LIV continues to find the right price for additional guys as C. Smith goes

[Irondawg]

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/i...ron-smith-five-others-leave-pga-tour-liv-golf

This is one of the best "everyone has a price" experiments we've seen in the public in some time and it will be interesting to watch if sponsors and networks fold over time and join in as well.

 

[11thEagleFan]

Sports leagues and teams across the country proudly sport the Nike swoosh, despite human rights atrocities committed in China. No one cares. Why should a Saudi golf league draw my ire?

 

[Cooterpoot]

Sports leagues and teams across the country proudly sport the Nike swoosh, despite human rights atrocities committed in China. No one cares. Why should a Saudi golf league draw my ire?

LeBron supports this message

 

[patdog]

It should. But it won't. Because, like you said, nobody gives a **** about the human rights atrocities in China and nobody gave a **** about the ones in Russia until they invaded Ukraine. Money will win out and the PGA is not going to outspend the Arabs.

 

[57stratdawg]

It’s the worst country in the world. Don’t forget - they knocked down the Twin Towers & attacked the Pentagon. Americans tend to blur Middle Eastern countries together as extremist, but SA stands well above the others. Our ‘War on Terror’ is (was?) a war against Saudi Arabia; it was just fought outside their borders. The next time a couple crazy Muslims shoot up a shopping mall - they will likely have direct ties back to the Kingdom either through visits / training or fundings.

They are a missionary state that wants to harm Americans. They’re worse than China, IMO. I would not buy anything associated with that tour if at all possible.

 

[dog99walker]

How many Saudis were involved in 9/11? How many Saudis does it take to cut up a Washington Post journalist? You watch LIV Golf if you want. I’ll stick with the PGA.

 

[aTotal360]

Keep an eye on sponsors that stick with LIV, but throw rocks at Americans with differing opinions.

 

[archdog]

Just goes to show you, if you kill your own people, people really do not care. But if you kill other people, then everyone suddenly cares. Like Hitler and Stalin. Stalin killed like 20 million people, but Hitler is seen as the worst between the two of them. Saudi financed and helped to organize 9-11. That is a big flippin deal to some. China basically does that and much worse to their own people.

If sports has an issue with LIV, then Nike needs to move their manufacturing to the US.

 

[Irondawg]

Nobody goes against China because it’s not just Nike. They make most everything we use that’s isn’t food and that’s why they don’t get the heat they should.

About all a politician would have say these days to get my vote is to put focus on the deficit and reduce our dependence on China for manufactured goods.

 

[johnson86-1]

LeBron supports this message

Nah, that *** hole would gladly point fingers at the Saudis and call them monsters while sucking Xi's dick. When the Saudi's start backing up a dump truck of money to his house, then he'll start defending them.

 

[Pars]

I mean good for those guys getting there money I guess. I’m a casual golf fan probably more than most but don’t watch every shot. I’m not big on exhibition games and that is all LIV is. So I’ll probably never watch also have no interest in whatever “tech” golf Rory and Tiger are coming out with.
I want to watch golf like Sunday at the tour championship. That 54 hole shotgun start crap doesn’t interest me at all.

 

[GloryDawg]

Saudi Arabia is no where near as evil as China.

 

[Dawg1976]

Simple. 911

 

[AlSwearengen]

Yeah. The pga tour pissed me off over the last few years with some of the stuff they have pulled, as well as some of their rhetoric. And why do they, along with the golf channel and others get a pass for being aligned with china?

 

[Dawg1976]

Unfortunately lots of what everyone buys comes from China. I try to avoid China products when possible.

 

[mstateglfr]

Arguing over which country's government is worse- China or Saudi Arabia...
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[GloryDawg]

Arguing over which country's government is worse- China or Saudi Arabia...
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The reason why because a lot of people don't like the LIV because it's Saudi Arabia and they justify it by saying how bad the Saudies are but then ok with PGA, NBA and many other sport organization that is associated with China. China today has child slave labor. China today has concentration camps for Muslim and gays. NIKE and Apple both have factories in China and those factories uses force child labor. I don't like China or Saudi Arabia. They are both horrible but China is way worse than Saudi Arabia. Just don't be ok with China and not ok with Saudi Arabia. Be consistent.

 

[mstateglfr]

Yeah, I am tuned in on what each country's governments have done and continue to do.

 

[tmjdog]

Never liked the power or intimidation of monopolies or unions, and the PGA is acting like both when it comes to the competition of LIV. And when it comes to wearing long pants when it’s 95 degrees with 75% humidity, I hope LIV will apply some common sense that the PGA has refused to. Competition is good. JMHO. Hail State.