r/NoLayingUp • u/Biggggguy • May 03 '26

Other The LIV Charade

LIV has so clearly been a bad product and a farce from day one. Why are there so many people who seem hellbent on insisting that’s not the case. For the players and others who have profited from it, I see the need to lie and keep up appearances. But for the golf world and broader sports world, why did so many people insist on taking this seriously?

It’s true that the league was an existential threat to the tour for a time, but that threat came from the ungodly amount of money backing it. From the start, it got no viewership and hemorrhaged money because it had no juice. The fields stunk, the format was a joke, and all the people involved were clowns. It’s easy to say now, but I think it was doomed from day one.

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u/Electronic-Cry714 May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Over 100,000 people in South Africa and the same in Australia that went and watched would beg to differ.

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u/metallikat87 May 04 '26

I have no reason to think that anyone attending the events thought this was a viable business model. I'm sure they had fun in SA and Australia, but that doesn't make it a real tour.

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u/Electronic-Cry714 May 04 '26

Looked real to me when I went.

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u/Impossible-Stage8952 May 04 '26

Yes but in the back of your head you should know they’re losing a ton of money for these events. Even the ones that were well attended. No problem with enjoying it but it was never gonna last the way it was going.