@greg16676935420@joeybagovdonuts Well, that’s a German flag for a start you uneducated American twat!!! Belgium 🇧🇪 has far more going for it than the US my friend… Chocolate, beer, history etc
@Tedeschi8181 Good thing we got rid of the only decent 9 in the club… No decent wingers or FB coming through either!!! Going to take more than Mitch Woods to fix this shambles of a team!!! @NRL_Bulldogs
@elkpga@DaveShedloski@livgolf_league@PGATOUR@KornFerryTour A world tour def needs to happen whether it’s LIV or something else!!! Too many old timers ruining the golf landscape because they refuse to acknowledge this is the best outcome for all parties, but most importantly the fans!!!
@elkpga@DaveShedloski@livgolf_league@PGATOUR@KornFerryTour I don’t see why everyone is so keen to see the demise of LIV esp world golf fans and think the PGA is the best and only outcome here. Why should the US have the monopoly on world golf? I won’t cop that because all the $ r in the US. World golf fans deserve to see the best players
Lynch,
This reads less like a rag column and more like a prosecution brief with jokes stapled on. You dress it up in Gladwell and “outliers” language, then treat subjective disdain as if it’s the data. “Bootlickers”, “apologists”, “social media slurps” isn’t analysis. It’s a tell. You’re not testing a claim, you’re selecting targets and cueing the reader how to feel about them.
Your LIV section is built on a double standard that always favours the PGA Tour. Adelaide’s revenue being an outlier is an interesting business point, but you use it only to sneer at LIV fans, not to examine what it actually proves: that elite men’s golf can thrive outside the US when it’s staged properly and priced for the market. Cue LIV Golf South Africa in a few weeks, that could be bigger than Adelaide. Then you reach for a US TV number as a mic-drop without explaining the source, method, platform context, or like-for-like comparison. That’s not “evidence”. That’s a stat as a bludgeon.
The Kim section is the giveaway. You concede the hard truths, absence, addiction, rebuild, and then you cannot bring yourself to let the sporting achievement stand without reducing his return to a “desperate marketing stunt”. That’s not something you demonstrate; it’s something you assert because it flatters your priors. The inconvenient fact is that Kim’s place wasn’t protected: he was relegated, then earned his way back, then won. If you’re arguing LIV has no merit pathways, Kim is the counterexample in your own copy.
Your sweeping claims need receipts, not rhetoric. “More than 90%… by invitation.” “Contractually protected.” “Ejected based solely on national origin.” Those are allegations mis represented and half truths, with no context and no written rules cited, and no acknowledgement that the PGA Tour is also in parts a closed shop in practice: sponsor exemptions, medical extensions, major-category protections, reshuffles, and a system that has always mixed merit with status, money, and relationships. If you want to prosecute LIV for being curated, you need to apply the same standard to the Tour you’re implicitly defending.
In the end, the “outliers” framing is just a narrative trick: Player as your designated villain, Kim as your reluctant hero, LIV as your permanent defendant, and the PGA Tour as the unspoken baseline of virtue. You can dislike LIV, plenty do, but you don’t get to replace reporting with mockery and call it truth. If you want to persuade readers rather than rally your own side, drop the sneers, show all the sources and truths, and argue against the strongest version of the opposing case, not the caricature.
Of which you certainly are along with your pal Brandel, the two biggest Spitting Image caricatures in golf.
@diokonieczny That’s a horrible take mate. Personal differences aside - Norman gave AK a chance and he took it. Full credit to AK, but without Norman taking a punt… This moment doesn’t happen!!! At the end of the day it’s great for GOLF ⛳️
@Luke_Elvy They absolutely do not Luke. Too many old timers that refuse to accept change… They don’t understand that if you don’t keep evolving as a sport you’ll be left behind. Which is what’s happening to the OWGR’s and to a certain extent the PGAT.