Jamie DellaBonna

@JNucci23 Right, I don’t know who is feeding him that talking point but there is no way that works.

Continuing LIV through 2026 would almost certainly throw out a Force Majeure argument for terminating contracts The whole idea is that an uncontrollable, unforeseen event makes continued performance nearly impossible That won’t fly if they’re funding for 8 more months

@ProGolfCritic This has long been the PGAT’s problem, driven by social media and golf writers. Focus has been on how can we punish LIV golfers instead of how do we strengthen our product.

What a dumb program. Sad part is it took like 30 people in a room to decide that this was the path forward😂. You could fire them all, replace them with me: Brooks, you’re back with no restrictions. PGAT value increases immediately. Fans happy. More tickets sold, more💰#idiots

@NoLayingUp O’Neill should have done one of those hard hitting Amanda Balionis interviews like the PGAT does

Ben is on it here, per usual ⬇️

@EWErickson Trump has never really been a LIV fan and you’re describing a phenomenon that doesn’t exist.

One of the funny sidenote on this whole fiasco is the number of people on the right who decided Donald Trump must love LIV Golf and so they decided they loved it too, and never tuned in. It is the Maga version of the WNBA.

@AlanShipnuck Premier Golf League can have it if they want it that bad

Pretty strong case given that LIV pretty much cut/pasted all of the PGL’s ideas.

@dandakich @PGATOUR They absolutely should. Phil got backlash for his Saudi Arabia quote, but the end of that quote was “Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.” He succeeded and they benefited.

“Mickelson should be thanked by every @PGATOUR player”

@Zigmanfreud Projection. It’s just golf. The overreaction to a competing golf league has always been irrational and fantastical, pitting good guys against bad guys and talk of disloyalty as if the PGAT wore a crown. It’s just golf, and even the PGAT CEO admits that it exposed real issues.

😂😂😂❤️ The end of LIV golf could not be a greater/more satisfying betrayal of the dumbest and most loathsome fans in the modern history of sports (sadly the disloyal players will mostly be fine). It is VERY rare when the bad guys lose these days, THIS is one of those days! 🇺🇸

@mcuban The ACA ruined it, but the only way to bring down healthcare prices is something similar to this, essentially out-of-pocket except for catastrophic events. Because if you’re paying yourself, you’re going to shop for the best prices and force prices down.

@mcuban Aren’t you just describing a high deductible plan with an HSA?

What if there was a bank account available, that required you to deposit monthly, what you would have paid an insurance company in premiums, for an ACA silver plan. So for a family of 5 about $2100. The amount would then be used for Stop Loss Insurance set at $30k dollars. About $300. Another $200 would be used for local Direct Primary Care for your family The balance would be in YOUR bank account. Like an HSA, It could only be used for approved medical expenses. If you never have any medical expenses, you will get to keep the money plus checking act level interest, when you turn 65 If you have a medical event that is more than what you have saved, your bank will loan you the money you need to pay for it, up to the $30k stop loss trigger You would repay that amount using the monthly $1600 net deposit. Once the loan is paid off, the deposits start to accrue to you again. This is not insurance. It’s a specially designed bank account that gives you control, support, a doctor to work with and catastrophic financial protection. Lots of work and issues to be addressed. But I was curious what people think Let me know !

@NUCLRGOLF @BretBaier Unless the money is guaranteed to Rahm even if LIV folds, I’d think about quitting now. It’s an anticipatory breach.

🚨🏌️❌ #REPORT — @BretBaier says that LIV Golf will be funded through the 2026 season, but no further: “sources say the Saudis funding will DEFINITELY come to an end at the end of this LIV season, citing a change of priorities.”

@ReillyRick Yeah sorry that moral preening shit went out the window when the PGAT agreed to a framework deal with PIF

LIV will forever be a stain on the history of golf. Please go now, Saudi royals, and take your blood money with you.

@AlbertBreer They need to fix the Dolphins and go back to the original colors and logo

A massive improvement. Between this and Atlanta, seems like Nike is getting the message.

@AlanShipnuck That would be a shocking outcome if they didn’t at least pay the contracts. Would be hard to see any sport doing business with them again if they didn’t.

To use the old Hollywood saw, No one knows anything. But a tapped-in player agent just texted me, “Have heard MBS wants to use the war as Force Majeure to pull the plug.”

@Luke_Elvy @ZeeManGolf @GolfTalkCanada If LIV didn’t have competing tournaments and every player was free to play, 6-8 events with teams by country/region would have been pretty cool. Much cooler than TGL. I assume that was the original plan. I wish they would merge and do this and dump TGL.

@ZeeManGolf @GolfTalkCanada 💯 Z Man. Also I have no doubt that if LIV formed a Canadian team at the start, you would’ve been a fan. Which is basically what you are saying.

If this is the end of LIV Golf I truly hope the PGA Tour rushes to fill one gap and doesn’t rush to fill the other. 1) Find a way to get to Int. markets and iconic venues like Royal Melbourne in the fall/winter 2) Don’t rush into team golf. Without patriotism attached to one’s side, you haven’t convinced me that golf is a team sport.

@GolfloverUK Optimistic take, but that is what LIV should have been all along, an additive to professional golf. And it probably would have been had the PGAT had better leadership.

The rumours are rife and I for the first time truly believe something is happening and going to be announced. If the direction points towards a unified structure bringing all three entities together, then I want to say something clearly: this would be good for golf. Really good. And I have been saying it for a long time. The best bits of LIV and the other tours combined - what’s not to love. When LIV Golf launched in 2022, the reaction was swift and furious. Suspensions. Bans. Lawsuits. But even then, if you looked past the noise, the direction of travel was always going to end up here. Because LIV was never purely about chaos. It was about leverage. About forcing a conversation golf had refused to have for decades. The conversation about making professional golf a genuinely worldwide product rather than a primarily American one with a supporting European cast. Look at what LIV has actually done. Taking some of the biggest names professional golf to South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Spain. Markets that responded. Markets that showed up. Markets the PGA Tour was never bothered to reach on its own. Golf is too good a game to remain built around American television schedules. The commercial and cultural opportunity of a truly global product is staggering. On the podcast I have said more than once that the LIV brand was probably always going to have to take a step back if a merger took place. To become a component of something larger rather than the headline act. That is not failure. That is strategy working. Now here is where my gut takes me. I do not think the most likely outcome is a full three-way merger with the PGA Tour at the centre. My instinct says the more probable first step is LIV Golf and the DP World Tour coming together. A genuinely global circuit combining LIV's reach into Asia, the Middle East and Africa with the DP World Tour's deep history, European heartland, and Ryder Cup DNA. But not with the PGA Tour as an enemy. As an ally. A collaborating partner in a connected global ecosystem where the best players face each other regularly regardless of which circuit they call home. The DP World Tour has been one of the most underappreciated circuits in golf for decades. Paired with PIF's financial firepower and its proven ability to open new markets, the combination could be formidable. The PGA Tour remains the premium domestic product it has always been, strengthened rather than threatened by a vibrant international structure alongside it. But there is one thing I consider non negotiable in any future structure. Team golf must survive. It cannot be quietly dropped to keep the purists happy. It is arguably the most significant innovation LIV brought to the game. The atmosphere, the tribalism, the way it gives young fans a reason to care. If that is stripped out entirely then LIV will have failed at the one thing that genuinely mattered most. I think the LIV brand survives with integrity as a focused, premium team golf competition element on a combined world tour. Six to eight events a year. A true coming together and celebration of golf. Restructured teams, that sits alongside the individual tour calendar rather than competing with it. That is a powerful and defined one. And it would give everything LIV started something genuinely worth pointing to. #LIVGolf #PGATour #DPWorldTour #WorldTour

@flushingitgolf LIV ending wouldn’t be a surprise, PGAT made so many changes as a result of LIV that leaving for LIV no longer makes a lot of sense, but LIV ending in this manner would. PIF would lose credibility in the sports world, and lose whatever leverage it had with PGAT.

Ryan French from Monday Q Info reports that LIV Golf is about to shut down. Speaking on X Spaces last night, Ryan said: “I think everybody should probably stay near their phones… “I have some pretty good sources and I’ve heard that some other people have sources that LIV is shutting down.” Later on in the episode, he said: “I’ve got everything from, and these are people that I trust, that you guys know. Players didn’t get paid today, power went out because the bill wasn’t paid, employees didn’t get paid. Stuff like that. “There is definitely a lot going on… Things are not good.” Ryan is very well connected and respected in the professional golf world. He would not be saying this unless he was certain something was coming. Expect this story to move fast. @acaseofthegolf1

@NUCLRGOLF @acaseofthegolf1 “We don't give out gambling advice but If your’re a prediction market type person I would bet the under of whatever they have posted.” Anyone care to decipher that?

🚨👀⛳️ JUST IN — A “bombshell announcement” regarding the future of LIV Golf is reportedly imminent, multiple sources tell @acaseofthegolf1.

@EpiPen2001 @travisreier @acaseofthegolf1 Maybe? My initial reaction was Bryson, Rahm or both are leaving, but he described it as an announcement about LIV’s future, not about LIV players.

@travisreier @JDellabonna @acaseofthegolf1 That the league is folding

Ive heard from multiple sources that a bombshell announcement on LIVs future is imminent. We don't give out gambling advice but If your’re a prediction market type person I would bet the under of whatever they have posted.

@acaseofthegolf1 I mean, maybe he’s trying to say if there’s a prediction market on how long LIV will last then bet the under? But I don’t think that’s how prediction markets work.

@acaseofthegolf1 I have no idea what the last sentence means or is even implying

@Brian27843245 @jamierkennedy It’s absolutely true espn.com/golf/story/_/i…

@JDellabonna @jamierkennedy Not true, he spent weeks behind Westwood, Donald and I think Singh

Think about this... ▫️Scottie Scheffler has spent 186 weeks at World Number One. ▫️Phil Mickelson never reached No. 1 but he spent 270 weeks at World Number Two.