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:marseyflagsaudiarabia: Saudi-backed LIV golf :marseycountryclub: tournament takes over PGA. Redditors cope :marseycope:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/06/pga-tour-agrees-to-merge-with-saudi-backed-rival-liv-golf.html

After 2 years of sneeding, PGA has decided that money is worth more than morals and agreed to merge with LIV, backed by Saudi Arabia. As a reminder, this was PGA's stance last year. Loyalists to the PGA have been thoroughly humiliated as they turned down contracts worth up to $800 million (in Tiger Woods case) for it to not really matter in the end.

As expected, reddit is handling it well:

So LIV golfers just essentially made a shit ton of money and nothing changed? I’m confused

You left out the part where the PGA went on a year long rant about morality and refusing to take money from the Saudis only to immediately take money from the Saudis at the first opportunity

This is my favorite part. And all the redditors who just got cucked by the PGA & their "heritage & tradition"

Hey wait, that’s me 🥴

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So the PGA gaslit the public and their athletes into taking the moral high ground all the while they were cutting deals behind closed doors? Unreal levels of scum lol

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PGA really made themselves look like a joke. Cash really rules everything.

Always has

What a bunch of greedy and hypocritical scum bags

And on, and on. If you sort by new, plenty of fresh seethe in both the /r/golf and /r/sports threads. Meanwhile /sp/ is acting smug at libcucks and redditors getting owned epic style. Post yfw you didn't look out for number 1 and got clowned on anyways

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Rory Mcilroy did a song and dance about standards and morality while turning down $400 million. I think he was by far the most cucked by this.

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Can't he just threaten to retire and get that bag during the merger? If he was worth 400 mil then, he's worth 400 mil now.

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They have no need to bribe him to play. He has no where to go and sportsballers gotta sportsball so he'll stick around.

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He should make his own league then.

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The Saudi’s have all the players now. He was offered that a year ago when they were trying to get big names. He really wasn’t worth that then, and definitely isn’t now.

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The Saudi’s have all the players now.

lol wat

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So you think he's going to get $0 from this merger and the Saudis will just chuck him if he kicks up a fuss?

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I could be wrong but I'm not seeing why the PGA players would get anything.

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I don't think they're entitled to anything. However, what is stopping Mcilroy, who to my admittedly out of date knowledge is a very famous player that draws viewers, from threatening to retire in order to get the Saudis to back up a dump truck and give him the cash they initially offered him?

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They're not trying to build a brand new tour. They were offering basically everyone dumpster trucks full of money because the PGA tour was threatening to ban anyone who associated with LIV.

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Right, but the Saudis will want to keep him happy and playing for them, yes? So if he threatens to retire or makes a fuss, won't they just pull out a 9 figure contract or whatever to shut him up? Or is Mcilroy a fricking cuck that's just going to roll over and take it now that the PGA has sold out?

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