With the PGA TOUR and LIV Golf combining into one giant golf entity, the world of the sport itself has been turned upside down. There are plenty of questions left to be answered and it won't be anytime soon before everything gets ironed out, but one thing that is undeniable is that the said merger is a game-changer. With the rivalry between the two leagues now seemingly over, people have also been reminded of the reported $800 million offer of LIV Golf to Tiger Woods that the legendary golfer turned down.
Waiting for one Mr. Tiger Woods to weigh in like pic.twitter.com/sXpyEqdSz1
— Dan Rapaport (@Daniel_Rapaport) June 6, 2023
Tiger Woods turned down more than $700 million to join the LIV golf tour in order to stay loyal to the PGA
Less than a year later, LIV and the PGA merged
Lesson: Always take the money pic.twitter.com/CjM6YRLUr1
— Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) June 6, 2023
Tiger Woods after turning down $800m from Liv Golf so he can protect his PGA legacy…watching Liv Golf buy out the comically hypocritical PGA. pic.twitter.com/W7vitqddc0
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) June 6, 2023
Tiger Woods chose loyalty to the PGA TOUR over a gold mine that the Saudi-backed LIV Golf was willing to cough up for him, which probably was not all that hard to do for the 15-time major champion considering he's already a rich man — a very rich, rich man. However, people are still left to imagine what could have happened if Tiger Woods knew at the time that the PGA TOUR and LIV Golf would one day get married.
Tiger Woods turned down nearly a BILLION dollar check from Saudi Arabia only for the tour to stab him in the back and cut a deal with them anyway https://t.co/oQVSQv60Lm
— Secular Talk🎙 (@KyleKulinski) June 6, 2023
Tiger Woods gotta be sick right now.. pic.twitter.com/R7xsMzg0qT
— Van (@vanman_1000) June 6, 2023
Tiger Woods and PGA TOUR pros reportedly had no idea that unification between the two giant golf organizations would happen — and so is the rest of the world — which is also why Tuesday's announcement has left everyone stunned. Greg Norman, the CEO of LIV Golf himself, reportedly also did not know that something this big was going to go down and only found out about it through a phone call.
In any case, Tiger Woods and the PGA TOUR players and LIV Golf pros are now on the same side of the fence.