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@chambleebrandel Hey brandel are you still planning to release a putting book? I recall you were working on one a few years ago?

Looking back at US Opens at Shinnecock I came across many gems, among them one of the greatest putting strokes in the history of golf… Ben Crenshaw

@viperbirdie @jordan_p19 @KylePorterNS You’re on fire Willie keep going on show these guys who the real boss around here is

@jordan_p19 @KylePorterNS Deflect on what? Who the fuck uses the word dunce? Holy shit man. Its 2026.

Who is the best player playing right now that you would confidently bet money on will end their career with zero majors?

@garrett_TFE Not to mention there is like one spot on the calendar in the next decade for a major anyway!

The Trump administration released Tom Fazio's plan for East Potomac Golf Links today. Some thoughts: thefriedegg.com/articles/washi…

@fduffy123 @LIVAndLetPar @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Assuming you're putting it on a time that isnt great for major viewing markets, who should stump up the cash for the purse?

@gentles022 @LIVAndLetPar @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Similar ,but maybe skewed a little more to international players and a smaller field.

The podcast @GolfloverUK & I just recorded probably has the most important messages we’ve ever delivered to @livgolf_league players, execs & fan community. I see people abandoning ship already & now ain’t the time. Out Monday! @GLUgolfclub

@fduffy123 @LIVAndLetPar @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub so basically what the players championship was before LIV?

@LIVAndLetPar @gentles022 @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Call it a major , pay out as if it is a major , give exemptions as if it is a major , play on world class course , sell out crowds, have the best field in golf .i.e. no club pro's , ex champion's who aren't competitive , no amateurs , the best 120 from OWGR with 5 invitees.

@fduffy123 @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub A bit like when Cameron Young was the "1000th" person to win on the PGA tour, and the list of players included the guys who won the very first open championships against 12 other farmers. I think after Tiger won 3 US Ams they stopped counting it for Jacks record!

@gentles022 @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub The oddest thing is that when I first followed Golf the US Amateur was a major, hence when big Jack won at Augusta in 86 it was called as his 20th major. I think he was downgraded to 18 a few years later.

@fduffy123 @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub If you look back in history it was the media who decided what is and isn't a major. The Western Open used to be considered a major until one day it wasn't, and the masters was nothing for the first 20 years. Gradual change rather than a line in the sand...

@gentles022 @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub The tours I guess, even if they don't own any of majors. PGAT will have learnt from their battle with LIV , having no control of any of 4 majors is a real weakness. If they owned majors or could force majors to apply their suspensions LIV would have never amounted to anything.

@fduffy123 @Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub who decides what is and isnt a major?

@Momsbasement54 @gentles022 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Needs to be 5 majors , Players replace the PGA and then a global 5th major that alternates between mainland Europe , Aus, SA and Asia .The fact the PGA is a major with 20 teaching pro's is as ridiculous as the name Range Goats. PGA Tour deserves to own one major.

@Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub the PGA has a pretty long history in america (its in the name), venues are already announced for at least the next 10 years, hard to see why they would voluntarily give it up. but agree it makes the most sense if they were gonna do it. maybe time for a (new) 5th major?

@gentles022 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub PGA championship, and it could rotate between Australia, Japan, Korea, South Africa and even give you Kiwi's a crack ever once in a while.

@Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Agree, as a Kiwi i would love to see a major on the sandbelt. Which major should go and why?

@gentles022 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub I think playing 3 of the 4 majors in the US is to the detriment of the game internationally.

@Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub who, and for how many years, should fund a loss making event in these markets to grow the sport globally, and how would you force top players to play (without being centrally contracted by the league?)

@gentles022 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub It's probably the reason tennis is a bigger sport globally.

@Momsbasement54 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub USA isn’t the major tv market for tennis, and a global tv audience can provide the interest required to justify hosting the event and fund the purses

@gentles022 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub How does the Australian Open tennis work then? Genuine question.

@johnkonrad I dont think your timeline stacks up here John as it misses out completely the Obstacle is the Way, which doesnt list SH as a co author. The Daily Stoic came out 3 years after Obstacle. Ryan wrote about the stoics on his blog way before writing a book about it too?

RG’s assistant was a young college dropout named Ryan Holiday. Ryan was working on a book called “Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator.” RG was on the board of American Apparel and got Ryan a job there. Ryan did a lot of screwed up things, like staging a fake billboard with a porn star in American Apparel clothing. I’m not going to say Ryan ruined American Apparel’s reputation and bankrupted the company, the CEO who trusted Ryan had a lot of issues on his own. But I’m not sure how Ryan’s “Trust me I’m lying” tactics helped. Ryan’s book wasn’t the success he expected. Worse still he burned his reputation by including outright eye rollers lime he doesn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 He was looking for something new. I told him about Neil’s Stoic idea and the work I’d been doing to help. We had a few meetings, including one in New Orleans, where he was living. He found out I was at a conference there and insisted on getting together. He was sure the idea would sell if we were flexible about it and talked later about how his marketing company “Brass Check” can use his Trust Me tactics to get self hell books onto bestseller lists. Back to Neil, I got carried away with my offer to help. I wrote an entire colloquial translation of “On the Shortness of Life” and sent it to Neil. Neil was pissed. He’d explicitly asked us not to steal his idea, and I had. I told him I was only trying to help. He could treat it as a draft and rewrite it himself. He said it was too good to be “just a draft.” I could publish it on my own. I felt horrible and told him I didn’t want to publish it alone and I told him everything else about the project, including everything I’d shared with Ryan. And Neil hadn’t yet told Tim, which was its own problem. So I was determined to make it right. I invited everyone onto my sailboat to talk it out on a passage to Catalina. Tim didn’t come, but he called in while we were underway. He was stressed. He was approaching a deadline, his next book was a enormous and had structural problems, and he was pressuring Neil to work on major fixes. Neil’s a guy who goes out of his way to help friends. Ryan overheard everything. He gave Neil some advice and quietly picked up the details of Tim’s book agent. Then Ryan bypassed everyone and pitched the idea to Tim’s agent as his own. Tim readily admits he isn’t the world’s best writer and rumor is his agent is very hands on. The agent supposedly had done a lot of work on Tim’s books (so had Neil) to make them so readable and popular. The agent is an excellent writer. Ryan eventually turned in his manuscript. From mutual friends, I’ve heard it was a complete mess. Instead of translating the original work, he cherry picked bits of Stoicism and tied them to pop culture stories. The agent did the heavy lifting to make it a bestseller. By this point, everyone (at least me, for sure) was tired of the drama. But we still didn’t have a useful book. The Stoic material was important. Stoicism filtered through Ryan’s eyes was pop slop. We all independently talked to the agent. He promised to deliver something that did more good than harm. The Daily Stoic was born. It’s fantastic. But it’s fantastic because the agent, Stephen Hanselman, wrote a significant of it himself. He wrote so much of it that the publisher wouldn’t put it under Ryan’s name alone. He had to be listed as co-author. So that’s Ryan’s origin story. At least the little part I know so take it with a grain of salt. I’m not his biographer. Oh, and this anti-Trump nonsense is BS. He was one of the most conservative people in the circle of friends, and shortly after launch, Ryan’s name started showing up in messages from my conservative friends in California. 3/4

Ok Ryan, sounds like a challenge, I accept…. The origin story of my once upon a time friend Ryan Holiday. Strap in, it’s a long read… Never had any intention of telling this story. But F it. Here’s how Ryan Holiday stole the stoicism shtick from a pickup artist. I stumbled into becoming the second major social media influencer in history. It was the early 2000s. I’d been hired by the man who would soon become the wealthiest in India: Mukesh Ambani. He hired me as chief officer on a major offshore drilling project. He kept pushing me to buy stock in his company. The operation was a disaster from day one, so I held off. Then we hit the biggest natural gas discovery in human history. He felt bad about the missed money and gave me one piece of great advice: move to Silicon Valley and launch a startup. I did. My brother and I raised $6M to launch a winter sports website called @unofficialnetworks. $6M was an incredible amount of money at the time. Meanwhile, the first major social network, Friendster, had crashed. MySpace and Facebook were just launching. A friend of mine, Kevin Rose, had a different idea. People needed real topics to talk about, so he launched Digg.com, a social network for news. I’m a voracious reader. I got addicted and posted constantly under my initials, JAKV5. The site exploded. Kevin invited the top accounts to what was effectively the world’s first influencer event, in San Francisco. I expected dozens of people. There were six of us. I was number two, behind a guy named MrBabyMan. Kevin had launched not just the first news wall but also one of the first major video podcasts, Diggnation. I knew it would be huge. I used the opportunity to get Kevin interested in my site. With some of the seed money we’d bought a condo in Argentina to cover winter sports during the Northern Hemisphere summer. I invited Kevin down for an all expenses paid trip to South America. He refused. He said he was interested, but I’d already poured so much time and energy into Digg that he couldn’t accept the freebie. I told him I believed in his site and his podcast, and that I’d benefit more from the visit than he would. Another influencer I won’t name was friends with an author whose book had been out for months and wasn’t selling. That author heard about my offer and pitched Kevin the same deal. Kevin didn’t owe him squat, so he accepted the free tickets. Tim Ferriss, the legend, was born. I was invited to a number of Tim Ferriss events early on, but the guy is neurotic. I was married with kids. He couldn’t hold a girlfriend down for a full week. I wanted to like him, so I shared his stuff on Digg and elsewhere and helped him where I could. But a lot of his advice was reckless. One friend ended up in the hospital with chest pains: too much stress, too little sleep, all from following the workaholic gospel he preached. Tim is incredibly smart and what I did find valuable was Tim’s posts about a group of philosophers nobody talked about: the Stoics. One of his pieces, on Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life,” went viral. It was excellent. Fast forward to 2010. The oil rig Deepwater Horizon explodes. I write the bestselling book about it. By this time Facebook had stole Digg’s newsfeed idea and steamrolled them. Reddit launched as a direct competitor without the moderation, which meant a flood of porn and garbage about sex and drugs and stuff. Turns out porn is popular. Reddit steamrolled what was left of Digg, and Kevin pivoted into a successful VC career. So my book does well. My editor kept pushing to introduce me to a New York Times journalist whose book about pickup artists was selling like hotcakes. 1/4

@AaronSchiro @LIVAndLetPar @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub The plan from day 1 was to spend a ton of money so that people would ignore all the bad shit that the saudis do, and think of them as a legitimate global partner. They nearly got there with the LIV/PGA merger. Basically very expensive marketing was never gonna turn a profit lol

@gentles022 @LIVAndLetPar @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub People would have to buy into teams yes otherwise it wasn't sustainable that was there plan since day 1.

@AaronSchiro @LIVAndLetPar @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub If the TV ratings across the world arent generating enough revenue to justify spending $60m per week to run the event, why would anyone buy a team if there is no way to make money? Thats why people said it wouldn't work because the saudis were just lighting money on fire

@gentles022 @LIVAndLetPar @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Tv ratings within the u.s. was never going to fund this league lol what r u talking about. It isn't a u.s. league. They needed to have people buy into the teams that was always the plan. Most said it wouldn't work and they may be right.

@AaronSchiro @LIVAndLetPar @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Yes, and in order to justify a $40m purse you need a big TV audience. 50k people buying a ticket, a few beers and a hat isnt gonna fund the money paid to these guys...

@gentles022 @LIVAndLetPar @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Ratings were good outside the u.s. within the u.s. yes most of the TV windows sucked that's how it works when you play your events outside the u.s.

@LIVAndLetPar @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub LIV was a great in person product - i know a ton of people who went. But you cant sustain a 40m purse with good vibes on the ground no matter where you are holding it. My evidence is now that the free money is gone the league is dead in its tracks.

@gentles022 @AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub Shitty time apparently means 9:45pm ET / 6:45pm PT, 8:15pm ET / 5:15pm PT, and even 10:15pm ET / 7:15pm PT for LIV Adelaide in recent years. That’s literally US evening TV, genius. Golf exists outside your recliner and outside America

@AaronSchiro @LIVAndLetPar @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub I live in New Zealand but go on - if the TV windows were so good why were the ratings so atrociously bad? Even the presidents cup in melbourne 2019 had way better ratings than LIV

@LIVAndLetPar @gentles022 @DailyGolfTakes @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub You can't talk to these people the ignorance is something

@AaronSchiro @DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub I will be you every dollar I own that there will never be another golf event in australia or south africa for that purse offered by a for-profit entity. No matter how you slice it, being on live TV at a shitty time of day for major markets will never work commercially

@DailyGolfTakes @LIVAndLetPar @ProGolfCritic @GolfloverUK @livgolf_league @GLUgolfclub They absolutely have discovered it in many areas are you joking. They have brought events to brand new markets starving for pro golf and broke records in Australia. Ask South Africa or Hong Kong

@two_down_auto @JoelMBeall Even if you agree with all of this, surely you must agree that Rahm's golf has taken a real turn for the worst since he went to LIV? He has gone from being a top 1-2 favourite to one major in contention in the last 10...none of that has anything to do with golf media

Fuck these self righteous PGAT assholes and the media mouthpieces. I don’t care what happens to LIV. The tour needs Rahm more than he needs the tour. Rory forced the tour to screw up the schedule for money and doesn’t even show up. Do some real reporting. Golf media has become terrible.

I'm not sure there's a bigger self-inflicted casualty of golf's civil war than Jon Rahm. Hurt reputation by taking $ he said he didn't need, torched years of major prime, put Ryder Cup eligibility in jeopardy over a silly fight, after turning down PGA Tour's Koepka exemption might not have a place to play next year