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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Also can't help but laugh at the Prophet Mickelson being 100% correct. Granted he won't benefit from it, but the LIV leverage worked in getting better deals for PGA players. Hopefully he got himself some good odds on being correct and cashed well.
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There's a lot of ways at looking at that though.
If a rival league started up with the intention of making a more profitable product and genuinely force the PGA Tour to up their game, then yeah, he's right. Instead it's just a group willing to throw away however much money is necessary to lure players away with no real plan to ever make money.
So yeah, the leverage of the Saudi money is enough to have the tour make changes that help the star players, maybe help the lower tier players and make for a possibly worse product. It's to be seen if that makes for a long term sustainable product where the players are indeed better off or if the Saudi money just causes pro golf to destroy itself from greed.
But yeah, you can say that Phil's actions benefitted the players remaining on the tour for now. I just don't necessary agree with the take that this proves that the PGA could have/should have been doing all this all along.