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The Starter: Talking PGA Tour and LIV Golf, a bit of Masters, and Max Homa

Mike Purkey begins the weekend pondering the golf world with nine questions.

🏌️ According to reports, the PGA Tour has rejected a $1.5 billion investment into PGA Tour Enterprises by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, because the Tour doesn’t want LIV Golf to continue in its current form. Which side is being more stubborn?

🏌️ The sticking point between the PGA Tour and the PIF seems to be LIV’s team concept, which is one of the league’s foundations. Isn’t there a way for LIV’s team golf to live in its own ecosystem?

🏌️ Does the PGA Tour believe it has its own team apparatus in TGL and that it doesn’t need LIV?

🏌️ LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil said in Miami, “I love our prospects. I love the growth in three months. I know what’s coming in the next three months. And I love where we are." What does he know that we don’t?

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Brooks Koepka, who joined LIV Golf in 2022, thought that negotiations between the upstart league and the PGA Tour would be "farther along."

🏌️ Brooks Koepka said at LIV Golf Miami that he thought the breakaway league would be “farther along” by now. But he also said things are “going in the right direction.” Is it important for LIV to keep its top players happy?

🏌️ Masters odds: Jon Rahm (+1600) or Ludvig Aberg (+1600)? Or Bryson DeChambeau (+1800)?

🏌️ Since Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee bashed DeChambeau’s and Joaquin Niemann’s chances at the Masters, how many LIV players will finish in the top 10?

🏌️ After a protracted slump, Max Homa fired longtime caddie Joe Greiner a week before the Masters. The player can’t fire himself, can he?

🏌️ At what point did your NCAA Tournament bracket go bust?


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