It's the End of LIV Golf as We Knew It (and Trump Feels Fine)
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The president may have ended his favorite sport's civil war — by waging a war of his own. But what did we really learn from Saudi Arabia's multibillion-dollar golf experiment? Journalist Alan Shipnuck explains what insiders are texting about but won't say out loud: that golfers are the most overpaid athletes on Earth, that peacetime is suddenly more complicated for the PGA Tour... and that sportswashing is insidious because it works.
• Read "LIV and Let Die" by Alan Shipnuck
• Previously on PTFO: Phil Mickelson, the Pipeline and Trump's (Alleged) 14-Inch Pipe
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:06.5 | It's interesting to think that Trump helps save LiveGolf, and then him waging war in Iran may end LiveGolf. |
| 0:15.0 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:24.4 | I have a small problem here. |
| 0:29.8 | I was going to say, a bleeding Alan Shipnuck given the topic we're here to discuss. |
| 0:33.4 | It's something that raises questions immediately as your neck. |
| 0:34.6 | Your neck is... Can you see this? |
| 0:35.4 | I can. |
| 0:36.0 | We can all see. |
| 0:37.2 | Who did this to you, Alan? |
| 0:39.0 | Let's start there. |
| 0:40.9 | Are we recording? |
| 0:42.1 | We are recording. |
| 0:43.1 | Who did this to you? |
| 0:44.1 | I demand answers. |
| 0:45.1 | I demand accountability. |
| 0:47.0 | It's not Greg Norman, although he probably would have loved to have taken a knife to my throat at some point. |
| 0:52.5 | I don't know how many more convenient segues you can give me |
| 0:57.5 | as you clutch a piece of toilet paper to a wound right at your Adams apple. |
| 1:02.6 | This is ridiculous. |
| 1:04.8 | This is a public service announcement. |
| 1:06.5 | Do not shave in a hurry before, you know, |
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