PGA and LIV have merged.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/golf/pga-li...sports/sn-amp/

PGA handles golf decisions, PIF has to agree to financial decisions. Sooo essentially, the latter is the boss.

Holy fuck that's pretty gross.

rich white man gets richer.....what a farce lol

??? Saudi Arabia is white people?

Wat

Will be soon be seeing ARAMCO sponsoring PGA tournaments?

The Saudi's are not doing this to make a ton of money. They are doing to look better on the world stage. White people like Greg Norman who is the CEO of liv are going to make a killing.

Maybe, but he's just a puppet / face of legitimacy / celebrity spokesman basically

I hate the fact that Saudi is sportswashing, but I am guilty of buying into similar schemes by FIFA and IOC as well.

no the pga executives...Jesus though that was pretty obvious but guess not

Yeah I'm sure the saudis don't stand to gain here lol.

No it doesn't make sense nor is it obvious actually... because the PGA has lost significant power and control over its own entity

They have lots to gain but money is not the main reason.

I kind of want to make an ad.

From the people who helped fund 911 and dismembered a reporter brings you the new and improved PGA.

^^ well I mean we could also be shot callers, have good living standards for it's citizens and throw around money, but here we are, with the highest gas prices, no doctors, worrying about spy balloons, and still trying to decide if we should build a new tunnel to Delta.

Which citizens have good living standards in Saudi Arabia? Oh... what's that? Only the rich ones? Nay, only the rich MALE ones?

Yah. Okay. Definitely something to aspire to.

you think the guys in charge pga currently care about the "power" anymore? you don't think they all took a massive payout/share stake in the new PGA that's going to pad their pockets?

you really just think they have nothing to benefit from this and are "just losing power"

ya sure ok

I'm sure they did, but I do think they care... all these institutions are about maintaining a status quo for decades and generational wealth.

The Saudis just came and shoved a big fat dick into all of it for them and they're trying to manage it as best they can, they never expected someone richer than them to come along and fuck with them. They're in full out saving whatever they can from this and leveraging the only thing they have left -- their name brand and image.

I thought Badhobz is the only one here who has to worry about spy balloons? :pokerface:

While I agree about the part where the PGA management was trying to salvage whatever they have left at best they can, is the name brand and image really still something they had salvaged?

By being openly hostile towards LIV at first, only to cave now and merge with them, I would have expected most of the general public to think of them as greedy bastard cowards selling out their own name and brand image to dirty oil money. So there ain't much image they can save, and the PGA brand is now tarnished.

But hey, at least they still got a big fat pay cheque cut out to them!

I’d like to think that but I think the general public doesn’t pay attention hard enough to notice really… sadly…

Speaking of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, here's another one sent away

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1Dh8D7X0AE8X93.jpg

i'm surprised it's taken this long

Getting disappeared along with your family by the FSB and/or the GRU tends to keep people in line for a while.

Wagner Groups CEO plane crashed. "Accident," Putin will say right?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/moscow...zhin-1.6945096

Putin took out Prigozhin, aka Mr. Potato Head??

Woe ... that didn't take long. Damn ... he was one of the few hopes of destabilizing Putin.