was a historic @livgolf_league event taking place in South Africa with some of the best players in the world. I thought @NoLayingUp was professional golf’s flagship podcast. Excited for more breakfast hot takes as we approach golf’s major season.

As a South African this is a post for @chambleebrandel you will never realize what an event like @livgolf_league means to a sport fanatic fanbase like us🇿🇦🔥 We have been longing for an event like this on our soil and LIV has made this possible. @SouthernGuards

@Eaglebauer @livgolf_league @NoLayingUp To their credit, they havent yet. And its been on multiple live streams and posts. They've been open that life has taken them another direction at times. I get it. But why arent you having interns or someone watch it all if youre going to speak on it for a living

@CrawdadTweets @livgolf_league @NoLayingUp And they probably blocked you for it.

All races together enjoying & watching the worlds top golfers from 21 different countries in the worlds greatest country South Africa. Thank you @livgolf_league

@Matthew1539849 @JCAGOLFReport @DPWorldTour get your heads out of your asses and let's do this!

@JCAGOLFReport hopefully someone reads this from the DP world tour. this a no brainer

The DP World Tour is about to miss a golden opportunity to get what was known as the European Tour back to where it belongs in the golf ecosystem and even higher. What would need to happen and how that “revamped” DPWT would look like. Read below. The PGA Tour “strategic alliance” with the DPWT is being heavily scrutinize by the for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises and their partner SSG financial “gurus.” Although their current deal runs through 2035 there is an out for both the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour at the end of 2027. It has been reported that the PGA Tour wants to “revise” that extension through 2035 which can only mean they want to give less money to the DPWT. The DPWT also has the chance to buy back the 40% of the European Tour Productions the PGAT would own by the end of 2027 and end the “strategic alliance.” The reality is that the only reason the “strategic alliance” exists in the first place is because of the LIV Golf threat to the PGAT. If not for that threat, there would be no “strategic alliance.” Instead of begging the PGAT for crumbs (that could become even less in the not too distant future) and offering them their top 10 players each year, the DPWT has a golden opportunity to stick it back to the PGA Tour and take what was previously known as the European Tour back to the golf ecosystem position it should have remained all these years. But the sad reality is that their management is most worried about doing the PGA Tour dirty job, being part of the boy’s club, and their board simply won’t do their fiduciary job. It seems and their record shows that they haven’t put DPWT success and financial well-being before golf politics. To take the DPWT to where it once was and even higher all the DPWT has to do is reach a deal with the PIF before someone else does (PGAT, Asian Tour). The DPWT is constantly running the risk of being left behind, losing its players, and in financial turmoil because of their own doing and weak decision making. Even the PGAT calls them a “distressed asset.” But the DPWT insists on making deals with an organization that finds no good use for them except to fight LIV Golf back and take their valuable assets. As we have said that organization the DPWT is hanging on to is seriously considering dropping their financial support of the DPWT as they have their own financial plans to fulfill and the DPWT is the last thing on their minds. The DPWT for a second time in 5 years has a chance to raise their tour to where it once was. I say a second time because back in 2021 they simply didn’t answer the offer that was made to them by the PIF (Golf Saudi) at the Malta meetings. They didn’t even tell their membership about it, and kept it hidden. That’s how irresponsible the DPWT management and board have been in a nutshell. A deal with the PIF would secure their financial future with real money not PGAT crumbs. You can’t compare a possible $1.5B to $500M or less if the rumblings are correct. Plus, their top players (assets) are nowhere close to playing 15 events per year on their tour. Some would say that money is not everything in the golf ecosystem these days but access to that ecosystem is more important, they already have that access. Apart from the money the DPWT would get from the PIF if a deal was made, they have everything else they need to get their tour back to where it once was, all they need (apart from money) is flick the PGAT script. By making a deal with the PIF the DPWT, apart from having the Rolex Series of events, would also have the LIV Golf “Series” of events. That’s 19 events right there (14 LIV Golf “Series” events & 5 Rolex Series events). They would also get an F1 type franchise model with some events in America which they don’t have, and another source of income that everyone around the world understands and can get behind. Add to those 19 events the 4 majors, the 2 Race to Dubai Championship playoff events and the Ryder Cup and that’s 26 premium events. The same number of events (26) that the PGAT recently said they are striving for in their new Tier 1 schedule for their top players. But that’s not all. Since they (DPWT) have the Ryder Cup (something the PGAT doesn’t have), they can flick the PGAT script back and make a minimum of 15 events of that 26-event schedule mandatory for their equivalent of “Tier 1 players” to maintain a DPWT membership and thus Ryder Cup qualification criteria. Instead of the PGAT using the DPWT and Ryder Cup for their benefit and against LIV Golf like they are currently using the DPWT for, this time the DPWT can use it for their own advantage. That would mean that if Rory or any other Team Europe player wants to play in the Ryder Cup, he/they will have to play in at least 15 of those 26 events to qualify. With the roles reversed let’s see how many European Ryder Cup players are willing to do anything they can to play in the Ryder Cup. At the time of this writing 9 of the current top 20 players in the OWGR are European. Those are DPWT assets the PGA Tour is using for their financial benefit, meanwhile the DPWT only sees some of them in the Middle East events at the beginning of the year and at some events at the end of the year, all while the PGAT is making money out of those players the rest of the year in at least 10-15 events. With the suggested new PGAT Tier 1 player schedule they will try to force those European players to play even more PGAT events, which means fewer DPWT events for them. This is what happens when you don’t have sufficient financial backing and make poor management decisions. Imagine a DPWT with Rory, Tommy, Rose, Bob, Straka, Matt, Aberg, Hovland, Noren, Hatton, Lowry, Rahm, Rai, Penge, Hojgaard (2), Detry, Pieters, Puig, Ballester, McKibbin, García, Casey, Valimaki, Hall, Rasmus, Canter, Perez, Wallace, Ayora, Olesen, Jaeger, Sullivan, Elvira, Meronk, Westwood, among many others and add to that list international stars like Bryson, Anthony Kim, Reed (if he commits), Smylie, Herbert, Niemann, Cam Smith, Burmester, Leishman, Gooch, Dustin Johnson, Oosthuizen, Schwartzel, Bubba, Lahiri, Seb Muñoz, Carlos Ortiz, and Phil Mickelson among many others, plus the other players that would be tempted to make the jump all playing a minimum of 15 DPWT events. Add to that a total of 18 National and regional team franchises to fit all these possible and current players that would be willing to buy into this and DPWT would have financial success in their hands that doesn’t depend on America. Even though it would be a logical move for the DPWT to make (and we can only dream of), as we have said plenty of times their management and board are lacking when it comes to common sense and doing their fiduciary responsibilities. They are contempt with being a feeder tour that lets their assets be used by others in exchange for keeping their well-paying jobs first and some financial crumbs for their Tour later. Let’s just say that for them as well as for the PGAT, the DPWT is not the first thing on their priority list. The PGAT management knows all this is a possibility if the DPWT management and board finally wakes up. It is the reason why they want to convince the DPWT to “revise” their deal sooner rather than later so the PGAT could continue using the DPWT for their benefit but at an even lower cost. Time will tell if the DPWT management and board once again makes the wrong decision or if it finally makes the right decision for the good of the DPWT (European Tour). If I’m them, I would be knocking on Yasir’s door ASAP, I don’t think this opportunity will be there for them come 2031 or in 2035.

@BillyCostigan_ @JoshACarpenter Wtf does have to do with anything being deemed a success?

@JoshACarpenter Let’s wait to see what the US Linear Ratings are before we deem this a success Josh!

LIV has clearly locked in to something in South Africa. Huge crowds for a Friday second round

@TheStroker83 @JoshACarpenter The new LPGA commish was on NLU yesterday and basically said if it comes down to a better in person fan experience or a better television product, TV will win. And he's been hanging out with Rolapp

@JoshACarpenter Rolapp does not give a flying fuck about the core fans and is going to dilute the PGAT until it is unrecognizable slop. Cheers

Pretty insightful from Rolapp on CNBC this morning. Asked about his biggest downside surprise since taking the job and starts talking about the media rights market. Notes the U.S. market is at $30B and the NFL takes up $12, a number that likely will increase substantially in its new deal. Seems to be inferring the tour will be potentially getting less than its current $7B

First ever LIV Golf event on African soil! Incredibly fortunate to witness this historic moment 🇿🇦🥹⛳️🙏🏽

Happy St. Patricks Day!

What you need to know before attending @livgolf_league SA this week