🚨 LIV Golfers DENIED FedEx Cup Participation + Cam Smith Reportedly Leaving PGA Tour
The First Cut Golf
CBS Sports, Golf, PGA Golf Tour, PGA, LIV Golf, Golf Picks, Golf Bets, Tiger Woods
4.5 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Rick Gehman, Kyle Porter and Sia Nejad discuss the federal circuit court's ruling on LIV Golfers seeking an injunction to play in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Cameron Smith was asked about joining LIV Golf... he has "no comment"?
0:00 - Reaction To LIV Lawsuit
40:00 - Cam Smith To LIV Golf Reports
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| 0:00.0 | Freaking first cut. |
| 0:06.6 | Golly. |
| 0:13.1 | Welcome to the first cup podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Rick Damon. |
| 0:15.4 | That right there, our resident in-house council, see you. |
| 0:19.3 | Good evening. |
| 0:20.6 | Good evening. Very interesting events today |
| 0:23.8 | on a couple different fronts. I'm a little surprised. They got to be honest with you. |
| 0:29.4 | Kyle Porter is here. K.P. I believe you described that as two weeks worth of content in two hours. |
| 0:35.9 | It was quite magical. It was the most fun I've |
| 0:39.7 | had watching golf content since the final round of the open. Was it, I guess it was golf content. |
| 0:47.2 | Totally. See, do you charge like double time for for these appearances? Like, do you charge like for the golf side and the the |
| 0:56.3 | attorney side that's right yeah i have a formula it's actually a little bit more than double but |
| 1:01.7 | it's very reasonable my fees are very reasonable okay i i guarantee you the fees that we saw today |
| 1:08.3 | from the people that we're arguing are the people that were arguing are not reasonable. |
| 1:15.3 | That's a fact. We have them on retainer, though, so I think we're good for a while. Okay. So here's what's going on. There was a hearing just ended in the Northern District of |
| 1:25.4 | California. Judge Beth Freeman overheard this temporary restraining |
| 1:30.2 | order. The idea behind this SIA was to potentially determine whether or not Hudson Swaff or |
| 1:35.9 | Matt Jones and Taylor Gouge were going to be allowed to play in the FedEx Cup playoffs. There was a couple |
| 1:40.9 | of key points that they went through, which we will go through. |
| 1:45.2 | But it was denied, meaning that they're not going to be allowed to play. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah. |
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