SymphonySteve
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8-Ball sez:
"Signs point to Yes":
https://sports.yahoo.com/golf/artic...ting-the-tours-future-in-doubt-171409417.html
"Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund is on the verge of cutting funding for LIV Golf, according to the Financial Times, a blow that would potentially — if not certainly — put an end to the breakaway tour.
A formal announcement could come as early as Thursday, according to the report.
Late Tuesday evening, a social media report put the golf world on notice that something was brewing about the future of LIV Golf.
Immediately, speculation ran rampant that the breakaway Saudi-backed tour might be abruptly shutting its doors. And why not? Despite the deep pockets of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the now 4-year-old tour is still struggling to find much traction. Television ratings are non-existent, the tour hasn’t signed a marquee player since Jon Rahm three years ago and the proposed union with the PGA Tour has never materialized."
Brandel Chamblee had this to say:
"Given that the product was so ill-conceived and ended up being worse than anyone could have imagined – with shotgun starts, initially 54 holes, a team concept that was nothing but laughable and tournaments that meant and continue to mean nothing, and such a paltry number of viewers, losing billions along the way – would it surprise anyone if the Saudis came to their corrupted senses and finally euthanized the whole lame-brained tour," Chamblee wrote on X in response to the reports."
"Signs point to Yes":
https://sports.yahoo.com/golf/artic...ting-the-tours-future-in-doubt-171409417.html
"Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund is on the verge of cutting funding for LIV Golf, according to the Financial Times, a blow that would potentially — if not certainly — put an end to the breakaway tour.
A formal announcement could come as early as Thursday, according to the report.
Late Tuesday evening, a social media report put the golf world on notice that something was brewing about the future of LIV Golf.
Immediately, speculation ran rampant that the breakaway Saudi-backed tour might be abruptly shutting its doors. And why not? Despite the deep pockets of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the now 4-year-old tour is still struggling to find much traction. Television ratings are non-existent, the tour hasn’t signed a marquee player since Jon Rahm three years ago and the proposed union with the PGA Tour has never materialized."
Brandel Chamblee had this to say:
"Given that the product was so ill-conceived and ended up being worse than anyone could have imagined – with shotgun starts, initially 54 holes, a team concept that was nothing but laughable and tournaments that meant and continue to mean nothing, and such a paltry number of viewers, losing billions along the way – would it surprise anyone if the Saudis came to their corrupted senses and finally euthanized the whole lame-brained tour," Chamblee wrote on X in response to the reports."
