I like this guy.
Only seen that youtube clip and i'm not a fan, doing it for his own publicity.
Personally i think LIV is getting the bad press and Saudi stuff because the bigwigs at the PGA, R&A and so on are trying to get this nipped in the bud and kill off competition, same way as UEFA killed off the superleague stuff, there's no saints on either side, but it's all about business this stuff, same as F1 has been doing worse things for much longer, same as why we're watching a World Cup in Qatar this winter and so on.
LIV is getting the bad press and Saudi stuff because.....
Trump is supporting it.
Trumps supported the PGA stuff for decades, he's supporting the LIV stuff as he wants those tournaments at his venues and to do business with them.
Golf tournaments have always had controversy, look at the Masters over the years, the R&A not allowing women members until recently and so on.
I’ve seen Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore too many times. The real thing will never live up to that. To answer the OP, popular sports bring in lots of money from advertising and sponsorship. Golf is really popular.
My take on golf's attraction is that even a regular muppet can very occasionally look - and thus feel - as good as pro i.e. hit a perfect shot.
You can't say that about mtbing/road cycling/motorcycling/F1/rallying/football and so on. At no point in any of your rides did you you look as good or ride as well as Loic Bruni.
Theres a lot of money in general sloshing about in golf because theres a lot of people that play it, and yes, possibly the demographic also means they will pay a decent amount of money to purchase the same equipment as the pros.
The LIV stuff will never get a return of the investment though. Its not about getting their money back, its basically buying and appropriating an entire pro level sporting group in effect. They will just keeping spaffing all their oil money on players until they hold 99% of the cards.
And before poeple say, so what?, they'll just go onto the next sport and the next sport. Football, boxing (lets be fair cycling is going to be very low on that list). Might not be able to do it with the american based stuff like baseball and basketball but its coming for everything else.
And really, do we have to try so hard to trash other sports? Can we not accept different people might play different sports/hobbies? Especially in the next topic we're now saying we're a country of obesity and we need to get fitter etc, or need to look after our mental health etc.
Personally i think LIV is getting the bad press and Saudi stuff because the bigwigs at the PGA, R&A and so on are trying to get this nipped in the bud and kill off competition, same way as UEFA killed off the superleague stuff, there’s no saints on either side, but it’s all about business this stuff, same as F1 has been doing worse things for much longer, same as why we’re watching a World Cup in Qatar this winter and so on.
Well, I think they've got a kinda right to try and protect what they've built up over the years. Its like you spending a long time building up whatever business you're in and then Amazon setting shop up next door selling everything at a loss just to get the market because they can afford to.
I struggle with long sentences, but
Theres a pretty perfect inverse relationship between how keen on golf these people are and how well their companies perform. The keener the golfer the poorer the share performance and more bancruptcies they’ve presided over
Can we say ‘recent ex-US President’, children? I think we can… 🤣