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Jon Rahm tells people to stop blaming LIV for his major championship performances over the past two years.
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Jon Rahm wins in Abu Dhabi on the DPWT by 2 strokes over Tyrell Hatton and 4 strokes over Rory McIlroy.
Here are Jon Rahm official OWGR tournament finishes in 2026 so far: (20 events)
Wins: 3
Top 5: 10
Top 10: 11
Top 25: 14
MC: 2
Here are Jon Rahm official OWGR tournament finishes in 2026 so far: (20 events)
Wins: 3
Top 5: 10
Top 10: 11
Top 25: 14
MC: 2
How it finished in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪
🏆 Jon Rahm -23
2️⃣ Tyrrell Hatton -21
3️⃣ Rory McIlroy -19
4️⃣ Francessco Laporta -17
#AbuDhabiChamps | #RolexSeries
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Imagine what was once the 2nd best golf tour in the world (European Tour) who is currently in a "strategic alliance" with the PGA Tour celebrating that it will only get 4 of its top 10 players into the PGA Tour Championship Series in 2028 while the Korn Ferry Tour gets all 10 of its top 10 players into it.
The 2028 PGA Tour Championship Series Korn Ferry Tour eligibility per PGA Tour press release:
"The top 10 players in the final 2027 Korn Ferry Tour Points List will earn PGA Tour Championship Series membership for 2028."
"The next 30 players in the final 2027 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, not otherwise exempt for the PGA Tour Championship Series or PGA Tour Challenger Series, beginning with No. 11, will earn PGA Tour Challenger Series membership for 2028."
Meanwhile 6 European Tour (DPWT) players will get into the 2028 PGA Tour Challenger Series.
Somehow what used to be the 2nd best tour in the world has only managed through its strategic alliance with the PGA Tour to become the third ranked tour inside the PGA Tour ecosystem.
From 2029 on (if the "strategic alliance" is kept at the end of 2027 and they keep the 4 spots on the Championship Series) the DPWT will still be ranked 3rd on the PGA Tour ecosystem one step below the PGA Tour Challenger Series who gets 20 players into the 2029 Championship Series and the DPWT will still have less spots on that 2029 Challenger Series than the Korn Ferry Tour (6 vs. 20).
The 2028 PGA Tour Championship Series will really consist of 18 PGA Tour events including the Players Championship. Although on their Championship Series schedule and taking it to 23 events, the 4 major championships and the Ryder Cup are not PGA Tour events.
The 2028 PGA Tour Championship Series Korn Ferry Tour eligibility per PGA Tour press release:
"The top 10 players in the final 2027 Korn Ferry Tour Points List will earn PGA Tour Championship Series membership for 2028."
"The next 30 players in the final 2027 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, not otherwise exempt for the PGA Tour Championship Series or PGA Tour Challenger Series, beginning with No. 11, will earn PGA Tour Challenger Series membership for 2028."
Meanwhile 6 European Tour (DPWT) players will get into the 2028 PGA Tour Challenger Series.
Somehow what used to be the 2nd best tour in the world has only managed through its strategic alliance with the PGA Tour to become the third ranked tour inside the PGA Tour ecosystem.
From 2029 on (if the "strategic alliance" is kept at the end of 2027 and they keep the 4 spots on the Championship Series) the DPWT will still be ranked 3rd on the PGA Tour ecosystem one step below the PGA Tour Challenger Series who gets 20 players into the 2029 Championship Series and the DPWT will still have less spots on that 2029 Challenger Series than the Korn Ferry Tour (6 vs. 20).
The 2028 PGA Tour Championship Series will really consist of 18 PGA Tour events including the Players Championship. Although on their Championship Series schedule and taking it to 23 events, the 4 major championships and the Ryder Cup are not PGA Tour events.
🚨🪪🇪🇺 #NEW — Rory McIlroy reveals that there are likely going to be four PGA Tour Championship Series cards handed out via the DPWT. (Via @TheTodaysGolfer)
“I thought five was a nice number. I think it would probably be a little less than that. I’d say it’ll probably be four. If I know what I’m talking about, which I usually do! I think the PGA Tour were sort of on three. European Tour were on five. I think they’ll meet in the middle and I think it’ll be four.”
Are you fired up to watch the DPWT in 2027?
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Once again money is in position to defeat history and traditions.
We have told you before that the “golf history” and “traditions” narratives pushed by the PGAT are pure BS.
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We have told you before that the “golf history” and “traditions” narratives pushed by the PGAT are pure BS.
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EXCLUSIVE: Colonial Country Club likely losing PGA Tour event after 80-year run, per sources golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/g…
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First thoughts:
Much of how I felt when there were other signs of this, is how I’m feeling now. The game of golf will be less interesting, have less long-term upside, be less global, and have less innovation. The incentive to push boundaries will be gone. The DP World Tour will see a short-term influx of talent followed by a continued talent drain until they eventually have to further integrate with the tour and sell a portion of their Ryder Cup ownership.
The bulk of those that celebrate it as a win for the game either a) don’t care to or will never understand, or b) won’t be around long enough to see why it’s so clearly not that.
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DPWT CEO Guy "Lie" Kinnings and Rory McIlroy want you to believe the narrative that LIV Golf wants to destroy the DPWT. Both individuals have obvious personal reasons for that and none of them is doing it to "save" the DPWT. One is following PGA Tour orders and the other is just Let's see if the facts back this new narrative they are trying to push or if it's them trying to justify the recent DPWT actions against LIV Golf and LIV players.
1. Malta meetings: In July 2021—the European Tour rejected a massive $1 billion partnership proposal from Golf Saudi reps. Just one year before the first LIV Golf event.
2. 2022/2023 LIV Golf meetings with DPWT: Following the formalization of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour's expanded strategic alliance in the summer of 2022, LIV officials continued making overtures to European tour executives. These attempts aimed to present an alternative to the PGA Tour’s operational takeover and to mitigate the sanctions being placed on dual DPWT/LIV Golf players.
3. The 2024 Proposal: Following the failure of the "framework agreement" between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and PIF, LIV Golf's financial backers directly approached the DP World Tour to pitch a standalone merger. As reported extensively by outlets like Bloomberg, this proposal involved:
a) Financial injection: Offering heavy financial compensation to buoy the DPWT's balance sheet.
b) Shared schedule: Proposing a combined schedule where players could seamlessly jump between both circuits.
c) The "Fine Erasure" Meeting: This included a specific offer where LIV representatives met with DPWT leadership, proposing millions of £ (British pounds) in payout to wipe out all player fines, alter event schedules to stop head-to-head calendar conflicts, and open up Ryder Cup paths. The DP World Tour acknowledged the meeting but officially turned the offer down.
4. The 2025 "International Series" Co-Sanctioning Push:
Ahead of the 2025 schedule releases, LIV Golf tried to create an indirect, collaborative pathway with the DPWT. Overtures were made to co-sanction tournaments or overlap the schedules so that LIV golfers could maintain their European memberships without triggering conflicting-event penalties and LIV Golf would have encouraged its star players to play more DPWT events. This also included a big financial settlement that would have favored the DPWT financials.
5. Sources close to the league have said that LIV Golf has paid around 25 million of dual member (DPWT/LIV) players fines to the DPWT and has basically gotten nothing in return apart from some players with dual membership having access to DPWT events.
Are these actions mentioned above the actions of an organization that wants to destroy the other or the actions of an organizations that has always wanted to work with the other?
For years LIV Golf executives and investors have shown they wanted to work with the DPWT anyone who says the contrary is simply lying.
In contrast the DPWT made the following moves against LIV Golf during the 2026 season:
1. In early February 2026 (months before The Masters) the DPWT bypassed LIV corporate entirely to negotiate individual terms directly with individual players (such as Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton). The DP World Tour began directly exploring and negotiating these individual resolutions with LIV Golf players.
This shift occurred after broader, collective negotiations between the DPWT and the LIV Golf League corporate entity broke down. Instead of a league-wide deal, the DP World Tour approached individual players to offer a specific compromise:
1. In exchange for the DPWT granting conditional releases to play 2026 LIV events without future fines or suspensions, the players had to agree to pay their outstanding past fines, withdraw any pending legal appeals, and commit to playing an extra number of specific DPWT tournaments (usually bringing their minimum requirement up to 5–8 events chosen by the tour).
2. In mid-February 2026, an initial group of eight LIV golfers signed this agreement. This group included Tyrrell Hatton, Adrian Meronk, Thomas Detry, Laurie Canter, Tom McKibbin, Victor Perez, David Puig, and Elvis Smylie.
3. Jon Rahm initially rejected the offer—publicly accusing the tour of "extorting" players by dictating their schedules and demanding they play more than the standard 4-event membership minimum. However, after further direct negotiations, Rahm struck his own separate deal with the DPWT a few months later in May 2026 to secure his eligibility.
4. Apart from paying outstanding fines and having to play a bigger amount of minimum events (4) than any other dual DPWT members (members with dual membership with either the PGAT, Asian Tour, Japan Tour, Australasian Tour, South African Tour, etc.) the DPWT also impose the following to these specific group of dual DPWT/LIV Golf members:
a) Seasonal and Non-Precedent Terms: The conditional releases applied strictly to the 2026 season only and were explicitly declared non-precedent-setting. Thus projecting their early intention to not allow LIV golfers with dual membership to play in the 2027 DPWT season without fines.
The DP World Tour subsequently announced that it will no longer allow dual memberships with LIV Golf starting in the 2027 season. Only LIV Golf players with dual memberships are targeted by this "new" DPWT rule.
5. The DPWT has also made deals with other LIV players WITHOUT DPWT membership to offer them special tournaments invites if they don't play on the LIV Golf league in 2027.
For decades (and way before the PGAT/DPWT "strategic alliance") the DPWT has given their dual members releases to play anywhere (with only a few exceptions) and without fines (or minimal fines in some cases if they didn't ask for the release) as long as they play the minimum 4 events per year. Players have "left" the DPWT for the PGA Tour and other tours without much consequences and have maintained their DPWT memberships. That's not the case for the dual DPWT/LIV Golf players.
Tell me again who wants to destroy whom, the organization that for years wanted to make a deal and work together or the organization that has continually rejected financial offers (even in the Billion dollar amount) and other offers as shown above that could avoid conflicts between them?
1. Malta meetings: In July 2021—the European Tour rejected a massive $1 billion partnership proposal from Golf Saudi reps. Just one year before the first LIV Golf event.
2. 2022/2023 LIV Golf meetings with DPWT: Following the formalization of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour's expanded strategic alliance in the summer of 2022, LIV officials continued making overtures to European tour executives. These attempts aimed to present an alternative to the PGA Tour’s operational takeover and to mitigate the sanctions being placed on dual DPWT/LIV Golf players.
3. The 2024 Proposal: Following the failure of the "framework agreement" between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and PIF, LIV Golf's financial backers directly approached the DP World Tour to pitch a standalone merger. As reported extensively by outlets like Bloomberg, this proposal involved:
a) Financial injection: Offering heavy financial compensation to buoy the DPWT's balance sheet.
b) Shared schedule: Proposing a combined schedule where players could seamlessly jump between both circuits.
c) The "Fine Erasure" Meeting: This included a specific offer where LIV representatives met with DPWT leadership, proposing millions of £ (British pounds) in payout to wipe out all player fines, alter event schedules to stop head-to-head calendar conflicts, and open up Ryder Cup paths. The DP World Tour acknowledged the meeting but officially turned the offer down.
4. The 2025 "International Series" Co-Sanctioning Push:
Ahead of the 2025 schedule releases, LIV Golf tried to create an indirect, collaborative pathway with the DPWT. Overtures were made to co-sanction tournaments or overlap the schedules so that LIV golfers could maintain their European memberships without triggering conflicting-event penalties and LIV Golf would have encouraged its star players to play more DPWT events. This also included a big financial settlement that would have favored the DPWT financials.
5. Sources close to the league have said that LIV Golf has paid around 25 million of dual member (DPWT/LIV) players fines to the DPWT and has basically gotten nothing in return apart from some players with dual membership having access to DPWT events.
Are these actions mentioned above the actions of an organization that wants to destroy the other or the actions of an organizations that has always wanted to work with the other?
For years LIV Golf executives and investors have shown they wanted to work with the DPWT anyone who says the contrary is simply lying.
In contrast the DPWT made the following moves against LIV Golf during the 2026 season:
1. In early February 2026 (months before The Masters) the DPWT bypassed LIV corporate entirely to negotiate individual terms directly with individual players (such as Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton). The DP World Tour began directly exploring and negotiating these individual resolutions with LIV Golf players.
This shift occurred after broader, collective negotiations between the DPWT and the LIV Golf League corporate entity broke down. Instead of a league-wide deal, the DP World Tour approached individual players to offer a specific compromise:
1. In exchange for the DPWT granting conditional releases to play 2026 LIV events without future fines or suspensions, the players had to agree to pay their outstanding past fines, withdraw any pending legal appeals, and commit to playing an extra number of specific DPWT tournaments (usually bringing their minimum requirement up to 5–8 events chosen by the tour).
2. In mid-February 2026, an initial group of eight LIV golfers signed this agreement. This group included Tyrrell Hatton, Adrian Meronk, Thomas Detry, Laurie Canter, Tom McKibbin, Victor Perez, David Puig, and Elvis Smylie.
3. Jon Rahm initially rejected the offer—publicly accusing the tour of "extorting" players by dictating their schedules and demanding they play more than the standard 4-event membership minimum. However, after further direct negotiations, Rahm struck his own separate deal with the DPWT a few months later in May 2026 to secure his eligibility.
4. Apart from paying outstanding fines and having to play a bigger amount of minimum events (4) than any other dual DPWT members (members with dual membership with either the PGAT, Asian Tour, Japan Tour, Australasian Tour, South African Tour, etc.) the DPWT also impose the following to these specific group of dual DPWT/LIV Golf members:
a) Seasonal and Non-Precedent Terms: The conditional releases applied strictly to the 2026 season only and were explicitly declared non-precedent-setting. Thus projecting their early intention to not allow LIV golfers with dual membership to play in the 2027 DPWT season without fines.
The DP World Tour subsequently announced that it will no longer allow dual memberships with LIV Golf starting in the 2027 season. Only LIV Golf players with dual memberships are targeted by this "new" DPWT rule.
5. The DPWT has also made deals with other LIV players WITHOUT DPWT membership to offer them special tournaments invites if they don't play on the LIV Golf league in 2027.
For decades (and way before the PGAT/DPWT "strategic alliance") the DPWT has given their dual members releases to play anywhere (with only a few exceptions) and without fines (or minimal fines in some cases if they didn't ask for the release) as long as they play the minimum 4 events per year. Players have "left" the DPWT for the PGA Tour and other tours without much consequences and have maintained their DPWT memberships. That's not the case for the dual DPWT/LIV Golf players.
Tell me again who wants to destroy whom, the organization that for years wanted to make a deal and work together or the organization that has continually rejected financial offers (even in the Billion dollar amount) and other offers as shown above that could avoid conflicts between them?
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Watching the usual suspects jump through hoops with Olympic style mental gymnastics to avoid blaming Ponte Vedra for strong arming Kinnings into offering multiple pathways including sponsors exemptions for any LIV players who disavow 2.0 while also screwing over journeyman like @PepperellEddie and others is easily the most entertaining turn of events of the last 5 years. They’ve backed themselves into a corner with no way out bc they finally realize that Ponte Vedra used them and will discard them after they’ve harvested all their talent and own their piece of the Ryder Cup but they can’t admit it bc of their ego. A wise man once said “It’s easier to fool someone than convince them they’ve been fooled”.
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Job done! 🇭🇰
John Catlin wins the 2026 Link Hong Kong Open and will be heading to Augusta National and St Andrews in 2027! 👏
John Catlin wins the 2026 Link Hong Kong Open and will be heading to Augusta National and St Andrews in 2027! 👏
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Per recently filed court documents, LIV Golf executives were paid out nearly $15 million in retention payments in the months leading up to the bankruptcy filing. These payments are intended to retain key employees throughout the restructuring period.
A lot of the ugly side of bankruptcy is generally written off as "ugly, but commonplace". Things like unpaid leases, payment lapses in contracts, things like that. It's all ugly, but not out of the norm for companies going through this process.
But for that to be happening while executives were taking 6, and in many instances 7 figure payments in addition to their regular salary, is concerning. For small businesses to go unpaid, for fan-forward features to be turned off, for concerts that people had paid for to be cancelled, that's all problematic.
And for all of that to happen while the outward messaging is one of understanding, of building a sustainable business, of wanting to make these small businesses whole so that they can continue working with them in the future.
I fully understand the need for some of this. If you lose the CEO, CFO, or president during a restructuring period, it could be an insurmountable setback. But some of the amounts are excessive, and some of the employees non-essential. In fact, there are employees that received large retention payments that I have on multiple occasions specifically named as people that hold LIV back from being as good as it could be.
LIV is great because it was fan-forward, it was different, they had a certain energy about them. That's what needs to come back out of this restructuring, if anything. Passionate employees working nonstop to build the best possible product for the fans, for the players, and for the game. Not this. This is Jay Monahan cutting tour cards while taking millions in bonuses and making "donations" to his own kids ritzy private school type stuff.
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That’s how you make the announcement!
Total class from Tom, finding it odd those not thanking LIV when they made so much money.
Tom is a good person and from a lovely family. His career will be a big one!
Total class from Tom, finding it odd those not thanking LIV when they made so much money.
Tom is a good person and from a lovely family. His career will be a big one!
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LIVs Legal team call out DPWT!
Last week the DP World Tour announced that from 2027, any player who competes in LIV Golf will be banned from its events. Full stop. No exceptions. No release system. No flexibility. You play LIV, you are out.
On the surface that sounds like a bers. But my thinking is if closer observed how it’s been done is potentially questionable.
The DP World Tour has not banned players who compete on the PGA Tour, it has not banned players who compete on the Asian Tour, the Korn Ferry Tour, the Sunshine Tour, or any other circuit on the planet. It has banned one organisation. One. LIV Golf and LIV Golf alone.
That is a very specific, very targeted restriction on where professional athletes can work. And in many industries, a dominant organisation singling out one specific competitor and telling its members they cannot work with that competitor is the kind of thing that can attract serious legal scrutiny.
It is often referred to as ‘Restriction of trade’.
LIV Golf's own legal team has already called it out. They have stated publicly that the DP World Tour's actions, including demands for written pledges from players and restrictions on participation, amount to a deliberate attempt to obstruct LIV's player recruitment and restructuring process. They have called for the measures to be withdrawn immediately.
This matters enormously. Because if LIV Golf's lawyers are right, the DPWT is not just making a competitive decision. It may be using its market position to actively prevent a competitor from operating. That is the definition of an anticompetitive practice. And it could open the DP World Tour to a legal challenge that would be potentially damaging.
Guy Kinnings said this week that players need to make a choice. And he is right that they do. But the choice the DPWT is engineering is not a free one. It is being constructed through the deliberate removal of options. That is a very different thing.
It is also worth asking whether the timing of this ban, announced just days before the LIV Golf player deadline of October 25, is coincidental. Or whether it is a pressure tactic designed to influence players at the exact moment they are making their decision.
Does anything else happen? Is this a road LIV go down? Should they?
#LIVGolf #DPWorldTour #LIVGolf2
Last week the DP World Tour announced that from 2027, any player who competes in LIV Golf will be banned from its events. Full stop. No exceptions. No release system. No flexibility. You play LIV, you are out.
On the surface that sounds like a bers. But my thinking is if closer observed how it’s been done is potentially questionable.
The DP World Tour has not banned players who compete on the PGA Tour, it has not banned players who compete on the Asian Tour, the Korn Ferry Tour, the Sunshine Tour, or any other circuit on the planet. It has banned one organisation. One. LIV Golf and LIV Golf alone.
That is a very specific, very targeted restriction on where professional athletes can work. And in many industries, a dominant organisation singling out one specific competitor and telling its members they cannot work with that competitor is the kind of thing that can attract serious legal scrutiny.
It is often referred to as ‘Restriction of trade’.
LIV Golf's own legal team has already called it out. They have stated publicly that the DP World Tour's actions, including demands for written pledges from players and restrictions on participation, amount to a deliberate attempt to obstruct LIV's player recruitment and restructuring process. They have called for the measures to be withdrawn immediately.
This matters enormously. Because if LIV Golf's lawyers are right, the DPWT is not just making a competitive decision. It may be using its market position to actively prevent a competitor from operating. That is the definition of an anticompetitive practice. And it could open the DP World Tour to a legal challenge that would be potentially damaging.
Guy Kinnings said this week that players need to make a choice. And he is right that they do. But the choice the DPWT is engineering is not a free one. It is being constructed through the deliberate removal of options. That is a very different thing.
It is also worth asking whether the timing of this ban, announced just days before the LIV Golf player deadline of October 25, is coincidental. Or whether it is a pressure tactic designed to influence players at the exact moment they are making their decision.
Does anything else happen? Is this a road LIV go down? Should they?
#LIVGolf #DPWorldTour #LIVGolf2
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Statement:
Louis Oosthuizen has confirmed that he will not re-sign with LIV Golf for its next chapter, choosing instead to return to the DP World Tour in January 2027 in what he describes as the hardest decision of his professional career.
The 2010 Open Champion will step away nd captaincy at Southern Guards GC, the all-South African team he has led since LIV Golf's inception and one that remains deeply personal to him.
"Five years ago, I made one of the best decisions of my life, moving away from the traditional golf world and into something very special with LIV Golf and Southern Guards GC," said Oosthuizen.
"I'm the biggest supporter of team golf and always will be. Golf needs more of it."
Despite his strong belief in the team format, Oosthuizen believes a more flexible playing schedule will give him the best opportunity to compete at the level he still expects of himself.
"I realised I have a lot more in me, and my biggest fear was that the schedule on LIV 2.0 would be tough to manage," he explained.
"I feel I have a few more years of good, competitive golf left in me, and the only way to be really sharp and competitive is through a schedule I control."
For Oosthuizen, the decision has been particularly difficult because of his connection to Southern Guards GC, his teammates and the people who have helped build the team.
"Southern Guards is my team. It always has been and it always will be. That's what makes this so difficult," he said.
"This is probably the hardest decision I've had to make in my career, but I have to do what I believe is right for my golf. It doesn't change how I feel about the team or the guys."
The all-South African team has been a significant part of Oosthuizen's career over the past five seasons, bringing him together with longtime friends Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace and Dean Burmester.
One of the defining moments of that journey came in March 2026 when LIV Golf made its historic South African debut at Steyn City, where Southern Guards GC finished second in front of their home supporters, the team's best result of the season.
Oosthuizen has previously described bringing LIV Golf to South Africa as one of the proudest achievements of his career.
"Bringing LIV Golf to South Africa was one of the best things I've done in my career. It was for the people of South Africa, and I think it was a great success. That's the best thing that came out of this year."
Reflecting on his time with the league, Oosthuizen expressed his gratitude to those who made the journey possible.
"I'll always be grateful to PIF and LIV for what they did for me. I made new friends and got even closer to my current friends and family," he said.
While Oosthuizen's immediate focus will be on returning to individual competition on the DP World Tour, he emphasised that Southern Guards GC will always hold a special place in his heart.
Oosthuizen's next competitive appearance will be at the 65th Link Hong Kong Open, taking place from 22–25 October 2026 at the historic Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling.
He will then turn his attention to preparing for the 2027 season, with his return to the DP World Tour scheduled for January.
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Only the most ignorant of the ignorant don’t know this by now.
🚨💰🏌️#MONEY BALL — Speaking on the @ForePlayPod, Kevin Kisner calls out Rory McIlroy for his previous comments about wanting to grow the game globally, insisting Rory’s in India this week for the appearance fee he allegedly receives
Kiz: “That is such a dog sh!t comment, but I ce, we could all say that comment (about growing the game). He doesn’t want to globally expand in India, he wants to get his $10 million bucks and go play in India.”
Kiz: “…I know there’s a pile of guys that got paid for that event. How else would you get that event in India with eight billion people in the middle of the city? And Rory’s not even hitting a driver this week. You think he wants to go play a tournament where he can’t use his number one weapon? So give me a break.”
Riggs: “The whole thing's an appearance. It's not he's not like, you know what? I can't wait to go play really far away. And while I'm there, uh, management team, could you book me like a public appearance where I can talk about live and all that? Because I would like there's just no fucking chance. So, so yeah, obviously they're getting paid to be there and good for them. I wouldn't say no to that, you know, for sure. I understand it. But it is funny when it gets painted as like this altruistic move to grow the game in another part of the world. I laugh at that every time.”
Kiz: “They always seem to say the right things while they’re over there. As part of your appearance fee, here’s your script for altruism, and you need to mention these four lines in whatever interview you do throughout the week. Which is totally fine, I’d do it too, and all of us on this podcast would. I just find it hilarious when you can pop up and play an event where Rory McIlroy can’t hit his driver, and all those guys show up, and nobody’s like, ‘alright, this is stupid’, whenever they can go play the sickest course in the world, and none of them show up. It’s just very odd to me.”
Do you agree with Kiz?
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Because it was never about Saudi money, it was and still is about the PGA Tour eliminating any competition and their efforts to maintain their antitrust practices that control the schedules and jobs of independent contractors (their players). And for Tiger and Rory it was about money (their wallets) and egos. All of which was confirmed by Rory today.
I thought everyone hated LIV because of the PIF, now why do they hate it?
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Meanwhile, at PGA Tour HQ they have decided to eliminate the Champions Tour pension program that has existed for 42 years. Per report, the decision to eliminate the program was purely financial. The PGA Tour will save 10 million dollars annually.
Keep in mind that some of those affected by this decision were actively defending the PGA Tour in golf's civil war. It is also a signal that the PGA Tour is tidying up their books.
In 2025, the PGA Tour contributed over $77 million to the DP World Tour through its Annual Investment Payment (AIP) under their strategic alliance.
Since the PGAT is squaring away their finances, what would all this mean for the future of their strategic alliance with the DPWT at the end of 2027 or even in 2032 if it continues? 👇👇👇
Keep in mind that some of those affected by this decision were actively defending the PGA Tour in golf's civil war. It is also a signal that the PGA Tour is tidying up their books.
In 2025, the PGA Tour contributed over $77 million to the DP World Tour through its Annual Investment Payment (AIP) under their strategic alliance.
Since the PGAT is squaring away their finances, what would all this mean for the future of their strategic alliance with the DPWT at the end of 2027 or even in 2032 if it continues? 👇👇👇
Some PGA Tour Champions players are furious after the Tour axed its longstanding pension program for senior pro golfers: "It's actually criminal." golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/g…
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At today’s The LIV bankruptcy hearing, the following group of players had their old contracts rejected ⬇️
Laurie Canter
Bryson DeChambeau
Thomas Detry
Lucas Herbert
Sam Horsfield
Ben An
Dustin Johnson
Anirban Lahiri
Michael La Sasso
Marc Leishman
Victor Perez
Ian Poulter
Cam leb Surratt
Cameron Tringale
Harold Varner III
Bubba Watson
Lee Westwood
These players can now proceed with new LIV 2.0 terms or may exit the league.
Laurie Canter
Bryson DeChambeau
Thomas Detry
Lucas Herbert
Sam Horsfield
Ben An
Dustin Johnson
Anirban Lahiri
Michael La Sasso
Marc Leishman
Victor Perez
Ian Poulter
Cam leb Surratt
Cameron Tringale
Harold Varner III
Bubba Watson
Lee Westwood
These players can now proceed with new LIV 2.0 terms or may exit the league.
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An interesting piece of info on how #LIVGolf 2.0 players could get value from their team equity.
They will, on average, own 30% of the teams with the league holding the remaining 70%.
Both the league and players will have the ability to sell their stake to outside investors, s it, players will still receive 30% of the proceeds, without diluting their equity stake.
So if the league sells 30% of their equity in Crushers GC for $30 million, $10 million of that goes directly to the players, who retain their 30% equity.
So not only do they retain 100% of the proceeds from selling their equity stake, they get 30% of the proceeds from sales of the league-held stake.
The 70% of the sale price is then split based on several factors such as total cumulative team sales to date, the amount of time since restructuring, and other factors. Initially, 50% will go to BC Partners Credit and 50% will stay within the league.
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After yesterday’s DPWT news of them banning LIV 2.0 players we commented that LIV 2.0 needs to add events to their schedule because it would be hard for players to commit to only 10 events when they have other tours closing their doors.
Then the Financial Times came out with a l have 17 events and LIV has said that their average event purse will be above than the average DPWT event purse.
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Then the Financial Times came out with a l have 17 events and LIV has said that their average event purse will be above than the average DPWT event purse.
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POST 1 - Player contracts!
Let me explain why the LIV contract story is actually good news. Because the noise around it suggests a lot of people have got some mixed up thoughts on process.
The October 14th court hearing is not a crisis. It is not LIV falling apart. It is LIV any business in restructuring needs to do.
Seeking court authority to terminate legacy contracts is a legal and necessary step to move from LIV Golf 1.0 to LIV Golf 2.0. You cannot build something new on old foundations. You have to clear the ground first.
Think about it this way. The old contracts were written for a different version of the league. A different structure. A different ownership model. A different commercial reality. Holding onto them would actually slow everything down, not protect it. Getting court sign-off on terminating them is not the end of something. It is the beginning of something - it’s how they start!
The new player deadline sits at October 25th. And before anyone panics about that either, BC Partners retains the right to extend or waive that deadline. This is not a cliff edge. It is a structured, flexible process being managed properly by people who know exactly what they are doing.
I have said on the podcast before that LIV was always going to have to evolve. That the brand and the structure would need to adapt. That some things would have to be let go to build something that lasts. This is that moment. And it is being handled the right way.
And the people holding the controls here are not a panicking organisation scrambling to survive. BC Partners retains authority over both the deadline date itself and over what constitutes a sufficient player base to move forward. They can extend the October 25th deadline. They can determine what a viable league looks like. That is not weakness in the structure. That is a commercially sophisticated investor protecting its position and giving the process room to land properly.
So much noise. But reality is this has to happen and it’s being done exactly as it should.
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