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  1. LIV Golf forms strategic alliance with MENA Tour in hopes of securing rankings points for players

     

    The MENA Tour, a feeder circuit that has staged tournaments in the Middle East and North Africa, had been shuttered for more than two years during the COVID-19 pandemic before staging a tournament in May. Founded by the Dubai-based Shaikh Maktoum Golf Foundation in 2011, the MENA Tour was recognized by the OWGR governing board in May 2016.

    In a news release on Wednesday, the MENA Tour said the "alliance will boost the MENA Tour's development programs and immediately qualify LIV Golf for OWGR points, starting with the LIV Golf Thailand event at Stonehill this week."

    "This is a very exciting day for the MENA Tour and our players," MENA Tour commissioner David Spencer said in a statement. "Through this alliance, our players will now have enhanced playing opportunities and stronger pathways. This is great news for the future of many young players on our Tour."

    Through the partnership, all LIV golfers also become members of the MENA Tour, according to Spencer. MENA events have purses of $75,000.

    "We are taking this mutually beneficial action to support the game at the developmental level and because of the importance and fairness of LIV golfers qualifying for OWGR points," LIV Golf president and COO Atul Khosla said in a statement. "We're pleased to create pathways that give more opportunities for young players, while also giving fans rankings that include all the world's best golfers."



    https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/34732120/liv-golf-forms-strategic-alliance-mena-tour-hopes-securing-owgr-points-players?platform=amp

    OWGR statement:


    So LIV just co-branded their next two tournaments as MENA tournaments and expected that would be sufficient to get them owgr points for those two events. 

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  2. 7 minutes ago, Brew said:

    The Causeway bridge is the large one in that shot. It is the first span on the right that is out. It leads to two islands with low lying bridges between them and Sanibel. It’s basically FT Myers, causeway bridge, island, low clearance bridge, island, bridge, Sanibel (out of shot to the left). Some pictures earlier made it look like the connecting bridges may be completely down also. Looks like the ferries will have to get back up and running.

     

     

  3. 12 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    Looking at Google Maps, all these things are basically just sandbars. They could not be more exposed. Any loss of human life is unimaginably tragic, but I'm having a really hard time understanding how anyone could justify staying put in a place like that with a Category 4/5 bearing down.

    Just doing a quick survey of street view on google maps, the number of single story, ground level houses is alarming. Yea your cinder block house might not blow away from the wind, but what are you going to do when the whole thing is under water?

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    Oddly enough, Fox was initially among the broadcast companies that wouldn't work with LIV. That changed when Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp., reportedly forced the company to be involved with LIV, according to Golfweek.

    I’d love to know how much he was personal paid by the Saudi’s to force that move. 

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Augustus said:

    Clifford doesn't look terribly accurate in the 20 minutes that I've been watching.

    He got hit low late in the first half. He missed the first drive of the second half. True freshman with a cannon came in and his WRs let him down. Back to the 6th year sr after he came back out of the locker room. 

    he’s playing hurt for the thousandth time. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Hmmm. The tour found more money, they are paying travel subsidy for missed cuts, adding more big money events, adding a “league minimum” for their guys that have a full card

    This is all really weird. I was told Phil was the great Satan when he said the tour was greedy and this was a once in a generation chance to get the tour to change some things to make things better for all players. So, it essentially played out almost exactly like Phil said it would when the tour was not interested in discussing doing those things. 
    weird. 

    Phil didn’t do any of this to make the tour better for the smaller guys, the no-name guys, the guys missing cuts. Phil did this because he wanted the media rights to his personal highlights so he could profit from them. This wasn’t for the small guys, this was so the top handful of guys that even non-golf fans recognize could make more money than they already were. And he needed that money because he gambled too much of it away. The Saudi’s offered him insane money to leave the tour so he jumped. His decision had nothing to do with anything other than putting more money into his bank account. 

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  7. e983217ce6f18dac67bc63e76ba2ec05.jpg
    “In Pennsylvania, 62% of women registering since Dobbs registered as Democrats, 15% as Republicans; 54% were younger than 25.”

    https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-women-voter-registration-dobbs-20220822.html

    I can see the top of the steel building in Pittsburgh from my dining room, trump won my precinct something like 52-48. The two houses across the street from me had a Biden - Trump sign war in 2020. I have NEVER seems a yard sign anywhere around town for Oz. And almost no signs for Mastriano. Even the people loaded up with Trump and anti-Biden stuff won’t put out signs for them. No one wants to be publicly associated with these guys.

    The governor’s race is basically a race on abortion. Mastriano has called for a complete ban on abortion, saying it will be a crime if he’s governor.

    Meanwhile this was Shapiro giving interviews on cnn a couple of days after the 2020 election while everyone was waiting for PA to finish counting the mail in ballots:

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  8. 34 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    That’s a lot of fucking hand waving for guys that are on the international teams on the regular. If you sat down with the typical average golf Fan and asked them to name top 20 Americans on tour DJ would be on every list- BDC would be on 95% and Reed would be on 80+. They are all names. I said they were good for 3 or 4 wins a year, you cuntily said that was a stupid statement and I brought the data showing my statement was correct. Even ignoring DJ, BDC and Reed are averaging 2 wins a year collectively in their pro career. Just admit what I said about 3 or 4 wins a year is correct and move on. 
    I’ve literally already stipulated that all the LiV stars are cunts and if this is the end of the line with who leaves the tour will be fine 

    I was definitely cunty in my initial reply because it’s the internet and I hastily thought you were making a stupid comment that with a moment’s pause would have made obvious. The 3-4 wins a year was correct, but it’s a bit of a disservice to DJ to lump one of the all time greats with two guys that aren’t remotely close to his level. I still think you’re wildly overvaluing Reed and I think Bryson brings more value as a sideshow than he does as a golfer, but I’ll resign that eyeballs are eyeballs regardless of how you get them.

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  9. 4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Reed has 2 WGCs, 2 FedEx playoff wins and a Masters. He and Bryson are both well, well above what constitutes average success on Tour. Reed was starting to fall off and hasn't been consistent in awhile but he was still winning tournaments. He had a win on Tour in every season save 2017 from 2013-2021. 

    None of them leaving is good for the PGA. It isn't like Phil or Bubba or Martin Kaymer making the jump. All of these guys leaving that are still fairly young and have had extended success on Tour - or were at least poised for that success - is just making the product worse and worse. 

    Reed has a masters and 8 wins that mean nothing other than they are wins. He has more missed cuts than top 10s in the last 2 years. He’s going to slip out of the top 50 in the next few weeks and likely never make it back in. 

  10. 55 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Agree that Reed was becoming fairly irrelevant. Bryson hasn't been at 100% in awhile and has obviously played in fewer events since joining LIV. But it's kind of a catch 22 because he doesn't seem particularly interested in winning tour events just like Koepka. One of his injuries was because he was doing the stupid long drive shit. 

    It’s not that he’s not interested in winning tournaments, he’s just not that good at winning them. He was so sure that he could dominate the tour by just being longer than everyone else that he claimed Augusta was a par 67 or whatever for him. He’s won a grand total of 1 tournament since then, a year and a half ago. But he’s young and he has talent, so I expect he’ll win a couple more after that Saudi league folds. 

  11. 8 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    I meant those guys combined dude. As in DJ wins at least 1 tournament every year for like 14 of the the last 15 years, BDC is good for 1 or 2 a year and Reed wins some. Yeah- 3 or 4 tournaments a year from those 3 guys. 

    One of those things is not like the others. You’re lumping one of the best golfers of the last decade with a guy that is decent but is more well know for being a clown and hurting himself trying to prove everyone how smart he is rather than winning tournaments and a guy that’s a solid but unremarkable tour player that outside of two events, the rider cup and the masters, would be completely unknown to casual golf fans. Also he’s a cunt, a cheat, and a thief. Fuck Reed. The tour is better without him. Bryson provides more value as a sideshow than he does trying to win. DJ is the only real loss to the tour out of those 3 guys. 

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