With Rahm Gone to LIV, What's Next for the PGA Tour?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Last week, Jon Rahm announced that he had signed a massive contract with LIV Golf. This is by far the most consequential signing yet for the Saudi-backed breakaway league. Andy is joined by Shane Bacon (@shanebacon) and Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) to discuss what Rahm's departure means for the PGA Tour, how it affects the Tour's framework agreement with LIV, what the Tour needs to do to succeed going forward, and whether LIV will become significantly more interesting to watch. Andy, Shane, and Joseph wrap things up with a little rollback talk.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
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0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I am your host Andy Johnson.
0:40.4	Today I am joined by Shane Bacon and Joseph Lamagna. We are here to break down kind of the latest news in golf. So it was a crazy, crazy week last week and obviously there was a ton of reaction during
0:57.1	everything going on so the big news of the week I don't know what was bigger news
1:02.4	honestly John Rom you know went took a
1:06.0	contract offer and joined the live tour and the US G. A and R&A announced a golf ball rollback plan.
1:15.8	So with that, I wanted a little bit of time
1:19.3	to kind of marinate on those two news topics and then you know break down everything with
1:26.7	Shane and Joseph. So in the time that we had recorded this we recorded this on Sunday morning.
1:34.8	The PGA Tour Policy Board made a big move and they selected an outside
1:39.8	investment group to further negotiate with their kind of new structure, their
1:45.9	potential new company as well as with PIF. So they advanced discussions with SSG, a strategic sports group. In that group is the Fenway
1:58.8	Sports Group as well as other individuals such as Arthur Blank,
2:05.1	Cohen Private Ventures, there are a number,
2:08.8	you know, Mark Lazzary, John Henry,
2:10.7	a number of big time investors in that group.
2:14.4	So that group will be looking along with the PIF
2:19.0	to negotiate a kind of a new company,
2:21.6	that framework agreement that was announced in in June.
2:27.0	So that was big news for the PGA tour.
2:29.4	So it seems like the John Rom signing really kind of motivated the PGA tour to get on the
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