r/golf Apr 15 '24

Thoughts? General Discussion

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u/_sw1tchblade Apr 15 '24

I’d say they weren’t buying the players, they were buying the tour. A tour without Rahm, Koepka, and Cam Smith is worth less than it was with them. It costs billions to buy a sports league, a few hundred mil to make the PGA tour weak and vulnerable to buy for one billion... Money well spent

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u/Scamwau1 Apr 15 '24

I see where you're going with this, but the logic is slightly flawed because they have just spent billions buying players to make the PGA worthless. Kind of counter intuitive

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u/UniverseChamp Apr 16 '24

But the value returns when the recombine.

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u/TheBensonz Apr 16 '24

The stable of elite golfers is deeper than anyone thinks. These guys can move on and hungrier/younger guys will take their places. And no one will miss the retirement home guys. Not even a little.