00:00Like, think about the structure of the deals that Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed got back in February when we
00:08didn't have all this reporting about PIF pulling funding and the future league.
00:11They were still viewed as potentially a viable competitor.
00:14I mean, and John Rahm, he worked out that deal kind of in lockstep timing with the whole live reports,
00:22you know, where he's playing these events on DP World Tour, retaining his membership there and being able to play
00:27on the Ryder Cup.
00:27But every moment that passes where live looks more and more like they're on on shaky ground and might dissolve
00:34is is another risk.
00:37Like, OK, if Brooks had to pay five million to share and you come back now, you got to pay
00:4110.
00:41OK, like, all right, Bryson, you just said some stuff about how the PGA Tour needs you.
00:45All right, guess what? Now it's 20. Oh, you don't like it. Oh, where else are you going to play?
00:49I mean, I just think that it's and I'm not sure I'm not trying to be, you know, harsh on
00:53live guys, but it's like it's really a part of this.
00:57A big part of this is a negotiation. It's a leverage game and you're losing it by the moment with
01:01every one of these reports comes out about live.
01:04So here's the thing about that is that the only thing that John Rahm or Bryson DeChambeau will lose is
01:10just a year of their time.
01:11They right. You know, they they don't have to correct. They do not have to pay the fines.
01:18What what happened with like, for instance, with with Patrick Reed, right?
01:22Like he wins on the DP World Tour and all of a sudden, like he had not re-signed with
01:26Live Golf.
01:27And so at that time, he realized, well, shoot, I'm just going to go get one of these DP World
01:31Tour cards and get back onto the PGA Tour.
01:33And so there was a loophole here of like, OK, here's where I know my suspension will be.
01:39And the same would be for for Bryson and John Rahm.
01:42And in that case, if they didn't want to jump straight back to the PGA Tour, now the PGA Tour
01:47will, you know, come with an offer.
01:49This is what it is. And it's not a there's no negotiation in it.
01:54It's like this this is is what it is.
01:56And if we know anything about Rahm in this is that that he's been pretty hard headed on it because
02:01we we both believe that he should have accepted the DP World Tour deal,
02:06which was just a four tournament offer that he's like, no, I would never play for.
02:10It's like, dude, like this is this isn't that right.
02:14I think it was six. I think it was six.
02:16And he wanted to play six. It was six.
02:18You want to play four because the fifth is, as we discussed, six is a lot.
02:21I can understand that.
02:23But but the fifth, the one he added on was Scottish Open.
02:27Because it's with the PGA Tour. It's interesting how this stuff's turning.
02:29I think you're right. I think you're right there.
02:31I think that that if they are willing to say, OK, like, I'll just go play a year on the
02:37DP World Tour.
02:38I'll bank on the fact that playing against some of those fields, I will finish top 10.
02:42I'll earn that category in the major year.
02:45Like he gets it's it would be the easiest way for him to get back to PGA Tour if he
02:51wants to save money.
02:52And and especially if he's not going to get paid out his full sum.
02:56Some and he's made, I think of I think he's made $87 million just on the golf course over there.
03:02If he ends up not getting his full payout, the only thing that he really loses is that whatever he
03:09had for the PGA Tour retirement or whatever the future profit earning entity is.
03:17Equity thing.
03:18Yeah, like which, from what I understand, is very lucrative.
03:22And Jon Rahm was going to be 100 million, million, millionaire, regardless if he was playing the PGA Tour or
03:30live.
03:30Now, you could probably double exit a little bit of how much he's made over at live.
03:35But you take away some of this, you know, guaranteed money that he was that he might not receive.
03:40Well, if he played really well in the PGA Tour, these guys are making a lot of dang money to
03:45how close would it have actually been in a nutshell?
03:49Because both tours are making both players.
03:51If you're playing good on each tour, you're making a lot of money.
03:55Now, it's pretty, pretty wild.
03:57The, you know, the medium to low end player on live, how much they can make for playing average to
04:03poor compared to the PGA Tour where, you know, you're missing cuts.
04:06It's, it's, that's, that's a bit drastic, the guaranteedness of it.
04:10Not to say that we don't have a guaranteed model of the PGA Tour, which I completely disagree with.
04:16But that's a conversation for next week.
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