The Players That the PGA Tour Can’t Afford to Lose to LIV

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Only days after LIV's first-year finale in Miami, the high-stakes game of player recruitment for the Saudi-backed league's second season has ratcheted. Building on a recent piece by Andy in The Fried Egg Newsletter, Andy and Garrett discuss the top remaining players on the PGA Tour and their value in the tussle between the Tour and LIV. Andy and Garrett also reflect on the Tour's battlefield strategy this past year and how it might affect the future of both professional circuits.

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a bright egg.
0:07.0	Bright egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded bright egg.
0:09.0	Bright egg.
0:10.0	Bright egg.
0:11.0	Bright egg.
0:12.0	Bright egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome to the bright egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're asking which players
0:40.2	can the PGA tour not afford to lose to live golf. The reason we're talking about this
0:45.6	right now is that live just wrapped up its first season last week and is already working
0:51.2	hard to fill its 2023 roster. And so by the end of this year, it's likely that a few
0:56.4	more top players will join the Saudi backed breakaway league. We're not here to tell
1:01.8	you which guys those will be because frankly, we don't know. But what we can do is discuss
1:08.2	what it would mean if certain players left. That's the topic here to dig into it with
1:13.4	me is Andy Johnson. Andy, how you doing? Garrett, I'm doing wonderful. I, you know, this
1:18.9	is a free agency period. I, you know, there's no conditions with live and there's still
1:25.4	so many unknowns without them doing like a real full season. But I do believe that there
1:31.2	is a known that some big names are going to go to live in the coming weeks. And that's
1:37.0	what prompted me to write about this for the newsletter. And I think that it will be
1:43.1	a, a very, who knows, like depending on who goes, like what it looks like when the
1:49.8	dust settles, you know, I saw a told Colchia said that they were, they're hoping to have
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