Gary Finnerty

Only the 2nd most unlikely and unexpected time Patrick Duffy has appeared in a shower.

@Sundogmonkey As wealthy as they all are, there must be something chastening for the lesser LIV lights in realising that they’ve no inalienable right to earn huge money for hitting a small white ball. The bubble truly burst today.

When everyone looks back on this chapter of LIV in a few yrs it will be like having just found out whodunnit in a film & thinking how stupid anyone was who hadn’t worked it out. The idea a business could survive long term on someone’s whim while haemorrhaging $ was nonsensical.

@AkaPaulHoward On not having a textbook in school, I told the teacher that I left it out for my mam to cover but that she never got to it because she hadn’t finished the wallpapering and wasn’t sure there was spare paper to cover it.

Me after telling a teacher that my homework is in my bag and he’s asked me to take it out and I start looking for it even though I know and he knows there’s no homework in the bag. That.

@BenColeyGolf @MattVincenziPGA Is someone associated with LIV really having a go about a lack of profit this year?

Some random 'tipsters are crap' account here in the UK has shared my publicly available and very much losing record for the year as if it's breaking news (I tweet about it most days), and @MattVincenziPGA has somehow both found it and retweeted it. What cinema we are witnessing.

@Betgolfworld @sam_golf I imagine it’s the scarring of disappointments past - the mind second guessing itself to avoid the familiar hurt. It highlights Rory’s resilience as one of his main assets now. A courage to believe and go again after a bad shot.

@sam_golf Unfortunately only himself to blame there today. I really thought it was his week at the turn. He had a determined, angry look all week. 12 and 13 just put a pin in him. Unreal effort again but I was surprised at his back 9 really was

Thinking on Justin Rose, it’s got to be gutting to put yourself right there again only to come up just shy. From the outside it’s impressive that he’s still a serious factor in majors at 45+, but how many times has he put himself right there on Sunday and been pipped to the post.

@eamonlynch Super piece, Eamon. Punching up at the right targets - as always.

A tradition like no other— Sergio Garcia’s childish antics surprise no one at the Masters. golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/g…

@Dli_ODoir @TRobinsonNewEra Tommy - the arbiter of ‘real’ doesn’t even use his real name.

@TRobinsonNewEra What would you know about the real Irish, you little cunt?

The real Ireland. The real Irish. No WEF puppet politician can break this 🇮🇪

@Betgolfworld Savage call. I think practically all other betting pundits failed to distinguish the difference between someone honoured by the commitments and someone encumbered by same.

Far from over, it really is. Folk would do well to remember he was 4 clear with a handful to go last year and it ended up a 50-50 job. However, the maturity in his game gives him every chance of a comfortable win. Hoping now for a boring two days golf! 😊

@BenColeyGolf I think there’s a pressure of its own in being in a position where you ‘should’ win. Add to that some suggestion that he can blithely ignore the added pressure of a major also adds its own pressure. He has shown nerves leading at regular tournaments so no suggestion he wont here

I think Rory will win this by 6+, but I don’t agree with any assessment that there’s no or very little pressure. Less, absolutely, but that distinction shouldn’t kid us into thinking majors are easily won. They are not. He’s under plenty of pressure when he tees off later today.

@elonmusk You do precisely the same with Trump.

Major problem

@McIlroyRory @joehas @David_Yarrow As a kid growing up in Ireland, I dreamed that we’d have golfers capable of contending and winning majors again. It’s been a real privilege to watch you do so much more than that, Rory. And it’s your character that transcends it all.

As a kid growing up in Northern Ireland, I dreamed of winning all four majors. Being able to bring these trophies home was truly surreal.

@cathynewman Congrats on winning a job and losing a phantom Mercedes.

I can hardly believe this…but it’s happening! Stay tuned…

At David Byrne this evening. What an artist. Staging was incredibly inventive - with amazing choreography and theatricality. His voice as pure as ever. Extraordinary spectacle. Buzzing after it.

@AkaPaulHoward As a long time An Postite, i must say that’s fabulous, Paul.

Just saw this Nespresso machine. I would walk on broken glass for one of these.

@KenBrownGolf I still have a box…

Anyone remember the Dunlop 65? This was a very early experimental box of the 1.68 size ball circa 1973. The British pro’s were starting to transfer to the larger. They flew like ping pong ball.

@Betgolfworld Also a different type of pressure. Strokeplay has whole different pressures. In Ryder Cup, he loses 2 holes in 2 holes . It doesn’t get reported. Yesterday, he dropped 4 strokes in 2 holes and his ability to win gets aeiousky questioned.

Not one single golfer, no matter what they say, will convince me that the pressure is more during the Ryder Cup than when trying to win a big individual event. There will be big pressure at RC also, but let's not pretend that it isn't a free whack

@BenColeyGolf I guess that he’s referring to how his return was reported when his game was well off the mark. No one could dress it up. Without that struggle - his comeback story would not be quite as compelling.

For an entire decade, pretty much everyone wanted Anthony Kim to come back. It was a massive thing. Perhaps never in the history of a pro golf has a player become so beloved while completely off-grid. Apparently we're now to pretend that's not what happened.

@ANCranswick @CianTracey1 @Nigelrefowens If you’re dominating the scrum - it’s a no lose attempt to retain possession. Win the duel and you have possession. Lose it by knock on and you have a scrum you can win a penalty from.

@CianTracey1 Well.. Good point.... I reckon a deliberate forward knockdown of a pass with no real attempt to / chance of intercept (i.e. catch) could easily be broadened to cover a deliberate knock-forward of a kick-catch ? @Nigelrefowens what do you reckon?

Will we see more of this kind of thing if you're a team with a dominant scrum? Doesn't look like a genuine attempt to catch ball. Scotland scrum in own 22, England win penalty against the head, kick for corner, Scotland force turnover. Loophole in the law perhaps. One to watch.

@parandpaddock @eamonlynch He’s writing an engaging opinion piece - not a thesis. He can dress it up any way he likes - as LIV can do with their events. What he does get to do is everything you say he doesn’t get to do. 😀

Lynch, This reads less like a rag column and more like a prosecution brief with jokes stapled on. You dress it up in Gladwell and “outliers” language, then treat subjective disdain as if it’s the data. “Bootlickers”, “apologists”, “social media slurps” isn’t analysis. It’s a tell. You’re not testing a claim, you’re selecting targets and cueing the reader how to feel about them. Your LIV section is built on a double standard that always favours the PGA Tour. Adelaide’s revenue being an outlier is an interesting business point, but you use it only to sneer at LIV fans, not to examine what it actually proves: that elite men’s golf can thrive outside the US when it’s staged properly and priced for the market. Cue LIV Golf South Africa in a few weeks, that could be bigger than Adelaide. Then you reach for a US TV number as a mic-drop without explaining the source, method, platform context, or like-for-like comparison. That’s not “evidence”. That’s a stat as a bludgeon. The Kim section is the giveaway. You concede the hard truths, absence, addiction, rebuild, and then you cannot bring yourself to let the sporting achievement stand without reducing his return to a “desperate marketing stunt”. That’s not something you demonstrate; it’s something you assert because it flatters your priors. The inconvenient fact is that Kim’s place wasn’t protected: he was relegated, then earned his way back, then won. If you’re arguing LIV has no merit pathways, Kim is the counterexample in your own copy. Your sweeping claims need receipts, not rhetoric. “More than 90%… by invitation.” “Contractually protected.” “Ejected based solely on national origin.” Those are allegations mis represented and half truths, with no context and no written rules cited, and no acknowledgement that the PGA Tour is also in parts a closed shop in practice: sponsor exemptions, medical extensions, major-category protections, reshuffles, and a system that has always mixed merit with status, money, and relationships. If you want to prosecute LIV for being curated, you need to apply the same standard to the Tour you’re implicitly defending. In the end, the “outliers” framing is just a narrative trick: Player as your designated villain, Kim as your reluctant hero, LIV as your permanent defendant, and the PGA Tour as the unspoken baseline of virtue. You can dislike LIV, plenty do, but you don’t get to replace reporting with mockery and call it truth. If you want to persuade readers rather than rally your own side, drop the sneers, show all the sources and truths, and argue against the strongest version of the opposing case, not the caricature. Of which you certainly are along with your pal Brandel, the two biggest Spitting Image caricatures in golf.

Anthony Kim, Gary Player are both outliers. Only one of them is a positive. golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/g…

@gregallenRTE I think there’s more reliance on athleticism but the game still doesn’t set an absolute premium on it. Kim’s win yesterday - after being out of game for decade plus - shows that.

Reading lots of critical reaction to Pebble Beach being taken apart. Rolling back the ball will only hold back the tide for a while.Arguably the biggest factor is the athleticism of the new generation. No way of holding that back. Elite golf is now mostly a proper athletic sport.

@jsolloso @dbsb3233 @mwt2008 How much you being paid? Not enough. It’s transparent.

@Garyfinnerty @dbsb3233 @mwt2008 The only blinkered one is you. You reject facts and continue claiming "variables" to provide an actual total

This EV sales infographic looks impressive. But here’s what it really shows 👇 Norway 97%. China 53%. Ireland 34% despite a massive diesel legacy. US just 10%. The story is not culture. It is policy. Countries leading EV adoption did three things: 1.Made ICE expensive 2.Made EVs financially rational 3.Kept policy stable Norway removed VAT. Denmark restructured vehicle taxes. Ireland’s CO₂-based VRT favours zero emissions. China backed its domestic industry for over a decade. Where policy was volatile, growth stalled. Germany is a clear example after subsidy removal. Also, percentage is not scale. China at 53% matters more globally than several small 70% markets combined. It accounts for roughly two thirds of EV sales among the countries shown. And here’s the bigger point: This is energy security policy as much as climate policy. Countries exposed to oil imports have stronger incentives to electrify transport. Markets follow price signals. The transition is structural. Not a fad. PS shocked Japan is at only 3%