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@NUCLRGOLF This is some dumb shit of a tweet

🚨😬⛳️ #LOOK — Sparse crowds are on-site at Doral for the final round of the Cadillac Championship - a Signature Event. This was the crowd following the final group of Cam Young, Scottie Scheffler & Si Woo Kim at the 5th. What do you make of the light galleries this week?

@flushingitgolf More nameless sources…

An insane rules story happened this weekend at the Maekyung Open on the Asian Tour/KGA. Inhoi Hur from Korea, who won the event in 2021, hit a drive yesterday on the 7th hole at Namseoul Country Club that looked OB, so he then basically abandoned the ball and went to play his provisional which was in the fairway. The forecaddie/spotter then picked up the original ball because it was judged OB, and handed it to his playing partner’s caddie. But the gallery, who were all there in support of Inhoi, argued that the ball was in bounds and a referee had to be called. One eye witness said it was “very animated”, and several rules officials then had to come to the scene to help calm the situation. After around 30 minutes of heated discussion and the group behind being called through, the Chief Referee judged there was conflicting information and applied Committee Procedures Section 6C(6), which somehow meant Inhui played the provisional ball temporarily without penalty until a decision was made. But what should have happened, is the original ball should have been replaced and a decision made from there. Inhui finished the hole with his provisional ball and signed for a par and a 3rd round 69 to be just outside the top 10. Overnight, as the story was breaking, Flushing It Golf reached out to multiple well placed sources for clarity on the situation. Several players were prepared to speak on anonymity due to the nature of the situation: “It’s fucking bullshit. He basically got a mulligan”, said one. “Obviously he got a mulligan. How is that possible?” Said another. Another player questioned his integrity and others called for disqualification: “What kind of ruling is that? The guy keeping his score just signed his card? It’s just an integrity situation, as a player he should know it’s a bad ruling, but he just listened to the officials because it’s in his favour.” “He should be disqualified.” Inhui wasn’t disqualified. In fact, he actually went out today in the final round and shot a bogey free 7 under par 64 to post the clubhouse lead. At the time of him posting, his score was good enough to make it to a 3 way playoff. Then came the real drama. As Inhui was signing autographs for his large group of supporters thinking he would shortly be making his way back down the 18th with a chance to win the event for the second time, the KGA rules team deemed his ball was OB the previous day and added the 2 shot penalty meaning his score on Saturday was altered to a 71. That knocked him down to T3 and he missed out on the playoff by 2 shots. There was then another altercation between Inhui’s support and the officials. Inhui’s wife has since posted on Instagram questioning the officials and asking for video evidence of the situation. One message translated from Korean reads: “I won’t accept it. Are they just brushing over the fact the competition official lied?” Minhyuk Song went on to win the playoff over Mingyu Cho.

This seems relevant: Remember when the police dragged in 87-year-old Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos to be questioned under caution because he was on a protest against Genocide and wished to lay flowers for the dead children of Gaza outside the BBC

@GrimComm @PGATOUR @livgolf_league @DPWorldTour Why are they so many dumb posts today The only the DPWT would take LIV is money, and lots of it, which LIV does not have any more… This would be the most pointless thing in the world for the DPWT LIV failed Let it die and disappear into the sun set

A LIV–DP World Tour merger is no longer far-fetched — it’s logical. The crowds are already demanding it. LIV events in Australia and South Africa are drawing 100,000+ fans. #LIVGolf #PGATour grimcom.com/pga-tour-liv-g…

@ProGolfCritic @RedHarrington44 @livgolf_league Nonsense Nonsense And more nonsense Clicks and likes baby

No, not interested in all the excuses (Trump, other events, etc) about low attendance at Doral when @RedHarrington44 & I could’ve told you this. @livgolf_league Miami was WAY better attended. Not debatable. I lived in Miami 2014-17 & the WGCs were poorly attended too. For 4 years all we heard was negativity from the media about low attended, limited field, no cut, guaranteed money events & that’s exactly what this is. Further proof of agenda driven media in golf.

@Jay_Sapovits @BenColeyGolf @arlowhite I fell a little bit dummer after reading @Jay_Sapovits comments here So LIV can buy golfers but can’t out bid the PGAT for sport writers… Almost like these people are just giving their option and it’s different to yours

@BenColeyGolf @arlowhite And there it is, name calling. How adult. You know the deal Ben. You begged forgiveness in your article cause you don't want that phone to ring. You shake when you see 904.

Imagine admonishing a world class sportsman, and telling him what he should do with his life, from behind a key board. He’s won titles at LIV. Helmed a winning team, and pursued something he believes in. The pearl clutching continues.

@arlowhite @BenColeyGolf @arlowhite you git cooked here bro

@BenColeyGolf World class journalists? Look, if u want US hegemony over an entire global sport, then u should be delighted right? Guys went because they believed in something different. Got money because they made the leap. Played in amazing atmospheres around the world.

@4AcesGC_ @livgolf_league @AnthonyKim_Golf Unmatched…. Yeah.. Really…

Anthony Kim’s mindset is unmatched… BEHIND THE ACES EPISODE 3

@LoafPod @SmallerFishGAA @MonaghanGAAFans

@SmallerFishGAA @MonaghanGAAFans I did the edit

Never in doubt 💪 Derry kept Monaghan in it with their wides and inability to kick 2 pointers Monaghan can kick them 😅

@Glinner WTF Your logic is crazy Your defending the indefensible History will remember you for what you are and what Isreal has and is doing Just like history remembers the Nazis Disgusting

Using the word 'genocide' to describe a war against an enemy who hide beneath their own people is pure antisemitism. Hasan is another enemy within.

@FabrizioRomano There are very few positive signs from this seasons that Slot can be trusted with thsi

🚨 Arne Slot: “Here the transition has NOT been completed yet”. “By that I mean this cycle, the players that won the Champions League and Premier League with Jurgen”. “This summer, as a minimum of two will leave, so you can say you are at the end of a transition, there's still a transition to be done”.

@RickRunGood @shanebacon So his worse round of the year was with his way old clubs Good decision to change then!

Justin Rose lost 2.26 strokes ball-striking and 4.83 strokes tee-to-green today. That's his second worst ball-striking and worst tee-to-green round of his year.

@fromthearena1 Its a nice story but heavily altered from reality In 2014 ireland had recovered from the crash, people had money again to travel 12 year later peoples opinion of Ryanair hasn’t altered significantly

For 28 years, Michael O'Leary ran Ryanair like a man who couldn't stand his own customers. People kept flying because the tickets were so cheap. Then in 2014 he tried being nice to them. Profits jumped 37 percent. The share price jumped 55. He told the whole story in a one-hour lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin in late 2015. It's the Carmichael Lecture, watch the full thing if you can, because there is more useful business teaching in that hour than in most full MBAs. On the third rewatch, these are the parts that stuck with me the most. The single biggest secret of Ryanair has nothing to do with marketing. It is a 25-minute turnaround. Once a Ryanair plane lands, the crew has it cleaned, refueled, reboarded, and back in the air in 25 minutes. Aer Lingus needs about an hour to do the same thing. After three flights in a day, Ryanair has banked two hours, which is enough time to fit in two extra flights. Every single Ryanair plane flies more flights per day than every single Aer Lingus plane. That gap is where the entire profit margin of European cheap flying comes from. Long flights to other continents don't work the same way. A faster turnaround at JFK doesn't let you squeeze another flight to America into the day, so the saved time gets wasted. This is why O'Leary thinks Ryanair will never fly across the Atlantic but will dominate short flights inside Europe for decades. The second thing he learned was that you can get unlimited free press by saying the opposite of whatever business school is teaching that year. Ryanair had no advertising budget through the 80s and 90s. So O'Leary went on television and said things like, "customers are always right? No, they're always wrong." And, "people are your most important asset? No, they're your biggest expense." Every interview produced more coverage than a paid campaign would have. The peak came in 2009 when The Sun newspaper asked if Ryanair would allow porn on the in-flight wifi. He said yes. Within 24 hours the website got 28 times its normal traffic, and bookings quadrupled for three days straight. The third lesson is the one he was slowest to learn, and it is the most painful. The shift to being polite to customers was led by his own staff. He was the bottleneck. A Dublin Airport survey found that when Ryanair gate agents pulled passengers out of the queue to size-check their carry-on bags, 77 percent of those bags ended up fitting just fine. His own gate agents had invented rules like "the bag must fit comfortably in the sizer" so they could reject bags that technically fit. Staff were exhausted from being forced into pointless fights with customers. They wanted permission to stop. Once O'Leary gave it, they started bringing him most of the new ideas. Lesson four is about admitting you were wrong, and treating that as a press strategy. After the change, O'Leary toured Ireland, the UK, and Germany telling journalists he had been wrong about customer service for 25 years. The coverage was endless because almost no executive ever does this in public. Owning a mistake loud enough becomes its own news cycle. Lesson five is the one I think every government should tape to the wall. Ireland brought in a tax on flights during the 2009 recession. It raised about 26 million euros a year. Visitor numbers fell from 30 million to 20 million over three years. The state lost roughly 250 million euros a year in sales tax it would have collected from the visitors who never came. So Ireland was earning a tenth of what it was losing. Once Michael Noonan repealed the tax in 2014, tourism boomed and Ryanair alone accounted for 74 percent of the new traffic to and from the island. The lesson goes way beyond Ireland. Tax visitors once they're inside your country. Don't tax them at the airport, because at the airport they'll just pick somewhere else to fly. The sixth lesson is the strangest one. The average Ryanair fare is about 35 euros. O'Leary's actual long-term goal is for the ticket to be free, paid for entirely by side revenue from bag fees, snacks, wifi, and on-board gambling. The cheaper the ticket, the more passengers fly. The more passengers fly, the more side money he makes. That side money lets him cut the ticket again next year. The wheel only turns one direction, and the gap between Ryanair and every other European airline gets wider every year. Lesson seven is about why public services keep failing. The Irish health service has a politics problem. Whenever the unions are unhappy, they bypass management and go straight to the Minister for Health, who has no real power to push back. American federal workers lost the right to strike in 1947, and the United States has functioning public services almost in spite of itself as a result. No government anywhere can run a real operation while its workforce can paralyze that operation on demand. The same logic explains almost every broken public bureaucracy. The eighth lesson is a pushback against doomsday thinking. O'Leary was openly skeptical of people warning that the world was running out of oil, and skeptical of climate-change politics. His reasoning was simple and pragmatic. People are extraordinarily good at working around shortages of energy and raw materials. He tells a story he half-remembers about General Motors commissioning a study in the early 1900s that concluded car demand would top out at 900,000 cars worldwide because there were not enough chauffeurs to drive them. Henry Ford solved that within a few years by making cars cheap enough for owners to drive themselves. Markets find new oil whenever the price climbs high enough to make new drilling profitable. American oil producers came online with new techniques, flooded the market, and replaced OPEC, the alliance of oil-exporting countries, as the force that sets global oil prices. Whatever the next bottleneck is, somebody will route around it. The trick is to never bet against human ingenuity over a long enough time horizon. The ninth lesson is about how leaders rot. O'Leary refuses awards, honorary doctorates, and invitations to the dinner circuit. His reasoning is that the moment you start believing you are irreplaceable, you stop listening to the people who actually run the business. Customers write to him every day complaining about Ryanair. Those daily complaints are the only thing keeping the company grounded. The deepest lesson in the talk is the one he drops almost in passing. He spent four years studying business at Trinity College in Dublin. At no point during those four years did anybody suggest that being nice to customers might be part of a winning strategy. The single most profitable change he ever made to Ryanair was something his entire formal education had trained him not to consider.

@BeatinTheBookie Oh sorry dude WTF would I care about bigger purses for players….? You are right about people being dumb I hope you are just engagement farming and not this dumb..

It’s funny people still shit on LIV players, they helped PGA players get paid significantly higher purses and created signature events. People are so fucking dumb lmao.

@ProGolfCritic 😂😂🤣🤣 Sure, cool cool.. You do you…!

@Mick007abc I don’t tweet nonsense. I provide analysis and guidance based on the information that I have (that you don’t). I don’t even know who you are, bro.

“LIV’s Saudi backers are keen for the league to continue in some form, but are unwilling to keep funding the competition indefinitely if it keeps up its rate of losses, according to people with direct knowledge of the strategy of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.” - Bloomberg, Jan 2026.

@ProGolfCritic 😂😂🤣 I think we have come full circle here bud… I can only hope you don’t believe the nonsense you tweet on here and that its all just about engagement or something - at least there would be some logic in that

@Mick007abc Not sure that? I’m not a reporter.

@ProGolfCritic Ah ok, so brainwashed now, not paid actors anymore coz, that doesn’t make any sense So, tell me how have they been brainwashed, and who did the brainwashing and why are the “LIV fans” immune to this brainwashing…?

@Mick007abc They’re brainwashed & don’t know who or what to cheer for. Part of the problem with pro golf.

There is no bigger self-inflicted casualty of golf’s civil war than the Golf Media. Totally & completely exposed your biases & bigotry w/in a group that is allegedly overwhelmingly liberal. No one will forget how fraudulent you’ve been. Jon Rahm will be fine & remembered as 1 of the greatest European golfers OAT that maximized his earnings as he should have.

@Luke_Elvy Tell us you don’t understand whats going on with out saying it 😂😂 But if it makes you feel good - go with it babe

The most fascinating part of Golf’s disruption has been grown men being angry at other grown men they’ve never met, making decisions in the best interests of themselves & their families. And they’ve held that grudge for 5 years! It’s a stunning insight to human insecurities.

@ProGolfCritic Wtf is a golf PGAT fan😂😂 Do you think people out there are cheering the PGAT..! Who is paying who here? And are you seriously telling us these “Pens for hire” are being paid more by PGAT than what LIV would pay them… LIV can buy the PGAT golfers but not their journalists!

@Mick007abc No they’re not. They paid actors that are paid to do the bidding of the golf establishment. Operation Mockingbird. Golf is just a reflection of corp media. LIV exposed them. The end. Rahm’s stock fell with American PGAT fans maybe, but most will be dead in 10-15 yrs.

@ProGolfCritic 😂😂 sure thats grand then.. …would you not sure that with the rest of us…..!?

@Mick007abc Yes bc I know who said it. 😂