Rory McIlroy's Take on PGA Tour and LIV Golf Developments

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00:00on to to rory's comments and so he this was to the telegraph of london on thursday it's not as if

00:07they made any huge signings this year is it roy's talking about live golf of course they haven't

00:11signed anyone who moves the needle i don't know i don't think they will i mean they could re-sign

00:15bryson for hundreds of millions of dollars but even if they do it doesn't change their product

00:20does it they'll just be paying for the exact same thing he said this is great as it gets brooks back

00:25to where he belongs he's one of the best players in the world and anything that makes her traditional

00:30tour stronger is a good thing in my book i want to start there there's one more i want to read you

00:36but just reflections on what rory's saying and i know that i deeply appreciate rory mccleroy's honesty

00:43on so many different topics you don't get a lot of guys that are willing to talk about that

00:46but we've talked about on the show in the past how he's come out and made strong statements of things

00:52that he believes and then whether he's had to backtrack or qualify down the road he's had to

00:58kind of change you know what his original position was and i wonder if you hear this and you read this

01:03you say i don't know if i would have gone that strong on that topic well i think many of the top

01:08pga tour players will probably be in agreement with rory mccleroy and except the guys of course that

01:13turned out a big sum of money like windham uh that this is better and stronger pga tour now that

01:19brooks kepka's back i think most people can understand and agree especially if brooks gives

01:23you uh you know some really good events coming up if he gets off to a great start for the pga tour

01:29and let's say he wins early i mean how amazing would that be for the tour to have that storyline

01:34brooks coming back from live and just i think the one the one event that i think of last year

01:39if we if ratings matter in this and especially with live golf's ratings in the united states up against

01:47the pga tour and i thought one of their best events they had last year was doral it was a golf course

01:53that many pga tour fans are familiar with players are familiar with it and live golf had one of their

01:59best sunday finishes with so many of their top name guys coming down the stretch i don't i think mark

02:07we shouldn't may have ended up winning that event but it was up against the valero texas open and i was at

02:14that texas open it was a windy event no birdies were being made and i think that rating was like

02:20a 1.4 for nbc and live golf i think had like a four five hundred thousand rating so when you compare

02:28those two things together the best event of live in the united states compared against you know a field

02:35that was just trying to get to the finish line and brian harman winning and a lot of waggles

02:39and comparing those two things you're like wow uh maybe rory's right when when you talk about if

02:45they're not adding more players you know what's going to change for the viewer to get these ratings

02:51up um i can't speak to to how much money that is being made for live golf with the franchises and all

03:00these potential sponsors that are apparently coming on uh whether it be apparel or banks or uh selling

03:07these franchises to to potential billionaires that we've read about with that we don't know how

03:12accurate it is that's kind of the what is bubble watson alluded to is that there's been people that

03:17have been trying to buy the range goats well we don't know that and i don't think we would know what

03:22the finances are inside these teams and what the end goal is uh but i do understand it for certain

03:28markets how live golf can be considered better you know the pga tour is not going to be going to

03:34australia anytime soon although i'd like it to happen it just feels like it's not going to happen

03:39it feels like live golf is better for australia and it's better maybe for south africa but if you're

03:44going there as a top player in the world it feels like you're missing out on a lot of really high

03:51quality competitive golf where more eyeballs are yeah and i and rory goes on to say as part of this

03:57interview and he's speaking now about the pif which of course funds live golf uh we have to realize

04:03we were trying to deal with people people that were acting in some ways irrationally just in terms

04:08of the capital capital they were allocating and the money they were spending it's been four or five

04:13years so there hasn't been a return yet but they're going to have to keep spending that money to even

04:16just maintain what they have right now so that's already lost i mean they've lost five six billion

04:21dollars that was reported last year and now you're talking about having to put up another was it the

04:25500 million dollar signing for bryson to chamo and then where does that leave you it leaves you

04:30exactly where you are so we we know that that that fighting the money battle against live is is

04:36never that was the biggest fear in all of this and why you felt like you had to to go to the

04:41negotiating table to make a deal work because eventually they were just going to keep spending

04:45and spending and spending until all your top players were gone but enough of the top players

04:49said no to where they finally found some balance a good year in ratings for the pga tour and a

04:54bounce back year and i think they've kind of leveled out to where they feel like they can ride this out

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