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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Feels more and more like the PGA is gonna have to compromise here and try and co-exist. I would imagine by year end at least half of the top 30 or so will be committed to LIV. And at that point is the PGA gonna ban half or more the top 30 from the tour? As much as LIV is a complete joke, it's also only 8 or so events. The PGA can't really afford to ban too many top guys, at some point even if you view it as "better" competition than LIV, LIV will simply have most of the best players, and that matters most, especially to the casuals TV networks want watching.
I think in the end the biggest loser here will be most of the secondary events that aren't like Memorial or Pebble Beach. I would think we're going to see most of those just die off as they will be impossible to make money with mid-level (or worse) fields.
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For now, it is all about Smith and Cantlay. It's hard to read which rumors come true and which don't. I imagine Rory and others are pushing them pretty hard to stay if they really are thinking of leaving. As long as DJ is the best liv player at #16, then pga doesn't have to do anything.
I don't really know what co-existing would look like. liv would probably have to scale down to 4 tournaments and maybe be what the WGCs were trying to be. Players aren't going to play the 9 required liv events and the 15 required pga events.