aggiepaintrain said:
the problem with LIV is that very few of the American players are the least bit likeable
I will never watch, that's just me
Again, LIV took 5/10 biggest needle movers re: PIP from the PGAT.
You already were never going to watch even if JT and Spieth stuck their hands in each other's back pockets and frolicked down the fairway in LIV.
I hope both leagues do great. There will be new generations of heroes and villains but people discounting who LIV was able to sign in a year where every single entity was colluding against them are absolutely full of **** imo.
There's no more lethal major player in the last decade than Brooks. There's no better putter on earth than Cam. There's no better major champ with the WAG combo in golf than DJ. There's no bigger heel than Reed. There's no bigger nutjob who actually broke through to win a major than Bryson.
The PGAT is absolutely missing the juice in the short term. They're doing an amazing job of cheerleading and daydreaming about Max Homa being the next multiple major winner, but they're missing some of the needle that was taken from them.
The biggest golf story of this season was Reed trying to say hi to Rory on a tee box in the middle east and a controversial call of his where he did nothing wrong yet Rory got virtual media blackout for doing something shady in the same tournament.
The people feed off the drama. A rah rah PGAT will get real stale real quick. Remains to be seen if they can fill the void with a ton of the big personalities gone and how long it takes to replace them.
One thing is for certain... The PGAT has been benefitting from all their changes made due to the LIV influence. Time to see if LIV can actually grab meaningful attention in their first official season.