No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

We’ve combed through the archives and compiled pages upon pages of notes to tell the story of LIV golf over the next few weeks. In today’s opening episode, we start with the beginnings of what would eventually become the PIF-funded LIV golf tour through the preparations for the league’s first tournament.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro & Early Saudi Sportswashing

20:00 - Original PGL Team Golf Idea

30:00 - Phil plays first Saudi event

50:00 - our initial thoughts on PGL concept

57:30 - Initial PGL offers to players, Euro Tour partners with PGA Tour

1:01:30 - Jan ‘21 - PGA Championship pulled from Trump Bedminster

1:05:45 - PGA Tour unveils the PIP

1:11:00 - Summer ‘21 - LIV begins to emerge

1:28:00 - Norman announced as LIV Golf League CEO

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With the Butterfield headed for a Monday playoff after the tournament was shortened to 54 holes, we spend tonight’s pod chatting about the latest updates from LIV 2.0 including DJ’s top ten favorite LIV website domain names and other notes from the LIV bankruptcy filings. Then it’s on to updates from international golf course architecture including Coul Links, potential Royal County Down changes and Tiger’s new links design in Northern Ireland plus some miscellaneous news and notes and personal golf updates.

Timestamps

00:00 - Intro + Butterfield Recap

9:00 - LIV 2.0 updates

18:30 - DJ’s top ten LIV web domain names

29:00 - LIV bankruptcy filing notes

54:00 - International golf architecture updates

1:16:00 - Misc news and notes

1:22:30 - Personal golf updates

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We’re delighted to welcome Butch Harmon to the pod to discuss his legendary teaching career. Butch has worked with multiple world number ones and numerous other top ranked touring pros, not to mention the occasional pupil who also happened to be a monarch. We also cover his family, TV broadcasting work, and his take on the state of the modern professional game as well.

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Soly has the night off as TC, Neil and Randy react to Eugenio Chacarra winning the India Championship and Kevin Kisner’s comments on Rory’s motivations for playing the event. We also discuss some news and notes from the week including the return of the Skins Game, Will Zalatoris’s upcoming surgery, the Champions Tour boys fuming over losing their pensions, tree removal controversy at East Potomac, alleged cheating in Iowa high school golf, and a Q4 Fedora Five. We close with Neil’s Nightmare 18 - a collection of the holes that live in the Czar’s head for all the wrong reasons.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro + Indian Championship Recap

15:30 - Kisner chirps at Rory

24:00 - Misc. News and Notes + Fedora Five

1:00:00 - Neil’s Nightmare 18

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As LIV 2.0 tries to weather an exodus of notable names amidst bankruptcy hearings and potential new investment from BC Partners, we’ve called upon Sujeet Indap to help us make sense of it all. Sujeet has reported extensively on LIV for the Financial Times and answers our questions on everything he’s observed and what lies ahead as LIV tries to survive.

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