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Saudi’s are investing in sports across the board… insane amounts of money
trying to “sports wash” their image and legacy of murderous atrocities.
Live and let Liv !
I’ve seen a lot of ways to launch a professional sports league. Removing a journalist from a press conference of your league’s face is a brand new move to be sure
@John Lee yes, for the money and endorsements
@Anthony Holder didnt they lose most of their if not all of their endorsements?
“Journalist” 😂😂😂 so tired of this word thrown around like saints. You notice only certain journalists get the halo treatment?
@John Lee These guys are hyper competitive. They don’t go there to lose…
And remember folks while we have our own issues here, Its the Saudis that refuse to raise OPEC production levels.
remember sam, your president made that a reality
@pretzelhunt the futures market, brandon. turn off cnn and msnbc
The question is how long will the Saudis continue giving the players the type money they getting now. Six figures for being in last place.
They have unlimited funds.
Estimated in the trillions. THEY OWN THE OIL
Saudi’s and the golfers LiV by C.R.E.A.M.
Plus the winning team splits 3 million
this is the craziest situation, it just means more golf for me though
The USA sells the Saudi’a our weapons and buys the Saudi oil like it’s the only source avaialbe, so this is just not a story when it comes to dealing with the Saudi’s.
There’s are two songs I just can’t forget. 1) Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone 2) Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
I can’t forget Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel and Let it Be by the Beatles. So what’s your point?
@Linjica Konikon Sorry for being unclear. It’s the accusations towards golfers taking Saudi money while the US has a record not to be proud of. Both have failed humanity
Again, pot calling the kettle black. We have done far worse than the Saudis for years. Tough nuggets for Shipnuck. Now LIV golf’s Jim Acosta.
This is why I keep referring to it as the “Greg Norman Ego Trip” League. He’s been known as a bitter jerk for 40 years, and this current enterprise is just his latest display of it.
@Mark S The final result will be less golf because it will kill the PGA tour. And what happens when the Saudi $$$ spigot gets turned off. Losing billions annually is unsustainable in the long run.
@Mark S The PGA Tour is just trying to protect its field each week. Top players = more viewers = more sponsors = more prize money. If the Top 48 are playing somewhere else, who’s watching here?
@Mark S …oh I don’t know…just a guess. Murderous blood money?
@Mark S . It’s exhibition golf ..Nothing to see here.
@MoMoMyPup10 Top 48??? A long, long way off yet…
The only thing I’m going to say is if we are going to take the moral high ground we should apply it across the board. Let’s look into some of the organizations that pay for the pga tour sponsorships and go through their past. That means no more DP World Tour events in several countries in the Middle East and Europe and Asia. I’m not condoning the Saudis but if we aren’t going to do events because of a Country’s prior bad acts, no sport would be played in the US.
@Chris Olivo lots of journalists have called out the China NBA débâcle. Also John Cena was excoriated for his China apology.
How about the NBA playing in China who may be worse than the Saudis? Crickets from Eisen.
Yep. I guess were not suppose to notice that. Just like we’re not suppose to notice that the PGA operates a tour in China.
How do we know that Phil isn’t the reason he was removed? He was the one who wrote the book about him and leaked the gambling debt
Reporters aren’t saints, they don’t get an all inclusive pass to play damsel in distress
The names are not all that incredible. The Canadian Open has a much stronger field. There are a few big names and mostly old, past their prime guys with some name value.
not that much different
They’re making more money than I ever will, so who cares? This is how they make a living!!
Someone will need to come back in a few months and laugh at this mooks comment. Plenty of pga players are just biding their time b4 they bounce to liv. It’s hard press to be in that first group of players.
Half a dozen masters champions playing the liv tournament. The Canadian open has… Rory.
@Neu User Dude… with a straight face your seriously gonna compare the LIV field with the field at the Canadian Open?? You GOTTA be a Saudi troll😅
Hilarious watching the media bitch and complain about this
Any criticism of the NBA players (Lebron 😳) that sports-wash China’s inhumanity? $ drives some really weird ‘business’ decisions and implied support.
It’s hard to tell if Alan Shipnuck is a SJW or not. He seems to be a gas lighter
I have heard that Norman brings a doctor with him who can perform the heimlich maneuver due to his constant choking.
He choked when it counted with Chrissie Evert.
Money can turn a man with no spine into a whore in no time.
Shipnuck claims he was physically muscled out by goons. LIE. I saw the video, security told him no access to Phil, Shipnuck gave his best smirk and left. So when he texts Shark the Shark must assume this was a different scenario because what Shipnuck described in his tweets is NOT what happened in the video that he’s using the screen shots of. Eisen just takes the lying journalists narrative and runs with it. Typical.
Its interesting to watch this standoff between Capitalism and Patriotism. Similar to the NBA and China.
How do you not have a Willy Wonka “you get nothing!” drop?
What about what is being done TODAY in the US to journalists that the current Admin doesn’t like … See Project Veritas and what happened to James O’Keefe.
Is that the ACORN guy?
@Aerolithe Lion yes
Norman’s response to Shipnuck was sarcasm. Ever heard of that???
“Dad. Why are we so rich?” “ HamenaHamenaHamenaHa”
Of course Shipnuck would be asked to leave. Duh. Just f‑n Duh.
Laughable journalist talks about all the bad Saudi does while attending their event and posting if from his twitter that Saudi is the biggest sharehoulder smh. Nothin worse than a smart dumb journalist
Hey Rich, NBA in China? Nothing to say there?
LIV golf event was so much more entertaining than watching Fitzpatrick play golf in Canada…I don’t know for sure but LIV golf might have something here.
If there’s no history or records aren’t involved I don’t care to watch it. Just being honest 🤷
History and records are only things that other people have told us are important. I want to see a good match with high stakes.
@Streaming Analytics Which will you forget first history or a guy who won a bunch of money with no meaning other than money? Seems more like a carnival exhibition than a golf tournament. It just doesn’t do it for me.. I tried 🤷
@Bass Assassin why can’t we have both? That’s what nobody is asking, because the discussion is what cannot be had. Not by you and me, I mean, but at large.
Do any of these guys remember where most of the 9/11 terrorists came from?? I won’t watch it. I know our government sells them arms and we all use gasoline, but I’d prefer we didn’t sell them arms and sadly electric cars still don’t have the range I need nor are they at a price that I can afford. Actually pretty much all of the guys that are going are guys I don’t particularly like anyway. I’m sure a few more will follow. The money is just too good, but I will respect the guys who play for wins. I have a hard time believing that Mickelson is going to practice hard to win $4 million, when he is getting over $9 million per event just to show up.
Yeah… Seems a bit disingenuous to criticize individuals for doing what our governments do.
@Linjica Konikon Something tells me you get your news from Q but I don’t even own a working tv, so there’s that.
You mean Israel?
If Happy Gilmore made it to the LIV Tour, all he needed to do was play in three tournaments and he could get grandma’s house back already
he’d also be able to buy the neighborhood surrounding Grandma’s house as well.
The Saudis would have offered him in the region of 10 figures.
rich I would be very careful about throwing stones and glass houses. corporate America like the network that pays your bank has as shady a past as the Saudis.
Rich, love your show. You definitely have a right to slam the LIV golf league and slam Greg Norman, going at the Saudi’s who have definite human rights issues. Free game. So, why have you not, in your interest to be fair, gone after the PGA with their ties to the CCP? Could you please do a follow up just to make things fair.
Your request will sadly go unanswered. This was never about morality, as you and I, and anyone using their brain can see.
China is involved with sportwashing?
NBA, F1, World Cup in Qatar . There is no moral high ground in sports , throw enough dollars in the mud and every sports person will dive in
We take Saudi oil, we send them weapons but we’re upset that citizens take Saudi money to play golf? In a free capitalist society you are allowed to give your services to the highest bidder.
Eeehhh… I mean, its the same as NBA players staying quiet about China’s treatment of the Uyghur muslims.
The LIV golf sounds like the adult version of a participation trophy. Get paid no matter how poorly you play
PGA actually has events where they don’t pay professional athletes. If you don’t make the cut you get $0. What other professional sport doesn’t pay their athletes?? But the athletes have to pay their own travels and hotel expenses. PGA being cheap and trying to maximize profits at all cost will be their downfall. LIV GOLF London event was pretty good for the first one. It will only get better and attract more big names. PGA must change for the better, or get used to becoming the B league of golf ⛳
@dustin156 This must be DJ’s burner account
@Jeffery Haley so you can’t name another professional sport that doesn’t pay their athletes?
Heh, professional sports and integrity, never the twain shall meet.
That ship sailed decades ago 🐉
Has the US government sanctioned the Saudi’s for anything? Shut up about golfers.
Money fixes everything doesn’t it…for governments like ours and for golfers…seemingly money has the ability to “erase” nastiness or at least make it “overlooked”…because money trumps everything in Pro Sports and politics.
I guess the golfers got sick of their never ending poverty…
NBA? Anybody?
Rich have you ever addressed the issue with Lebron and the NBA pandering to China? And what about Nike?! You want to talk about human rights violations??? They’ve children making their shoes for them! Have you done a show about that issue? Sigh.
I like Rich but he nor Dan Patrick nor most of the Sports Media’s talking heads have big enough balls to talk about that Elephant in the room.….when it comes to that issue they’re all panty wastes!
Oh please..the hypocrisy… Cmon man Saudi provides US oil.. have you thought of all of that while driving your cars??
so people, now every time you go to the gas station and pump that gas into your car … look yourself in the mirror – you know who you’re taking the oil from – so shut the f* up and stop being a hypocrite thinking you have a superior moral ground to any of those golfers
Dey can play the “MAJORS” 💪 USGA❤ thats what’s important💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Matthew 6:14- “For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:15- “But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.
Matthew 18:35- “My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”
Matthew 7:2- “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.
Matthew 7:3- “Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Ephesians 4:32- Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Rich, this is garbage. Rory and all the nanny boys take corporate sponsorships that are as bad as the Saudis. or are you going to sports wash the Slave labor of Nike in China? Or how about the Régime Change war crimes in Syria ( 500K dead…Libya 20K dead…or even Ukraine 20K+ dead and counting) of our current crop of “leaders” This is good for golf.…maybe it will lead to some sort of Super Bowl…the LIV just needs to sign its Joe Namath.
Golf is too much a niche sport to make it with 2 premier leagues . No disrespect to guys who took the $ ; it is too life changing for some to say no to
They where talking about a guy who was in last place. He won 5 events in his country and won 2k in total. He won a minimum of 120k
@Answer is 42 You talking bout the guy that shot 24 over par?? Yea… he’s a keeper…😅
This is like going to an appearance to play for Hitler
Awesome when you see someone mention Mr. Big Evil unprompted. It’s like someone announcing that they have serious psychological issues haha.
Greg Norman is a Mob Boss now!
He has always been a “jaggoff”.….
Rick sucks pgas you know what
Our own Government is in business with the Saudis. No room to criticize these players
One wrong doesn’t absolve another.
@Aries73 please tell us more, oh paragon of morality!
@Aries73 uhh that’s a self own. If you get to do business with the Saudis everyone gets to
It’s not really the same thing.… The American government allying with the Saudi government for vital geo-political reasons is a far cry from individual golfers cashing in a big payday to help sports wash SA’s image.
@Buck Draper not really
I watched some LIV today. It stunk
Why?
I’ve seen plenty of PGA stank.
@Linjica Konikon uh yeah, but something something legacy and uh Saudi bad. Yeah, Saudi bad!
@Ron Richter if the media doesn’t sound the alarm, it isn’t happening amirite?
Why should the LIV players feel anymore guilty than PGA players? The PGA is heavily invested in Communist China who has an abhorrent human rights record. I guess Rich doesn’t care about the Uyghurs. Apparently their lives don’t matter as much as a journalist’s life. Funny how his selective memory works.
If you shake hands with Greg Norman make sure you count your fingers afterwards.
Greg must be getting a ton of money.
He did not have a press pass. Out you go. Not welcome at a very professional event.
Get your paperwork in order boy!
230 million for a predator… NIL crazy money for college athletes… LIV billions from a murdering despot in white robes???
Where does it end??? Who finally stands up and says, “No more… This is wrong!!”
Hey Rich.. the US government SELLS WEAPONS to the Saudis… the US also buys oil from the Saudis… we also prop up our currency via the petrol dollar.… so tell me again how youre the only guy with clean hands? Sick of bozos like you who try to project moral superiority. YOU are a fraud.
Overpaid golfers grabbing the bag from those scary mothertruckers
Hey Rich, question! Have you ever wondered how much the PGA really makes? It reminds me of the NCAA and thier greed leading them to thier today’s obscurity. ex ute jeff
It’s a “non-profit” – LOL
Yeah keep driving your car, flying you personal planes, and use any other petroleum product or by-product, but let’s dog the peoples getting a buck.
Rich eisen has fallen off…
Your righteous morals don’t pay my bills if the Saudis give me millions I wouldn’t care I would take the money and play the game
Greg being Spineless is Norman. I mean Normal.
Phil & Greg, same Sss hhh ttt.
Rich America does same dirty business as Saudi. CIA and FBI corrupt AF
Nailed it Rich. Can’t believe the Shark was my favorite as a youth.
It broke my heart seeing him blow a 6 shot lead at The Masters against Faldo. Greg did in fact choke, but I felt for him. Now, I only see Faldo’s greatness in shooting that brilliant 67. Faldo has turned into my hero.
@RH
PGA might look like a monopoly, but they aren’t murderers.
@RH The PGA Tour is just trying to protect its field each week. Top players = more viewers = more sponsors = more prize money. If the Top 48 are playing somewhere else, who’s watching here?
I suppose you don’t eat Kfc or McDonalds. They have
more that 500 outlets in Saudi Arabia. Taking all there dirty money. Paying taxes to Us and Saudi governments. Do the math and get of your PGA GOLD horse.
Like our gov restricts free speech. Journalism dead in US
You talk about journalists being killed in saudi arabia. don’t forget that America was the country that bombed hiroshima the nation where white cops killing and beating up black people meanwjile trying to endorse a PGA tour which used to discriminate against black people what’s so different about taking money from the Saudis then it is taking from anyone else
Yeah I wear Nike and use an iphone. I’d have ZERO problem taking Saudi money.
I get your point, but that’s false equivalence.
@Jamil Smith no it isn’t
This sounds a lot like the CART-IRL split from 1996–2008 that decimated IndyCar Racing.
my advice to golf. FIX THE ISSUE NOW BEFORE IT GETS WORSE.
I remember what a disaster that was. Irl is just now recovering.
Only Major Difference is that the IRL Didn’t have $$$$$
@Antonio saxon They had the Indy 500, which was and still is the largest single day sporting event in the world. It makes money every year, so much that the rest of the season can be run at a loss, and they will still make a profit. The Hulman-George Family also owned Clabber Girl, a large baking company, and that helped them buy the speedway in 1945. They were old money
In the same game as the players who played in Sun City South Africa during Apartheid just for the money.
LOL! Did you see the leaderboard? Top 10 includes guys upwards of 130! According to the PGA Tour and the minions, guys like Na who are in the 30s are has-beens. What does that make the leaderboard for the RBC Canadian Open?
30 isn’t really that old for golf
I love how the media freaks out about this but won’t say a peep to the NBA about taking billions from China every year. 🤡
To your point, Phil has been the only one being honest…which is what everyone loves about him. As opposed to Jack Nicklaus, who is currently working with the same Saudi group to build a golf course in Saudi Arabia, being paid by Saudi money. And in his presser, instead of being honest about the Saudis, he showers them with praise and then expresses how honored he is to be chosen to do this project…when are people going to make headlines about that? He IS the biggest name in golf (along with Tiger), but no one wants to go up against him…
@Pete Galindez 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
@Gerald Butler Agreed…but what are the 2 wrongs?
@Gerald Butler You ARE watching a Saudi backed league, every time you watch sports. The Saudis own part of almost every major Sponsor that pays the PGA, NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.
Really? Some guy you don’t know is leading? Charl Schwartzel…clearly showing how little you know about golf…only a Masters champion..
this video is so bad i can’t believe rich thinks this was actually it 🤣🤣🤣
So freaking dumb. ESPN never should be allowed near golf.
@Neu User It’s almost as bad as ESPN doing the NHL now…LOL
Unfortunately Portland, OR is taking a part in this tour. I wonder how many protesters will show up at this end of the month for the stop here. I hope it’s a lot.
Exactly. Their signs should say “Jamal Khashoggi Memorial Golf Classic.”
C’mon, Shipnutz is more parasite than journalist.
To be honest, I feel like there’s gonna be a massive backdraft from all of this.
To hell with the PGA tour and their sanctions; it’s more of the fact there’s some things that wasn’t explained for this upcoming golf league.…..
The biggest star LIV Golf bagged is Dustin Johnson. Prior to his defection from the PGA Tour Johnson missed 3 cuts out of 9 starts this year and has only had one Top 10 finish (ironically, 9th at the Player’s Championship). The other big star, Bryson DeChambeau missed 5 cuts out of 7 starts this year (with no Top 10 finishes) and is still recovering from hand surgery. Phil Mickelson (51 years old) entered 4 PGA Tour events this year and missed the cut twice, with no Top 10 finishes. The highest-ranked PGA Tour defector is Kevin Na who missed 3 cuts out of 11 starts, with one Top 10 finish.
@Ryan Michael I was referring to the potential “new talent”. Look at Ryan’s statement
John B so was I.
Rankings are fickle. DJ was world number one in 2020. Mickelson won a major a year ago. When is the last major Rory has won?
No-One gives a rat’s arse…
These guys are going to make BANK and laugh all the way to the Bank with their Happy Gilmore sized checks!!
Deal with it
This is just the beginning bro, you got to look at the big picture. Over time the field strength will grow. I can see the PGA tour becoming a copy cat tour, and possibly others, each paying their players upfront.
I hope Norman screws up and the Saudi’s end up doing to him what they do to others. RIP you scumbag.
So it like China and the NBA
Authoritarianism is taking hold worldwide. Norman is just one more example. 1 guess how he votes and for whom? 🙄
Why is this golf tournament such a big deal, but no one in the sports media bats an eye at the NBA and its superstars like LeBron raking in millions from Communist China.
I love the drama
Wow, then start telling the NBA. No more money from China. Lol. Talk about human rights issues. China makes them look like children. Until then, go get all the money you can boys. You deserve it.…
LOL…..if i make my living playing golf, i will play where i can make the most money playing golf ! Check this out, the winner of the Canadian Open will win $1.56M he’s getting the same money as the 3rd place LIV guy 🤣
( Mic Drop )
Ok so the Moral high ground guys over @ PGA Tour are SO afraid of their BRAND being Cancel Cultured !
👍 to the LIV golfers for having the balls to get it now…..
Ok now let’s address the Morality Narrative here….Why NOW are we talking about their Human rights issues ? Why are they not sanctioned like Russia or Cuba ?
Stop being a 🐑 !
Take their Money….
This sh*t$ getting too political !
Like everything else.
Pick your side 🤦🏻♂️
PGA is scared of a Mass Exodus when all they have to do is allow golfers to be the independent contractors they are.
Lol bro American companies do the same thing don’t just say Saudi and assume it’s bad.….…ALL MONEY HAS BLOOD
Rich is owned by an American company and sponsors. A corporate sports pundit. He knows that though. It’s all a circus lol
Tell me there aren’t American companies who still living off slave money.….I’ll wait
nice job, Rich. this story has legs and I hope you maintain.
Hey it is up to them if they want to take the money from a country that practice a form of modern slavery and have one of the worst Human rights record in the world . But these Rich White Golfers better not whine when they get cut off from other tournaments and other parts of the world. We been thru this before under South Africa and apartheid
They are mercenary golfers,
“NOT” our role models, 😎
“stay poor my friend” role models but the bottle down nba china?
Not many household names in the Canadian Open
The Masters Champion and the PGA Champion are at the Canadian Open. That is where the competition is. The “household” names you are referring to, are has-beens, and aging players who can’t get it done at the highest level anymore.
The shark playing the Merc for blood money. Sounds pretty average to me.
3:21 – What beautiful timing…“The only thing they have to live with is…THE MAN in the mirror!” (And then dude walks into the “mirror” behind Eisen..)
Colin Kaepernick was black balled for taking a knee during the Anthem. What these golfers are doing is 10 times worse! Nobody in America should ever cheer for any of these traitorous golfers. The Saudi government’s involvement in the 9–11 attacks still hasn’t been determined. What the F#%K is wrong with these guys?!
Rich Eisen is the Brian Stelter of sports
Except there are some people that listen to Stelter.
Absolutely
Brilliant
What?? An Australian with no scruples? Stop the presses!!
The liberal Greg do as I say not as I do.
NBA better watch out !!!
Blood money
I think I can live with myself in the mirror
Shipnuck’s most probably “persona non grata” with Phil and the rest of these multimillionaires becoming “more” multimillionaire, but I would think this would be the last thing you would want to do with any journalist right now for a league whose benefactor’s track record with journalists is a bit sketchy to start with. Good luck with this kind of “course” of action in the future, Greg!
Alan Shipnuck has said there were some ‘very personal’ items he didn’t include in his ‘Phil’ book. Well, lets just wait for Billy Walters book to be released. To be continued.
I’m reading this book. It’s pretty boring to be honest.
What don’t you talk about the NBA’s relationship with China?
@David C ignore the main point but comment when u see someone make a off hand comment that’s not factual and act like that disproves the original comment?
Lol
@Lee Lee Currency manipulation is easy…until it ALL comes crashing down. The russian economy is heading for a crash worse than the 90’s when they were a 3rd world country.
You can only keep artificially inflating the value of a currency for so long by not allowing it out of the country. If you can’t import anything, those Rubles aren’t worth anything to anyone in the country, especially when inflation is tearing up their value.
Russia can’t import any important Advanced Tech and will lose the ability to be able to create smart weapons, smart vehicles and anything else that modern society uses because of a lack of chips, advanced electronics and advanced manufacturing processes.
This will cause the russian federation to splinter…just like the USSR splintered decades ago.
Enjoy watching the show as they lose their army in Ukraine and lose their economy for the next couple of years.
All while the rest of the world laughs at Putin.
If you can live with yourself accepting blood money, you have no soul in my opinion
why is it okay for the US government to sell Saudis billions of dollars of weapons, but Phil Mickelson should refuse to play in their golf league, just silly.
Agreed. Some people look at this situation that the good ol’ US of A is the purveying moral compass of all that is going right in this crazy world
@Dean Lynde why is that?????
Equating real politic with golf is what’s silly
one way alan can look at it: they stopped me from asking a question that could have got me killed. glass half full kind of view.
Why should Greg Norman have to own up to it.
but Joe Brandon works with these guys
Hey Rich, the PGA has done things that really upset me after the 2019 season . PGA stop. Playing at Trump owned Golf courses was just wrong and it made me think … political decision are being made in all sports and It sucks, because sports was the one place I could go to get away from that political crap.
I wonder if anyone would have a problem with St Judes childrens hospitals taking Saudi money. I’d take the Saudi money and give it to St Judes and the Paralyzed Veterans Association and the ASPCA and use that evil money for good and I’m sure many of these players will do exactly that.
One other thing if it wasn’t that big a deal the PGA would’ve suspended the 17 players
They have been suspended.
Good story Rich, now I’m waiting for the how NBA players taking money from China is blood money story. Bet we won’t venture into those waters though
@Gus de Mags so just never do business with Saudis or whomever until they believe exactly what you do? Seems a bit authoritarian but you do you my mam
@spsawyer22 interesting, I would be authoritarian for not endorsing doing business with authoritarians; so, that would not be whomever, just the authoritarians.
@Gus de Mags You don’t think China getting into the NBA and having their own branch of the PGA Tour is sportswashing? Please tell me what it is then
Wait till Rich finds out about China
Wait till Rich finds out about Julian Assange
And? For decades the PGA where was the $$$ were at. The only reason a “Green Jacket” means anything is because you are set if you win one, and that’s why the trophy for the “Waste Management” doesn’t.
Do you really think that Gary Player, Seve, Shark, etc, etc. would bother if the those “majors” weren’t the way to financial security?
I’m more worried that LIV doesn’t seem like it’s for profit. Hopefully they don’t become an Amazon-like entity that is doing this just to kill off other leagues.
Yet.…NBA sends players to China and its crickets from liberal media. Gee.…It’s almost like the sports leagues that carry water for the woke crowd gets a pass.
This is a very sad situation. The filthy rich being taken advantage of by the filthy, filthy rich. My condolences. This is so sad.
*Sad & Funny because it’s true.* 🙃
“Taken advantage of”…. I presume your being sarcastic !
Sounds like corporations and Congress in the US.
Everyone is good here. Nobody being taken advantage of
@Costahammer Fairly dripping with Sarcasm… 😉
Now do the NBA taking money from China–while they make Nikes using child slave labor
Get real in a real world. We see government officials and corps sucking up to China and now you are worried about a Muslim nation with U.S $$ for oil to pay golfers. Spare me.
Golfers can’t accept money from the league backed by Saudis…but it’s ok for Joe Biden to beg them to start giving us oil again and putting more money in their pockets? 🤷🏻♂️
China is ok with its ties with the NBA?..
no one seems to bring them up..
Also address the NBA taking money from China with their disgusting human rights abuses! Journalists and the media not EVEN mentioning that! CALL EVERYONE OUT!
I’m not about to listen to PGA tour players who take money from all kinds of nefarious sources (cough Nike cough) lecture about who should be taking money from who.
“OWN UP TO IT!”
@Brooks Brumfield Fix you caps…
You know who actually paying these liv players. The U.S. and Europe buying there oil. I don’t see anyone bit*hing about that
Amen, brother! Each time we fill our tanks we add to the Saudi monarchies wealth. Thus, we’re all guilty of supporting the régime and what they stand for.
That’s why I’m all for a Manhattan Project for energy. Then nobody can be a hypocrite.
Never forget. 9=11
You can sell your soul for playing a fuckin game.
The rich think their so much better than others. No they have no ethics, respect, just garbage people.
I don’t begrudge these guys getting a paycheck that’ll impact generations. What I can’t stand is that NONE of them are admitting to it. I’m so tired of “it allows me to play golf all over the world” or “I’m just trying to better the game”. Lost all respect for this group.
It’s not our business, they don’t owe us an explanation.
The love of money is the root of all evil. For eight years, Obama sat in the White House and ordered the remote-control drone killing of innocent civilians, including Americans. There are none righteous, no not one. Climb off your high horse PGA.
So sick of everyone obsessed with the Saudis when the same people were upset at Tucker Carlson calling out the NBA for its ties to China. I think calling it blood money is a joke. Every government has done things that would be considered blood money. My gosh people are so naïve.
Your Tax dollars go to murderous regimes all over the world . We provide weapons to the same and buy the natural resources they provide , but yeah Golf is the thing that upsets ppl .
People care about golf ?
Who knew ?
I find it hilarious that “LIV” is 54 in Roman Numerals, that their events are 54 holes, its star player has blown several 54 hole leads in majors, several of its other stars have done the same, and its commissioner was the absolute king of choking away 54 hole leads. Everything about this is for the underachiever looking for the easy way out.
I actually think they’re looking for the $4 million purse
Pretty sure you have never achieved a PGA Tour Win.
Pretty sure they have.
Also pretty sure they would tell you to STHU.
Pretty sure you’re not playing for $4 Million purse for a reason
@duskdeepens – of course!
@David C Okay, and? Does that change anything I said, or they did?
@DRM 1985 Obviously you and Will (above) have never played competitive golf.
I’m sure they’d all play Sun City. Scumbags.
But the sports media will cover the LIV because they have no spine to say we won’t give them the time of day.
“hey wheres my check?, Well be mailing them out next week sir, oh no no no I want mine now, I don’t have any checks to give, well that guy got one right, gimme one of them big ones i don’t care” Signed Happy Gilmore
Next up North Korea golf, China golf, Russia golf leagues
I hear a lot of moral outrage by a guy that uses their fuel and probably buys Chinese made stuff every single day
Bad argument. The players have a choice. Lonely peasants have no choice in gasoline or products from China. Only buyers for stores do.
Never seen someone is rattled about golf in this way like Rich, Dan Patrick was or was just becouse new tour is Saudi backed? But they are afraid to talk how their own government is in bed with that same Saudi and how Sauid invest soo much money in America in different way. Hypocrisy
Actually Dan acknowledged the US does business with them but he’s kinda like “oh that’s different” but I get what your saying
Lets not pretend all the bad they have done has been in the past, they have very recently done bad stuff and are probably still doing it.
And the US is buying Saudi OIL everyday.
Or were you talking about the PGA??? Because we know they do bad stuff everyday too…and take money from similar sponsors funded by similar money.
The PGA tour is a scam, they pulled the WGC events after Norman had the concept over 25 years ago. They scapegoated Norman. These left wing idiots demonizing these players are wimps!
What about the NBA and China, you fraud?
Pathetic selective outrage.
How many sports and stars get money from that sweat shop nike company??
Can’t take sports money from S.A. but using a flood of their oil is just fine.
The U.S. gov supports the royal family because they supply the flood of oil even though they are brutal to their own citizens.
This outrage is the height of hypocrisy. The media loves to be two faced in many issues.
Go LIV golf.
They don’t even need a PR department. The PGA acting like a petulant child throwing a tantrum is driving people away and LIV is the only other real game in town.
Ah yes, the Man in the Mirror. Ian, DJ, Sergio, Lee, Phil,…that doesn’t matter to them.
Well Said Rich ! – The Shark appears to be a Guppy
more than youll ever be, dorry
Greg Norman is just a slime ball
What about Boxing and Tennis and the WWE and the PGA itself having dealings with the Saudi’s? What about Nike or Reebok or Adidas or Titleist or other companies that deal
With then Saudi’s? Why are we just attacking the golfers…not Indy Car racing or other sports? Why is golf being crucified but not the other sports for their dealings with the Saudi’s or China?
I don’t understand the backlash
Norman and Mickelson are both scumbags that make millions knocking a stupid ball around and then whine like babies about paying their taxes.
Blood Money Greg.
Greg Norman’s new nickname is the “The Shart”. Let get it going
Lol…
You shart yourself with that one ☝️
Hey Rich have you ever heard of the NBA and China?
OK Rich and company , how much money would it take for you all to cover the LIV tour and ignore what the owners have done ?
Rich getting kickbacks from Shipnuck? Maybe mention him a little more?
The Saudis could disrupt any sport in the US they want to. MLB, NFL, NBA. Just a matter of time
Please, let’s not pretend that the PGA Sponsors are angles. And btw: the Saudis GET the money by selling oil, to America, let’s not forget that part.
Not saying there isn’t a point, or it shouldn’t be discussed, but it isn´t a black and white subject at all.
NBA and China. Linked solidly despite the NBAs fake social justice platform. All about the $$$$$$$$.
Stop acting like you care
Four days for 1 million or three days for 4 million, no brainer! And yes, I could look in the mirror and take their money!
George Bush Junior has been involved in ’ Charity Washing ’ for years with the help of journalists, commentators and Hollywood stars yet that’s OK, he is responsible for a million plus deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan and helping with his drone program to turn the middle east in do a klling zone but he did a bit for Aids in Africa so we forget about his war crime years 🙄🤨🤨🤨🤨
LIV tour sounds like athletes who do not like real competition and want easy money from pockets that have been historically dirty.
Where do I sign up? If it sets my family and I up for life then sure.
@dennis ligma sounds about right. good luck with that attitude.
@dennis ligma my thing is that these players aren’t admitting to it for the money. We all know its for the money. Anyone regular Joe would take the cash but just admit it. They are lying through their teeth.
@. xMOHAWKx98 Who hasn’t said it is for the money? The players in multiple different ways have stated that. Do you even listen to their pressers?
I understand your point about sports washing and everything that goes with it. However one of the largest military partner of the Saudis is the United States government. So maybe instead of blaming the players for participating in their sports leagues, try and get your government to stop selling them weapons and everything else. Otherwise stay silent.
@cksamo my argument is consistent.
@Neu User it truly isn’t. Let me know when you get it.
@cksamo you aren’t morally superior.
@Neu User says the guy telling me his supercede mine.
@cksamo you’re so right.
Greed, greed, greed!
Now do China and the NBA…. Anyone with this take should stop using gas. Is this Saudi backed gas?? Should be the question you ask the gas station employee
Leave these guys alone, they are professional athletes and made a good business decision, nothing to see here folks, keep it moving.
The line about how these guys know where they are taking the money from and would have to live with that is interesting, I wonder does it apply to the Deshaun Watson accusers?
RIPPGA
Maybe those who jumped ship want to catch up with Billionaire Tiger in terms of 💰
Only difference is Tiger earned his the traditional hard way…
By cheating
By using steroids?
Completely agree with him.
Wouldn’t be like the Saudi’s to be oppressive to the press
Norman is absolutely the wrong guy to head any organization. LIV will regret their choice.
Not even remotely for a single second.
Phil’s presser was cringe. Shipnuck is a hero. Norman is a disgrace.
claiming the moral high ground as a country where kids die in school because politicians get paid off by the gun lobby is fresh
claiming the moral high ground as a country where people go bankrupt over their hospital bills because the politicians get paid off by the healthcare industry is fresh..
claiming the moral high ground as a country the invaded countless other countries for their own economical benefit is fresh..
liv is a better deal for any of those players and they would be stupid to not take it – it does not even matter where the better players play – it‘s sports entertainment and it only matters who attracts more viewers
one could argue, that there is enough room for more than one golf league
and tell me that the guy who got kicked out was not only their to write bad about all of this
you would be completely clueless if you think kids are dying because of the NRA. And the ‘country’ has nothing to do with corrupt politicians ruining it. We have as much to do about those things you listed as we have anything to do with which player plays where.
Then you try to defend the silencing of a perceived ‘threat’ that a reporter might write something negative? Are you going to want his head detached if he stays and writes something _bad_ ?
But the NBA plays in China
No bitching about that
$125 million reportedly for Dustin Johnson, $100 million for Mickelson. I mean, the Saudis are doing this everywhere, so it shouldn’t be a surprise. This is chump change for them. They’ve been given a pass by most countries for their actions, so blaming these golfers for doing what everyone else is, rings a bit hollow.
That Liv tour will get very messy very quick
Greed is apparently now a virtue. I guess as long as the Saudis aren’t beheading golfers they have no issue with blood money.
We all have such a moral high ground. How about we stop buying from China. God knows about their excellent human rights agenda.
I don’t want to hear anything about money and where it comes from until they speak the same about the NBA and China. You don’t hear one word about it
Love the new league
Most Americans are not going to give this ” league” the time of day . It won’t last long unless they have massive viewership across the globe
Most Americans don’t play or watch golf to begin with…
When you start seeing Roy, Justin, Brooks, Jordan, Hideki, Patrick…to name a few, then you know it’s lights out for the PGA. The LIV tour has already taken 18 players and it’s only been a few weeks. There is no loyalty in modern day sports. Would you quit your job if another company offered you 10X the money and said you’d only have to work half as much?
meh, i think we’d all be tempted but would also take into account the employer. i’d be reading the fine print very closely and making sure i always have an out that’s for sure cause there are a ton of red flags imo.
Didn’t the PGA keep in place segregation at many of their events?
I love Rich but tend to tune out when he goes into moral high ground soliloquys
Hardly anyone watches the PGA tour.. lol they’re not tuning in for some wanna be league.
Xfl, usfl anyone? Exactly, you heard about it for a week
How dare those golfers make money from evil Saudi Arabia! I mean the US does billions of dollars of business annually with them, but never mind that.
Why everyone upset at LIV golf about saudi human rights but they ok with the lebron NBA china marriage?🤔 Hypocrites
And somewhere out there Jack Nicklaus is shouting “WHO’S THE HYPOCRITE NOW!?”
Do people think about those who died at a Pittsburgh steel mill massacre while they’re at Carnegie Hall ?
Rich – you are the best. I enjoy your show
They’re already filthy fucking rich. It doesn’t work to compare the choices of anyone who has next to zero financial security in their entire life to guys who already fly in 🤬 private jets. Its nasty greed. And.….if this was a league started by Russia no one would dare. Honestly if the only thing you can point to is the execution of Khasoggi you’re grotesquely under informed about how evil that régime is.…the US has funded a proxy genocide by the Saudis of the Yemeni people for nearly a decade.
SA financed the 9–11 attacks. They also murdered an American journalist.
These American golfers entering this tour are traitors.
Saudi Régime? Ever hear of the CIA?.….Bwhahahahahaha
People would join the Jeffrey Dahmer professional eating league if there was enough money in it.
We hear about white washing of sports…but what about US companies that operate in Russia and China (like McDonald’s and others) who peddle products to people in oppresive regimes? Now that there is an offical “war in Ukraine” why now do corporations want to take the “high ground” and end operations in Russia? Like the Russians have not killed their own people in our own country??
Sheik and jive?
Rich supports a candidate thats making Saudis rich with high gas prices.
LIV Golf has already thrown out two journalists for not being polite! Unbelievable!
When the PGA Tour defectors signed up with LIV golf, they indeed have commitments they’ll have to live up to. I’m sure there are “required appearances” at Saudi-backed non-golf events like political events, parties, the Prince’s birthday, his son’s birthday, where the players will be paraded around like lap dogs. And they can’t say no.
Don’t kid yourself. PGA players have appearances required too.
These guys got paid WELL and if you think that the PGA and The Masters don’t have a sordid history, you’re completely ignorant of their record.
If they say no… they, or one of their loved ones, may end up like Kashoggi
The Saudis are HUGE sponsors of F1 – a much bigger sport than golf !
THEY UNITED STATES SELLS WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY, TANKS, AIRCRAFT, WEAPONS TO THE SAUDIS. GET A GRIP.
Shipnuck is probably lucky to be alive right now. Or maybe he’ll be “Epsteined”. You don’t cross the bone saw golf tour.
LIV GOLF was good event. I don’t understand the ppl bashing it. All countries have committed war crimes and killed innocent ppl.… yes even the good olé USA
Why is this man crying?
Funny how u care about the saudis and golf but not a peep about China and the nba 🤡🤡🤡🤡
no i would not take more money and sleep well with nightmares of tortured innocent people
Norman has always been a “money grubber ”…as has Mickelson.…both are POS COWARDS!
Always liked Rich since when he had hair,❤️ you dude 🔨
Sports washing. Wasn’t that type of maneuver used by Rockefeller and Carnegie?
Sorta like Rodney King riots quelled by appointing Clarence thomas. Washing
Aren’t we being a bit hypocritical since we’ve bought Saudi oil for many years??? Also most of our goods made in Communist China?
Rich = peoples choice of president of all sport
Before these Yankees talk about what the Saudis did, how about explaining about the mass murders America committed in Iraq under the pretext of WMD?
so true!
‘Sportswashing’ was invented by Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Olympics!
He said hear not see. C’mon.
Norman looks like the grown up Anthony Michael Hall.
The United States is just as guilty if not more of commuting crimes across the world. And the PGA is fine with that too. The PGA welcomes Chinese players without a thought. PGA is just mad that they are going to have competition now
Exactly!
And every year PGA tour has the HSBC tournament of champions in Shanghai China and have no issue with that and collecting that revenue.
Why aren’t they doing this? Everyone?
The “morale” & political narrative the PGA Tour is trying to pull is hog wash. America is bombing 8 countries Right now as I type. Is that morale? Is the American ran Guantanamo bay morale? Playing the morale card is a very dishonest & shallow watered play. & most importantly America is literally saudi’s largest financial contributor, how’s that morale card play for you?
You guys are freaking insane. How is this a big deal when China owns our entire country at this point?
Major exaggeration…but the US supports the Saudis with Weapons.
I will never watch a LIV event. I hope everyone involved burns in hell.
People don’t like the Saudi money…yet what turn a blind eye to the dodgy practices of NFL and NBA owners and how they make their money?
Please…if you think someone became a billionaire by being nice, virtuous and holy.…you Sir are in denial.
Thanks for explaining how LIV golf works, something we already knew. There is a thing called internet, its a thing where you can search topics by using this silly thing called google. If I say LIV tour then it gives me answers. I wish it had been around last year, might have helped me in certain aspects of my life. Anyway thanks again for explaining the purse prizemoney breakup and that Greg Norman is paying out the money. No really, thank you.
So Shipnuck made all these complaints from an iPhone, I’m pretty sure he has some Nike products in his closet. So it’s okay to complain about the Saudis, but not the Chinese? China is looking to start a war, they murder people everyday. Hey Rich. Where were your clothes made? Some sweatshop? Let’s stop with the bull.
Hey Rich, LIV Tour’s “money” is a sign of the times .… No matter the socioeconomic status of the individual – go for the money!
I watched Lee Westwood in a recent press conference with Poulter. Fair play, that man just oozes a high level of vomit inducing arrogance which is quite impressive.
It seems that most golfers are like that.
I used to play Golf. It was nothing but going to a Snobfest. I never looked back.
Westwood is absolutely hilarious and completely humble. Watch his game with Rick Shiels.
Hey Rich what about the NBA and China. Please Gobble that goooooooooooooooooooo
We are political allies with the Saudis, that is all you need to know about any hypocritical take lol. We love their gas, oil and energy, but hate what they stand for lol.
If you don’t think you would take their money stop driving your car because you are taking their oil
It’s called the FREE MARKET and FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION. It’s in your constitution…READ IT! They have every right and should be encouraged to go where they are treated best. We are not the slaves of your big corporate organizations. China has forced work camps and you don’t seem to have any issues doing business with them.….ohhhh wait, that’s because it makes YOU money. When a regular person does it, they are dishonorable, right? What a phoney.
This is like the USFL competing with the NFL in the 80’s only with unlimited resources
Or world hockey league in hockey or just about every other league that treats it’s players like the PGA has
Steve Young turned out fine! Not even close comparison! LIV Golf deep pockets!
For now.… how long until they get bored with it?
Decades
Has Rich ever criticized the NBA’s love affair of the Chinese government?
@Steve Rose don’t try to explain anything to those Biden voters bro. They just ignore Biden poor approval ratings at this point and yell and cry
@Brian Forrester He’s pointing out the hypocrisy that you’re somehow supporting because you’re their little pawn.
Do u buy stuff from China?
@Blaine Boyle The commenter is not the one pointing his fingers at others. The point is that if you will publicly malign support for LIV and then support the PGA or other sports heavily invested in China, then such behavior is hypocritical.
There seems to be a lot of amnesia going around these days at the PGA, PGA Tour, and sports media outlets. Rich, don’t forget about the PGA’s expansion program in China, it’s called the China PGA Tour. How about the $200 million dollars Rory McElroy took from Nike? That isn’t greed? Did you forget that Nike has a very large manufacturing presence in China and that almost all golf equipment is made in China? Lastly, don’t forget that 40–80 million Chinese died during the Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution.
Not the same and you know it
It’s a cash grab and nothing else. People have been doing it forever even the companies you work for. How about full transparency instead of attacking the new people getting the money just because it shortens the stack of money for the old people doing it. Look at the list of fortune 500 companies getting Saudi “blood money” as you put it.
The US Government does business with KSA all the time. 🤷🏿♂️
When you gonna share the abuse in China and the NBA ?
“we are talking about life here, we are talking about a journalist murdered here”…what about the other sports taking money, the Olympics in China? Everybody is fine with the US buying their gas and selling billions in military equipment to these guys! I am so tired of this hypocrisy… it’s ok for the government but not for independent athletes. The PGA tour is at fault if golf suffers from this.
The NBA is utterly and completely in bed with China~ that rotten human violations machine.… so drop the man in the mirror BS.…why not delve into that Rich?~ THE NBA and China. It is no different.
It’s funny how they bring up Saudi “human rights violations”? Maybe they should look at
‘U.S.’s own “human rights violations”. They point the finger, and they got three more pointing back at them.. Look at who the pga gets their money from.
I’m just saying if ppl have a problem with where the money comes from in LIV but are completely ok with what China is doing then ppl are dumb ASF.
Rich calls out the Saudis, but refuses to call out China in the NBA…
ALL DEMOCRATS DO THAT.
@Trying to be fair and objective No he hasn’t. He has not nearly made such a big deal with the NBA. This whole segment is idiotic.
Rings a bit hollow hearing anyone talk about “accepting Saudi money.” As opposed to taking the good money from the good PGA Tour and all of the definitely very good multinational corporate sponsors and their track records all over the world. I see who the Saudi’s are and what they’re doing with this, but spare me any pearl clutching about where the money is coming from.
Jeffery epstine Bengazi American has killers also
Rich is such a hypocrite sometimes
Can’t blame golfers at all. Get ur cheese.
Joe Biden is going to Saudi to beg for oil. Where’s the outrage.
I agree Rich. Now let’s talk about the NBA cozying up to and chasing the money in China, and ignoring their human rights abuses.
@Christopher Ali Sure they are. What’s next, pigs can fly?
@Blade Guru exactly.
Or cut ‘em up with a bone saw
Everyone knows the U S Government has done much worse
I don’t get how people are mad at golfers really. The same money got invested into the pga tour last year. The NBA sends players to China, the US does tons of business with them. Colin cowherd laid it out really well.
the families of the victims of 9/11 have a different opinion but your right Cowherd so brilliant we should all listen to him
@Matt David u don’t care about Muslims in concentration camps? Cool way to virtue signal and try and get the moral high ground backfired
So glad that Greg Norman choked at the ’96 Masters and NEVER won a Green Jacket!
The PGA is a profit center that provides nothing but elevated costs to the average golfer.
The US never killed a Journalist? The US dropped how many more nuclear bombs than any other country? The US was involved in how many wars that did not threaten them?
People get so weird over money. Who cares where the money comes from. I’d rather Phil Mickelson have it than the Saudis at the end of the day. So anytime someone accepts money from a Saudi person, they condone the entire actions of the state? I don’t think so. Golfers getting paid most money ever for their services, in any other industry this would be seen as a great milestone event. Love watching these media elites and current PGA monied interests freak out. Change is a great thing
Nobody complains about the NBA doing events and playing games in China, nobody complains about the WNBA doing exhibitions in Russia and nobody cares about the Olympic committee taking bribes from Russia and China to host the Olympics but everyone goes crazy over this?!?! Let’s be honest, the PGA is afraid of competition and all these “journalists” are just trying to keep their job and doing what the PGA wants.
sports washing see NBA. rich media is hipocrits with all your chinese products.
Rich talk about the Chinese that own the NBA!
Let’s just stop the hypocrisy bullsh*t! The PGA tour and all these so called moral high ground players and fanbase is blasting the Saudi’s human rights record.…but we conveniently turn a blind eye and slob over our political leaders and military after decades worth of military invasions and bombing campaigns that have killed and displaced millions of innocent civilians all in the name of American exceptionalism, liberty, and freedom – spare me! This new league is a money grab…and the players are fed up with being slave to a heavy tournament schedule…when they can make a lot more money play less tournaments.
Let’s not be hypocritical here. We get our gas for our cars here in America from OPEC i.e., Saudi Arabia. Are we boycotting those places you get gas for your car because of human rights violations from the Saudis? Are we boycotting NIKE for using slave labor in China to make shoes? We aren’t holier than though right here in America as we are always doing business with counties who have human rights violations.
Golf is going to become watered down with two separate leagues. There will be no way to determine who is actually the best in the world because they will not be playing against each other. Kinda like the way boxing is when you have 4 or 5 different belts for the exact same weight class.
Finally, someone points out the very simplistic and obvious issue. All these other comments about leagues and foreign affairs are debatable. This is the issue with regards to any league. Ideally, you want one Pro league for the most competitive players, period. So this just sucks for golf.
We buy all the oil, don’t see anyone stopping to fill up there car or asking is this Saudi oil ?
This tour is a joke I love the pga toss off these golf off there tour I rem when the nba was going to be take over by some league in turkey never happen or the khl was take over the nhl lol
When I see Rich Eisen talk about Nike, China, and the NBA I will take this kind of commentary more seriously.
Why don’t you quit doing business with China, too? I bet the device from which you posted your comment was made in China.
@goldenarm2007 Then why should we listen to you?
@B. Greg they do though.
@ronnie massart Yeah, Rich is 100% right
@fred wright troll
NBA players take China’s money. All these Nike people take money from slave labor
Greg Norman is way worse than an A hole. He’s acting just like the Saudi Royal Family.
In the 1930s Charles Lindbergh who was the most popular figure in the world at that time was the lead PR man for the third Reich in Germany. He supported them, he admired their Air Force, he admired the third Reich and let the United States know it. He paid for that the rest of his life and these golfers are doing the same thing. Enjoy the money but in the long run it will be small compensation for what you really sold.
Yeah, it sure destroyed Ali.
I guess the PGA is going to have to dig deeper.
All the monies coming from America we give it to the Saudis for gas now these guys are getting it back
Some of these guys getting the $100+ million, what incentive do they have now in competing their hardest when they’re already paid massive numbers for just showing up. It’s the Participation Trophy League.
Greg is an absolute disgrace
🇺🇸🐑$ 💩🗣️- 😡 ☯️
I love the hypocrisy, as if every athlete and sports reporter isn’t getting paid or endorsements from an evil entity
what’s more American then selling to the highest bidder
Rich should look into how much US property they own to feed their camels.
This whole comment section is toxic fools who don’t understand business. The guys are better golfers than you’ll even dream of being and can make money anyway they like. If they make a good money move don’t be upset. You’d probably do it too.
Now, now.
Norman may not be smirking. He’s probably choking.
How do you mention things Saudi’s have done then act like U.S. is just so innocent. It’s a delusional propaganda context. The Masters tournament itself has long history of racism. Things just need to be in proper context.
America, a country with a history deep-rooted in human rights abuse, has successfully softened their global image through sports and entertainment is mad that another country with more money is using the blueprint they invented.
They have no right to do anything in Saudi Arabia. There’s no constitution. No freedom of press, no freedom of speech.. How do you ascertain their “rights” are being violated?
They should be seen as the contrast to America, and what makes it better than Saudi Arabia. This is why America is dwindling to nothing special..
I hope that they all are banned from even playing a round of golf at Augusta and if they are a past champion not invited to the Champions dinner or allowed in the Champions locker room. Remember this, The Masters is still an Invitational Tournament and a private tournament. The Tournament Committee can change their own rules and deny even past champions from playing their tournament. There is no justification in doing this Saudi thing because no one can tell them that they can’t make all the money they can. That’s true. But listen to this wise guy, don’t drive your Rolls Royce down Magnolia Lane. I hope The Masters really puts these clowns in their place.😅
Because they’ve gone to a better paying job?
@Phil Thornton 🐐
I love seeing people shill for giant corporations. Long LIV Golf screw the PGA machine
C’mon man! You know the NBA and Hollywood bend over backwards for Chinese money! Chinese money is less bloody than Saudi money? The n*__az from whom your man Biden is begging for oil! Rich, you are a lot a bit delusional! You are also smarter than that, I hope! Bad Take Rich!
Nobody would be complaining if they were the ones receiving the comically large checks.
As Aussies we disowned Greg Norman years ago. He is an unprincipled jerk!
I met him. Very nice guy
@Legless Nice to you… you don’t know him.
Examples?
The irony is that multiple companies that sponsor the PGA tour do a lot of business with the Saudis in their country, but we won’t look at that shall we
And how is this different from US Saudi oil and strategic alliance. It’s all self interest at the end of the day. Whether it’s the pga or Greg or Dustin. Stop being so sanctimonius
China NBA CHINA. Take the money like Lebron and blame trump
What does the average sports player care about politics. If they are supposed to feel guilty, then the rest of us should not buy pretty much any product as it is likely made in China, or a part of it is…lol Not to mention the PGA are not angels. Who knows what they are up to behind the scenes. They do take 10 percent of every nickel their members make in their professional careers including endorsements. I bet they are starting to get real nervous that their gravy train is in peril.
Take the money and blame someone else. China Lebron
Doesn’t defense industry take money from Saudi?
What about america’s treatment of ASSANGE ? what about the corruption of the ‘Democrats’ during the Trump administration ? what about the FBI and DOJ corrupt use of power when hounding Republicans ? America has no room to criticise anyone. How many people have the CIA been responsible for losing their lives during their many manufactured régime changes ??
Maybe we should ask how much money the US has given the Saudi Government, and how much of that could be considered as part of this prize money? They are asking the wrong questions. Maybe it is American Money that they do not really need?
How is taking money from China like the NBA and other sports organizations do any worse?
I remember what happened when indy car racing had their big breakup between CART and the IRL, and they still haven’t recovered from that.
True
Exactly. Years after merging and it’s still nowhere near where CART was in the 90’s. It’s sad what needlessly happened.
You know, I missed the episodes about China and the NBA, completely missed them. I missed all the criticisms of LeBron James and his relationship to a dictatorship responsible for millions of deaths. Hypocrites all of you are hypocrites.
All players going to the LIV tour should loose all their sponsorship period !
nfl players are breaking contracts because Thay want to play with a winning team. no it’s money money money.
As if these dudes had morals.
Talk about looking at the man in the mirror Rich Eisen… Do you know what the United States is currently doing to journalists? Jailing and torturing them for telling the truth? Ruining their lives, careers and reputations? You are right Rich, YOU have to look in the mirror. I love you and your show but you are in need of a re-evaluation of who the good guys are.
The hypocrisy of the US media is amazing. Part of a crumbling empire that has started more wars then any other country since the romans and is killing millions fo resources, they have the audacity to talk about morals. Wow.
I think one reason for the outrage surrounding this issue is the fact that golf has traditionally been considered a “gentleman’s sport”, played with honor and class. Discuss.
And no blacks
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE COMPETITION OUT OF SPORTS, it just becomes ‘entertainment’. If you can even call this abomination entertaining.
How about the US government with the Saudis? NBA w. china?
No different than NBA and china
Yawn
I wouldn’t because of what they are doing in Yemen. That is too hard to live with. Money is tempting (i would be tempted) but I have lived long enough to know how much it is actually worth.
But most of those guys were already filthy rich. How much money will it take to make these men feel whole?
Can we just say “shut up and play” now?
Apparently, Shipnuck was lucky he didn’t get dismembered and discarded.
YET
By refusing a journalist from participate in a press conference, reminds me of things done in TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENTS, like, Communist China, Russia, Cuba’s Castro, etc, etc, etc
Exactly Mitch.….NBA is just as bad.
I feel like the golfers sold their souls for the money? Watching Schwartzel squirm after he was asked about where the money comes from was probably not his favourite post winning round interview? They will be beholden to the money, get used to being told what to say whether you like it or not! 🤔🙁🤷♂️
no journalists were threatened, he isn’t owed access especially to Phil, and Norman blew him off in a text the guy instantly released to the public. rich has spent quite a bit of that Saudi money himself
Rich is being irresponsible here. There were no threats against shipman. They removed him. Not the first time a journalist was removed from a press conference. Phil didn’t want him there. After what happened I don’t think that is unreasonable. Shipman knew what he was doing and wouldn’t be welcomed there. He is a fame whore.
It’s the Bone Saw Tour, plain and simple.
Norman don’t know owe that snake Alan nothing. He’s just there to try and stir things up and then act like a victim. Mainly to make money and get attention off of this and then act like he can’t believe other people are there making money.
Much of this is virtue signaling regarding LIV and the Saudi’s. Let’s talk USA begging the same folks to increase oil production. Oh and what about the NBA and China…
Why did they name this “LIV”? Every time I see it I think its roman numerals so its “54”
Shitnuck is obviously a pest that Greg needed removing. Well done Greg, piss off Shitnuck.
In remembrance to the families of September 11.…..#💰
China is financing the NBA, so how is that different from the LIV tour financing professional golf? Both countries have obvious civil rights issues. In the end, it’s always about the money.
You remember 9/11?
@Lake Ozark REI Yes I do. We have a yard flag in our yard to remind people of 9–11. I remember Viet Nam too. I was in the Navy from 1964–1968. It seems money is and always will be what most people find to be most important. That noted, all professional sports are businesses. The athletes play for the both the glory and the money…..but mostly the money. Money seems to trump pretty much everything in our world.
Talking about the Saudi Welfare Golf League. Happy participants .…fans not so much. Will the laid back, considerate and understanding Saudi’s be respectful of their players wanting to ditch their events to play a conflicting PGA tournament?
That’s a lot of money the Saudis are tossing around but that is some dirty money.
BS. Rich people care about losing money. They will pull funding in less than 2
Mr. Eisen I would love to hear your thoughts about the NBA’s relationship with China and particularly LeBron James financial gains through that relationship
What are you implying about Rich Eisen?
You don’t care 😂
The LIV players responses to valid journalist questions have been totally pathetic. GREED over morals / ethics. Greg Norman is a vile human being.
Exactly why people judging these golfers most are hypocrites….. someone offered you 50–150m to just sign up and play….. hard to believe all these righteous crusaders say no. Everyone has a price and it’s easy to say no when no one has offered you the money. LIV offering life changing generational money to play a game.
Who is telling you what to say Rich? Losing credibility dude.
“Know who your taking the money from” sounds a bit racist. Are you insinuating that the money that Nike generates, for example, is clean? Poor language used, Rich. “Blood money” is a racist trope.…
You heard of 9/11?
@Lake Ozark REI You heard of the trail of tears?
Yea cause we (THE USA) have never killed innocent people or done any fucked up things to other parts of the world right !
The FIGJAM that is the Great White Choke really is a bitter man…