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This month has been a total collapse for the golf establishment media. They spent years building a moral high ground that just disintegrated in real-time.
🚨 The Golf Establishment Media’s Worst Month Ever
The "moral high ground" just hit bedrock. While the media spent years lecturing us on ethics, the last 15 days have exposed a level of hypocrisy and gatekeeping that is impossible to ignore.
1️⃣ The DP World Tour Silence: Where is the outrage? The Chairman/CEO of the DP World Tour’s title sponsor just resigned after the Epstein files revealed lewd emails and references to a “torture video.” The establishment media—so vocal about LIV’s funding and morals—has been remarkably quiet. The hypocrisy is deafening. 🤐
2️⃣ OWGR Surrender: After years of moving the goalposts, the OWGR finally granted LIV Golf ranking points. They said it would never happen; now it’s a reality. Even with a restricted formula that only rewards the top 10, the "exhibition" narrative is officially dead. Legitimacy has been earned. 📈
3️⃣ The Anthony Kim Resurrection: They said he was done; that it was just a publicity stunt. Instead, AK just outdueled Rahm and DeChambeau at LIV Adelaide—the most attended event in Australian golf history (115,000+ fans). A historic comeback the golf media never expected, much less happening in front of the biggest LIV crowd. 🇦🇺🏆
The Bottom Line: You can’t gatekeep a sport when the fans have already walked through the gates. The establishment is scrambling for a new script and trying to literally rewrite history because the old script just went up in flames this month. All the while they were writing posts on X with the “I don’t care about LIV, but” caveat while Anthony Kim was in the middle of an amazing comeback story in Australia. It was funny to see all those posts and not only them having to admit they were watching a LIV Golf event but encouraging others to watch history in the making at a LIV Golf event.
Ultimately, this month has exposed the "golf establishment media" for exactly what it is: a collection of gatekeepers whose morality and journalistic ethics are selective and whose predictions are consistently wrong. They stayed silent when the DP World boss was embroiled in the Epstein files, they moved the goalposts on the OWGR and LIV Golf legitimacy until they ran out of grass, and now are still trying to find ways to still trash LIV Golf saying that “For all the billions LIV Golf has spent, its greatest moment had nothing to do with money,” totally ignoring the fact as our good friend Ernie wrote: “the billions provided the context that made this both possible and special.”
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