Donald Trump tells golfers to ‘take the money’ and join LIV Golf
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has urged gamers to “take the cash” and be a part of the LIV Golf Invitational Sequence, suggesting that those that stay loyal to the PGA Tour will in the end pay an even bigger worth for staying put.
Trump, whose Bedminster course in New Jersey will host the following LIV occasion from July 29-31, feels any golfers who don’t reap the benefits of the cash being provided to gamers to make the swap will lose out.
“All of these golfers that stay ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its totally different kinds, pays an enormous worth when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and also you get nothing however an enormous ‘thanks’ from PGA officers who’re making Tens of millions of {Dollars} a 12 months,” Trump wrote this week on the social medial platform Fact Social.
“Should you do not take the cash now, you’re going to get nothing after the merger takes place, and solely say how good the unique signees have been.”
The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf sequence has lured gamers with the promise of assured, big-money paydays and a diminished schedule whereas the U.S.-based PGA Tour has suspended members who opted to hitch the breakaway circuit.
Among the many extra high-profile gamers to hitch LIV are World Golf Corridor of Fame member Phil Mickelson, who was reportedly paid US$200 million to leap ship, twice main champion Dustin Johnson and 2020 U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau.
Critics say LIV Golf, which is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, quantities to blatant ‘sportswashing’ by a nation making an attempt to enhance its fame in mild of its historical past of human rights abuses.
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour in Europe are united of their stand towards LIV and three weeks in the past introduced a strengthening of their alliance to fight the menace. Learn full story
Bedminster was alleged to host this 12 months’s PGA Championship however the PGA of America relocated it after Trump exhorted his supporters to march on the Capitol in January 2021 as Congress met to certify his presidential election defeat by Joe Biden.
Trump’s Doral course can be scheduled to host the eighth and closing occasion of the inaugural LIV season in October, a group championship with a $50 million purse of which $16 million will likely be awarded to the profitable foursome.
Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto Modifying by Toby Davis
