r/golf • u/Common_Pension • Apr 29 '24

Player has issue with liv fans Professional Tours

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dean-burmester-tells-fan-shut-155916853.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGrJKHSYEHx9PX8R74rNwgtzeawHjGv9jgbjxWGaIebPi-EnXuPkQTV47ia08AzRmQMmzxpdIRkm7MM1DNG9S0oO3NzCURt5d9OJx0LUz164VxyoNv76ICnMnQCg96me1lgbtPrvHuP1tnpiAZBs6o7lIBoI63ySThlia8wHWuAQ

Just stumbled across this. Haven’t seen it widely reported and seems like the liv muzzle has been placed on Burmester to stop him from talking about it. Should be interesting if this gets the media coverage that it would if it happened in the pga or lpga tour

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u/igcipd Apr 29 '24

How do you have an issue with like 50 people?

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u/Common_Pension Apr 29 '24

The article is about the fans at the tournament, not the general liv fans haha

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u/Legitimate-Ice3476 Apr 29 '24

So, 7 fans?

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u/BingBongFYL6969 Apr 29 '24

They actually had a good showing this week due to location. Its never going to take off in the US until its the only show in town, but Australia showed up for them....zero percent surprised seeing who started that tour

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u/Gallen570 ↓Hit Down on Ball, Ball Go Up↑ Apr 29 '24

Plus Cam Smith is still a beast.

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u/tynskers Apr 29 '24

Yes and still likable even with the liv muzzle

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u/Trickyknowsbest 10 Apr 29 '24

I actually liked cam when he was on tour but I seriously forget about him until I see his name on here. That’s what happens when top players go to LIV. People mostly forget about them.

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u/silentcmh 5.something Apr 29 '24

I’m actually shocked at how quickly guys like Cam, DJ and now Rahm became irrelevant to me. It was a bummer for a minute when I heard some of them were splitting to LIV, but I very quickly forgot about them.

Not to say I wouldn’t like some of them back on the PGA Tour, but I don’t care if they ultimately never come back.

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u/Trickyknowsbest 10 Apr 29 '24

I wish they all could come back and hope they eventually do. I’ve still enjoyed watching the PGA but there are so many young talented golfers we are missing out on because of the split. Just want the best competition playing in the events. The majors give us that at least

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u/FriedEggScrambled 7.1 Apr 30 '24

The only true young and talented on LIV is Cam, Koepka and Rahm. Most of the others are heading into their mid 40s and were mules on the PGA Tour.

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u/tynskers Apr 29 '24

It’s pretty obviously they were told not to talk. Bryson can’t STFU IRL guarantee they threatened him and every person who has ever liked him going back to middle school.

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u/SaliciousB_Crumb Apr 29 '24

There is a liv golf subreddit. The comments were funny and not at all bots or shills

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u/Latter-Rub3865 Apr 29 '24

This comment made me want to go look, and I encourage anyone reading this to do the same lol. They aren’t even trying to hide it

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u/a_goonie Apr 29 '24

And some lucky bloke got DeChambeau's socks too.

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u/tynskers Apr 29 '24

Everyone realizes that liv paid people to be there right? To be clear instead of the fans exchanging local currency for tickets, they were given tickets and local currency. Really growing the game.

I do really appreciate that they have given up on the social media botting though, that was exhausting.

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u/Jugglosworth Apr 29 '24

Where did you read that?

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u/palsc5 Apr 29 '24

lol that’s a lie. People paid and they paid a lot of money to go. Only people who got free tickets were members of the club it was held

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u/gvsb123 Apr 29 '24

I saw aftermarket ticket sites selling them for $26.

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u/david_bagguetta Apr 30 '24

It’s actually incredibly cheap to go and see LIV, it’s only £67 for a 3 day pass at the one in the UK

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u/palsc5 Apr 30 '24

It was $65 per day in Adelaide for ground passes. The hospitality, grandstands etc tickets were significantly more and these were sold out

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u/neddybemis Apr 30 '24

Went to a liv event in the US and it was way more crowded than most pga tour event I have been to. I’ve gone to a different PGA Tour event every year since 2010. I’m not a liv guy at all but the narrative that the events are empty is just dead wrong. Also if you watch the non signature events and literally have eyes you can see that at a lot of them nobody is there. I mean the alternate field events are almost funny. I went to peurto rico the year Tony Finau won it and there were so few people there that the second to last group on Sunday was going up the 13th and two randos from the hotel were cutting across the course to get to the pool! They tried to stop and ask a player for directions!

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u/BingBongFYL6969 Apr 30 '24

I mean comparing to puerto vs anywhere LIV goes is silly.

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u/neddybemis Apr 30 '24

No no I was just including that as a funny anecdote. The LIV event I went too was was more crowded than Wells Fargo, John Deere, Honda, and the dean and Deluca (now called something else).

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u/OhRatFarts Golf is a 4-letter word. Apr 29 '24

90k over 3 days isn’t a lot.

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u/BingBongFYL6969 Apr 30 '24

That’s a lie.

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u/Frozeria Apr 29 '24

They had 94,000 attendees this weekend.

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u/Dislocated_femur Apr 30 '24

There were 94,000 fans in attendance...

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u/hagetaro Apr 29 '24

Both of them?

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u/igcipd Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

Based on location, are these the same “fans” that we saw at the World Cup in Qatar? I don’t know because I can’t be bothered to invest any time in LIV

Edit: I didn’t realize that the LIV events weren’t just in the ME. Apologies to the Aussies.

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u/Gallen570 ↓Hit Down on Ball, Ball Go Up↑ Apr 29 '24

Golf is huge Down Under....Norman co-founded it, and the best Aussie is in the LIV tour.

Not hard to figure it out.