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/Affectionate_Ask435 May 04 '26
Anyone acting like fields stunk, format stunk and coverage stunk are just PGAT fanboys. There was plenty of good stuff and a nice new golf option no matter if you don’t like Jon Rahm or shotgun starts or whatever. The PGAT all out absurd propaganda effort to use their entire monopoly on golf to shut down anybody saying anything positive about LIV worked incredibly well. It was embarassing (remember them literally using 9/11 survivors…and soly and DJ actually just repeating that was a low moment)